What's New in Public Interest Technology?

• PITCases.org, a PIT case study platform.
• Case Studies in Social and Ethical Responsibilities of Computing (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
• PIT Open Educational Resources (City University of New York)
• Instructional case studies (The Tech Policy Lab at University of Washington)
• Human Contexts and Ethics Toolkit (University of California, Berkeley)
• Ethics, Society, and Technology Hub (Stanford University)
• Policy Innovation Lab Playbook (Carnegie Mellon University)
• AI Litigation Database (The George Washington University)
• Technology Ethics in Action: Critical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives. A Special Issue of the Journal of Social Computing.
• Ensuring Scholarly Access to Government Archives and Records: A Collaboration of Virginia Tech and the National Archives and Records Administration. (Virginia Tech)
• The Consortium of Cybersecurity Clinics – Clinic Resources. (UC Berkeley, MIT, Indiana University, University of Alabama, UGA, Rochester Institute of Technology)
• Stanford Cardinal Careers PIT Edition, April 2022. (Stanford University)

• Penn State University launched in Fall 2022 an interdisciplinary 1 year Master of Engineering, Law, and Policy degree (MELP) for professionals with a STEM background. The MELP degree is designed to integrate three main topic areas within an interdisciplinary core: a technical depth in systems thinking and systems design, a fundamental understanding of legal and regulatory frameworks, and the skills to navigate science and technology policy. MELP’s interdisciplinary core fosters academic, research, and outreach engagement of MELP students with law and policy students through experiential learning opportunities in public interest technology.
• An interdisciplinary undergraduate major in data science and social systems at Stanford University, beginning in September 2022, will equip the next generation of leaders to work at the intersection of statistics, computation, and the social sciences on important social problems such as poverty and inequality, polarization, criminal justice, and urban development.

Fellowships

• [Apply by November 30] U.S. Digital Corps. The U.S. Digital
  Corps is a two-year government fellowship program for early-career technologists to launch impactful careers in public service and create a more effective, equitable government. Digital Corps Fellows are mission- driven software engineers, product managers, data scientists, designers, and cybersecurity specialists and work on high-impact projects across the federal government. The fellowship offers competitive pay ($82,000+ in Washington, DC) and benefits, as well as opportunities for growth and a path to a long-term, career position.
• [Apply by December 1 for first review] Preceptor in Data Science. The University of Chicago’s Data Science Institute, in partnership with the City Colleges of Chicago (CCC), invites applications for the position of University of Chicago (UChicago) Data Science Preceptorship. The UChicago and CCC Preceptorship program will develop the next generation of teaching positions for data science, engineering, and computer science education. This unique program emphasizes STEM pedagogical best practices and allows the Preceptors to broaden their classroom skills and enhance their teaching and scholarship portfolios with the support of UChicago and CCC faculty mentorship.
• [Apply by December 2] Digital Infrastructure Incubator. Code for Science & Society (CS&S) solicits expressions of interest from open source digital infrastructure teams to participate in the second cohort of the Digital Infrastructure Incubator (DII). DII cohorts convene open workers involved in developing strategy, designing growth, and/or building community at an open infrastructure project. Applicants to the 2022-2023 cohort should be interested in questions related to community stewardship, co-ownership, co-design, or other paradigms that foreground sharing and transferring power.
• [Apply by December 9] The Constellation Prize. The Constellation Prize seeks to reimagine what engineering is for by celebrating engineers and their collaborators whose work embodies the ideals of environmental protection, social justice, human rights, and peace. Nominations for the second cohort of winners will be accepted through December 9, 2022, and the winners will be announced in early 2023. Submissions are limited to US-based engineers, their collaborators, and collaborative efforts that unfold within the US.

Unspecified Rolling Internships: 

• Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Outreach Intern, Congressional Tech Project (DC, remote)
• JPL Internships, NASA (Pasadena, CA, remote)
• Student Internships, The Institute for Future Intelligence, (remote)
• Internships, GlenWorld (remote)
• Science Communications Internships, NASA (remote, various locations)

Additional Opportunities:

• Georgetown Law’s Institute for Technology Law and Policy is looking for a new Executive Director. We are hoping to find someone who has spent time in civil society looking out for the rights and interests of individuals, particularly marginalized/subordinated people. There is a heavy dose of management and fundraising in this job, but there is also a lot of space for the ED to advance their own policy agenda. The ED is able to interact with our enormous tech law faculty, along with students and alums. We have also built some pretty deep ties to the rest of Georgetown, so the door is open to build cool new projects with computer scientists, philosophers, i-school faculty, public policy experts, etc.
• The Runway Startup Postdoc Program is part business school, part research institution, and part startup incubator. It has supported close to 30 PhDs launch their startups. Startup Postdocs arrive with ideas for unproven products and markets that require time and specialized guidance to develop. These startups demand more than a few months to launch – they need a bit of a “runway.” Cornell Tech provides a package valued at $175,000 in year one and $102,000 in year two, that includes a salary, research budget, housing allowance, office space, and academic and business mentorship.
• This year, we are looking for an inaugural Public Interest Technology (PiTech) Runway Startup Postdoc who will put social impact at the forefront of their venture’s mission. A PiTech startup is audacious about finding solutions to the world’s most pressing problems, has a mission of addressing public needs or systemic injustices, and may not lend itself to a traditional, commercial business model. All you need is an idea to submit an application. While the application is closed for traditional ventures, please reach out to pitech-info@tech.cornell.edu with a short paragraph expressing your interest and share your CV. There is no application fee required since this is a postdoctoral appointment at Cornell University. We are currently considering applications for both the fall 2022 and fall 2023 start. Visit our website to learn more.
• A member of the PIT-UN family from Georgetown University is researching different approaches to teaching digital technology in schools of public policy and law. She wants to ensure that experiences, approaches, and perspectives from the PIT-UN network are represented. If you’d like to provide input, fill this out.