Consentful Tech in Action – Page 2 – The Consentful Tech Project

Designing consent into a new social media platform

October 26, 2018October 1, 2019

The Commons Platform is “a new social media platform, based on values, built by everyone for everyone and owned by everyone. It is private and secure, open source and decentralised, and enables everyone to collaborate on community organising, resource-sharing or anything else that makes their lives better.” Recently, Commons Platform organizers presented a design workshop that asked the question “How can we create a thriving community where people can contribute and where all contributions are…

Brooklyn youth prototyping consentful technologies

September 1, 2018October 21, 2019

As part of her fellowship through the Ford-Mozilla Open Web program, Maya Wagoner worked with a group of young people in the Brownsville Community Justice Center’s Tech Lab internship program “to educate ourselves on networks and how data travels, both from a technical perspective, and from a civic and political perspective.” The 16-week program in the spring of 2018 involved reading Building Consentful Tech and investigating the ways that consent (or a lack thereof) relates…

Building Consentful Tech at the Allied Media Conference

June 13, 2018October 1, 2019

The Allied Media Conference (AMC) is a yearly convening of media-based organizers in Detroit. AMC2018 will be its 20th year! Heading to the AMC? Don’t miss our session, Building Consentful Technology! What does consent have to do with tech? Using the Building Consentful Tech zine framework, we’ll analyze and remix apps to be more consentful. TW: this session touches on interpersonal & state violence. Presenters: Una Lee & Tawana PettySaturday June 16, 2018, 2:00pm -…

“Digital Futures of Consent” sessions at the Allied Media Conference

June 1, 2018October 1, 2019

At the 2017 Allied Media Conference (AMC), we presented a preliminary framework of consentful technology in a session called Building Consentful Technologies. Several months later, we released the Building Consentful Tech zine. We’re excited to share that an exciting group of technologists and organizers have put together a full track of sessions on digital consent for the AMC2018, inspired in part by the zine: Consent is voluntary, imaginative, active, enthusiastic, creative, wanted, informed, mutual, and…

MERL Tech London presentation on extraction and consent

April 26, 2018October 1, 2019

In April, Christine Prefontaine from Loup gave a talk at MERL Tech London called StoryEngine: Adventures in Extraction and Consent. Christine shared the ways in which learning about the FRIES framework prompted her to re-think consent in the tool she was developing: At Loup, we started thinking about how we might to adopt this framework. A challenge: it never seemed like “the right time” to implement practices around revoking consent. Especially because it’s complicated logistically….

Building consentful, portable networks at re:publica 2018

April 21, 2018October 1, 2019

Greta Byrum, co-director of the New School’s Digital Equity Laboratory, will be presenting a consentful tech related session called “Portable Network Kit (PNK): Building Community Tech” at re:publica 2018 in Berlin: A Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a simply assembly of equipment that builds a basic wireless network (raspberry pi server + router + access point + battery). You can use it to communicate in an emergency, as an offline/local “sneakernet,” or to share an…