Selected Presentations

  • FOSS Backstage, Berlin

  • MozFest, moderator

    Associate Lecturer ,’I want to believe’, University of the Underground

  • Technology Touchpoint: Funding Public Interest Technology: How do we fund and support the development of public interest technology projects? What does that look like in practice?

    WorldWide FM in this episode, Di Luong, a public interests technologist, has a conversation with Mutale Nkonde, a fellow at Berkman Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University about the power of art and culture against surveillance.

    Getting Tech Right is a series of interviews exploring issues around how technology shapes our society. On episode we discuss risks of algorithmic bias, how technology intersects with social justice, and the larger role of public interest technology.

    RightsCon, virtual

    Mozfest, virtual

  • Let's Sketch Tech is a conference combining workshops and talks about art and tech. Participants will learn how to use data as a storytelling tool. We will transform spreadsheets and public records into human stories.

    MozFest, London

    Forum on Internet Freedom in Africa (FIFAfrica), Addis

  • The Media Mobilizing Project presented a national study on the community impact of predictive algorithms at SRCCON: POWER!,

    Harvard University’s Data + Donuts is a learning and discussion group that offers a welcoming space to engage critically with issues of data and society.

    Data on Purpose, presenter, Stanford University

  • Making All Voices Count/Global Innovation Competition, speaker, Jakarta, Indonesia

    DAI Deutsch Amerikanisches Institut Heidelberg, Germany

Algorithmic Bias: Better Policy and Practice for Civil Society

Digital Impact’s Lucy Bernholz was joined by author of Automating Inequality, Virginia Eubanks, Rashida Richardson of AI Now Institute, and Di Luong of Media Mobilizing Project to discuss the growing use of algorithms in our communities and how civil society organizations can work toward better policy for predictive technologies.

People Power Lunch Hour

Di Luong discusses her work in the Media Mobilizing Project. Later, we discuss the Media Mobilizing Project's work to help fight for net neutrality.