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Digital Humanitarian Network
Digital Humanitarian Network April 2013 – Current There are many organizations using digital tools to improve how disaster and humanitarian response work is done. The Digital Humanitarian Network works to create an easy interface for more traditional response agencies to the services digital groups provide, and to provide a coordinating function for these groups. Role As a coordinator,
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Aspiration – Digital Humanitarian Response
Aspiration Digital Humanitarian Response January 2015 – Current San Francisco, CA / Cambridge, MA Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization. Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, foundations and activists with software solutions and technology skills that help them better carry out their missions. Role Increased technical capacity for frontline and traditional response groups by working
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Digital Humanitarian Network – DHN Summits
Digital Humanitarian Network DHN Summits September 2012 – Current (2017) Washington, DC – Nairobi, Kenya – New York City, NY The Digital Humanitarian Network leverages digital volunteers in support of 21st century humanitarian response. The DHN Summits are a series of gatherings of Members to align our objectives, sort through long-standing conversations, and set Network strategy for the
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Aspiration – Humanitarian Technology Festival
Aspiration Humanitarian Technology Festival February 2015 – May 2016 Cambridge, MA Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization. HumTechFest is for those who have ever wanted to know about, or work on, disaster and humanitarian response technology from a people-first perspective. Role Conceived, organized, and facilitated 2-day participatory events in 2015 and 2016 in Cambridge, MA for digital
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Guide to Responsible Humanitarian and Disaster Project Lifecycles
Geeks Without Bounds Guide to Responsible Humanitarian and Disaster Project Lifecycles November 2013 – June 2014 An accelerator for humanitarian projects, taking technical teams through 6 months of mentorship into an aware and responsible role in the response community. Role Worked with conference participants to conceive of and scaffold responsible project lifecycles. Conducted interviews with
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NetHope – Open Humanitarian Initiative
NetHope Open Humanitarian Initiative February 2013 – November 2013 Birmingham, UK – Washington, DC NetHope is an American consortium of 50 American non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that specialize in improving IT connectivity among humanitarian organizations in developing countries and areas affected by disaster. The OHI is an initiative of NetHope that builds on existing open data efforts to bring together
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About
Everywhere willowbl00 Email work@bl00cyb.org Willow Idlewild Bay Area, CA Willow Idlewild, known as willowbl00, works with digital and process tools to enable coordination between groups of all sizes and shapes. They have studied citizen engagement and combining distributed and centralized decision making structures at the Center for Civic Media at MIT’s Media Lab, been a Professor
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Academics
Education Indiana University Bloomington 2002 – 2007Bloomington, IN BA in Sociology with a focus on technology, human sexuality, and religion. Undergraduate honor’s thesis: The difference between therapy and advancement in medical technology in regards to individual choice and social responsibility. Fellow and Affiliate Harvard UniversityBerkman Klein Center Aug 2013 – Aug 2016Cambridge, MA Affiliate in
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💙 Empathy machine 🤖
work@bl00cyb.org Whether you need to deliver with an uplifted team on a complex set of projects, or need a unified vision and delivery for a floundering vision, I provide equanimity and focus Current AppSec manager at GoFundMe. Always I will always care about end users, whether focused on co-design (like with the MIT Media Lab),
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Geeks Without Bounds
Geeks Without Bounds September 2010 – January 2015 An accelerator for humanitarian projects, taking technical teams through 6 months of mentorship into an aware and responsible role in the response community. Role Founded, directed, and handed off an organization dedicated to providing useful technical interventions to long-standing issues in disaster and humanitarian response. Organized and
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NetHope – Ebola Reponse Project
NetHope Ebola Response Project November 2014 – February 2015 Sierra Leone – Guinea – Liberia NetHope is an American consortium of 50 American non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that specialize in improving IT connectivity among humanitarian organizations in developing countries and areas affected by disaster. The NetHope Ebola Project worked to deploy communications equipment, connectivity solutions, and
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Berkman Center for Internet and Society – Mixed-Mode Systems in Crisis Response
Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society Talk: Mixed-Mode Systems in Crisis Response March 2015 Cambridge, MA The Berkman Klein Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and sanctions. Through discussions, lectures, conferences, and other gatherings,
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Work
Current bl00cyborg helps radical nonprofits with their security postures and scaling questions. Digital Assets Help gets your digital estate organized in anticipation of death or incapacity. Always I will always care about end users, whether focused on co-design (like with the MIT Media Lab), protection (with Apple and elsewhere), or facilitating groups to better understand
