Empowering Communities: Tackling Online Gender-Based Violence with Uli

Open Technology Community (OTC)

• OTC is a group of developers and contributors building open technology, especially in healthcare.
• OTC's flagship product, oBuilt Care, connects hospitals to the closest care centers, providing doctors with a complete picture of a patient's condition and enabling referrals if necessary.
• OTC has over 400 contributors from around the world, including healthcare professionals who provide valuable insights and feedback.
• The use of GitHub Copilot has significantly improved the quality of code produced by OTC's developers.

Tattle

• Tattle is a Civ Tech organization based in India that focuses on online harms and builds open-source software and open datasets to address India-specific challenges.
• Tattle's mission is to provide a collective response to online gender-based violence through various projects, including crowdsourcing slurs in Indian languages and building machine learning classifiers to detect online gender-based violence.
• Tattle has developed a browser extension that redacts slurs and provides a way for users to contribute to the slur list.
• Tattle is working on expanding its capabilities to include image and video content moderation.
• The browser extension helps users by redacting slurs and providing a way to crowdsource new slurs, ensuring the list stays up to date.
• Tattle's work is crucial in addressing the psychological toll of online abuse and aims to make everyone's online experience safer.

Bully

• The Bully project aims to create a centralized repository where users can contribute and search for information related to online hate speech.
• The project encourages community involvement through crowdsourcing sessions, where individuals can annotate and discuss slurs, contributing to the plugin's improvement and understanding of evolving terminology.
• Non-technical contributions are also welcome, such as installing the plugin, reporting bugs, or providing data from online spaces where hate speech is prevalent.
• The project provides open-ended issues and curated problems on GitHub for researchers and interested individuals to explore and contribute to long-term explorations using the project's resources.
• The team behind Bully emphasizes the importance of personal motivation and interest in addressing problems when undertaking social impact projects.

Viral Spiral

• The Genesis of the project came from observing the difficulty of finding the truth online and the need to learn the skill of identifying misinformation.
• The project started as an unofficial WhatsApp group where the speaker helped their mother and her friends verify the accuracy of media items they received.
• The project evolved into a multiplayer game where players role-play different identities and biases, sharing news and observing how it affects the world and their own prejudices.
• The project aims to provide a safe environment for self-reflection and to encourage critical thinking about shared content.

Denny and P

• Denny and P discuss the importance of breaking down silos and bringing your whole self to work.
• They emphasize the value of pursuing your interests outside of work and finding ways to integrate them into your career.
• They suggest seeking out interdisciplinary teams and projects to foster a sense of belonging and fulfillment.
• They plan to organize a live stream where they play a game together, recognizing the potential of the platform for such activities.