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Digital response is an emerging space where we have a chance to apply our social justice brains and hearts in such a way that it bridges gaps in socioeconomic and technology.
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Digital humanitarian and disaster response is an emerging field where we have a chance to apply our social justice brains and hearts. Doing so opens new opportunities to close technology capacity and socioeconomic gaps. By being strategic and collaborative in our involvement in this space, we can address both short-term needs and long-standing issues.
  
 
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For a long time, it wasn't possible to include everyone's voice in planning or decision making without generally questionable amounts of time. There was no way to listen, at scale. Aggregation and centralization made some small sense, especially in times of urgency, even with the troubles these tend to cause. But now we have new technologies. We have the ability to '''listen''', in high resolution and in high fidelity. But technology isn't a silver bullet -- we also need the political will, and the personal values to make that happen. And we have an awful lot of momentum related to history to make it easier to not make those shifts. With Aspiration's new digital humanitarian response program, we get to support some of the rad people willing and able to make these changes.
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For a long time, it wasn't possible to include everyone's voice in planning or decision making without investing unfeasible amounts of time. There was no way to listen, at scale. Aggregation and centralization made some small sense, especially in times of urgency, even with the systemic troubles these tend to cause. We now have new communication, coordination, and parsing technologies. We have the ability to '''listen''', in high resolution and in high fidelity. But technology isn't a silver bullet -- we also need the political will, and the personal values to make that happen. We have a great deal of historical momentum to overcome in order to make these shifts to inclusion and empowerment. With Aspiration's new digital humanitarian response program, we get to support some of the people and organizations willing and able to make these changes.
  
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This wiki is a place to hold notes from events, details about projects spawned out of the events, etc.
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This wiki is a place to hold notes from [https://digitalresponse.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=Category:Events events] and [https://digitalresponse.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=Category:Checkin_call checkin calls], as well as specs for communally-held [https://digitalresponse.aspirationtech.org/index.php?title=Category:Project projects].
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We welcome your feedback, contributions, and questions.

Latest revision as of 15:33, 2 June 2016

Digital humanitarian and disaster response is an emerging field where we have a chance to apply our social justice brains and hearts. Doing so opens new opportunities to close technology capacity and socioeconomic gaps. By being strategic and collaborative in our involvement in this space, we can address both short-term needs and long-standing issues. 

ALERT: Due to ongoing spam problems, we have had to disable anonymous editing and self-service account creation. 
We ABSOLUTELY welcome contributions to this wiki; please contact info@aspirationtech.org to request an account. 
We apologize for the hassle!

For a long time, it wasn't possible to include everyone's voice in planning or decision making without investing unfeasible amounts of time. There was no way to listen, at scale. Aggregation and centralization made some small sense, especially in times of urgency, even with the systemic troubles these tend to cause. We now have new communication, coordination, and parsing technologies. We have the ability to listen, in high resolution and in high fidelity. But technology isn't a silver bullet -- we also need the political will, and the personal values to make that happen. We have a great deal of historical momentum to overcome in order to make these shifts to inclusion and empowerment. With Aspiration's new digital humanitarian response program, we get to support some of the people and organizations willing and able to make these changes.

This wiki is a place to hold notes from events and checkin calls, as well as specs for communally-held projects.

We welcome your feedback, contributions, and questions.

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