Advancing AI in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)

• workshops
• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Urban planning
• Public Interest Tech

As an academic community that believes in technology’s potential to have a positive impact on public life, Missouri S&T is honored to be recognized as a member of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN).

• culture
• Gender Equality

• Public Interest Tech

The Fund is a shared space for philanthropists to leverage one another’s expertise, incubate investment strategies to advance visionary concepts, and catalyze big ideas that can transform the use of technology to serve the public interest.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

DreamSpace Academy is a social enterprise tackling local socio-economic and environmental challenges through challenge-based learning, grassroots innovation and impact venture building.

• Community
• Sustainable Development Goals
• sustainability

• Innovation teams and labs
• Civic and social impact companies
• Public Interest Tech

The Public Interest Tech Webring is a collection of blogs dedicated to civic tech, public interest tech, government tech policy, and similar topics.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Public Interest Tech

Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.

• Academia
• Digital literacy
• Public Interest Tech

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs

A project map of Public Interest AI and related research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Public Interest Tech

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

• students

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Join us for the 2022 Public Interest Tech University Network (PIT-UN) Convening, hosted by City University of New York, on Oct. 28-29.

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech

The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.

• Get funding
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

How a robust public interest technology field can overcome historical inequities and ensure that everyone can fully benefit from technology. By Jenny Toomey & Latanya Sweeney

• Public Interest Tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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

• CTFG partners

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

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

• Research and policy centers
• Conferences
• Academia

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.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

12-24 month startup accelerator at Cornell Tech

• Academia
• Accelerators
• Public Interest Tech

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

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs

PIT-UN (US) university membership list

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs

PITcases.org is a university platform to help students and faculty find the best ways to make a positive difference in their communities. The website gives detailed information about projects that have come out of PIT classes, as well as reading lists for those interested in teaching such courses.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Public Interest Tech

A Ford Foundation memo sharing lessons learned from public interest law for their work in Public Interest Tech

• Public Interest Tech

Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Higher education must give the next generation of technology and policy leaders the interdisciplinary training they need to succeed, write Anne-Marie Slaughter, Darren Walker and Larry Kramer.

• Quality education

• Public Interest Tech

The Public Interest Technology Summit is the evolution of the Alumni Digital Summit hosted last October in collaboration with Alumni Relations.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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.

• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Public Interest Tech