governance of technology and governance through technology
Class Thirteen: Optimism
Note: Virginia Eubanks, author of Automating Inequality, will be at UVA this Friday, December 6th. She has a public event from 3:30-5pm and a small group meet and greet with students from 9-10:15am. Grab tickets for the speech or let Charlotte know if you want to attend the small group!
Optimism, Hope, and Moving Forward (40 minutes)
UVA Classes
- PAVS 4500 Artifical Intelligence Changing Humanity Fall 2018
- PPOL 4720 Open Source for the Common Good Spring 2018
- CS 4501/ECON 4559 Markets, Mechanisms, Machines Spring 2019
- ECON 4559 AI and the Future of Work Spring 2019
- PHIL 2364 Philosophy in the Computational Age Spring 2018
- MDST 3751 Money, Media, and Tech Fall 2019
- STS/CS 1501 Digital Governance Lab Fall 2019
- PPOL 5540 Public Interest Data Lab Spring 2019
- STS 3020 Science & Technology Policy for Interns Spring 2019
- STS 4500 Case Studies in Tech & Society Spring 2019
- STS 2500 Sci, Eng, Tech for National Security & Leadership Fall 2019
- STS 2500 Data, Diversity, Ethics Fall 2019
- STS 1501 Racial Bias & Social Responsibility in Engineering Fall 2019
- MDST 3405 Media Policy & Law Fall 2019
- MDST 3410 Media Ethics Fall 2019
- MDST 3500 Comparative Histories of the Internet Fall 2019
- MDST 3751 Value, Values, Valuation Fall 2019
- MDST 4704 Political Economy of Communication Fall 2019
Other Work at UVA
- Deliberative Media Initiative
- Equity Center: Democratization of Data
- Center for Civic Innovation
- Human Machine Intelligence Research Group
- Community Policy, Analytics, & Strategy Lab
Charlottesville Organizations
Jobs
- data journalism - using data to tell stories and hold power accountable to people
- tech policy - making decisions on how to regulate emerging digital technologies
- technology for NGOs, non-profits, governments - using technology to help organizations operate at the maximum capacity
- tech for campaigns/movements - using technology to help campaign for change
- tech researcher - academic & think tank jobs studying the impacts of technology
- tech for ethical & sustainable businesses - helping businesses with a commitment to ethics use technology & data for accountability
Organizations In This Space
- Coding It Forward - summer internships in tech in the federal government
- Impact Labs - fellowships/summer internships in tech for good
- TechCongress - fellowships with members of Congress
- Algorithmic Justice League - fighting bias in algorithms
- Data for Democracy - global community of data scientists using data for good
- DataKind - local volunteers using data for good
- Data for Black Lives - MIT conference, meetups around racial justice
- Data & Society - research institute focused on social and cultural issues arising from AI
- Omidyar Tech & Society Solutions Lab - building tech for good
- Code for America - local volunteers using tech for good
- Internet Law and Policy Foundry - collaborative organization for disruptive innovation
- Aspen Tech Policy Hub - policy incubator for tech policy entrepreneurs
- Center for Democracy & Technology - center working on digital rights
- Mozilla Open Web Fellows - 10 month fellowship working on internet health
- Code for America Community Fellowship Program - funding to work in local government
- Electronic Frontier Foundation - leading org around online civil liberties
- Doteveryone - think tank on tech and society, building communities
- Democracy Works - election tech for civic engagement
- Civic Hall - NYC community space for civic innovators
- GovLab, research on government technology
- Progressive Coders Network - empowering grassroots and reducing big-money in politics
- Ragtag - progressive campaign tech
- Tactical Technology Collective - Berlin-based, tech, human rights, civil liberties
Job Resources