Public Interest Technology Coding for the Public Good

Public Interest Technology: Coding for the Public Good By: Devorah Kletenik, Ph. D. This OER material was produced as a result of the PIT-UN network Challenge Grant – New America Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4. 0 License.

Public Interest Technology: Coding for the Public Good

Public Interest Technology

PIT University Network The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civicminded technologists. Through the development of curricula, research agendas, and experiential learning programs in the public interest technology space, these universities are trying innovative tactics to produce graduates with multiple fluencies at the intersection of technology and policy.

PIT: Coder

https: //blogs. sap. com/2014/12/12/hackathons-and-open-data-coding-for-the-public-good/

TED Talk: Julia Kloiber

Our goal this semester… Work on a group coding project for the public good (front end only) Use it as a way to practice good UI/UX Weave in other PIT ideas (such as accessibility -- more later)