Awesome Humane Tech

Contents

• About this list
• Ethics
• Privacy
• Social networks
• Freedom
• Gamification
• Health
• Mindfulness
• Awareness
• Related awesomeness
• Contributing
• License

About this list

Tech and social media is having a big impact on our society. While many innovative technology inventions are improving our lives, there is increasing awareness on negative impacts that come with these trends, such as social media addiction, mental health issues, and social erosion. To address these problems, a world-class team of deeply concerned former tech insiders and CEOs have created The Center of Humane Technology. A community and website where you'll find solutions and best-practices!

Reversing the digital attention crisis and realigning technology with humanity's best interests

This list focuses on (mostly open-source) projects that are directly related to humane tech topics. Please read the guidelines for contributing before sending PR's.

Ethics

• Machine Learning Ethics References - Machine Learning and Data Science discrimination, bias and ethics.
• WikiTruth | - A Wikipedia and Quora-like system with a vetting mechanism to verify facts from trash.
• Programmer's Oath - An ethics oath for programmers, comparable to the Hippocratic Oath.

Privacy

• Privacy Badger | - Privacy Badger by Electronic Frontier Foundation blocks spying ads and invisible trackers.
• Exodus Privacy | - Analyzes privacy concerns in Android applications.
• Exodify - Wondering if an app is tracking you? Now you can see it directly in the Play store.
• Ungoogled Chromium - Chromium without Google integration, enhancing privacy, control, transparency
• Signal | - Signal is a messaging app for simple private communication with friends.
• uBlock Origin - An efficient wide-spectrum blocker for Chromium and Firefox. Fast and lean.
• ConsentCookie | - Customizable script that allow users to opt-in for cookies on a case-by-case basis.
• Mozilla Contain-Facebook - Firefox plugin to prevent tracking outside of the Facebook website via 3rd-party cookies.
• Fair Analytics - A Google Analytics-alike server that doesn't undermine user's privacy.
• Privacy Respecting - A curated list of privacy-respecting Services and Software.
• Hosts - Consolidates several reputable hosts files, and merges them into a single unified one.
• Blocklists - Shared lists of problem domains people may want to block with hosts files.
• SilverDog | - An audio firewall to block ultrasound tracking applications.
• Matomo | - The leading open alternative to Google Analytics that gives you full control over your data.
• Referrer Spam Blacklist | - Community-contributed list of referrer spammers.
• Tracking Token Stripper - Browser extension that strips Google Analytics (UTM) tokens from URL query strings.
• Trackless - Add a GDPR-friendly Google Analytics opt-in/opt-out button to your site.
• Fathom | - A simpler and more privacy-focused alternative to Google Analytics.
• Local Sheriff - A browser extension that helps identify what sensitive information (PII) is shared / leaked to 3rd-parties.

Social networks

• Mastodon | - Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community.
• Diaspora | - A privacy-aware, distributed, open source social network.
• Humnub | - A feature rich and highly flexible open-source Social Network Kit written in PHP.
• Patchwork | - A decentralized messaging and sharing app built on top of Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB).
• Pump.io | - A stream server that does most of what people really want from a social network.
• Voten | - An open-source, beautiful, highly customizable yet deadly simple, and warm community.
• Socialhome | - A federated personal profile with social networking functionality.
• Facebook Demetricator | - A web browser extension that removes all the metrics from the Facebook interface.
• Twitter Demetricator | - A web browser extension that removes all the metrics on Twitter.
• News Feed Eradicator - A browser extension that replaces your Facebook news feed with a nice quote.
• Granary | - The social web translator that breaks silo's by converting data between social networks.
• Neocities | - Social network that brings back the lost individual creativity of the web.

Freedom

• Alternative Internet | - A collection of interesting new networks and tech aiming at decentralisation (in some form).
• GlobaLeaks | - Free and open source software intended to enable Secure and Anonymous Whistleblowing initiatives.
• SecureDrop | - Whistleblower submission system to securily interact with anonymous sources.

Gamification

• Security Belt - A framework for improving the IT-Security of your teams through gamification.
• Habitica - Gamify your life. Motivate yourself to achieve your goals.

Health

• Stanford HabitLab | - Change your online habits, set goals, try interventions, view progress.
• redshift | - Redshift adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings.
• Safe Eyes | - Safe Eyes is a tool for Linux users to reduce and prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI).
• Prisma Care | - App that strengthens the relationship between people with memory loss and people close to them.
• Loop Habit Tracker - An Android app for creating and maintaining good habits.
• If me | - A community for mental health experiences encouraging people to share their stories with loved ones.

Mindfulness

• Mindfulness at the Computer | - Helps you stay mindful of your breathing while using your computer.
• Breathe | - Take a moment to breathe. A Pebble app for breathing, written in C.
• Chomper | - Internet blocker for Linux with whitelists/blacklists and timer to help you be more productive at work.

Happiness

• Happy DB | - HappyDB is a corpus of 100,000+ crowd-sourced happy moments.

Awareness

• Data Selfie | - Track yourself on Facebook and analyze your data (read faq and privacy before using).
• hack-an-engineer | - Examples of intentional and unintentional hacks of software engineering media sources.
• Facebook Data Analyzer - Analyze the Facebook copy of your own data.

Related awesomeness

• Awesome Self-hosted - Locally hosting and managing applications instead of renting from SaaS providers.
• Awesome Decentralized - A curated list of decentralized, P2P, and distributed platforms and applications.
• Awesome Peer-to-peer - A curated list of peer-to-peer resources.
• Awesome Activism Tools - A curated list of awesome digital tools for activism.
• Awesome Empathy in Engineering - A curated list for building more compassionate engineering cultures.
• Awesome Diversity - A curated list of amazing articles, websites and resources about diversity in technology.
• Awesome Free Software - A curated list of free as in freedom software.
• Awesome Ad-Free - A curated list of ad-free alternatives to popular services on the web.

Contributing

Contributions welcome! Read the contribution guidelines first.

License

To the extent possible under law, aschrijver (the maintainer) has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work.