In “Establishing Vigilant Care: Data Infrastructures and the Black Birthing Experience,” Data & Society researcher Joan Mukogosi explains why many prominent interventions to this crisis are neglecting other risks to Black people. Read more

While platforms provide a new way for professionals to find patients, diminish administrative load, and earn additional income, providers have also increasingly been recruited into labor arrangements that mirror those of other gigified sectors like service and delivery work. Read more

This conversation centers care as both the means and an end to providing safe abortions, connecting activists, and understanding how the "digital" can facilitate and impede reproductive liberation. ____________ Alejándose de los debates sobre la privacidad digital y protección de datos para personas que quieren abortar, este evento pone en el centro al cuidado como medio y objetivo para garantizar el aborto seguro, conectando a activistas y discutiendo sobre cómo lo digital puede facilitar (u obstacular) la liberación reproductiva. Read more

Laura Forlano and Ranjit Singh discuss infrastructures that data interacts with and flows through. Read more

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Amanda Lenhart, Charlotte Willner, and Aden Van Noppen discuss designing healthy tech for young people. Read more

A new podcast series from Data & Society and Public Books that explores the past, present, and future of data. Read more

The Challenges of Building Healthy Tech for Young People Read more

This pandemic response may shape the future of digital identity Read on Points

This report identifies three major digital barriers to economic justice arising from the pandemic. Read more