Humanitarian Tech
A curated list of experts in humanitarian technology, digital rights, and ethics
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@giuliowolfe.bsky.social
@heidykhlaaf.bsky.social
Climber 🇪🇬 |Chief AI Scientist at @ainowinstitute.bsky.social | Safety engineer (nuclear, software & AI/ML). |x- Trail of Bits, Zipline, OpenAI, Adelard, MSFTResearch https://www.heidyk.com/
@borderless.bsky.social
The future is up for grabs. The world we live in is awful but the one we're building is worth it. Bringing my whole self to the apocalypse. Director of Development @distributeaid.org he/they, often a newcomer views my own trust + supplychains + tech 🚛💻🏴🖤
@boschwartz.bsky.social
Data scientist at the Danish Refugee Council drc.ngo Used to write about basketball. Tweets in English/Danish. He/him.
@linasrivastava.bsky.social
Founder, Center for Transformational Change. Strategist, producer, writer, traveler. https://linasrivastava.com https://transformationalchange.co She/her.
@wayanvota.bsky.social
Digital development leader in #ICT4D - Publisher of ICTworks - Creator of Fail Festival.
@marwasf.bsky.social
Palestinian feminist made in Saudi | MENA Policy and Advocacy Director @AccessNow
@empo11on.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Media Studies and Data Governance at UVA "There's a war going on outside no man is safe from" — Albert Johnson https://sixfouronea.net/
@clancyny.bsky.social
Studying and researching History of Science, Technology, and Computing. Video archivist. Earnest poster. Degree: Digital Humanities. Cis lesbian.
@risu.bsky.social
edtech and digital /cyber strategy/ advisor against tech enabled harm/ domestic abuse #edtech #education #harmreduction she/her
@disruptionlab.bsky.social
Events and research focused on exposing systems of power and injustice. Nov 29- Dec 1, 2024: INVESTIGATING THE KILL CLOUD: Information Warfare, Autonomous Weapons & AI · 10 Years Disruption Network Lab. https://disruptionlab.org
@marielgm.bsky.social
40% thinker, 60% doer. 100% altermundista. Sociotechnical researcher on privacy and surveillance, trust and safety at MIT HASTS, Data + Feminism, Berkman Klein. I love creative uses of media and tech in the public interest. Cambridge, MA/Ciudad de México.
@notechforapartheid.bsky.social
Google & Amazon workers organizing against the companies' joint $1B Project Nimbus cloud contract with Israel. 📩 notech4apartheid@protonmail.com 💬 Google or Amazon worker? Join us ➡️ t.ly/NotaGeneralIntake 🌐 notechforapartheid.com
@tarciziosilva.bsky.social
Tech, AI and human rights advisor. PhD in Humanities and Social Sciences (UFABC), Master in Media Studies (UFBA), spe. in International Law and Human Rights (PUC-MG). Author of books on algorithmic racism, alum Mozilla https://tarciziosilva.com
@tumbolian.bsky.social
Abogado. Derechos Humanos y Tecnología. Cofundador y exdirector de @r3d.mx | Opiniones a título personal English account: @luisfgarcia.bsky.social
@evangreer.bsky.social
Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. Last album "Spotify is Surveillance" out now on Don Giovanni Records and Get Better Records. she/her/they/them
@runasand.bsky.social
Founder of Granitt, securing journalists and at-risk people around the world.
@jurrevanbergen.nl
Technologist at Amnesty's Security Lab. Here's how to contact me securely: https://gist.github.com/DrWhax/61978d4e7df5291d4cf308f10dc20d5a
@martijngrooten.bsky.social
Threat Intelligence for Silent Push. Security for at-risk people. Researcher, reader, runner. Traveler. Signal: martijngrooten.37
@kiricarini.com
Geospatial Communicator. Data + Stories for @developmentseed.org @osmus.bsky.social Board Member Hiking shenanigans. Desert dweller.
@margchee.bsky.social
Lecturer in digital economy @kcl.ac.uk. Anthropologist. Researching tech and aid. https://about.me/cheesman
@gisellalomax.bsky.social
Information Integrity and Digital Protection. I work for the UN Refugee Agency - UNHCR - leading our response to misinformation, disinformation, online hate speech. Currently based in London
@emryss.bsky.social
digital, social & political transformation; research & policy @ Caribou Digital & fellow @ LSE & Graduate Institute, Geneva; RT ≠ endorsement X: @emrys_s
@beckacita.bsky.social
researcher at Amnesty Tech's Security Lab | surveillance and gender justice | writer (London Writers Awards; A Writing Chance)
@lorenzofb.bsky.social
Real-time historian of the late cyber capitalist era @TechCrunch. Tweets about infosec, surveillance by day. 🍕, ⚽️, 🎸, 🎮 by night. ☎️ Signal: +1 917 257 1382 Past lives: VICE Motherboard, Mashable, WIRED.
@eliothiggins.bsky.social
Founder and creative director of Bellingcat and director of Bellingcat Productions BV. Author of We Are Bellingcat. Democracy isn't dead, it just smells funny.
@juliaangwin.com
Investigative journalist. New York Times Contributing Opinion Writer. Founder, Proof News, The Markup. Priors: ProPublica, WSJ. Fellow at Harvard Shorenstein Center. Signal: Julia.368 Sign up for my newsletter: https://buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin
@romainmurphy.bsky.social
Changemaker & Partner for Community Change | Management & Strategy Consultant-Intl.-RMC | Co-Founder, ESPWA, Inc. & the Haiti Community Foundation 🇭🇹🌎| Allergic to #racism, #sexism #neocolonialism, #injustice & #greed. https://romainmurphy.com/
@marietjeschaake.bsky.social
Technology Policy at Stanford 👩🏼💻 column in FT 🇪🇺 Member of European Parliament 2009-2019 📕Author: The Tech Coup
@mariannedh.bsky.social
Writer, lawyer, digital rights activist, migrant. Cat person. PDF hoarder. Coffee addict. Swiftie. / she/ella / http://the-far-away.com
@meowtree.bsky.social
Responsible data, digital ethics, safeguarding, trust + safety, privacy. Human rights, global dev, humanitarian work. MERL Tech, NLP-CoP, NYC Tech Salon. CIPP-E/CIPM certified. Brooklyn, cats, gardening, biking. She/her.
@shannonrsingh.bsky.social
Atrocity prevention through a tech lens. Founder, Athena Tech & Atrocities Advisory / Former Human Rights Counsel @ Twitter & Co-Chair @ IBA War Crimes Committee.
@ddc-sdu.bsky.social
The Digital Democracy Centre SDU is an interdisciplinary hub at the University of Southern Denmark https://www.sdu.dk/en/ddc • #dkmedier #dkpol #dkforsk #democracy #digital #AI •
@aidnography.de
Associate Professor in Development Studies at Malmö University, Sweden. Global development. Humanitarianism. Communication & Social Change. Chief Blogger at www.aidnography.de since 2010. More: https://linktr.ee/tobiasdenskus
@rchandran.bsky.social
Building a more equitable, sustainable future. Public sector innovation / global policy / ESG / peacebuilding / humanitarian & health (hey, the SDG's are broad!). More #poetry & #cricket than might normally be found in such areas.
@brandaid-world.bsky.social
What can I do to 'help'? #Politics #Africa #Humanitarianism #Aid #Writer Professor of Globalization, Copenhagen Business School. http://lisaannrichey.com She/her
@wammezz.bsky.social
Environmental open-source investigations, tracking drone warfare, research based advocacy for PAX, contributer Bellingcat.
@petramolnar.com
#Bordertech ethnographies | Author of The Walls Have Eyes | @refugeelab.ca + @migrationtechmonitor.com, York | Faculty Associate with Berkman Klein Center, Harvard | She/ هي 🇵🇸🍉| https://petramolnar.com/
@kumarsambhav.bsky.social
India Research Lead @ Digital Witness Lab | Founder & Director @ Land Conflict Watch | Former AI Fellow @ Pulitzer Center | Cofounded The Reporters Collective
@older.bsky.social
nerd with narrative disorder • humanitarian • sociopunk • evidence-based creativity • speculative resistance • predictive fictions • INFOMOCRACY • THE MIMICKING OF KNOWN SUCCESSES • …AND OTHER DISASTERS • GlobalVoices.org • ASU-CSI • opinions my own
@zephoria.bsky.social
STS researcher who likes to look at things sideways. Founded Data & Society. Topics: Census | Youth | Data | Society Microsoft Research -> Cornell (2025) https://made-not-found-by-danah-boyd.ghost.io
@heatherleson.bsky.social
Imagine this world if we all lent a hand. Strategy, Engagement, Open Source, Open Organizations, Humanitarian. OSMF/HOTOSM. about.me/heather_leson
@manypossibilities.net
Local hands building local networks. Open Data in telecoms https://linktr.ee/opentelecomdata Day job: https://isoc.org Views my own.
@rahulbot.bsky.social
Creative data & computational journalism. "Community Data" book eBook and pre-order available: http://communitydatabook.com
@scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz
Sr. Tech PM and Product Owner building tools and distributed research networks; Occasional Data Witch; 🚴🏻🏃🏻⛷️📷 #RStats; Former goatherd & Data Ethics @HHI_Signal.
@jenitennison.com
Data nerd/wonk. Founder of Connected by Data, campaigning for communities to have a powerful say over data and AI. Into trans rights, neurodiversity, board games, lego, dogs, spreadsheets. www.jenitennison.com
@liotier.bsky.social
Like an old information technology blog that collided with a European Union politics column, a geographic information systems consultancy and a defense think tank. French alt: https://bsky.app/profile/liotier-fr.bsky.social Matrix: @liotier:tedomum.net
@marciahofmann.com
Digital rights lawyer and writer. Former Twitter, EFF, EPIC, US-UK Fulbright scholar. Based in CO 🏔️🌲
@tomnewby.co.uk
Structural engineer. Emergency shelter specialist & ex-humanitarian aidworker. Interested in good people-centred design, equity & (climate) justice. Currently working on the unusual combination of social housing and stadiums in the UK.
@jessicadorsey.bsky.social
Assistant Professor of Int’l Law, Utrecht University; Managing Editor, OpinioJuris; Exec. Board, Airwars; IHL, IHRL, Civilian Harm Mitigation, Military AI, Autonomous Weapons Systems, Military Drones; Stargazer/Aurora Chaser
@lopalasi.bsky.social
Founder The Ethical Tech Society | AlgorithmWatch | IGF Academy I Advisory Board Member @EP_ScienceTech @lopalasi@dair-community.social on Mastodon
@anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing in human geography on AI governance, political power, and privatization. I examine scale in public sector governance of AI, including chatbots. she/her | Waterloo/Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
@sanjanah.bsky.social
Studying confluence of influence operations, disinfo, truth decay, information integrity & policies addressing online harms. Many thoughts, sometimes prayers.
@suryamattu.com
Sr. Engineer for Data Journalism & Investigations @bloomberg.com Previously: @princetoncitp.bsky.social @umwallacehouse.bsky.social 21-22 Fellow @themarkup.org @propublica.org
@datasociety.bsky.social
Data & Society is a nonprofit research institute that studies the social implications of data-centric technologies, automation, and AI.
@zey.bsky.social
It is said that there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all
@bellingcat.com
Bellingcat is an independent investigative collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists brought together by a passion for open source research. Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
@parismarx.com
i criticize the tech industry 🎙️ @techwontsave.us & @systemcrash.info 📬 https://disconnect.blog 📖 https://roadtonowherebook.com
@alixdunn.com
I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.saysmaybe.com/podcast
@ubisurv.net
David Murakami Wood (DMW) Canada Research Chair in Critical Surveillance & Security Studies Director, CSS/Lab, uOttawa Co-editor-in-Chief, Surveillance & Society Surveillance / Security / Cities / Technology / Human Rights / Environment https://ubisurv.net
@safiyanoble.bsky.social
Living in Los Angeles. Native Californian. Writer, researcher, professor. Author, “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism,” which is unfortunately still relevant to understanding today’s LLMs and AI. safiyaunoble.com
@manuelabat.bsky.social
AI and Democracy | AI Geopolicy | Researcher on the Democratic Governance of Cyberspace | Jurist | Let’s break monopolies | The Force is with me | @SecuoyaGroup
@chrishouston.ca
Exec Director @canadianpeacemuseum.ca, newspaper columnist, teaching humanitarianism(U of Toronto), consulting at @humanitarianassociates.org. Ex @redcrosscanada.bsky.social 🇳🇵🇱🇧, @who.int 🇾🇪, @msf.org 🇨🇦🇵🇬🇳🇬🇪🇹🇹🇷🇵🇰 🌐 chrishouston.ca
@abirghattas.bsky.social
CIO & Director of Information Security @HRW • Feminist • @abirghattas@infosec.exchange •
@icsjournal.bsky.social
Social Media; Communication Studies; Cyberculture; Sociology; Political Communication; Internet Studies. Published by Routledge. https://www.tandfonline.com/journals/rics20
@shannonvallor.bsky.social
Philosopher/AI Ethicist at Univ of Edinburgh, Director @technomoralfutures.bsky.social, co-Director @braiduk.bsky.social, author of Technology and the Virtues (2016) and The AI Mirror (2024). Views my own.
@abeba.bsky.social
Founder & PI @aial.ie, @tcddublin.bsky.social AI accountability, AI audits & evaluation, critical data studies. Cognitive scientist by training. Ethiopian in Ireland. She/her
@davidsullivan.bsky.social
Tech policy, human rights, trust & safety. Raised in Brooklyn, based in Boulder. Views expressed here strictly personal. @david_msullivan elsewhere. Posts auto delete.
@ginahelfrich.bsky.social
Centre for Technomoral Futures @ U of Edinburgh. PhD in Philosophy, Grad Cert in Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies. Texan. Feminist. I’m on Mastodon and encourage you to be there, too: techpolicy.social/@ginahelfrich
@fleurjohns.bsky.social
Dean and Head of School, Sydney Law School, University of Sydney. International law, legal theory, law & technology etc. Latest book: https://tinyurl.com/HelpBookOUP
@meredithmeredith.bsky.social
President of Signal, Chief Advisor to AI Now Institute
@heigit.org
Open-source geoinformation, methods and software for the benefit of the environment and society. --- This is the official account of HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) at Heidelberg University. Check us out at https://heigit.org/
@ruchowdh.bsky.social
www.rummanchowdhury.com www.humane-intelligence.org CEO & co-founder, Humane Intelligence US Science Envoy for AI (Biden Administration)
@dorotheabaur.bsky.social
Ethics in tech & finance: AI ethics, ESG, CSR, sustainability. Expert, consultant, speaker, lecturer, author. Based in Zurich, Switzerland. Ideal for people who appreciate both humor and ethical dilemmas, and can handle an occasional existential crisis.
@faineg.bsky.social
civilian drone mapping technology and GIS/spatial data consultant, sometimes journalist and writer, monitors small drones in the Ukraine war, humanitarian-aid adjacent, always annoying online. they/them pronouns. minors DNI