From Ford Foundation's Ford Tech and Society Team Please do share this with anyone you think might be interested. One of our failings in our last effort is the lack of grantees based outside of global north countries and I would like to focus efforts to build a more globally

Hi Listers To anyone who might be interested. I'm also sharing an RFP for digital infrastructure research that Ford Foundation circulated last week. diverse set of grants this time. You can also view the RFP directly here: https://fordfoundation.forms.fm/2020-digital-infrastructure-research-rfp/ Best Beryl ---------- Forwarded message --------- From: Ford Foundation <rsvp@fordfoundation.org> Date: Tue, Jul 28, 2020 at 8:00 PM Subject: Register Now! Digital Infrastructure: Equity & Sustainability in Open Source | Thursday, August 6, 12:30 PM EST To: <bee.aidi@gmail.com> *Invitation* | AUGUST 06, 2020 View this email in your browser <https://mailchi.mp/fordfoundation.org/h9turlv2nm-2015170?e=306110b93b> [image: Ford Foundation logo in white on green background] [image: Conversations tag in white on green background] [image: Clock symbol] THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 2020 12:30 - 1:45 PM EDT *DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE: EQUITY & SUSTAINABILITY IN OPEN SOURCE* Click to RSVP → <https://fordfoundation.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3f89269c6132144b6f1c5ce78&id=e10bc2150a&e=306110b93b> The *Ford Foundation* and the *Alfred P. Sloan Foundation*, in partnership with the *Mozilla* and *Open Society Foundation*, invite you to join us on *Thursday, August 6th* to explore equity & sustainability in Open Source. A critical part of Digital Infrastructure. This webinar will feature a panel discussion and Q&A with researchers from our 2019 grantee cohort: *Laura Dabbish, (Carnegie Mellon University), Caroline Sinders, Anushah Hossain (UC Berkeley) & Benedict Kingsbury (New York University). * We will also continue the conversation around our 2020 call for proposals to further this field of work and hold a Q&A for interested applicants. *About the Speakers: * *Laura Dabbish, Carnegie Mellon University: *How might structural factors in the social networks of open-source communities pose barriers to underrepresented newcomers, especially women, becoming full community members? *Caroline Sinders, independent researcher:* What can the history of Javascript teach us about techniques to mitigate harassment (a barrier to diversity and a threat to the sustainability of digital infrastructure projects) in open-source communities? *Anushah Hossain, UC Berkeley: *What factors encourage and sustain international communities of contributors to open-source projects? *Benedict Kingsbury, Institute for International Law & Justice & Guarini Institute for Global Legal Studies, NYU School of Law: *How can legal devices and institutions be adapted and applied, both locally and transnationally, to overcome the under-maintenance of critical digital infrastructure? Everything in our modern society, from hospitals to banks to social media platforms, runs on software. Nearly all of this software is built on “digital infrastructure,” a foundation of free and public code that is designed to solve common challenges. But this free, public code—which we refer to as open source software—needs regular upkeep and maintenance, just as physical infrastructure does, and because it doesn’t belong to any one person or party, it is no one person’s job to maintain it. Despite the importance of this infrastructure, the community that maintains it lacks the diversity of the society it is meant to serve <https://fordfoundation.us10.list-manage.com/track/click?u=3f89269c6132144b6f1c5ce78&id=96296b0da5&e=306110b93b>. And more work is needed to better engage the international communities that undergird this ecosystem, as well as the international legal and regulatory mechanisms for sustainability. 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