How to get involved: Volunteer for one of these projects, or propose one of your own.
Some larger initiatves:
- Help us develop and test this application for advocates and targets of abuse through technology
- Help us develop and test this application to collect and analyze data on intimate partner violence and cyberstalking to facilitate academic and other research
- matching online coding and other technology training with technology mentors
- matching trained coders and technologists with online technology jobs Here are some other ideas for ways to help and get involved:
- Form a local Working Group on Technology/Bio/Med and DV: IPVTech
- Hold brainstorming sessions ID projects, ID local firms/organizations
- Research & document technology-specific and general Safe
Technology Practices for advocates/targets
- Publish best practices
- develop mobile phone security curriculum
- Develop protocol to determine if a client is under surveillance
or abused using technology
- Questions that advocates can ask to determine if a client is actually being under surveillance
- Contribute to recommended protocol publication
- Develop a protocol to follow if client is under surveillance
- Contribute to recommended protocol publication
- Technologists to Analyze shelter cellphone policies
- Publish analysis of effective vs. ineffective policies and propose best practices
- Implement new applications
- Create a DV Service Client database/front end- currently Alice is state-of-the-art
- Create an Abuser Client database- Emerge, State of MA examples
- Shelter reservation systems should leverage airline and hotel reservation systems.
- Seek grants to fund development and research projects
- Collect Statistics/Data to support DV technology
- Research/ analysis/publications that will help present the case to businesses effectively
- Identify data and databases, make accessible, improve data integrity
- Provide Forensic Analysis Services of devices for targets who are being stalked
- Develop Lists of research topics/assignments for
students/classes at academic institutions
- Engage professors/students to assign research topics/assignments
- Becky is kicking off a collaborative project called the
Co-Design studio:
- pairs technologists with advocates to work on actual projects
- Provide DV Training opportunities for technologists/biomed
researchers.
- Offer or sign up and attend DV training
- Maintain list of local DV training opportunities- e.g. Emerge training
- Provide Technology Training opportunities for DV services
providers
- Offer or sign up and attend DV training
- Facilitate Speaking Opportunities for technologists at DV
organizations, DV service providers at technology organizations
- Identify a conference in your industry, invite a DV speaker from DVTWG
- For DV advocates, invite a techie/researcher to a DV con or event
- Seek opportunities to address need for Volunteer Technologists:
- tech-trained Human Resources from the technology community
- Technologists to request of Verizon and other telecom providers:
- To increase their donations of telecom and Technology Goods/Services
- Provide spaces to meet
- Andrew offered Tor’s offices in Cambridge
- Risa has provided Transition House offices in Cambridge
- Becky Hurwitz offered the MIT Media Lab in Cambridge
- Organize Hackathons- events/workshops to roll up sleeves and tackle projects
- Query case histories/law enforcement cases to find incidents of technology in existing abuse cases
- Come up with easy way to setup Tails on shared computers in
shelters to keep everyone safe.
- setup training for shelter residents and the staff
- Publish landmark cases with interviews of authors: Nicholson v. Scopetta, Lassiter v. DSS: online publishing skills
- Implement web crawler to scrape and collect police logs. Analyze for DV reporting crime trends