Academia
Academic programs, relevant research centers, journals, and peer-reviewed articles.
Al Sur
"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 regi...
Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.
Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech
Public Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs
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
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)
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
A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology
Journal of Community Informatics
An academic and practitioner-focused journal on all aspects of technology and communities.
Public Interest AI at HIIG
Alexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft
Stanford Impact Labs
Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems
Stanford Start-Up Impact Labs
Each will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support
PiTech Runway Postdoc
12-24 month startup accelerator at Cornell Tech
Harvard's Public Interest Tech Lab
We help shape the future of technology and society to advance equity, expand opportunity and protect basic rights and liberties.
The Open Institute
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...
Members of New America's Public Interest Tech University Network
PIT-UN (US) university membership list
PIT @ The City University of New York
Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good
Center on Privacy and Technology
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)
The Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS) is a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change.
Newspeak House
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
Changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.
Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)
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 opportunitie...
Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy
The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.
Colaboratorio de Desenvolvimento e Participaçāo (Co:Lab)
O COLAB é um centro de pesquisa que atua também no desenvolvimento de software e na formação de pessoas.
Civic Engagement for Social Good (CESG)
A living-learning community at the University of Maryland based on instilling civic engagement
Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)
Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation
Public Interest Technology University Network
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 technolo...