Noticings 11: Goodbye 2024 👋🏽
December at Careful Trouble
As we get ready for the holidays, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on this past year.
We've done so much this year and have so many exciting things to come in 2025 (including our Winter Community Tech Gathering).
Thank you for helping us make Careful Trouble. We look forward to seeing you next year!
2024: A Year of Careful Trouble
To wrap up the year, we looked back at 2024 and wrote up some highlights and learnings, including:
Hosting roundtables about Digital Inclusion in the age of AI
Publishing research and policy recommendations in time for this year’s election and incoming government
Recruiting and working with a board for Promising Trouble (we’re still on the lookout for a Treasurer!)
‘Working Towards an Ustopia’: A Community Tech Justice Practice Lab
We recently co-hosted a practice day with Siana Bangura, bringing together a small group of tech justice practitioners of Global Majority descent.
Siana co-led a great day to understand what we need from each other to continue it in the new year and beyond. We shared how we’re grappling with the intersections our work sits in and the role of tech in some of the challenges we face (as well as the potential solutions we’re developing).
Siana has shared a great write-up of the day with us, which you can read here.
Community Tech Winter Gathering
Begin the new year by meeting new people and sharing your thoughts on the future of community technology at our ‘Community Tech Winter Gathering.’
In one of our first confirmed sessions, we will be Relational Mapping with Free Ice Cream - building a collective understanding of our community, identifying potential collaboration points, and spotting resource gaps. We will also be hearing from Siana Bangura!
🗓 Thurs 30th January
⏲️ 12:30 - 16:30
📍 Battersea Arts Centre, Lavender Hill, London SW11 5TN
Secure your ticket: https://lu.ma/v3v6b8fk
Opportunities and Events
If you run a community or indie web service and are concerned about the implications of compliance with the Online Safety Act, then sign up to our new email list to join the community!
Bethnal Green Venture’s is now accepting applications for those looking to launch a tech-for-good venture. Apply by 5th January.
On 21st January, learn about the five new RAi UK projects led by Early Career Researchers. Each project is a multidisciplinary collaboration that will tackle emerging concerns linked to generative and other forms of AI currently being built and deployed across society. Register here
Planning your 2025?
If you want to read more from us, look at our websites –Careful Industries and Promising Trouble. Or reply to this email to discuss ways of working with us!
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