The Policy Innovation Lab (PIL) is an intensive, applied policy course at Heinz College that prepares students to become public interest technologists who are creative, ethical, inclusive, and responsive.

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• Public Interest Tech

Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance

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• Academic programs

Technologien für die Zukunft von Staat und Verwaltung

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• Hubs
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Conhecimento e prática para a transformação do Estado

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• Academia
• Digital transformation

The Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to reformulate participation and decision making in the creation of public policies, programs, and services, with the goal of fostering more just and equitable cities and societies.

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• Design
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Research and resources for city leaders to expand their problem-solving capacity, build effective city hall organizations, and improve outcomes for residents around the world

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• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Cybersecurity
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The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academic programs

At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, change is in our DNA.

• Media
• Journalism
• Academia

This 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University, located on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, in New York City.

• CTFG partners

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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.

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• Public Interest Tech

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact.

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• Data science for social good
• Academic programs

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.

• Media
• Academia
• Courses

Course at Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio

• Media
• Fight disinformation
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Where ideas and action intersect to create real social impact.

• Research and policy centers
• Academic programs

Become a Media and Technology Policy Expert

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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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• Academic programs
• Public Interest Tech

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

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PIT-UN (US) university membership list

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The MADD programme will provide candidates with the Master Key to create comprehensible and meaningful ways to connect people with information.

• The People
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MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

A living-learning community at the University of Maryland based on instilling civic engagement

• Academia
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

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.

• Newspeak House
• CTFG partners

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• Meet the others
• In-person meetings