Consentful Tech in Action – The Consentful Tech Project

A graphic that reads "From protecting ourselves to taking care of each other: Consentful Tech Curriculum launch. Tues. Dec. 7, 12-2pm ET on Twitter. @consentfultech." Multicolored gemstones are labelled with the text "Freely Given, Reversible, Informed, Enthusiastic, and Specific."

Announcing the release of the Consentful Tech curriculum!

November 24, 2021March 28, 2022

The Consentful Tech Project, the Detroit Community Technology Project, And Also Too, and Data 4 Black Lives are thrilled to announce the launch of our new curriculum. From protecting ourselves to taking care of each other: A curriculum for building and using technology consentfully is meant to support those looking to best use technology in service of care, safety, and consent. It will lay the groundwork with key concepts like data and data bodies, safety…

Cited references roundup for “Building Consentful Tech”

September 23, 2019November 26, 2019

It has been about 2 years since the release of Building Consentful Tech, and we thought it would be fun to do a search for references that cite the zine that started it all. This list is current as of Oct 1, 2019. We will eventually migrate this to a full Resources page. Academic publications Cizek, Katerina, William Uricchio, and Sarah Wolozin. “Part 6: Media Co-Creation with Non-Human Systems.” Collective Wisdom (1st ed.), 3 June,…

Call for Participants for Virtual Grounds: Feminist perspectives on digital sustainability and survival

August 26, 2019November 19, 2019

Duration: 11 months, from October 1st 2019 to August 2020Location: Downtown Toronto and ScarboroughApplication Deadline: September 5, 2019 Trinity Square Video and the Digital Justice Lab are announcing an open call for participants for the “Virtual Grounds” training and research initiative focused on building a more just and sustainable digital future with emerging artists and technologists. Virtual Grounds is a two-phase project dedicated to how we navigate our virtual selves of the future. In this…

Help us design a Consentful Tech UX/UI Design (un)Bootcamp

May 14, 2019October 31, 2019

We’re gearing up to offer an intensive 6-8 week UX/UI design training! It will be based in popular education, design justice, and consentful tech, and will prioritize participants who are marginalized by the tech sector and conventional design education. The program is meant to be a free/low-cost alternative to so-called “bootcamps.” Existing “bootcamps” are accelerated technical programs that often guarantee placement into high-paying tech jobs in exchange for steep tuition prices and upwards of 80+…

The Consentful Tech Project joins the AMP Sponsored Projects Program

April 16, 2019October 1, 2019

We’re thrilled to announce that the Consentful Tech Project is now an AMP Sponsored Project! This means that we join a network of brilliant projects that are cultivating media strategies for a more just, creative, and collaborative world. With AMP’s support, we’ll be able to build capacity around two exciting programs in the works: The Consentful Tech Curriculum & Trainings, a collaboration with the Detroit Community Technology Project, for folks interested in setting up community…

A prototype of reversible, no-pressure consent

April 16, 2019October 1, 2019

We were honored to be invited by the Shorenstein Center at the Harvard Kennedy School to contribute a work-in-progress design prototype for their 2019 Privacy Forecast. The Consentful Tech Project has been working with the Design Justice Network (DJN) to incorporate stronger consent practices into its website. DJN invites visitors to become signatories to its ten principles, which, taken together provide a vision of design practice that is just, equitable, accessible, and accountable. We wanted…