Project Liberty Experience

Where a better digital future begins
An immersive and tactile experience where the public can explore the possibilities of a better digital future and share their vision of what they’d like to see that future encapsulate. The installation is brought to life artistically through AI inspired by the incredible art of Refik Anadol.

Imagine being able to “check out” the brain of a leading changemaker working to build better digital spaces. The All Tech Is Human Library: Voices from the Responsible Tech Movement is a three-day interactive installation at Unfinished Live that allows anyone to actively engage with the inspiring leaders building a better tech future through a series of rapid-fire intimate huddle conversations. You’ll get the chance to meet AI ethicists, public interest technologists, integrity workers, and more — learning about career pathing in this new terrain, and how to normalize ethical tech for all.

How can we make sense of our fraught relationship with social media? Brought to you by La Plateforme, a school of digital and new technologies based in Marseille, France, this workshop invites participants to write break-up letters to their mainstream social media of choice. They will outline aspects that made them fall in love once, followed by reasons and moments for which they believe the relationship is coming to an end. We will discuss the letters in a group, try to guess which social network is being addressed, and send them out. Click here to learn more.

In order to mitigate the uptick of disinformation, can we get inside the minds of those who spread it? In this workshop, you will learn the specific characteristics of these “low-trust populations” and even take on their perspective in order to inform a fundamental understanding of their concerns, worldview, and psychology. This workshop is led by More in Common, whose mission is to understand the forces driving us apart, to find common ground and help to bring people together to tackle our shared challenges. Click here to learn more.

As we gather in New York City, we have an opportunity – and an imperative – to explore what the tech future holds for those outside of the big coastal cities. What are the digital equity gaps in local communities across the U.S., and what are some of the original initiatives that are addressing them?  

In this conversation in partnership with Heartland Forward, learn from the next generation of leaders in U.S.  heartland states. about how they are creating programs to bridge the digital divide through innovative approaches, and supporting everyone from teachers, to students, to seniors and beyond. Click here to learn more.

In this interactive session you will hear the points of view of two people born in different eras of an emerging democracy – and their insights about how decentralized networks have endured and evolved over time. Meet Daiva Venckus of Project Liberty, who worked for the Lithuanian government during the revolution days; and Vytas Jankauskas of La Plateforme tech school in Marseille, a media designer born three days after the revolution. They will lead an engaging and interactive discussion about communication technologies, how formal and informal networks organize themselves, and what that means for our society at large. Click here to learn more.

TikTok, with 50 million daily users in the U.S., has become the front page of the Internet, increasingly informing how we live our lives, how we think about community and, potentially, whether and how we vote. Researchers and journalists lack access to information about how video hosting services surface and share election-related information and the veracity of what they share. Join the Digital Public Library of America for a pop-up discussion led by Jennifer 8. Lee about how we can better understand the state of American democracy through TikTok. Click here to learn more.