Archive - Fairly Digital

Communiqué #5 : Reimagining Institutions & Multi-stakeholder Collaboration.

A core part of SlashRoots’ thesis is that we believe realising a Caribbean region that works for all requires creating new institutions and reimagining…

Jun 11 •

SlashRoots Foundation

February 2024

What We Do Together

SlashRoots' 2024 Annual Letter

Feb 5 •

Matthew McNaughton

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March 2022

Learning To Play Like Yourself

Updating SlashRoots’ Mission

Mar 30, 2022 •

Matthew McNaughton

April 2021

Civil Society Coalition Outlines Key Reforms Of NIDS Bill To Parliament

On Wednesday, April 5, 2021, The NIDS Focus Coalition — a coalition of civil society organizations — will present before Jamaica’s Parliament on the…

Apr 5, 2021 •

SlashRoots Foundation

January 2019

Tell Your MP What Matters To You

Too many of us are accustomed to not having a voice, leaving officials (whom we may or may not have voted for) to make decisions that affect not just…

Jan 23, 2019 •

SlashRoots Foundation

August 2018

Fixing Castries’ Traffic Problem, But What About Kingston!?

I’m writing this in-between flights on the way back from St Lucia where we just held our first open data meet-up, part of a six-month process to support…

Aug 20, 2018 •

June 2018

What’s in it for me? New Citizen Rights in the Data Protection Act

At our recent Data Protection Act Town Hall, two common sentiments shared among the presenters and participants were: Too few Jamaicans understood the…

Jun 3, 2018 •

Matthew McNaughton

Code for Africa Wants to Help Jamaican Journalism Stay Ahead of the Times

SlashRoots Foundation and Code for Africa are working together to give local journalists new and exciting digital tools: enabling them to mine data for…

Jun 1, 2018 •

SlashRoots Foundation

May 2018

Moving The Needle On Jamaica’s Data Use Culture

Daily we allow our data to be collected and used. Sometimes it is being shared and used without our consent — and these abuses often become known to us…

May 14, 2018 •

Matthew McNaughton

April 2018

Of Prisons, Pain, Open Data And Progress

While in Cape Town, South Africa, on a recent trip for SlashRoots, I got to tour Robben Island, where Nelson Mandela was imprisoned. The confused…

Apr 25, 2018 •

SlashRoots Foundation

Hope For A Better Jamaican Design Future?

The motivation for my last post was simple: the need to consider real human beings when we design and develop digital products. While people-centric…

Apr 18, 2018 •

Are Real People At The Heart Of Your Digital Agenda?

There’s a slow realisation among Jamaican organisations that website/app/insert-technology-of-choice-here “users” are living, breathing human beings…

Apr 6, 2018 •

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