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

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Advancing AI in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
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• 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

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• Urban planning
• Engagement 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).

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• Gender Equality

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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.

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• Funders & donors

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

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• Civic and social impact companies
• Innovation teams and labs

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
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• News and blogs

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

• Public Interest Tech
• Digital literacy
• Academia

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.

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• students

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

• students

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

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

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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

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• 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
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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.

• Research and policy centers
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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

12-24 month startup accelerator at Cornell Tech

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

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• Academia
• Academic programs

PIT-UN (US) university membership list

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

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

• Research and policy centers
• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

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

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

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• In-person meetings