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OUR PROGRAMMES

Digital Xtra is a registered charity whose goal is for every young person in Scotland to have access to innovative, meaningful, and creative extracurricular computing and AI activities regardless of their gender, background, or where they live.

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Digital Ethics Badges

This gold-level Digital Ethics Badge, created with support from Digital Xtra’s Ethics in Tech programme, enables users to identify and embed ethical principles while creating digital products, tools, and services as well as the role of a digital ethicist. Users then act as a digital ethics consultants for atech start-up helping identify and mitigate potential ethical risks.

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Tech We Trust

Tech We Trust is an interactive lesson demonstrating how personal data is used in algorithms and how programmers can (often accidentally) include their own bias. The activity challenges young people aged 10+ to create a fair and unbiased algorithm to determine who received a free ticket to a local attraction.

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