hawrarabaan.bsky.social
@hawrarabaan.bsky.social
🎙️Excited to share my upcoming talk:
Beyond Western Feminism: An Islamic Feminist Approach to Technology Research and Design

I’ll discuss ways to shape tech design by centering lived experiences, agency, & justice beyond Western paradigms.

Join us to rethink equitable design!
#HCI#FeministTech
Join us on April 30 at 4 PM for Beyond Western Feminism with @hawrarabaan.bsky.social .

This talk introduces Islamic feminism as a critical theoretical, analytical, and design lens in technology research. For more info and to RSVP visit https://go.umd.edu/wgssBWF. #academicsky
April 9, 2025 at 6:13 PM
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A tricky thing about modern society is that no one has any idea when they don’t die.

Like, the number of lives saved by controlling air pollution in America is probably over 200,000 per year, but the number of people who think their life was saved by controlling air pollution is zero.
April 7, 2025 at 4:13 AM
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​​In a 2-part series for @techpolicypress.bsky.social, D&S’s Charley Johnson & Michelle Shevin, formerly of the Ford Foundation, invite funders to think differently about tech—starting not w tech itself, but by envisioning the world we want and mapping backward. www.techpolicy.press/how-philanth...
How Philanthropy Can Use the “AI Moment” to Build More Just Futures Today | TechPolicy.Press
Changing systems requires transforming power dynamics and mapping backward from the future, write Charley Johnson and Michelle Shevin.
www.techpolicy.press
March 26, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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This is useful, by The Alan Turing Institute: "Thinking of using AI to solve a problem? Here are eight questions you need to ask first" www.turing.ac.uk/blog/thinkin...
Thinking of using AI to solve a problem? Here are eight questions you need to ask first
A guide for decision-makers looking to procure AI tools in government or business
www.turing.ac.uk
January 24, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM