Mike Gifford, CPWA
Open Standards & Practices lead for @CivicActions.com. Drupal Core Accessibility Maintainer. Digital Services Coalition Board Member. A W3C Invited Expert & co-chair of the #W3C #SustainableWeb Interest Group. #SolarPunk #CliFi #Quaker #Feminist #Canadian
Starter Packs
Created by Mike Gifford, CPWA (4)
Solar Punk & Post-CliFi
I do love this genre of what life could look like. We need a new story, that allows us to imagine life beyond our fossil fuel driven economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solarpunk
AXSChat - Accessibility Community on Bluesky
AXSChat is a community that Debra Ruh, Neil Milliken and Antonio Vieira Santos have brought together over the years. With a combination of thoughtful interviews and an engaging discussion on Twitter. Now let's explore how this might work in Bluesky. https://www.axschat.com
Digital Public Goods
Digital Public Goods (DPGs) include open source software, open data, open AI models, open standards and open content follow best practices and support the UN's Sustainability Development Goals (SDGs). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_public_goods
Green Digital Accessibility
This is a list of folks who are passionate about people and planet. These are people who know that people include people with disabilities. Also those who know that digital tools have environmental impacts too. #a11y #accessibility #sustainability
@michaelpdx.bsky.social
Remove mental illness stigma. Support veterans. Donate your fluids. Make life easier on others, not harder. Father of two little ones. Co-founder of www.thefusionsyndicate.com - the content productivity company
@davidcorn.bsky.social
Washington bureau chief, Mother Jones. MSNBC commentator. Author of AMERICAN PSYCHOSIS and other NYT bestsellers. On Signal: DavidCorn.99
@nathanheller.bsky.social
New Yorker staff writer, hapless itinerant, reader. My concise and infrequent newsletter announces significant new publications, public appearances, and nothing else: nathanheller.substack.com/about
@ameakem.bsky.social
associate editor @foreignpolicy.com and U.S. columnist @zeit.de’s Spotlight magazine. say hi: allison.meakem@foreignpolicy.com 🤸🏻♀️
@stanfordcisac.bsky.social
Stanford's Center for International Security and Cooperation produces knowledge to build a safer world and trains the next generation of security specialists. Visit us at: https://cisac.fsi.stanford.edu/
@alasdaircraig.bsky.social
Philosophy/Consciousness/History/Books Editor, Institute of Art & Ideas – @iai.tv Freelance for Hurst Pub – @hurstpublishers.bsky.social Instructor, Philosophy of Mind – Horizoninspires.com DPhil, Philosophy, University of Oxford 📍Edinburgh, Scotland
@lraz.io
maker and troublemaker. essays at global natives. systems design at plumia. investor in new media, old trains, and mushroom coffins. ✍️ globalnatives.substack.com 📍 Amsterdam, NL
@iangraham.bsky.social
At University of Edinburgh Business School. Have always been interested in innovation, now particularly interested in service innovation, and very interested in the use of IT in UK elections. Prepared to teach entrepreneurship if my arm is twisted.
@joelburke.bsky.social
Author of Rebooting A Nation, a book on Estonia's journey from re-independence to leader in e-government and as a tech hub. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/rebooting-a-nation-9781805263012?cc=us&lang=en&
@shoeb.bsky.social
Internet Freedom | Digital Rights | Data Justice | Anti-fascist | Co-Founder- Activate Rights
@aaronfreemanca.bsky.social
Policy expert & Clean50 Award recipient with 30+ years advancing environmental solutions and building environmental leadership. GreenPAC founder, author, and former Sr. Advisor to Ontario Premier. Policy. Politics. Planet 🌎
@idrc-ocadu.bsky.social
Research and development centre at OCAD University working to ensure that emerging information technology and practices are designed inclusively.
@ren-today.bsky.social
@dairinstitute.bsky.social
AI is not inevitable. We DAIR to imagine, build & use AI deliberately. Website: http://dair-institute.org Mastodon: @DAIR@dair-community.social LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dair-institute/
@timnitgebru.bsky.social
Personal Account Founder: The Distributed AI Research Institute @dairinstitute.bsky.social. Author: The View from Somewhere, a memoir & manifesto arguing for a technological future that serves our communities (to be published by One Signal / Atria
@crdjustice.bsky.social
Promoting justice for people of color, people with disabilities, and individuals at the intersection of race & disability. Based at Northwestern Law. Reposts not endorsements. https://linktr.ee/nlawcrdj
@djno.ca
Creating a world where people with disabilities are free to be. - Website: http://djno.ca - Support: info@djno.ca - Media: media@djno.ca - DJNOntario on all other platforms incl. linktr.ee/djnontario We also run enablingjustice.com!
@ambakak.bsky.social
I co-direct @AINowInstitute; @Signalapp board. Cover art by my mother https://shoumabanerjeekak.com/about-the-artist/
@goodrobotpod.bsky.social
Join University of Cambridge researchers Dr Kerry McInerney and Dr Eleanor Drage for rich and lively conversations with activists, technologists, artists and philosophers about feminism and tech. New episode every two weeks!
@smw.bsky.social
Current: Co-Executive Director @AINowInstitute | Former: Senior Advisor on AI @FTC | She/her
@techcrunch.com
Technology news and analysis with a focus on founders and startup teams. Got a tip? http://techcrunch.com/tips
@accessiblehousgnet.bsky.social
According to a 2022 Canadian Survey 27% of Canadians aged 15 and older have a disability that limits their daily activities. We have a unique opportunity right now, with so many new housing builds, to implement Universal Design!
@womeninaiethics.bsky.social
champion of equity and ethics, advocate for diversity in AI and tech, lover of cats and coffee (and occasionally tea)
@mtlaiethics.bsky.social
International non-profit org democratizing AI ethics literacy. ✉️ Get the AI Ethics Brief bi-weekly: http://brief.montrealethics.ai
@fordfoundation.org
Justice begins where inequality ends. We’re building a world where everyone has the power to shape their lives. fordfoundation.org
@brendan-tierney.bsky.social
Data | Big Data | Data Science | Data Engineering | Artificial Intelligence | Data & Digital Ethics | Government & EU Advisory Committees | Author @MITPress @MHEducation & others | SYM42 Blog= oralytics.com
@gabkroz.bsky.social
Helping technical and non-technical people understand AI. Empowering Teaching Learning 👩💻 Director of AI @ Microsoft ⭐️ DevRel + Community + Networking #rstats #AI
@jeffdean.bsky.social
Google Chief Scientist, Gemini Lead. Opinions stated here are my own, not those of Google. Gemini, TensorFlow, MapReduce, Bigtable, Spanner, ML things, ...
@cnibfoundation.bsky.social
CNIB is a non-profit organization driven to change what it is to be blind today. 👩🏾🦯🦮 Profile image: bold yellow background with the CNIB logo on a black brushstroke.
@cdnhearingservices.bsky.social
@profwomack.bsky.social
Disability studies | Universal design #UDL | Teaching Professor, Engineering communication, Rice University
@tjoshaughnessy.bsky.social
Promoting inclusivity in Education at the University of Limerick, PhD student, Mostly tweet #InclusiveEducation #AssistiveTechnology #Accessibility & #EDI. Other interests include #LUFC #RetroC64Amiga #Rewilding #Writing
@themichaelbach.bsky.social
Speaker, Author, IDEA Thought Leader (inclusion, diversity, equity and accessibility) Author of two best-selling and award-winning books: Founder and Former CEO of the Canadian Centre for Diversity and Inclusion and CCDI Consulting. #LGBTQIA+
@cfraz.bsky.social
Mostly lurking these days – a writing hiatus slowed/complicated by post covid crip effects. On board with justice struggles that honour life in all of its forms. Forever buoyed by the wonders of mother earth and the radical persistence of crip cultures.
@catherinecronin.bsky.social
open & higher education | social justice | co-editor, Higher Education for Good: Teaching and Learning Futures #HE4Good | Bronxite who now calls Ireland home | she/her | http://catherinecronin.net/
@towardsdatascience.com
Your home for data science & AI. The world's leading publication for data science, data analytics, data engineering, machine learning, and artificial intelligence professionals. towardsdatascience.com
@ecampusontario.bsky.social
Access. Empowerment. Driving digital transformation in Ontario’s postsecondary institutions.
@spaikin.bsky.social
Anchor, "The Agenda with Steve Paikin" on TVO. Co-host, "The #onpoli Podcast." Author, most recently, of "John Turner: An Intimate Profile of Canada's 17th Prime Minister."
@krischi.bsky.social
Technology Access Program at Gallaudet. Rehabilitation Engineering Research Center on Tech for Deaf/HH. Next-gen accessibility. Perpetually vacillating between “this tech is a game changer for access” and “this tech will exacerbate unequal access.”
@blindnewworld.bsky.social
#BlindNewWorld: empowering the #blind and #VisuallyImpaired community while demystifying #blindness and breaking down barriers to #inclusion. Powered by Perkins School for the Blind.
@baf-far.bsky.social
The Broadcasting Accessibility Fund/Fond pour l'accessibilité de la radiodiffusion Providing grants that advance accessibility to Canadian broadcasting content/Fournissant financièrement pour améliorer l’accès au contenu radiodiffusé au Canada
@dstienstra.bsky.social
Feminist disability activist and professor in Canada and around the world. She/her
@alexreevegivens.bsky.social
CEO at Center for Democracy & Technology, fighting to protect people’s rights & our democracy in the digital age. Proud daughter & Board Member at Christopher & Dana Reeve Foundation.