The UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry is also home to the Minderoo Initiative on Technology & Power, an initiative that investigates the social impact of digital technologies on the broader public good.
Minderoo Initiative on Technology & Power at the UCLA Center for Critical Internet Inquiry investigates the social impact of digital technologies on communities and the broader public good. The initiative aims to create new paradigms for the public to understand the harms of tech platforms, predictive technologies, advertising-driven algorithmic content, and the work of digital laborers.
People
Dr. Safiya Noble
Minderoo Initiative Co-Director
Dr. Sarah Roberts
Minderoo Initiative Co-Director
Vanessa Rhinesmith
Executive Director of the Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power
Policy Highlights
- Safiya Umoja Noble Office of the US Trade Representative Meeting and the Department of Education Listening Session, 2024
- Akina Younge is serving on the State Tech Policy Working Group coordinated by Tech Policy Press, 2024
- Dr. Roberts joins the inaugural Teleperformance Trust & Safety Advisory Board, 2024
- Dr. Stacy Wood consulted on the National Institute for Standards in Technology Risk Management Framework for AI, 2023
- California Privacy Protection Agency, Pre-Rulemaking Info Session, March 30, 2022
- Safiya Noble receives NAACP-Archewell Digital Civil Rights Award, April 6, 2022
- California’s Reparations Task Force explores inequities in tech and health, Jan 27, 2022
- Safiya Umoja Noble and Meredith Whittaker on Duties of Care and Resistance to Big Tech, Dec 25, 2021
- Commission on Information Disorder Final Report, Nov 15, 2021
- Safiya Noble Selected to Aspen Institute’s Commission on Information Disorder, Apr 20, 2021
Project Highlights
- Beacons, a partnership between We Be Imagining and Logic Magazine
- Feminist AI
- Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
- Tech Workers’ Coalition Teach-In
- Trans-Feminist Oracle
- Summer Fellowship
Press Highlights
- Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble featured in Rolling Stone as a critical force in the AI and tech ethics space
- Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble’s work is featured in Parents Magazine
- Dr. Sarah T. Roberts is featured by Harvard Business Review
- Dr. Safiya Umoja Noble on All Things Considered
- Dr. Sarah T. Roberts publishes “X is Neither Trusted nor Safe” with GLAAD Media Dr. Safiya Noble co-authored an op-ed with Color of Change President Rashad Robinson for the LA Times on Elon Musks’s Twitter acquisition
- Dr. Sarah T. Roberts publishes an op-ed in the LA Times on Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter
The Minderoo Initiative on Technology and Power includes the following programs:
Speaker Series
Dr. Miriam E. Sweeney
Dr. Moya Bailey
Dr. SA Smythe
Dr. Mar Hicks
Dr. Tonia Sutherland
This work is made possible by the Minderoo Foundation. Learn more about Frontier Technology at Minderoo!