[isoc-ny] ISOC-NY TV Show 2pm today – Community Forum on Algorithmic Bias

[ISOC-NY announcements]

The following response is from ISOC-NY Secretary Stuart Reid. Note that the
radio show is at 5pm today.

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From: Stuart Reid <stureid at live.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 22, 2020, 2:45 PM
Subject: Re: [isoc-ny] ISOC-NY TV Show 2pm today – Community Forum on
Algorithmic Bias


The radio show, *Community & Technology*, produced and co-hosted by ISOC-NY
Board Member Stuart Reid and Dave Burstein, broadcast and streamed live
every Wednesday from 5pm to 6pm, on WHCR 90.3 FM and www.whcr.org , has
been doing a number of follow-up interviews from panelists and speakers
from this important event.

In addition to past shows with Fabian Rogers and Albert Fox Cahn (MP3
archives available), the following guests are coming up:

*Jan. 22nd*:  Laura Hecht-Felella from the Brennan Center for Justice

*Feb. 12th:*   Katurah Topps, NAACP Legal Defense Fund

Pending confirmations from Greta Byrum, The New School , Ruha Benjamin from
Princeton and Rashida Richardson from the AI Now Institute.

Thank you for sharing with our ISOC community.

Stuart

Stuart Reid
ddpny.org <http://www.ddpny.org>
Board of Directors
*The Internet Society-New York Chapter*
isoc-ny.org <http://www.isoc-ny.org>
347.949.8305



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The large attendance at this event reflected the growing public concern
about undesirable outcomes of tech's increasing influence over society.
Watch to the end where Fabian Rogers, a Brooklyn public housing resident,
talks about how his community organized to defeat plans for facial
recognition to be implemented in their building's security cameras.

ISOC Live posted: "On November 14-15 2019 the Internet Society, in
partnership with the Georgian Ministry of Economy and Sustainable
Development, organizes the European Community Networks Summit “Community
Networks: Connecting the Next Billion” in Tbilisi, Georgia. Over the"


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<http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel>Today, *Wednesday
January 22 2020*, the *ISOC-NY TV show* show features the *Community Forum
on Algorithmic Bias <http://isoc-ny.org/p2/10684>* organized by *NAACP
Legal Defense and Educational Fund <https://www.naacpldf.org/>* (LDF) and
co-partners on December 7 2019. *Automated Decision Systems
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_decision_support>* (ADSs) are used
to make decisions about every major area of New Yorkers’ lives, including
Public Housing, Education, Employment, Child Welfare, and Policing. In
today’s program we learn more about this widely-used technology from *Janai
Nelson*, NAACP LDF, *Dr. Ruha Benjamin*, Princeton University, *Rashida
Richardson*, AI Now Institute; *Katurah Topps*, NAACP LDF, and *Fabian
Rogers*, Atlantic Towers, including how NYC residents can demand change in
its adoption and operation.





*What: ISOC-NY TV – Community Forum on Algorithmic Bias Where: Manhattan
Neighborhood Network When: Wednesday January 22 2020 2pm-3pm EST |
19:00-20:00 UTC Manhattan Cable: SPECTRUM 56 / 1996 | RCN 83 | FiOS 34
Webcast: http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel
<http://www.mnn.org/live/2-lifestyle-channel>*

*View on Youtube: https://youtu.be/EZmhoqQp34c
<https://youtu.be/_WCE2Nx-NOY>*

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