In the Global South, the gig economy is booming. But gig platforms benefit more than workers, and women suffer further still. Irene Mwendwa & Nyamwire Bonnita (Pollicy) & @sallyroever (WIEGO) aim to #MakeTechWork for women workers. Ford Foundation ssir.org/articles/entry…

AI is moving in an anti-labor direction, putting jobs and livelihoods at risk. But there’s a better path. Daron Acemoglu & Simon Johnson chart how a worker-driven AI revolution could improve work and well being. #MakeTechWork Stanford Social Innovation Review Ford Foundation ssir.org/articles/entry…

Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work. Simon Johnson and I outline three social changes needed to redirect AI from its anti-labor direction and towards human-complementary innovation. Thank you Stanford Social Innovation Review and Ford Foundation for including this work in #MakeTechWork

My #PowerAndProgress co-author Daron Acemoglu and I are pleased to share "Choosing AI’s Impact on the Future of Work," in partnership with Stanford Social Innovation Review and Ford Foundation. We believe that a better path for AI is possible, but it will require a coordinated effort to #MakeTechWork.

We welcome the Vice President JD Vance's leadership in identifying key areas of need to address the social impacts of AI. Today, we joined nine partners to announce a bold philanthropic initiative to align grantmaking and scale civil society efforts to ensure justice in #AI. fordfoundation.org/news-and-stori…

We're proud to support visionary groups including AAPD Center for Democracy & Technology Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law @CivilRightsOrg @PeoplesTech_ Upturn @CongressFellows @Mozilla Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon Public Citizen TechEquity AI Now Institute Algorithmic Justice League @DataSociety @OpenMarkets @DerechosDigital @EDRi Partnership on AI

To ensure the new digital economy benefits all, especially historically marginalized groups, the first step must be to strengthen labor standards and workers's rights to join a union, writes Economic Policy Institute's @ValerieRWilson in #MakeTechWork with Stanford Social Innovation Review.

To ensure the new digital economy benefits all, especially historically marginalized groups, the first step must be to strengthen labor standards and workers's rights to join a union, writes Economic Policy Institute's @ValerieRWilson in #MakeTechWork Stanford Social Innovation Review. ssir.org/articles/entry…

To ensure the new digital economy benefits all, especially historically marginalized groups, the first step must be to strengthen labor standards & workers's rights to join a union, writes @ValerieRWilson Economic Policy Institute in #MakeTechWork w/ Stanford Social Innovation Review. ssir.org/articles/entry…

How can we ensure the digital economy has long-range positive outcomes for workers? @valerierwilson (Economic Policy Institute) points to policies that strengthen labor standards and workers’ rights to unionize as the solution to #MakeTechWork. Ford Foundation ssir.org/articles/entry…

Ghana’s Atewa Forest provides clean water to 5M people and is home to over 100 threatened species of animals and plants. Now it’s at risk of being destroyed by mining. Ford’s Emmanuel Kuyole takes us inside this endangered Eden and @ARochaGhana's fight to conserve the land.

We've joined Forge Funders Open Society Foundations Laudes Foundation fundacionAVINA to launch an open call for the Democracy at Work Fund, supporting frontline workers’ groups leading at the intersection of labor, democracy and a just transition in the Global South.

🚨 U.S. National Science Foundation and its partners are launching a $16M program to make ethical and social considerations a priority in the way technologies are created and used. ReDDDoT aims to promote the public's wellbeing and mitigate potential harm across all STEM disciplines.

Backed by the #FordFoundation , #LaudesFoundation and #OpenSocietyFoundations, the #LaboraFund is working to advance workers’ rights in Brazil, where nearly half of the labor force is made up of informal workers. Martha Ramirez reports: buff.ly/3SuFbhx #LaborRightsBrazil

"All workers are central to a just economy," says Ford's Ghada Abdel Tawab in Inside Philanthropy. Backed by Ford, Open Society Foundations, and Laudes Foundation, the $8.5M Labora Fund helps Brazil's most vulnerable workers to advocate for better wages and protections from a gender and racial lens.

The news often portrays immigrants as people with a problem, or people who are a problem. In #TheGreatEscape I tell stories about immigrants as full human beings. The paperback is out now, everywhere that books are sold. Darren Walker Ford Foundation

Spyware looms so large in the minds of activists in Mexico that it’s standard practice before a meeting to seal everyone’s phone in a Faraday bag. trib.al/TPc4Euj

Proud to announce $4M in grants to organizations fighting spyware: axios.com/2024/03/06/spy…

The global spyware industry is a threat to human rights defenders, journalists, and civil society around the globe. That's why we're joining Ford Foundation and other leaders in philanthropy to launch the Spyware Accountability Initiative. fordfoundation.org/news-and-stori…

“It is essential that the people most affected by debt burdens have a voice in shaping their way out of them,” write Martin Abregu, Crystal Simeoni, and Ndongo Samba Sylla/nssylla.bsky.social. foreignaffairs.com/world/shaking-…