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November 17, 2022/News

Katy Knight at CUF: Bolstering Computing Education in NYC’s Schools to Lay the Groundwork for a More Diverse Tech Sector

This forum, featuring Siegel’s President Katy Knight, explored how to ensure more young people are prepared with the foundational computational thinking and digital skills that make them stronger learners and problem solvers. Read the recap or watch the full event.

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November 17, 2022/Reflections, Research

AI as Multidimensional Infrastructure

When we look at AI through its components and relationships, we can identify discrete but overlapping physical, social, and digital infrastructures.

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November 16, 2022/Research

Taking it Down to the Studs: Information Infrastructures in Need of Deconstruction 

Even with a renewed focus on maintenance and repair, we are often overlooking another possibility for infrastructuring: deconstruction. 

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November 16, 2022/Research

Meet Our 2022-2023 Siegel Research Fellows

Siegel Family Endowment is thrilled to introduce the 2022-2023 cohort of researchers, academics, and public policy experts who make up the foundation’s Siegel Research Fellows Program.

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November 15, 2022/Research

A Lookback on the Pilot Cohort of our Siegel Research Fellows 2021-2022

The inaugural cohort of impressive researchers and academics produced publications presented and workshopped their research at monthly research seminars, and even published a book during their time as Siegel Research Fellows.

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November 15, 2022/Research

A New Era for Siegel’s Tech Policy

At Siegel, we recognize that the development and deployment of technology is shaped by public policy.

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October 27, 2022/From Our Grantees

Event Recap: Katy Knight on “Out of the Box: A Conversation About the Future of Schooling”

The virtual event “Out of the Box: A Conversation About the Future of School” featured an afternoon of panels with the most influential voices in education. In Funding the Future of Schooling, philanthropists discuss the role they see for themselves and others in supporting system modernization.

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October 6, 2022/From Our Grantees, Research

Case Study: Inclusive Innovation Cycle in Manufacturing in Buffalo, NY

Technological innovation is rapidly changing the manufacturing sector. While the benefits have the potential to be far-reaching, they are not equitably shared.

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October 6, 2022/From Our Grantees, Research

Research Brief: Aspen Digital on a People-Centered Approach to Digital Infrastructure

When it comes to digital infrastructure, communities lack more than just broadband access.

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September 27, 2022/Big Ideas

Schools as Community Infrastructure

This whitepaper offer a vision of schools as more than buildings. We want to think of schools (and all the extensions of schools, the many places where teaching and learning happen) as pieces of community infrastructure.

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September 19, 2022/Research

Emerging Perspectives on Web3

At Siegel, we examine new technologies through a multidimensional framework: one that encompasses social, physical, and digital aspects of our world as a series of related, interacting pieces.  

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