Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Emerging tech

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

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

The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

How do we ensure justice and fair treatment for all in a digital environment? How do we counter online hate, protect free speech, and use social media to reduce bias in society? The Center for Technology and Society takes ADL’s civil rights mission and applies it to the 21st century.

• hate speech
• harassment

This paper identifies and addresses persistent gaps in the consideration of ethical practice in ‘technology for good’ development contexts.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda

• refugees

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Co-design

The Racism and Technology Center uses technology as a mirror to reflect and make visible existing racist practices in Dutch society.

• racial equity

In order to encourage more outstanding talents to invest in the new-type democratic experiment field and accelerate the incubation of more achievements, the g0v zero-hour government loosening group of Dasong is held on a regular basis.

• g0v

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Nonprofit tech

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

• students

• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

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 Civics of Technology Project shares research and curriculum and offers professional development that encourages teachers and students to critically inquire into the effects of technology on our individual and collective lives.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CITAD is a non-governmental and non-profit organization that is committed to the use of information and communication technologies for development and promotion of good governance.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Digital literacy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Freedom of Information

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

• Public Interest Tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

PIT Commons of DC is a multidisciplinary collaboration of DC institutions providing open access PIT career development resources to DC prof/grad students.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Focuses on bringing together practicing technologists and researchers to facilitate understanding of the complex interaction between technology, science and society, its impact on individuals and society in general, professional and social responsibility in the practice of engineering, science, and technology, and open discussion on the resulting issues.

• Predecessors
• Trade groups

An extensive explainer of the civic tech field

• Learn about civic tech

The Technology Assessment Design Handbook offers both GAO’s own staff and other interested users tools and approaches to think about when designing technology assessments.

• handbooks
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Procurement

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• Conferences
• Public Interest Tech
• Research and policy centers

Tracking the development and thinking of the newest undergraduate program at UM's Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Newsletters

Transforming the justice system with digital & technology services

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Justice tech

Become a Media and Technology Policy Expert

• Academic programs

Our team makes sure the networks, computers, and systems that support the City are secure and effective. We also manage the City’s websites and technologies focused on service delivery.

• Govtech
• Public sector innovation labs

Pew Trusts report: What the changes mean for the millions of people who interact with the civil legal system each year—and what remains to be done

• reports

• Justice tech
• Legal tech

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

• Public Interest Tech

Tru is a social media publishing platform built to elevate truth. It offers a clean, curated feed, with no ads, noise or surveillance. It's in private beta.

• Internal communication and coordination

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 Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy.

Exploring the impact of new technologies on questions of social, racial, and economic justice

APC is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs)

The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology.

• Conferences
• Find a job or hire someone

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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

• The People
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Code for America Technology Awards recognize outstanding products and implementations of government technology.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• city

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Google Group

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A national, nonpartisan group of LGBT organizations, academics, and high technology companies whose mission is to engage with critical technology and public policy leaders for strategic discussions at all levels.

• LGBTQI

• Meet the others
• Fundraising tools
• Socialize online