Designing Respectful Technology

Note: this article was originally published as Designing Respectful Tech: What is your relationship with technology? at Boxes and Arrows on February 24, 2022 You’ve been there before. You thought you could trust someone with a secret. You thought it would be safe, but found out later that they blabbed to everyone. Or, maybe they … Read more

Keep On Trackin’

In the research I’ve been doing on respectful technology relationships at the Me2B Alliance, it’s a combination of “I’ve got nothing to hide” and “I’ve got no other option”. People are deeply entangled in their technology relationships. Even when presented with overwhelmingly bad scores on Terms of Service and Privacy Policies, they will continue to … Read more

State of the Map Bonus: Satellite Selfie

June 6-8 was OpenStreetMap’s State of the Map Conference at the United Nations. I volunteered at registration and during morning sessions and was able to attend interesting talks on OSM data in Wikipedia, the Red Cross presentation on OSM in disaster response and developing a GIS curriculum in higher education. One of the highlights was … Read more