- Company website
- https://www.goodbot.ca
- Number of employees
- 2 - 10 employees
- Description
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goodbot society is an interdisciplinary community of socially-minded professionals working in law, technology, design, social sciences, and policy. Our purpose is to support the development of trusted, accountable, and socially sustainable technology ecosystems by strengthening awareness, research, policy, and practice.
We are a nonprofit organization that engages Canadian on responsible technology issues and norms aimed at strengthening policy and practices to ensure health and resilient digital information ecosystems.
We provide services to help nonprofits technology companies develop and embed measurable social impact strategies into their products and business models and help them navigate a complex and rapidly evolving regulatory landscape.
We also develop original research on emerging innovation, technology risks and harms, and approaches needed to effectively govern technology and build toward healthy and inclusive digital societies that benefit everyone
- Industries
- Non-profit, philanthropic & civil society
Recent projects
goodbot gaming
The main goal of this project is to create a mobile and web app for parents to help make informed decisions about what games, social media apps, and other apps their kids use. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:- Researching existing parental control apps and features that promote kids' safety- Create a comparison tool to help parents make informed choices about consoles and games- Create a function for parents to share games their kids are allowed to play with other parents - Create a parent's conversation forum to share concerns, issues and resources - Create a resource library of resources and organizations that can help parents navigate issues related to kids online interactions and outcomes- Designing a user-friendly interface for the app.- Developing a secure database to store user information- Researching and implementing other features that may be beneficial to parents.
Goodbot Consulting Strategic Communication and Marketing Plan
Goodbot Consulting is a nonprofit professional services organization that works with technology companies to strengthen responsible technology practices. Our goal is to determine our market positioning and develop a clear strategic communication and marketing plan to launch Goodbot Consulting services. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:- Researching the current market for professional services related to responsible technology practices.- Analyzing the competitive landscape and identifying potential target markets.- Developing a strategic communication and marketing plan for Goodbot Consulting services.- Creating a budget and timeline for the implementation of the plan.- Assessing the effectiveness of the plan and making necessary adjustments.
Canadian Responsible Tech Repository
Problem ContextIn Canada and globally the responsible tech movement is quickly evolving and using multiple mediums to further its goals. Canadian institutions are producing exciting research and non-profit organizations are pursuing new projects constantly. It can be very difficult for any individual to keep up to date with work being done in this space, and this can make it impossible to identify areas for collaboration on responsible tech-related projects. GoodBot has experienced this problem first hand and has received feedback that this problem exists for many members of the Canadian responsible tech ecosystem.SolutionGoodBot hopes to leverage the data and analysis of its existing responsible tech research to create a simple interface for researchers and the community to search and connect multi-disciplinary responsible tech projects. GoodBot will provide brief summaries and categorization for any given data point (project, legislation, research, etc) to facilitate correlation and understanding by generic users. A user will be able to easily search and group Non-profit organizations, Businesses, People, Academic Research, Laws and Policy, Litigation, and Media by characteristics like problem focus, location or objective. This repository will continue to grow as GoodBot produces its annual Responsible Tech Report, and as responsible tech initiatives continue to evolve in the future. Ideally, this dynamic correlation and access will promote contact between concerned actors in Canada as we all work for a better technology future.Similar Projects/Reference PointsRepositories:US AI Regulation Repository - Ravit DojanĀ Responsible Tech University Ecosystem - All Tech Is HumanThe above repositories display data as a flat table with tags for categories like discipline and legislation type. These repositories serve as an excellent starting point for what we want the Canadian Responsible Tech Repository to look like. Once our repository is populated, we will create a correlation mechanism to connect data points across disciplines as users select specific data points.
goodbot gaming - webapp
The main goal of this project is to create a web app for parents to help make informed decisions about what games, social media apps, and other apps their kids use. This will involve several different steps for the students, including:- Researching existing parental control apps and features that promote kids' safety- Create a comparison tool to help parents make informed choices about consoles and games- Create a function for parents to share games their kids are allowed to play with other parents- Create a parent's conversation forum to share concerns, issues and resources- Create a resource library of resources and organizations that can help parents navigate issues related to kids online interactions and outcomes- Designing a user-friendly interface for the web app- Developing a secure database to store user information- Researching and implementing other features that may be beneficial to parents.