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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Infrastructure
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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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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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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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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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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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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NYN Media: Nonprofits receive $50,000 awards to promote digital equity
Siegel Family Endowment awarded grants to five organizations after New York City’s Internet Master Plan was paused in June.
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Local news is critical infrastructure. It’s time we treat it that way.
What role does journalism serve in a community? How does it interact with other municipal institutions to help deliver a vibrant, multiracial democracy? Aspen and Siegel convened journalists, media leaders, academics, local, state, and federal gov officials, civic leaders, and others to discuss.
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Event Recap: Conversation on Digital Technology and Democratic Theory
As we develop new frameworks for understanding the ways that digital and social infrastructure overlap and rely on one another, it’s important to make sure we understand how new and emerging technologies impact all areas of everyday life.
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The Maintainers and the Importance of Maximizing Existing Resources
In a world that’s shaped by widespread, technology-driven change, many conversations tend to be dominated by whatever is most groundbreaking. But what can we do to ensure those innovations are built to be resilient and long-lasting?
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Our 2020 Year in Review
While the upheaval of the last year has been persistent and far reaching, our years of experience navigating uncertainty have served us well, and set us up to engage with new challenges while continuing to address the long term societal changes that define our work.
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