Who Has an Interest in "Public Interest Technology"? Critical Questions for Working with Local Governments & Impacted Communities
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Who Has an Interest in "Public Interest Technology"? Critical Questions for Working with Local Governments & Impacted Communities. / Stapleton, Logan; Saxena, Devansh; Kawakami, Anna; Nguyen, Tonya; Ammitzbøll Flügge, Asbjørn; Eslami, Motahhare; Holten Møller, Naja; Lee, Min Kyung; Guha, Shion; Holstein, Kenneth; Zhu, Haiyi.
CSCW 2022 - Conference Companion Publication of the 2022 Computer Supported Cooperative Workand Social Computing. Association for Computing Machinery, 2022. p. 282-286.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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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 -
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