TY - GEN

T1 - Who Has an Interest in "Public Interest Technology"?

T2 - 25th ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, CSCW 2022

AU - Stapleton, Logan

AU - Saxena, Devansh

AU - Kawakami, Anna

AU - Nguyen, Tonya

AU - Ammitzbøll Flügge, Asbjørn

AU - Eslami, Motahhare

AU - Holten Møller, Naja

AU - Lee, Min Kyung

AU - Guha, Shion

AU - Holstein, Kenneth

AU - Zhu, Haiyi

N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022 Owner/Author.

PY - 2022

Y1 - 2022

N2 - Local governments use a wide array of software, algorithms, and data systems across domains such as policing, probation, child protective services, courts, education, public employment services, homelessness services, etc. A growing body of work in CSCW and HCI has emerged to study, design, or demonstrate the boundaries of these technologies, oftentimes working with local governments. Local governments ostensibly aim to serve the public. So, some prior work has collaborated with local governments in the name of the public interest. However, others argue that local governments primarily police poor, minoritized communities, especially with increasingly limited funding for public services such as education or housing. These tensions raise critical questions: (How) should researchers collaborate with local governments? When should we oppose governments? How do we ethically engage with communities without being extractive? In this one-day workshop, we will bring together researchers from academia, the public sector, and community organizations to first take stock of work around public interest technologies. We will reflect on critical questions to orient the future of public interest technology and how we can work with, around, or against local governments while centering impacted communities.

AB - Local governments use a wide array of software, algorithms, and data systems across domains such as policing, probation, child protective services, courts, education, public employment services, homelessness services, etc. A growing body of work in CSCW and HCI has emerged to study, design, or demonstrate the boundaries of these technologies, oftentimes working with local governments. Local governments ostensibly aim to serve the public. So, some prior work has collaborated with local governments in the name of the public interest. However, others argue that local governments primarily police poor, minoritized communities, especially with increasingly limited funding for public services such as education or housing. These tensions raise critical questions: (How) should researchers collaborate with local governments? When should we oppose governments? How do we ethically engage with communities without being extractive? In this one-day workshop, we will bring together researchers from academia, the public sector, and community organizations to first take stock of work around public interest technologies. We will reflect on critical questions to orient the future of public interest technology and how we can work with, around, or against local governments while centering impacted communities.

KW - child welfare

KW - government algorithms

KW - impacted communities

KW - public interest technology

U2 - 10.1145/3500868.3560484

DO - 10.1145/3500868.3560484

M3 - Article in proceedings

AN - SCOPUS:85143801185

SP - 282

EP - 286

BT - CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 8 November 2022 through 22 November 2022

ER -