Projects - Academia

The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University

Clemson, SC

Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.

Task Force: Digital Organizing at HIIG

Berlin

The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.

Big Local News

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab

Fort Collins, CO

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

Coalition for Independent Technology Research

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

Hub for Civic Tech Impact

Boston

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

Justice Media co-Lab

Boston

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

Design Ethnography Lab

Bandung

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

Beirut Urban Lab

Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut Lebanon

Refugees as City-Makers

Center for Democracy and Citizenship

ADC Business Center, 1929 5th Street South, Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55454

The 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 University

The 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.

Tutech Innovation

Germany (Deutschland) 🇩🇪

Tutech connects research, business and society

Academia

Coalition for Independent Tech Research

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.

Social Science Research Council (SSRC)

Brooklyn

100 years of social and behavioral science in the public interest

Conectados al Sur

Bienvenidxs!

youth

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

Brown University

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

Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin

Austin, TX

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

Olin College of Engineering

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

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PIT-UN Network Challenge

United States of America 🇺🇸

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.

Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure

Amherst, MA

We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.

Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech

Cornell Tech

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

CTFG partners

Ad Observatory

Explore Facebook and Instagram Political Ads

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

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

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)

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

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.

A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance: Environmental Communication

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

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

CUNY Mapping Service

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

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Journal of Community Informatics

Canada 🇨🇦

An academic and practitioner-focused journal on all aspects of technology and communities.

Public Interest AI at HIIG

Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, Germany

Alexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft

Stanford Impact Labs

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

Stanford Start-Up Impact Labs

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

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

PiTech Runway Postdoc

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

12-24 month startup accelerator at Cornell Tech

Harvard's Public Interest Tech Lab

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

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

The Open Institute

Lalitpur, Nepal

a research and teaching cooperative

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

Members of New America's Public Interest Tech University Network

United States of America 🇺🇸

PIT-UN (US) university membership list

PIT @ The City University of New York

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

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

Center on Privacy and Technology

The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC

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

Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS)

Rio de Janeiro

The Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS) is a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change.

Academia

Newspeak House

133 Bethnal Green Road London

Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

55-56 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4HP, UK

Changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.

Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)

360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts

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.