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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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.
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.
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.
A New Era for Siegel’s Tech Policy
At Siegel, we recognize that the development and deployment of technology is shaped by public policy.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Leadership Q&A: Claire Anderson from Ripple Effect on Water Literacy as a Tool for Addressing Climate Change
There are few places in the United States that are as frequently challenged by the immediate and increasingly urgent impacts of climate change as New Orleans, Louisiana.