PeaceTech Lab, Weekly Roundup, 7/27

By: David J. Smith, July 27, 2017 This week’s PeaceTech Lab’s Weekly Roundup features an article that looks at the efforts of Dharavi Diary’s Girl Coding Project in Mumbai, India to build skills and futures for young girls living in slum areas. Click below for the article that first appeared in Quartz/India on July 25.

PeaceTech Lab: Weekly News Roundup, 7/6

By: David J. Smith, July 6, 2017 This week’s PeaceTech Lab Weekly News Roundup focuses on artificial intelligence and peacebuilding. Go here for more about PeaceTech Lab.  The below commentary by Derek Caelin looks at the hype behind AI.  In the piece, he references an article written by Shannon Farley in Recode (6/22/17). It’s worthContinueContinue reading “PeaceTech Lab: Weekly News Roundup, 7/6”

Strategies to Secure Environmental Defenders, PeaceTech Lab Weekly Update, 5/11

By: David J. Smith, May 11, 2017 PeaceTech Lab publishes a weekly update of news related to technology and peace.  This week’s edition features a commentary by Althea Middleton-Detzner from the Peacebuilding Engineer Program reflecting on a Stanford Social Innovation Review article “Protecting the Hearth of Environmental Civil Society” which examine strategies for ensuring safetyContinueContinue reading “Strategies to Secure Environmental Defenders, PeaceTech Lab Weekly Update, 5/11”