Join Professors Beth Noveck and Ari Waldman for a discussion about the role of philanthropy in building the field of responsible and public interest technology.
Professor Beth Noveck directs Northeastern University’s Burnes Family Center for Social Change and its partner project, The Governance Lab (The GovLab) and its MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance.
Panelists
Professor Ari Ezra Waldman is a leading authority on law, technology and society and the author of Industry Unbound: The Inside Story of Privacy, Data, and Corporate Power
Thomas Ramge is a writer and journalist and has been honored with multiple journalism and literary awards, including the Axiom Business Book Award’s Gold Medal, the Abstract International Book Award, strategy+business magazine’s Best Business Book of the Year (in Technology and Innovation), the Herbert Quandt Media Prize, and the German Business Book Prize.
Viktor Mayer-Schönberger is the Professor of Internet Governance and Regulation at Oxford. His research focuses on the role of information in a networked economy. He is the author with Thomas Ramge of the forthcoming book, Access Rules: Freeing Data from Big Tech for a Better Future.
The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology. It is the first convening of its kind in the US, bringing together the country’s most talented students and leading researchers with organizations and companies that are at the forefront of creating responsible and accountable tech that serves the public interest.
Through hands-on workshops, dialogues, keynotes, ideas presentations, a hackathon, and a virtual career fair, participants will share the latest developments in the PIT field, learn about careers in PIT, and connect with professionals working in this area across lots of different sectors and industries.
Oct 14, 2021
2:30 pm to 3:00 pm