Center for Technology, Society & Policy

10/17/2019

Join us this coming Tuesday, October 22, for a 5 year celebration hosted by Google's PAIR team!
**Advance registration is required and closes Sunday, so RSVP today.**

Featuring lightning talks on:

* Surveillance and policing technology in Oakland
* Speculative design and menstrual biosensing
* Incorporating front-line workers' knowledge in civic tech
* "Emotion recognition" software in the hiring process
* Racial and income-based bias in crowdsourced data

Plus posters highlighting CTSP projects about tech worker activism, mindfulness meditation apps, smartphone-based health studies, the Machine Learning & User Experience Meetup, and more! With a social hour for networking and building connections across the Bay Area public interest and critical technology community.

We're excited to announce Engage, Design, Examine: 5 Years of the Center for Technology, Society & Policy. The Center for Technology, Society & Policy ("CTSP") is a multidisciplinary research and design/build center at UC Berkeley that brings together students, policymakers, advocates and community....

03/11/2019

The Public Interest Technology University Network is a partnership between the Ford Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, New America, and 21 colleges and universities dedicated to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists. UC Berke...

02/06/2019

📣We are thrilled to announce our fellows for 2019!

Read about the *27* new fellows, their *10* projects, and our *first-ever* Special Project Fellow!

https://ctsp.berkeley.edu/people2019/

09/05/2018

Watch this new video on a CTSP fellows project!

Big Q: How is your city protecting civil liberties?

The Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP) is proud to share this 2017 CTSP supported project, “Increasing Transparency into the Capabilities of Surv...

05/03/2018

The results from CTSP's first Data for Good competition:

First Place — $5,000: Improving Access to Water in Developing Nations (from Alex Jamar, Chandler McCann, Pranay Suri, and Dan Watson)

Runner-Up — $2,000: Evaluating and Advising Public Policy Directives for the California Housing Crisis (from UC Berkeley's Statistics Undergraduate Student Association)

A big thank you again to everyone who participated and our judges!

04/27/2018

The Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day—with the final judging of CTSP's Data for Good competition—will be live streamed *here* on Monday, April 30th starting at 2:30pm! (with CITRIS and UC Berkeley Tech for Social Good)

Tech & Data for Good Showcase DayApril 30, 2018 from 2:30 - 5:30 pm (PT), Banatao Auditorium, Sutardja Dai Hall, UC BerkeleyTwitter: The Tech & Data for Good Showcase Day will highlight student-led projects that apply tech and data for social good. The event will showcase student projec...

12/08/2017

“As you wrap up your CTSP fellowship applications please do reach out to [email protected] with any questions! Applications are due by midnight on Monday, December 11th. 82 hours left! https://t.co/4IIvRawDty”

11/10/2017

CTSP and Facebook's Data for Good Competition!
The Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP) seeks proposals for a Data for Good Competition. The competition will be hosted and promoted by CTSP in coordination with the UC Berkeley School of Information IMSA, and made possible through funds provided by Facebook.

Team proposals will apply data science skills to address a social good problem with public open data. The objective of the Data for Good Competition is to incentivize students from across the UC Berkeley campus to apply their data science skills towards a compelling public policy or social justice issue.

The competition is intended to encourage the creation of data tools or analyses of open data. Open datasets may be local, state, national, or international so long as they are publicly accessible. The data tool or analysis may include, but is not limited to:

1) integration or combination of two or more disparate datasets, including integration with private datasets;
2) data conversions into more accessible formats;
3) visualization of data graphically, temporally, and/or spatially;
4) data validations or verifications with other open data sources;
5) platforms that help citizens access and/or manipulate data without coding experience; etc.

Issues that may be relevant and addressed via this competition include environmental issues, civic engagement (e.g., voting), government accountability, land use (e.g., housing challenges, agriculture), criminal justice, access to health care, etc. CTSP suggests that teams should consider using local or California state data since there may be additional opportunities for access and collaboration with agencies who produce and maintain these datasets.

You can find more information on the CTSP website. The application deadline is January 28th, 2018 and the final competition and presentation will be in early April.

November 9, 2017 In Uncategorized Data for Good Competition — Call for Proposals The Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP) seeks proposals for a Data for Good Competition. The competition will be hosted and promoted by CTSP in coordination with the UC Berkeley School of Information IMSA, an...

10/23/2017

Our Fellow application and request for proposals for the 2018 class of Fellows is now open! Applications will be due on Monday, December 11th. This year we will be offering a $2000 stipend to each Fellow on a team. We are also introducing four new areas of focus: Sensors & Society, Democracy + Technology, Vital Questions, and Fairness* and Opacity*. Through those four focus areas we maintain a core interest in engineering ethics, supporting future technologists, and digital citizenship. You can read more about these focus areas on our website. Successful Fellowship applications should have relevance to at least one of our four areas of focus.

Priority will be granted to teams that include at least one Berkeley affiliate (graduate or undergraduate student, or post-doc) from U.C. Berkeley. Teams without a Berkeley affiliate will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis. Questions? Please don't hesitate to contact us.

The Center for Technology, Society & Policy (CTSP) invites project proposals from small teams or individuals for our annual fellows application cycle. CTSP selects project proposals that fit within our areas of focus, and fund each team member as fellow for the 2018 calendar year. This year’s areas…