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December 19, 2024/Reflections

The Time Has Come For Us to be Unreasonable: Our 2024 Year in Review

As we reflect on the past year, it’s clear that artificial intelligence has dominated discussions across various domains. What surprises us, however, is not the volume of conversation but rather its lack of nuance. Having navigated many cycles of technological development, we recognize the urgent need to move beyond the simplistic “gloom vs. doom” narrative. Instead, we must critically examine what these technologies can do, what they cannot, and—most importantly—what we truly need from them.

December 17, 2024/News

Siegel Family Endowment Awards Over $16.3 Million to Strengthen Workforce Innovation, Infrastructure, and Philanthropy

Our latest grants reaffirm our commitment to building a more inclusive technological future by supporting comprehensive research, shaping human-centered policies, and fostering community-driven innovation to ensure these advancements benefit everyone.

December 10, 2024/Research

From Oscilloscopes to AI Policy: Building a Foundation of Public AI Understanding with Eleanor Tursman

Eleanor Tursman, a Siegel Fellow from 2022 to 2024, serves as an Emerging Technologies Researcher at The Aspen Institute, focusing on the intersection of novel technologies, public education, and public policy. They recently sat down with Siegel Emerging Tech Advisor Eryk Salvaggio to discuss their journey and work on AI primers, literacy, and interdisciplinary approaches to ecosystem change

December 5, 2024/News

Announcing the Phase 2 Learning Landscape Winners

Siegel Family Endowment and the Walton Family Foundation are thrilled to announce five Phase 2 winners that will receive $200,000 each and advance to the Phase 3 incubator in the Learning Landscapes Challenge. These winners emerged from an exceptional cohort of 40 Phase 2 accelerator teams with transformative visions for K-12 educational infrastructure.

December 3, 2024/

Black-oriented EdTech and public interest technology: a framework for accessible and ethically designed technology for K-12 students

Read new Siegel In-House Research Fellow Symon Campbell’s latest publication in Journal of Integrated Global STEM analyzing three K-12 Black-oriented EdTech platforms developed by Black women—KaiXR, Reconstruction, and TunTimo—leverage public interest technology principles to address educational inequities and counter racial biases in mainstream EdTech.

November 21, 2024/Big Ideas

A Public Interest Agenda For The Technological Gilded Age

How can we build a resilient public interest technology movement that withstands shifts in administration and power? Siegel President & Executive Director Katy Knight lays out her vision for change in her latest article as a Forbes Nonprofit Council member.

November 21, 2024/From Our Grantees

Building a Human-Centric Data Economy: Mozilla’s Data Futures Lab

Data Futures Lab, a project of the Mozilla Foundation, served as an experimental space for developing new approaches to data stewardship. Its goal was to build tools and communities designed to offer such better ways—ways that give greater control and agency to people. In so doing, the project sought to advance policies, approaches, and tools that prioritize data co-creation, ownership, and stewardship in ways that benefit a diverse and inclusive public. Read more in our capstone case study.

November 12, 2024/Big Ideas

Event Recap: Doing Tech Together

During this year’s United Nations High-Level Week, we hosted Tech Together – a gathering of 200+ funders, mission-aligned investors, and thought leaders for a full-day event aimed at inspiring new ideas and catalyzing partnerships to shape the next evolution of a global public interest tech network. Watch featured panels and speakers, and read out takeaways.

October 14, 2024/Research

Q&A with Siegel Research Fellow at the University of North Carolina’s Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life Yvonne Eadon

Yvonne Eadon is an assistant professor in the School of Information Science at the University of Kentucky investigating feminized conspiracy theories and the gender dynamics within online communities that form around them, as well as how information institutions interface with and assist researchers with alternative or conspiratorial viewpoints.

October 9, 2024/Big Ideas

Civic Knowledge Infrastructure in the Digital Age

AI tools can be used to generate content, but only humans can generate context. In an age full of systems designed for scale and demanding the rapid processing of data, local institutions can help preserve meaningful context for their communities.

October 2, 2024/Big Ideas, Research

We Need Better Data on Workplace AI

Owen Davis is a labor economist and post-doctoral research fellow at Siegel Family Endowment, where he explores the workforce impacts of artificial intelligence and emerging technologies. Read his latest op-ed, featured in Tech Policy Press, about how we need to collect better data about not only how AI is affecting what work we do, but how it is done.