Todd Davies  > Groups/Projects

Groups and projects I work with currently (updated July 24, 2021):

• Symbolic Systems Program  at Stanford University
  

• Center for the Study of Language and Information (CSLI)

• Deme (rhymes with team), a free/open platform for online deliberation
• previous website: Groupspace.org, a prototype hosting site for the old version of Deme

• The international campaign to ban autonomous weapons, and in particular:
• A proposed resolution before the San Mateo County Board of Supervisors (December 12, 2017)
• The Future of Life Institute's Open Letter on Autonomous Weapons (July 28, 2015)
  

• Peace+Justice Studies Initiative (PJSI) at Stanford, a curricular initiative supported by the Hoagland Award Fund

• Conferences on deliberation and decision making, including helping to organize the following: 
• 2017 International Conference on Deliberation and Decision Making: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Civic Tech at the National University of Singapore (June 23-24, 2017)
  
• Fourth International Conference on Online Deliberation (OD2010) at the University of Leeds (June 30-July 2, 2010)
  
• Tools for Participation: Collaboration, Deliberation, and Decision Support (DIAC-2008/OD2008) at UC Berkeley (June 26-29, 2008)
  
• Second Conference on Online Deliberation: Design, Research, and Practice / DIAC-2005 at Stanford (May 20-22, 2005)  videos

• Chiapas Support Committee

• Stanford Open Source Lab

• LaborTech and LaborFest, including helping to organize the following events:
• The Internet, Technology, The Gig Economy and the Future of Labor, ILWU Local 34, San Francisco (July 30, 2017)
  
• LaborTech 2015: The Gig Economy – Labor Communication, Media and the Smart Phone, Stanford University (July 26, 2015)
  
• LaborTech 2010: The Digital Revolution and Labor Media Strategy, University of San Francisco (December 10-12, 2010)
  
• The Digital Revolution and Labor Media Strategy (LaborTech 2008), University of San Francisco (December 5-7, 2008)
•  Maquilapolis and Campus Labor Activism, LaborFest 2007, Stanford (July 12, 2007);
  
• LaborTech 2006: The Digital Revolution and a Labor Media Strategy, University of San Francisco (November 17-19, 2006);
  
• the LaborTech/Access 2004 Conference, Stanford (April 2-4, 2004), and
  
• Access: Broadband and the Digital Future, Stanford (April 5, 2003) [see also: Stanford Daily article - but the photo is from a different conference]

Groups/projects I have worked with in the past:

• Arroyo House at Stanford
  
• years in Arroyo: 2006-2007, 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010,  and 2010-2011
• press:
  
• Phillip D. Long and Richard Holeton, "Signposts of the Revolution?: What We Talk About When We Talk About Learning Spaces", EDUCAUSE Review, Volume 44, Number 2, March/April 2009, pp. 36–49
• Allan Chen and Rich Holeton, "Student Computing Creates New Residential Collaboratory at Wilbur Hall", Speaking of Computers: An E-Newsletter for the Stanford Community, Number 74, April 17, 2007

• The Stanford Undergraduate Housing Draw Task Force, June 2008-March 2009   final-report-summary [.pdf]  final-report-full [.pdf]
  

• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR): Board (2005-2008), Vice President (July 2005-July 2006), President (July 2006-May 2007)

• BarCamp Stanford (August 25-27, 2006)

• Partnership for Internet Equity and Community Engagement (PIECE)

• Stanford Faculty Against the War and Stanford Says No to War

• Who Voted?, a website for viewing and uploading voter histories

• Community Forum on Effective Health Care, a research study on methods for public deliberation (in which we applied Deme for online deliberation)

• Initiative for Equality (IfE)

• Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford
• Stanford Program in Oxford (Winter Quarter, 2019-2020)

• Brasenose College, Oxford (December 2019 - June 2020)

Campaigns I support:

• #FreeAlaa -- the campaign to free Egyptian pro-democracy activist and blogger Alaa Abd El Fattah

• I made this "Share your Wi-Fi" [.pdf] window sign to try to start a campaign based on the site ShareYourWifi.org, with which I have no other affiliation. Feel free to modify, make copies, put on t-shirts and stickers, etc. Let the campaign begin!

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