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Curriculum Civic Engagement
Imagine a world where
technology isn't tearing
our lives, jobs, families, country,
and reality apart.
Digital ethics, civics, and legal solutions
for teachers, lawyers, programmers,
policymakers, citizens, and advocates.
Simple. Proven. Bi-partisan.
The IDH builds coalitions across the digital divide by bringing diverse
and bi-partisan teams of students, advocates, researchers, educators, and politicians together to fight for a just, free, and sane digital world.
Consulting & Auditing
Coaching & Training
Curriculum
Civic Engagement
Digital ethics, civics, and legal solutions
for teachers, lawyers, programmers,
policymakers, citizens, and advocates.
Simple. Proven. Bi-partisan.
Digital ethics, civics, and legal solutions
for teachers, lawyers, programmers,
policymakers, citizens, and advocates.
Simple. Proven. Bi-partisan.
The IDH builds coalitions across the digital divide by bringing diverse
and bi-partisan teams of students, advocates, researchers, educators, and politicians together to fight for a just, free, and sane digital world.
Imagine a world where technology isn't tearing our lives, jobs,
families, country,
and reality apart.
Lucky for you, we already did.
Thank you to our clients,
partners, and alllies
for putting differences aside to fight together against the technology
and toxic digital culture that is dividing us.
ACLU MINNESOTA
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE
BYTES MEDIA
TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA
MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
CIVIC NEBRASKA
MN EQUAL JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER
MN DEPT. OF HEALTH
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
PROTECT MN
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
URBAN EDUCATORS
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
ACLU NEBRASKA
EDUCATION AND TRAININGS
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY: OSTROM WORKING GROUP
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
UNIV OF WISCONSIN: LA CROSSE
ST. PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY
MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
STEVE FLETCHER
ABDI WARSAME
LATRISHA VETAW
PHILIPE CUNNINGHAM
SAINT PAUL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
MITRA JILALI
NELSIE YANG
RICHFIELD, MINNESOTA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
SIMON TRAUTMANN
MINNESOTA STATE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS
PEGGY SCOTT
SCOTT LUCERO
DR. STEVE JENSEN
JEREMY MUNSON
This is the make or break moment for post-digital America.
ACLU MINNESOTA
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
BYTES MEDIA
TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA
MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
CIVIC NEBRASKA
MN EQUAL JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER
MN DEPT. OF HEALTH
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
PROTECT MN
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
URBAN EDUCATORS
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
ACLU NEBRASKA
EDUCATION AND TRAININGS
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY: OSTROM WORKING GROUP
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
UNIV OF WISCONSIN: LA CROSSE
ST. PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY
MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
STEVE FLETCHER
ABDI WARSAME
LATRISHA VETAW
PHILIPE CUNNINGHAM
SAINT PAUL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
MITRA JILALI
NELSIE YANG
RICHFIELD, MINNESOTA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
SIMON TRAUTMANN
MINNESOTA STATE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS
PEGGY SCOTT
SCOTT LUCERO
DR. STEVE JENSEN
JEREMY MUNSON
Thank you to our
partners,and alllies
For proving all Americans
can still come together
to fight against the technology
and toxic digital culture
that is dividing us.
ACLU MINNESOTA
ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE
LITTLE EARTH NATIVE HUD COMMUNITY
CODED BIAS (NETFLIX)
BYTES MEDIA
TAKE ACTION MINNESOTA
MN LEGAL RIGHTS CENTER
CIVIC NEBRASKA
MN EQUAL JUSTICE RESEARCH CENTER
MN DEPT. OF HEALTH
SAFETY NOT SURVEILLANCE
GUNS DOWN, LOVE UP
PROTECT MN
SECOND CHANCE COALITION
URBAN EDUCATORS
RECLAIM THE BLOCK
ACLU NEBRASKA
EDUCATION AND TRAININGS
NORTH CENTRAL UNIVERSITY
INDIANA UNIVERSITY: OSTROM WORKING GROUP
HAMLINE UNIVERSITY
CREIGHTON UNIVERSITY
UNIV OF WISCONSIN: LA CROSSE
ST. PAUL PUBLIC SCHOOLS
IOWA BAR ASSOCIATION
NEBRASKA BAR ASSOCIATION
DIGITAL ARCHIVE OF LITERACY NARRATIVES
NORTH SUBURBAN CENTER FOR THE ARTS
NORTHEAST SCULPTURE GALLERY
MINNEAPOLIS CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
STEVE FLETCHER
ABDI WARSAME
LATRISHA VETAW
PHILIPE CUNNINGHAM
SAINT PAUL CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
MITRA JILALI
NELSIE YANG
RICHFIELD, MINNESOTA CITY COUNCIL MEMBERS
SIMON TRAUTMANN
MINNESOTA STATE HOUSE REPRESENTATIVES & SENATORS
PEGGY SCOTT
SCOTT LUCERO
DR. STEVE JENSEN
JEREMY MUNSON
Imagine a world where
technology isn't tearing
our lives, jobs, families, country,
and reality apart.
Lucky for you, we already did.
And where diverse citizens
-- conservatives, liberals,
Christians, Muslims, Jews
and everyone in between --
put aside their differences to work together for a just, free, and sane
post-digital world.
Lucky for you, we already did.
And our Black Mirror meets Dead Poet's Society story
is so bananas we are writing a book.
(And we filmed everything for a documentary)
At least curious? Click here.
TO FIX THIS MESS, YOU HAVE TO DO FOUR THINGS
NBC KARE-11 Minneapolis
NBC Affiliates
Forbes I Omaha World Herald
Nebraska Public Television I Human Lawyer
Our Black News I Nebraska Lawyer
NEWS AND MEDIA APPEARANCES
Our politicians and programmers can't save us in time.
IDH STRATEGY & STORY
A respected AI ethics & First Amendment prof becomes a "diversity hire" at a Bible college
in 2018 to teach kids on the other side.
It works freakishly well.
Then all hell breaks loose.
THE IDH HAS THE STORY ALL
AMERICANS NEED TO HEAR
THE IDH IS A BLUEPRINT
TO FIX POST-DIGITAL AMERICA FAST
We spent 20 years updating a 2,000 year old method-- already taught to millions --
to fix this precise crisis.
It works. Because it does four key things
that are critical for our country & humanity.
A respected AI ethics & First Amendment prof becomes a "diversity hire" at a Bible college in 2018 to teach kids on the other side.
It works freakishly well.
Then all hell breaks loose.
THE IDH HAS THE STORY ALL
AMERICANS NEED TO HEAR
THE IDH IS A BLUEPRINT
TO SAVE POST-DIGITAL AMERICA
We spent 20 years updating a 2,000 year old method-- already taught to millions --
to fix this precise crisis.
It works. Because it does four key things
that are critical for our country & humanity.
A respected AI ethics & First Amendment prof becomes a "diversity hire" at a Bible college in 2018 to teach kids on the other side.
His new students -- and a childhood friend from across the aisle -- start the IDH.
It works freakishly well. Then all hell breaks loose.
Now they're back.
THE IDH HAS THE STORY ALL
AMERICANS NEED TO HEAR
THE IDH IS A BLUEPRINT
TO FIX POST-DIGITAL AMERICA
We spent 20 years updating a 2,000 year old method-- already taught to millions --
to fix this precise crisis.
It works. Because it does four key things
that are critical for our country & humanity.
An AI Ethics & First Amendment prof becomes a "diversity hire" at a Bible college in 2018 to teach kids on the other side.
It works freakishly well.
Then all hell breaks loose.
Now the IDH is back: Because everything is
just as jacked as before and the clock
is running out.
THE IDH HAS THE STORY ALL
AMERICANS NEED TO HEAR
PRESS & MEDIA
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NBC Affiliates
Forbes I Omaha World Herald
Nebraska Public Television I Human Lawyer
Our Black News I Nebraska Lawyer
PRESS & VICTORIES
NBC KARE-11 Minneapolis
NBC Affiliates
Forbes I Omaha World Herald
Nebraska Public Television
Human Lawyer
Our Black News I Nebraska Lawyer
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INITIATIVES
Digital ethics is an interconnected ecosystem of politics, law, code, and culture.
Digital ethics is an interconnected ecosystem of politics, law, code, and culture
Which is why we fix them all at once. For everyone.
Employment AI I Predictive Policing
Facial Recognition I Medical AI I Housing AI
Social Credit Scores
Muslim Concentration Camps
Because AI is biased and unreliable
and ruining lives every day.
AI ETHICS
#NeighborsNotNumbers
Employment AI I Predictive Policing
Facial Recognition I Medical AI I Housing AI
Social Credit Scores
Muslim Concentration Camps
PRIVACY
#Privacy4All
Consumers I Citizens I Patients I Students I Artists I Children I People I
period.
DISINFORMATION
#BurstTheBubble
We fix the root cause, by re-finding common values across ideological, religious,
and cultural “filter bubbles."
Because the problem isn't MAGA vs. woke.
It's trauma and information warfare.
And it's going to get us killed.
Every bipartisan, multi-faith, and cross-cultural IDH partnership helps #BurstTheBubble:
Healing communities that have been
algorithmically put at odds and helping to get valuable information to both sides.
FREE SPEECH
#StopActingLikeRobots
It's easy to be for free speech
and against hate and online violence.
Just stop acting like a robot.
And remember that context
is a civil rights issue.
SERVICES & SOLUTIONS
One holistic, interdisciplinary, and non-partisan method for the
whole technology ethics, law, democracy, and education mess.
Tech companies, schools, and politicians don't know how to fix this crisis in time.
Even if they could, they don't know how to teach or explain it
to a terrified and divided country.
But we do.
CONSULTING & AUDITS
cutting edge/non-partisan
One holistic, interdisciplinary, and non-partisan method for the
whole AI ethics, law, democracy, and education mess.
Tech companies, schools, and politicians don't know how to fix it in time.
But we do.
CONSULTING & AUDITS
cutting edge/non-partisan
ADVOCACY & STRATEGIC PR
bipartisan/cross-cultural
Interactive, experiential, andnon-ideological digital ethics education. For attorneys, policymakers, programmers, and schools: K-12, undergrad, graduate, and law.
EDUCATION & PROFESSIONAL
TRAININGS
RESEARCH
CONSULTING & COACHING
ADVOCACY & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
PRIVACY
#Privacy4All
consumers, citizens, patients,
artists, students, children,
and people.
period.
FREE SPEECH
#StopActingLikeRobots
It's easy to be for free speech
and against hate and online violence.
Just stop acting like a robot.
And remember that context
is a civil rights issue.
The Institute for Digital Humanity
SERVICES & SOLUTIONS
DISINFORMATION
#BurstTheBubble
We fix the root cause, by re-finding common values across ideological, religious,
and cultural “filter bubbles."
Because the problem isn't MAGA vs. woke.
It's trauma and information warfare.
And it's going to get us killed.
ADVOCACY & CIVIC ENGAGEMENT
Anti-Defamation League I Bytes Media
Creighton Univ. I North Central Univ.
Univ. of Wisconsin: La Crosse I Indiana Univ.
NPR's Next Team Challenge I SXSW EDU
K-12, COLLEGE, GRAD SCHOOL
cutting edge/non-partisan
Principles of Digital Law and Ethics
CPI TechREG Chronicle.
Special Issue on Machine Learning. Feb 2023
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall
"A Primer on Digital and Data Science Ethics."
Nebraska Lawyer. Sept/Oct 2022
w/ Thomas Freeman, Samson Hall
“Criminal Conviction By Algorithms Are Ruining Innocent Lives.”
Omaha World Herald. August 29, 2021
w/ Thomas Freeman and Elizabeth Otto.
“The Legal Implications of Algorithmic Decision-Making.”
Nebraska Lawyer. May/June 2020w/ Thomas Freeman and Samson Hall.
As Technology Evolves, So Will the Law, and So Must Attorneys,
Nebraska Lawyer. July/August 2019
w/ Thomas Freeman
"Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics"
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
Proceedings. (Forthcoming)
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman
Winner:
Primeaux Award for Best Paper
(First Runner-Up)PUBLICATIONS
INVITED ACADEMIC PRESENTATIONS & CONFERENCES
“Using the Lens of Narrative Theory to Rethink Digital Ethics."
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference.
With Marci Exted and Thomas Freeman. October 2022
Winner: Primeaux Best Paper Award. (Runner-Up.)“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Reframe Health Data Sanctity.”
Inaugural Transatlantic Dialogue on Humanity and AI Regulation.
Hosted by HEC Paris. Paris, France. May 2022
Reported on in Forbes:
“Regulating Global Intelligence: Is Global Consensus Possible"
September 9, 2022“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Forgive, Forget, and Re-Program Digital Dignity.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium.
With Thomas Freeman. Organizers: Indiana University, Virginia Tech,
and University of Pennsylvania. Online. April 2022
“Triangulating Hate Speech and Free Speech in Algorithmic Environments.”
Indiana University.
Bloomington, IN: April 2022 (Online.)
“Algorithmic Unreliability: Narrative Theory, Digital Ethics,
and The Constitutionality of Employment AI.”Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business.
With Thomas Freeman and Marci Exted.
Chicago, IL and Online: March 2022
“Redefining Digital Literary: Algorithms and You.”
SXSW EDU.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Morales-Monge, and Shea Sullivan. March 2022
Winner of online voting competition to present.
“Privacy 3.0: Forgiveness and Student Data After Mahoney.”
International Vincentian Business Ethics Conference: DePaul University.
With Thomas Freeman, Simon Truatman, and Amanda Aherns. Chicago, IL: October 2021
“Algorithmic Bias: How Cross Functional Networks Can Fight Digitized Discrimination.”
Heider Business Symposium: Creighton University.
With Dr. Aaron McKain, Thomas Freeman, Elizabeth Otto, Ayin Monge, and Julius Hernandez. Omaha, NE. October 2021
“Reckoning With Robots; The Constitutional Implications of Using Algorithms to Make Human Decisions.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman. Chicago, IL: March 2021
“Digital Ethics: What’s Next?”
OSTROM Workshop. Indiana University School of Business.
With Julius Hernandez and Shea Sullivan. Bloomington, IN: February 2021
“A Taxonomy of Algorithmic Unreliability: Using Facial Recognition to Map Constitutional Issues.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium. Indiana University & Virginia Tech University.
Online (COVID): May 2020
“Racist Robots? A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Associate of Legal Studies in Business/Midwest Business Administration Association Annual Conference.
With Thomas Freeman, Ayin Monge-Morales, and Moises Morales. March 2020
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots: Mapping the Legal and Ethical Dimensions of Algorithmic Discrimination.”
Consortium for the Study of Religion, Ethics and Society at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
Bloomington, IN. November 2019
“Why Digital Rights Is The New Civil Rights Movement.”North Carolina A & T State University.
Greensboro, NC: May 2018
“What Norm MacDonald and Narrative Theory Can Teach Us
About Social Media Privacy Big Data Reasoning.”
Hamline University.
Saint Paul, MN. April 2017
(In conjunction w/ exhibition for World Press Freedom Day.)
"What Would Jesus Program?”
Rhetoric Society of America.
Portland, OR. May 2020
“Racist Robots: A Visual Primer on Understanding Algorithmic Bias.”
Midwest Business Administrative Association/Midwest Academy of Legal Studies in Business Joint Conference.
With Tom Freeman and Dan Schneider. Chicago, IL. March 2020
“Rhetoric Versus the Robots II: The Ethics of Algorithmic Unreliability.”
International Society for the Study of Narrative.
With Weston Cregut and Rebekah Winkel. New Orleans, LA. March 2020
“Privacy 3.0: Using Narrative Theory to Navigate Legal, Corporate, and Community Debates on Algorithmic Ethics.”
Data, Law, and AI Ethics Research Colloquium. Washington and Lee School of Law.
With Thomas Freeman. Lexington, VA. April 2019
COMPETITIVE ACADEMIC
CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS“Algorithmic Bias in the Criminal Justice System: Cheat Codes for Defense Attorneys.”
Minnesota Legal Rights Center. Workshop.
With Marci Exted and Tom Freeman.
Fall 2022
“Technology Inclusivity in Online Dispute Resolution.”
American Bar Association Dispute Resolution Technology Expo.
With Angie Raymond and Isak NitAsare.Online. July 2021
"The Civil Rights Challenges Posed by Algorithmic Bias"
Iowa State Bar Association, 2022.
With Thomas Freeman
"Legal Considerations of Algorithmic Decision Making"
Nebraska State Bar Association, 2022.
With Thomas Freeman
Pitfalls of Using Algorithms in Hiring Decisions"
Iowa State Bar Association 2022
With Thomas Freeman
The Promises and Perils of Algorithmic Decision Making"
Omaha West Rotary, 2022.
With Thomas Freeman
"Reckoning with Robots: Understanding the Impacts of Algorithmic Decision Making"
Suburban Rotary of Omaha, 2022.
With Thomas Freeman
"Algorithmic Discrimination: How Algorithms
Affect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts"
Jacksonville State University, 2021.
With Thomas Freeman
"Algorithmic Discrimination: How Algorithms
Affect Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Efforts"
University of Nevada-Reno. 2021.
With Thomas Freeman
“Internet Security and Cyberbullying Prevention Workshop.”
Little Earth Native Community.
Minneapolis, MN. April 2019
Funded By: Minnesota Health and Human Services.
PROFESSIONAL TRAININGS