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Center for Democracy and Citizenship
ADC Business Center, 1929 5th Street South, Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55454The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.
The Policy Lab
Brown UniversityThe Policy Lab brings together experts from government, universities, and community organizations to collaborate on research tailored to inform decisions about how to improve policies and programs across the state.
The mission of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
We aim to reframe the conversation about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism.
Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin
Austin, TXThe Global DisInformation Lab (GDIL) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinformation, and disinformation.
Brown Information Futures Lab
Brown UniversityOur lab is where technology, innovation, policy and community meet, one pilot at a time.
Public Interest Technology (PInT) at Olin College
Olin College of EngineeringPInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at Olin College of Engineering
PIT-UN Network Challenge
United States of America (the)The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.
Al Sur
South America"Al Sur" is a consortium of organizations that work in civil society and academia in Latin America and that seek with their joint work to strengthen human rights in the digital environment of the region.
GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives
PIT Lab @Stanford
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAThe PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.
Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechPublic Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs. The programming currently consists of a Master's-level applied internship and a public interest track in the program's product studio.
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AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)
MIT Media LabFor entrepreneurial MIT students looking to put their skills to work for a greater good, the Media Arts and Sciences class MAS.664 (AI for Impact) has been a destination point.
How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.
NYU Public Interest Technology Institute
New York University, New York, NY, USAA 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology
An academic and practitioner-focused journal on all aspects of technology and communities.
Public Interest AI at HIIG
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyAlexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft
Stanford Start-Up Impact Labs
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAEach will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support
Stanford Impact Labs
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USACenter at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems
Harvard's Public Interest Tech Lab
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAWe help shape the future of technology and society to advance equity, expand opportunity and protect basic rights and liberties.
GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems. GovLab believes that increased availability and use of data, new ways to leverage the capacity, intelligence, and expertise of people in the problem-solving process, combined with new advances in technology and science can transform governance.
Members of New America's Public Interest Tech University Network
United States of America (the)PIT-UN (US) university membership list
PIT @ The City University of New York
New York, NYMaking Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good
Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Grand Avenue, CA, USA
Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)
360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USAThe Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.
Public Interest Technology University Network
New America, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USAThe Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.
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