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LaborTech Book & Graduate Student Paper Awards

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. 

Brown Information Futures Lab

Our lab is where technology, innovation, policy and community meet, one pilot at a time.

Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin

The 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.

Public Interest Technology (PInT) at Olin College

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

PIT-UN Network Challenge

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

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.

Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech

Public Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs

AI Ethics: Global Perspectives

GovLab NYU's Collection of Lectures on the Ethical implications of Data and Artificial Intelligence from Different Perspectives

PIT Lab @Stanford

PIT Lab @Stanford

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.

AI for Impact (formerly Development Ventures)

For 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.

NYU Public Interest Technology Institute

NYU Public Interest Technology Institute

New York University, New York, NY, USA

A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology

Public Interest AI at HIIG

Public Interest AI at HIIG

Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, Germany

Alexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft

Stanford Impact Labs

Stanford Impact Labs

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

Stanford Start-Up Impact Labs

Stanford Start-Up Impact Labs

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Each will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support

Harvard's Public Interest Tech Lab

Harvard's Public Interest Tech Lab

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

We help shape the future of technology and society to advance equity, expand opportunity and protect basic rights and liberties.

GovLab (The Governance Lab)

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

Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)

Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)

360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The 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.

Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy

Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Grand Avenue, CA, USA

The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.

Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)

Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)

Johannesburg, South Africa

Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

Public Interest Technology University Network

Public Interest Technology University Network

New America, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA

The 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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