Hi All,

Does anyone know whether there's a collection of all syllabi and readings on technology and social good (or public good or social change)? If such a collection doesn't exist, could you help me create one? 

The readings can be from any discipline, seminal or not, and academic or not. I'd like to get cross-cultural readings, so we have representation of diverse perspectives from around the world.

For the Stanford Program for Liberation Technology, I once made a list of all the topics on social good that I found on Twitter that intersected with technology. These included the following:
  • Accountability, Corruption, Openness, and Transparency (e.g., Open Data, Freedom of Information - FOI)
  • Activism, Protests, and Movements (e.g., Occupy, Anonymous, Hacktivism)
  • Agriculture, Farming, and Food Security (e.g., eAgri, Fishing, Mariculture, Aquaponics, Aquaculture)
  • Censorship, Repression, and Freedom (e.g., Freedom of Expression - FoE, Free Speech, NetFreedom, Right to Information - RTI)
  • Construction, Housing, and Real Estate (e.g., Smart Homes, Internet of Things)
  • Democracy, Politics, Elections, and Voting (e.g., Netroots, Tea Party, eVoting)
  • Development (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for Development - ICT4D, Tech for Development - Tech4Dev, Global Development - GlobalDev)
  • Economics (e.g., Participatory Economy, Peer-to-Peer Economy, Commons)
  • Education (e.g., Information and Communication Technologies for Education - ICT4E, Open Education, eLearning, MOOCs)
  • Energy and Power (e.g., Microgrids)
  • Entrepreneurship (e.g., Social Entrepreneurship - socent, Social Innovation)
  • Environment (e.g., Brownfields, Landfills, Superfund Sites, Climate Change, and Land, Water, and Air Preservation)
  • Finance (e.g., Microfinance, FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies)
  • Governance (e.g., eGovernance - eGov, Open Governance - OpenGov, Governance 2.0 - gov20)
  • Health (e.g., eHealth, mHealth, Telemedicine)
  • Human rights
  • Manufacturing (e.g., Additive Technologies, 3D Printing, Do-It-Yourself - DIY, Robotics)
  • Media (e.g., Journalism, Social Media)
  • Organizing and Organizations (e.g., Nonprofits, Community-Based Organizations, Cooperatives, Labor Unions)
  • Physical Spaces and Locations (e.g., Libraries, Coworking Spaces, Makerspaces, Hackerspaces, Fab Labs, Tool Sharing Libraries, Smart Cities, Mapping)
  • Policy and Law (e.g., Policy Innovations, Legal Innovations)
  • Privacy (e.g., Rules, Regulations, Laws, Frameworks)
  • Resilience During Conflicts, Natural Disasters, and Other Crises (e.g., Crisis Mapping; Robotics)
  • Security, Physical or Cyber
  • Social Science (e.g., Impact of Technology on Society)
  • Transportation and Supply Chain on Land, Water, and Air (e.g., Hyperloop, Autonomous Vehicles, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, Drones, Smart Roads)
  • Volunteering (e.g., Crowdsourcing, Participatory Mapping)
  • Water Security (e.g., Watersheds, Water Purification)
The list above isn't meant to be exhaustive, so please feel free to suggest other forms of grouping topics or let me know if I missed an important topic or hashtag.

I truly appreciate your help and advice, and I look forward to hearing from you soon.

Thanks,
Yosem


On Thu, Oct 25, 2018 at 6:15 PM Sarah Roberts <roberts@gseis.ucla.edu> wrote:
While we are celebrating all these incredible contributions and prizes for work done by SIGCIS members, I thought I’d give a shout out to our own Mar Hicks, whose Programmed Inequality is the winner of this year’s SHOT Sally Hacker Prize. What an incredible statement as to the importance of the history of computer to a larger constituency. Congrats to Mar and to all winners! I’m in awe.

Warmly,
Sarah

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