Moar on the technocrats favorite friend, Appen y'all…guess who's supporting those fact-checkers and search engine data trainers? You guessed it…the Rockefellers!

https://wearethene.ws/notable/173036

https://wearethene.ws/notable/175261

From the past two notables and digs, we know that Appen is used by Facebook to crowdsource workers to generate machine-readable data. This AI/ML-friendly data is owned by Appen and then sold to FB, Google, and other companies. Appen is based in Australia, with offices worldwide. There is one office in the US and also offices in China.

Going to Appen's careers page, two institutions are listed: Global Impact Sourcing Coalition (GSC) and Allen Institute for AI (AI2).

• GISC: Launched with the help of Rockefeller Foundation. GISC is a sub-project of Business for Social Responsibility (BSR). BSR's early work can be traced back to the Social Venture Network (svcimpact.org) in 1991; the early version of GISC is "designed to serve as the voice of progressive businesses in policy formation in Washington, DC. Interestingly, The Social Venture Network is also involved in creating B Corp and American Sustainable Business Council (ASBC).

• AI2: Founded by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen. No need to say more.

Looking at the Board of Appen, William (Bill) Pulver of Australia is a Director. He was the CEO of the Australian Rugby Union in 2013-2018. Interdastingly, his daughter Madeleine is cited as the victim of the Mosman bomb hoax in 2011 which occurred in NSW, Australia.

I'll post some diggs later on the history of Appen and how it's become the organization it is today, including the startups it bought up and who funded Appen in its early days.

https://gisc.bsr.org

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Pulver

https://appen.com/about-us/#leadership