Roya Pakzad - رویا پاکزاد
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Technology & Human Rights. Founder @TaraazResearch & Senior Fellow @mozilla | Ex: @UVADemocracy & @uvadatascience, @Stanford_GDPi, @AMD | @SantaCruzYIMBY member
Santa Cruz, CA
Joined April 2010
Happy to be a part of this cohort! . My fellowship project, "Equitable AI Benchmarking for Linguistic Diversity," helps civil society to engage in AI evaluation, focusing on multilingual inconsistencies with human rights impacts.
The future of tech is at a crossroads, but with intention and focus, we can create the future we want and need. Join us as we welcome our 2025 Fellowship cohort🎉 A group of experts who are working to radically shift the future of tech⬇️
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RT @UVADemocracy: Interested in #AI transparency and accountability? Join the Karsh Institute's @RoyaPak, practitioner fellow in #Data and….
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RT @Bushra_Ebadi: Check out this important work by @KerenWeitzberg and @RoyaPak! Tech-facilitated violations of displaced persons' and migr….
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Proud of @ResObscura!.
“Timothy Leary and the Baby Boomers did not usher in the first psychedelic era,” Benjamin Breen writes in a new book. “They ended it.”
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RT @ResObscura: After five years of work, it's publication day for my book TRIPPING ON UTOPIA. Here's the @nytimes review. Please share wi….
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RT @FAccTConference: "A Guiding Framework for Vetting Technology Vendors Operating in the Public Sector" @dayvidliu @RoyaPak Sarah Ariyan S….
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This issue of my newsletter covers the history of red teaming, from 16th-century Catholic Church to AI. It also has a guide on enhancing LLM red teaming w/:.🌍 multilingual approach .🖇️ Partnerships w/ civil society & Humanities majors .🖍️ Platform design.
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RT @farzanehbad: There is a surge in Islamic Republic officials getting involved with Digital governance processes, especially those led b….
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Cynthia Conti-Cook from @FordFoundation and I talked w/ @mmarthasramirez about the new framework we developed to vet public sector technology vendors:
Philanthropy is often approached to fund tech that will make the public sector more effective or equitable, but such projects often have unintended outcomes. @FordFoundation released a new report to help funders navigate proposals. Martha Ramirez reports:
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RT @TaraazResearch: We worked with @FordFoundation to develop a framework to assess the societal impacts of digital technologies procured b….
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Sign this petition to support Iranian students applying to US graduate programs. Universities should consider: .▫️ a waiver to the admission fees of applicants from Iran. ▫️ an alternative process to review unofficial transcripts from Iranian applicants.
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RT @SanamMahoozi: Iran conducts first known execution of prisoner arrested during protests #مهسا_امینی #MohsenShekari .
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RT @mohamadhosein_2: در سال‌هایی که نیلوفر دوست و همسرم بوده، مهم‌ترین دغدغه‌اش این بود که خبرنگار خوبی باشد. امروز هفت هفته شد که در بازدا….
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RT @SanamMahoozi: Iran's authorities are turning to technology to suppress the biggest show of dissent in years, rights campaigners said #م….
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RT @ElCalavero: 1/ @Twitter before Musk had no shortage of problems. But it was the best social media platform we had in terms of transpare….
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RT @TaraazResearch: U.S. members of Congress send a letter to Meta asking about:.🔸the number of Farsi-speaking content moderators .🔸AI-base….
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گزارش جدید @TaraazResearch و@filterbaan به پروژه‌های «شهر هوشمند» در ایران میپردازه. پروژه‌‌هایی که معمولا به اسم نوآوری در عرصه‌ی خدمات شهری مطرح می‌شن ولی به نظارت حکومتی، جداســازی جنســیتی، تضییع حقوق مهاجرین، و نقض حق اعتراض منتج می‌شن. 🔗متن گزارش:
۱/۳.در سالهای اخیر در ایران سرویس‌ها و فضاهای عمومی دیجیتال سازی شوند. به این پروژه‌ها معمولا پروژه‌های «شهر هوشمند» گفته میشود. برای مثال میتوان از سیستم‌های کنترل ترافیک هوشمند، نورپردازی خیابانی هوشمند، اپلیکیشنهای تاکسی آنلاین … .#صیانت #فیلترنت #مهسا_امینی
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