For obvious reasons, our list today is a little different, because we now treat every day as a day of supporting Ukraine. We hope that the texts and links collected below will help you to add your own bricks to actions that will bring at least a little relief to our Ukrainian neighbors. We also encourage you to talk about the war in Ukraine invaded by Vladimir P.'s army — loudly and without euphemisms.
Relations with Ukraine
Entries Olesya Vdovenko on the UX Collective blog and two reports of The Room agency (with 21. February and 1. March) on the Medium platform is a commentary on the situation in Ukraine in itself — we ran out of words after reading it.
#saveukraine
If someone is not moved by the cadres sent from Ukraine with children sleeping in the basement concrete or the inhabitants of the attacked cities trying in every way to defend their country, he probably just diagnosed himself with a lack of heart and elementary empathy. Support can take many forms - the main thing is that it was rationally coordinated. If you still do not know where to start, we recommend one of the links published on the Internet, among others on Wroclaw portal, in UX Magazine whether in posts from social media. Even the smallest help is important, Foundation Ukraine It tells you what is most needed right now,
Promotion of critical thinking
Reliable information has become an important aspect of the war that has been going on for a week, so the ease of spreading fake news should be all the more worrying. The scale of the problem is discussed, among others, by the Digital Poland Foundation report on the state of disinformation in Poland — we propose a short overview presented in VirtualMedia. It is also worth taking a look at page The Reboot Foundation promotes critical thinking in the fight against false information and follows reports of attempts to systemically address the problem of disinformation, such as wrote recently Miranda Bryant of The Guardian.
White interview
At the end, short text Thomas Eydoux on the fact that you don't have to be a hacker to extract reliable information from publicly available sources. The topic of using popular technologies to track the invasion of Ukraine has been in the media for a long time — an example could be one of articles in The Washington Post.
