PIT-UN is looking for experts to serve on the Network Challenge Evaluation Committee (EC). The EC plays a critical role in reviewing and recommending Year 4 Challenge grant submissions. Please consider sharing this pivotal opportunity with your network.
The PIT University Network Challenge, which seeks to encourage new ideas, foster collaborations, and incentivize resource- and information-sharing among network members, has launched. Submit a proposaland take part in a series of application-focused sessions, such as What Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) Looks Like in PIT and Building a Better PIT-UN Network Challenge Application.
Meet Katherine Shek, Deputy Director of Communications, PIT-UN
New America's
PIT program welcomes a new Deputy Director of Communications, Katherine Shek. Learn about how she hopes to support and spotlight the Network.
Black Tech Policy Week, hosted by #BlackTechFutures Research Institute and located at Stillman College. A free and live virtual gathering that places Black lives at the epicenter of tech policy. (April 25-29)
WHAT TO READ
Op-Ed: Building Ethics in Public Interest Technology. Andreen Soley, director of PIT at New America, argues that PIT-UN-funded projects demonstrate the viability of a university-to-government or university-to-nonprofit pipeline for future public interest technologists.
WHAT TO WATCH
Transformative Justice and Knowledge Production in Tech. Techno-capitalism is renegotiating the social contract but knowledge about technologies is too often sequestered behind the locked doors of industry. Given these obstacles, how can researchers both inside and outside of tech companies do the difficult work of research, critique, and resistance?
