
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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

Siegel Family Endowment awarded grants to five organizations after New York City’s Internet Master Plan was paused in June.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Jennifer Bradley of the Aspen Institute has compiled a series of key guidelines and priorities for implementing our vision for multidimensional infrastructure in real world contexts. Read the first key insight below, and to see the second two, read the full post on Aspen's website.