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2nd Apr 2026

Ethical Technology Choices for Not-For-Profits: What we learned

For years, the non-profit sector has operated under an unspoken assumption. Technology should be free, or at least heavily subsidised. We relied on the generous free and charity discount tiers from giants like Microsoft and Google, treating their platforms as the default infrastructure for our work.…

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Data Sovereignty and AI: Why Consent, Not Control, Is the Real Issue

In 2023, a museum in the Netherlands discovered that thousands of images from its digitised collection had been used to train a commercial image generation model. Nobody had asked. Nobody had been told. The museum only found out because a researcher noticed that the model could reproduce visual elem…

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What Is AI? A Plain-Language Glossary for the Rest of Us

Last year I watched a friend edit a photo on her phone. She removed a person from the background with a single tap. She did not know she was using generative AI. As far as she was concerned, it was just a feature of the camera app. That moment has been stuck in my head since, because it captures som…

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