Public Interest Technology

Democracy, Politics, and Institutions 640: Technology and the Public Interest - From Democracy to Technocracy and Back

For my final in this course, I wrote a detailed research proposal that analyzes a technology-society clash and sets out research studies that, if carried out, could help resolve the clash. 

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The course introduced a logic to reason about technology-society conflicts and a model to predict outcomes from conflicts, disruptions and exposed issues. We used a set of historical case studies interleaved with contemporary and timely variations on surveillance and privacy, identity and governance, algorithmic bias, and technology’s erosion of democratic values and historical protections.