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Superbloom is co-hosting an exciting workshop today in Room 101D at RightsCon, “Empowering Digital Safety: Unveiling the Gendered Data Privacy Framework”. Join our Executive Director, Georgia Bullen and Tope Ogundipe, Founder/Director, Techsocietal for a dive into improving digital safety for marginalized groups.

If you're at RightsCon in Taipei, find us at the Open Technology Fund UXD Lab booth - Floor 3, TICC! Drop by for a quick chat, ask questions, and grab some Superbloom stickers! Looking forward to meeting you all.

Superbloom Senior Designer, Researcher & Product Manager, Eriol Fox, is co-facilitating a workshop at RightsCon titled "From Bytes to Burdens: Decoding Intergenerational Trauma in Tech," alongside Ema-Olori Ohr, Andrea Torres, and Emily Wright. Don’t miss it! ????Date: Wednesday 26 February ???Time: 6-7AM Taipei

The Superbloom team is at RightsCon'25 this week (Feb 24–27) in Taipei! Catch Abhi, Katie, and Georgia at the UXD Lab Booth – we’d love to meet you, answer any questions, and chat about how we're changing the tech landscape to better serve everyone. More details about RightsCon can be found at https://www.rightscon.org/

The conversations didn’t stop when the event ended. ?? The day after the kick-off event, the Nonprofit Tech Governance Congress met to create a plan of action for helping boards tackle tech. How can board members support nonprofit technology needs?? Our first session yielded insightful discussions, passionate debates, and a list of action items - stay tuned for these key outputs! A few themes emerged from our working session: - The field is wide open–there’s so little guidance for boards on how to talk about tech.? - That means basic resources are much in demand. Our first deliverable–coming out Q1–will be a list of key discussion questions for boards, across the four key areas of tech governance - It’s tempting to answer many questions about what boards should be doing with, “it depends”. And sometimes, it does depend on the situation, the board’s mandate, the CEO’s style. But we identified a solid set of foundational practices that all boards should adopt. Throughout this year, the Congress will deliver those practices in a set of actionable resources. Stay tuned!? We were lucky to have an incredible group of experts in the room, including: Amy Sample Ward, Chief Executive Officer, NTEN Anil Dash, VP of Developer Experience, Fastly; board member, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) Chantal Forster, AI Strategy, Annenberg Foundation Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Former ED, Craigslist Charitable Fund; Author, AI for Nonprofits. Edima Elinewinga, CAE , VP and CTO, Association of Corporate Counsel Georgia Bullen, Executive Director, Superbloom Idalin Bobé, MBA, Founder, TechActivist.org Jim Fruchterman, Founder/CEO at Tech Matters John Mohr, CIO, MacArthur Foundation Kevin Barenblat, CEO, Fast Forward Nate Wong, Partner, The Bridgespan Group Sajit Joseph, Chief Digital and Transformation Officer, Tides; former Chief Innovation Officer, American Red Cross Satwik Seshasai, CTO, Atria Health Tara Andrews Huffman, JD, Chief Product and Strategy Officer, BoardSource And we’re lucky to another incredible group of Congress members who will be joining us next time: Alvina Antar, Former Chief Information Officer, Okta Oliver Hurst-Hiller, CTO and Head of Product, DonorsChoose Michael Belinsky, Director, AI Institute at Schmidt Sciences Erik Arnold, Former General Manager and Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Philanthropies Erran Berger, VP Product Engineering, LinkedIn This is just the beginning. Nonprofits need strong tech governance, and we’re building the roadmap. #NonprofitTech #TechGovernance #AIforGood #BoardLeadership #SocialImpact

Join Matt Stempeck from Civic Tech Field Guide who will be giving an overview of OS project, Civic Tech Field Guide tomorrow, January 28 at United Nations University between 10am and 11am Lisbon time. For more info and to register: https://lnkd.in/d-Pc_cYk

Join Matt Stempeck from Civic Tech Field Guide who will be giving an overview of OS project, Civic Tech Field Guide tomorrow, January 28 at United Nations University between 10am and 11am Lisbon time. For more info and to register: https://lnkd.in/d-Pc_cYk

ALL DAY UX + Science Hackathon at MIT – Monday, JANUARY 27, 2025! Do you develop software for research purposes and/or are you interested in applying UX principles to transform research tools? If so, we have organised an all day?UX + science hackathon?organized by?STRUDEL. This hackathon is set to take place at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA on Monday, January 27th, 2025. Register via this form:?https://lnkd.in/gbGkSxPr by this Friday, January 17th. Some travel stipends are available - see form for details. This event would be of particular interest to those with some coding experience who are looking to work on a specific web app or piece of software and is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with peers and practitioners while working to improve user experience within the scientific community. Together, we’ll explore how to create intuitive tools and interfaces that can make science and your research process more accessible, efficient, and engaging. ? Superbloom received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to improve the user experience of scientific software for STRUDEL and you can find out more about the project here: https://strudel.science/

ALL DAY UX + Science Hackathon at MIT – Monday, JANUARY 27, 2025! Do you develop software for research purposes and/or are you interested in applying UX principles to transform research tools? If so, we have organised an all day?UX + science hackathon?organized by?STRUDEL. This hackathon is set to take place at the MIT campus in Cambridge, MA on Monday, January 27th, 2025. Register via this form:?https://lnkd.in/gbGkSxPr by this Friday, January 17th. Some travel stipends are available - see form for details. This event would be of particular interest to those with some coding experience who are looking to work on a specific web app or piece of software and is an exciting opportunity to collaborate with peers and practitioners while working to improve user experience within the scientific community. Together, we’ll explore how to create intuitive tools and interfaces that can make science and your research process more accessible, efficient, and engaging. ? Superbloom received an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation grant to improve the user experience of scientific software for STRUDEL and you can find out more about the project here: https://strudel.science/

Looking forward to this!