It was a busy start to the summer for eight UMass Amherst undergraduates who participated in Public Interest Technology New England's (PIT-NE) innovative Impact Technology Fellowship. The full-time, six-week fellowship combined experiential learning, public interest technology skill building, mentoring, and professional development to empower a new generation of public interest technologists
On July 16, 2024, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy convened leaders from across the technology ecosystem to celebrate nearly $100 Million in commitments to advance Public Interest Technology. The event included speakers and panels to highlight the importance advancing technology that protects our safety, security, democratic values, and human rights.
It takes a village to create an impactful initiative and this year is an exciting time of much needed growth for Public Interest Technology at UMass! Read more about our amazing new leadership team members.
Sponsored by the IALS Center for Personalized Health Monitoring’s Health Tech for the People (HT4P) research thrust, and grounded in principles of design justice, this monthly workshop series features voices from the community speaking to the role and impacts of health technologies and data systems. Following the listening session, attendees are invited to discuss what they’ve heard and share their own knowledge and skills, resources, and ideas for how we might work towards health justice and more ethical and accountable data landscapes and technologies. Students, staff, community members, and faculty from any & all disciplines are invited to join the conversation! A light lunch will be provided. SPEAKER: Nurse Midwife AMY WALKER of Mass General Brigham Cooley Dickinson Hospital’s New Beginnings Program. Moderated by nursing PhD candidate CORY ELLEN GATRALL WHEN: Thursday, November 16, 11:30…
Please join us for TechnoLegacy/AnalogWake: A Death Teach-In and Skillshare on December 8, 2023, at the Institute of Applied Life Sciences Conference Center or via Zoom from 1200-1600 ET for a transdiciplinary, multimedia learning space to explore a variety of perspectives from human-centered technologies and art to nursing and women, gender, and sexuality studies to think about something we all too often try not to think about: death and what comes next.This shared time will include community art-making, storytelling, and talks from a variety of speakers, including Tamara Kneese, who will discuss her recent book Death Glitch: How Technosolutionism Fails Us in this Life and the Beyond and end of life navigator, poet, and UMass alumna Dina Stander, who will speak to death care and community. Others will also join us. In addition to speakers,…
The Responsible Technology Coalition will host two events in November to discuss the white paper “Towards an AI Accountability Policy,” co-written by UMass Amherst faculty and students in response to the “AI Accountability Policy Request for Comments” by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration of the United States. The white paper offers a set of interconnected recommendations for an AI accountability policy.Part two of this conversation will feature UMass Amherst doctoral student Nicholas Perello as he discusses his contributions to the white paper. He’ll be focusing on the white paper’s discussion of fairness and explainability in AI policymaking. Pizza will be providedSPEAKER: NICHOLAS PERELLOWHEN: November 29, 6:00 p.m.View the white paper | Register