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The PyTorch Foundation is a neutral home for the deep learning community to collaborate on the open source PyTorch framework and ecosystem. The PyTorch Foundation is supported by leading contributors to the PyTorch open source project. The Foundation leverages resources provided by members and contributors to enable community discussions and collaboration. 

Community collaboration is critical for the framework’s evolution as well as the development of associated projects that support using PyTorch in production and at scale. As part of The Linux Foundation, the PyTorch community will also collaborate on training, local and regional events, open source developer tooling, academic research, and guides to help new users and contributors have a productive experience.

Most famous for the Firefox browser, Mozilla design and distribute a wide array of software applications with the aim of making an inclusive and safe internet for all. Other projects include a Facebook Container for data security, Mozilla VPN, and Firefox Monitor to track email address security.

Tor's mission is to advance human rights and freedoms by creating and deploying free and open source anonymity and privacy technologies, supporting their unrestricted availability and use, and furthering their scientific and popular understanding.

Providing free end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaborative working spaces.

Matrix is an open source network for secure, decentralised real-time communication, with a simple, end to end encrypted system. With the ability to create chatrooms, direct chats, and chatbots, Matrix is customisable to individual needs.

IEEE TechEthics is an IEEE program that drives conversation, debate and discussion on the ethical and societal impacts of technology. IEEE is the world’s largest technical professional organization dedicated to advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

Swarm is a system of peer-to-peer networked nodes that create a decentralised storage and communication service. The system is economically self-sustaining due to a built-in incentive system enforced through smart contracts on the Ethereum blockchain.Users remain sovereign owners of their personal data in alignment with fair data principles.

With over 200,000,000 royalty free images, and 10,000,000 video and audio clips, Shutterstock is one of the leading names in liensable media. As well as providing media, Shutterstock has also developed a complex reverse image search functionality, and Shutterstock Labs, an exploratory product research service for future innovation.

Proton offers secure and private communication and functionality across four areas, mail, calendar, drive and VPN services. Encrypted messaging, and encrypted cloud storage means your data and your information, remains yours. Trusted by over 70,000,000 people and businesses worldwide, they operate out of Switzerland meaning every customer gets the benefit of strict Swiss data privacy laws, regardless of location.

Ecosia is a search engine that uses the power of search to create environmental good in the form of planting trees. With over 155,000,000 trees planted, 20,000,000 customers, and 70+ active projects across 35+ countries, people power is the name of the game. All profits go toward climate action, and the engine comes with built in privacy and transparency features to ensure security.

PEN America stands at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect free expression in the United States and worldwide. They champion the freedom to write, recognizing the power of the word to transform the world. Their mission is to unite writers and their allies to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible.

Providing free end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaborative working spaces.

Element provides secure, free, end-to-end encrypted messaging and collaborative working software. Trusted by over 42,000,000 users worldwide, they believe digital communication should be as trustworthy and secure as face-to-face communication, making it an ideal application for global companies and organisations.

The IV.AI founding team originated at Google, Amazon, Oracle, and Microsoft with a mission to help professionals make data-led decisions via insights from documents, public internet, social media, and quality language sources that help increase human knowledge. IV.AI fosters a culture of sharing knowledge where ever possible and is fortunate to be able to speak alongside the finest minds in the world about AI, Financial Services, and Data Insights.

Connecting organisations and businesses from around the world, Gnome is led by the non-profit Gnome Foundation. Their software solutions aim to simplify and enhance business activity, as well as personal computing experiences.

Snowstorm is a decentralized microproxy network. Already proven in crisis zones, it must now evolve into a next-generation system and internet freedom tool.

Our mission is to protect everyone's ability to access the global free and open internet, and do so truly sustainably, with integrity, and with wisdom encompassing the long-term.

Global internet freedom is a prerequisite for all of our futures.

By creating a more sustainable smartphone, Fairphone are demonstrating the endless possibilities for a fairer future – for everyone. With a focus on climate friendly products, Fairphone are leading the way in environmentally conscious mobile phone technology, nd are both Fair Trade Gold integrated, and the winner of the EcoVadis platinum medal for sustainability.

Session is a private messenger offering privacy, anonymity, and security. With end-to-end encryption, no phone numbers for sign-up, and decentralisation, Session is a messenger that truly keeps your messages private and secure. Session is available on Android, iOS, Windows, MacOS and Linux platforms, and can be downloaded from www.getsession.org

Fair Data is based on the simple premise that personal data is a part of the individual. As such, it should be treated as any other inalienable part of human identity. Their Fair Data Principles set the ethical standard for collecting, processing and storing personal data.

Datafund protocol guards personal data, provides safe storage and enables ethical data exchange. Individuals create their own datafund to reclaim, own and manage their data. It provides GDPR-compliant encrypted storage and enables provable, ethical data exchange. Datafund runs on the Ethereum blockchain, a decentralised platform that runs smart contracts.

OpenUK is the UK Organisation for the business of Open Technology being open source software, open hardware and open data “The 3 Opens”. OpenUK's purpose is achieved through three pillars, community, legal and policy, and learning. The focus for 2022 is skills, security and sustainability.

We tweet, we like, and we share— but what are the consequences of our growing dependence on social media? The docu-drama hybrid reveals how social media is reprogramming civilization with tech experts sounding the alarm on their own creations. The Social Dilemma sought to bring to light the issues with data security and social media company data collection.

Freedom of artistic expression is a fundamental human right and an indicator of a healthy and free society. But artistic freedom is under assault: autocratic regimes fear artists because they express cultural identity, advance new ideas, promote dialogue, and bear witness to inhumanity.

The Fair Cobalt Alliance, created in August 2020, is an action platform initiated to coordinate, support and scale local initiatives aimed at the betterment of the ASM sector in line with four distinct workstreams:

1. Enabling safe and dignified working conditions

2. Child labour remediation

3. Raising worker incomes

4. Achieving market acceptance of Fair ASM Cobalt

Current ASM cobalt practices do not always meet the expectations of international supply chain actors and are often characterised by hazardous working conditions, systemic child labour, and limited access to legitimate, transparent markets. Downstream disengagement from or a ban of ASM sites does not constructively address the issues leading to child labour and hazardous working conditions.

The FCA achieves its objectives by leveraging the resources and expertise of stakeholders along the cobalt supply chain. These actors recognise the development potential of artisanal cobalt mining operations as a legitimate economic activity that contributes to the local economy and provides direct and indirect livelihoods for thousands of people in the DRC. The FCA currently partners with an artisanal cobalt cooperative in Kamilombe, CMDS, with the ambition to expand to more mine sites in the future.

The multi-stakeholder initiative has a growing membership of 20+ members. It encompasses, among others, large-scale mining organisations such as CMOC and Glencore, battery manufacturers such as Britishvolt and LG Energy Solutions and electronics manufacturers such as Fairphone. The FCA also welcomes non-supply chain organisations as part of their membership, including international NGOs such as Save the Children and The Centre for Child Rights and Business and industry associations such as the Responsible Cobalt Initiative (RCI).

The FCA is governed by and subject to the oversight of a Steering Committee, subject to FCA's Articles of Governance and Terms of Reference. The initiative works closely with the DRC's local, provincial, and national governments, with an active local office in Kolwezi and national representation in Lubumbashi.

Co-founded in 2018 by TDi Sustainability and Fairphone, The Impact Facility (TIF) is a UK-based social enterprise and impact investment fund with a growing footprint in East and Central Africa. Our purpose is to enable an inclusive and just green transition. We are fueled by blended finance, bringing together impact investors, donors and corporate partners to drive the professionalization of small-scale mines through our SME incubator model.

The Impact Facility's local financial, mining, and environmental team guides mine operators through a structured business and ESG diagnostics process, identifying and distilling their capital needs in an investment proposal for blended finance. Once on-boarded, mines agree to regular monitoring of their ESG performance against international industry standards and are connected with:

1. Technical experts: To accelerate continuous ESG improvements and business literacy, mine operators are supported by TIF's network of in-house and external project finance, mining, and environmental experts.

2. Downstream demand: Minerals originating from TIF's partner mines are marketed as ESG-assured status and channelled into global supply chains.

3. Financing: for small-scale mine operators from impact investors that is managed by the TIF team and allocated to modern technology and equipment focusing on:

• Clean energy adoption: to support the transition to climate-smart mining

• Biodiversity protection: through the elimination of toxic chemical use

• Increased value retention: by optimizing mine production and processing

The Impact Facility is also one of the founding members of the FCA, a multi-stakeholder action platform with 20+ members enabling responsible artisanal mining in the cobalt sector in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).

The OPTF is a not-for-profit which supports and builds secure, privacy-enhancing technologies such as the Session messaging app. We also conduct research to inform the civil society community about emerging and ongoing issues in the digital rights space, as well as conducting outreach and education initiatives to support people and organisations to better understand, use, and implement secure and privacy technologies. For more information, visit www.optf.ngo 

Big Brother Watch is a UK civil liberties campaign group fighting for a free future. We’re determined to reclaim our privacy and defend freedoms at this time of enormous technological change. And we fight to win.

We’re a fiercely independent, diverse, non-partisan and non-profit group of campaigners and researchers, who work to roll back the surveillance state and protect rights in parliament, the media, and the courts if we have to. We publish unique investigations and pursue powerful public campaigns to pursue real change. We work relentlessly to inform and empower the public to collectively reclaim privacy, defend our civil liberties, and protect freedoms for the future.

Endless OS was born in 2012, with a mission to help people around the world gain access to knowledge and opportunity through technology. Endless work with non-profits around the world, providing their services to as many people as possible.

Mixcloud is an audio streaming platform that supports creators to craft a deeper listening experience and build their own fan communities. It is home to a unique catalogue of 50 million DJ mixes, radio shows and podcasts handcrafted by the world’s finest DJs, online radio stations and cultural tastemakers, available to be listened to for free across all devices. In 2020 we launched Mixcloud LIVE, which is solving real challenges for creators who want to stream legally and monetise online. Mixcloud’s mission is to get more fans directly supporting creators and build a more sustainable future for audio culture. Founded in 2009, the London-based company operates a fair and legal streaming service that ensures artists, songwriters and rights-holders behind the music receive their fair royalties. It also offers a direct fan-to-creator channel subscription model that uniquely enables the long-form audio creator to take part in the online revenue mix.

WID's work centers around Digital Tools for Optimizing Community Living and Employment; Accessibility Solutions; and Excellence in Disability Inclusive Emergency Preparedness, Disaster Risk Reduction, and Climate Resilience. WID is a nonprofit 501(c)3 organization recognized by the US Internal Revenue Service.

Rewire is a startup building socially responsible AI for stopping toxic online content.

We are an open-source collaborative and nonprofit dedicated to decoding non-human language. We believe that an understanding of non-human languages will change our ecological impact on this planet.

One of Africa's leading voices in technology and digital news. Reporting on the big issues in Africa to a global audience, Tech Cabal reports on the issues that matter.

Women in AI (WAI) is a nonprofit do-tank working towards inclusive AI that benefits global society. They are a community-driven initiative bringing empowerment, knowledge and active collaboration via education, research, events, and blogging. They encourage ethical applications and responsible use of artificial intelligence.

Line Group is a leading fiduciary service provider that can package a complete range of private wealth and corporate management services using a client-tailored approach. Line Group are one of Gibraltar´s leading authorities engaged in the incorporation and management of corporate vehicles and the provision of trustee services in Gibraltar as well as over 25 other jurisdictions, for a worldwide client base. Line Group works closely with Hassans International Law Firm Limited, both in the establishment and management of client structures. The Line Group administration teams are highly experienced in providing solutions to challenges, no matter how complex or demanding, and the client is also able to benefit from Line Group’s close working relationship with the senior lawyers at Hassans, who are at the forefront of legislative and regulatory changes, and provides an extremely practical, seamless, cost-effective complementary service.

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The Data Visualization Society is a tool-agnostic community to share knowledge, resources, and inspiration that pushes our industry to be more inclusive and engaged in making knowledge more accessible through visualization.

We aim to nurture the data visualization community, celebrate excellence in our field, and advance the industry to meet the challenges and demands of the world around translating data into meaningful, visual information.

Presentación del Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional:

El Instituto de Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional (IMC) de la Universidad Católica, dirigido actualmente por el profesor Pablo Barceló, es una iniciativa interdisciplinaria de la Facultad de Matemáticas UC y la Escuela de Ingeniería UC. A pesar de que el IMC fue creado formalmente en abril de 2018, el proyecto que le da forma comenzó a ser desarrollado en 2015 por equipos académicos de ambos estamentos.

La creación del IMC concretó un largo anhelo de la Escuela de Ingeniería y la Facultad de Matemáticas, en pos de desarrollar los siguientes elementos de interés estratégico para la Universidad Católica.

• Investigación interdisciplinaria y fundamental en las áreas de (a) cómputo científico y análisis numérico, (b) algoritmos, combinatoria y optimización, y (c) aprendizaje estadístico y ciencia de datos.

• Educación interdisciplinaria de pregrado, postgrado y profesional, en las áreas antes mencionadas.

• Difusión y transferencia de avances en aspectos de su quehacer a la comunidad universitaria y la sociedad.

En estos cuatro primeros años de existencia, el IMC ha logrado consolidarse como un proyecto relevante para la UC y el país, al servir como nodo articulador sobre el cual se han podido desarrollar varias iniciativas innovadoras en docencia, investigación y transferencia. Algunos de los logros más notables en estos cuatro años incluyen la formación de una planta académica de primer nivel en distintas áreas de la matemática aplicada, la creación de dos programas de pregrado (Ingeniería Matemática y Licenciatura en Ingeniería en Ciencia de Datos), el diseño de uno de postgrado (Magíster en Ingeniería Matemática y Computacional), la articulación de programas de educación continua en temas de ciencias de datos e inteligencia artificial dentro de la UC, y la adjudicación y ejecución de diversos proyectos de investigación de mucha visibilidad dentro del sistema establecido por la Agencia Nacional de Investigación y Desarrollo (ANID).

Ese último avance ha permitido que hoy los académicos del IMC participen activamente en iniciativas como el Instituto Milenio en Ingeniería e Inteligencia Artificial para la Salud (iHEALTH), el Instituto Milenio Fundamentos de los Datos (IMFD), el Núcleo Milenio para Aplicaciones de Control y Problemas Inversos (ACIP) y el Centro Nacional de Inteligencia Artificial (CENIA).

UC Institute of Applied Ethics

The UC Institute of Applied Ethics was created as an academic unit in 2022. Since 2018, the University authorities worked on the project of the UC Institute of Applied Ethics, considering it a necessary initiative due to the diversity and complexity of the ethical problems that arise in relation to, for example, climate change, the world of business and enterprise, the distribution of wealth, communications, technology, the relationship with animals, etc. In this sense, the UC seeks to prioritize training in the habit of ethical discernment, for both professional and citizens, whilst contributing to the public discussion in matters of applied ethics.

IEA, is an interdisciplinary academic unit for teaching, research and outreach. The Institute belongs to the 18 faculties of the University, the College UC and the Villarrica Campus. Our purpose is to address, from our Catholic identity, the ethical conflicts of this time, considering different areas of knowledge, and in contact with the experience of different actors in society.

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