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Learning and ImpactAlissa Cooper appointed inaugural executive director of Knight–Georgetown Institute
Esteemed Technologist and Advocate to Lead New Policy Hub for Growing Network of Scholars and Experts Who Study Information and Technology Washington – Georgetown University and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation announce the appointment of Alissa Cooper as the inaugural executive director of the Knight–Georgetown Institute (KGI), a new hub dedicated to […]
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#NICAR23: Knight Foundation x WIRED Lounge
#NICAR23: Knight Foundation x WIRED Lounge Nashville Renaissance Hotel | Wedgewood Room March 3-4, 2023 Are you in Nashville this week for the Investigators, Reporters and Editors annual data journalism conference #NICAR23? If the answer is yes, I hope you will join us at the Knight Foundation open lounge in the Renaissance Hotel’s Wedgewood Room. […]
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Fix the Internet, Not Big TechI’m as disappointed, frustrated and furious about the tech giants as you are. I didn’t sign up for an internet composed of “five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four” (to quote Tom Eastman), nor a world of ubiquitous private-public surveillance, “engagement maximization,” precarious gig work and disciplinary technology. Hell, […]
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INFORMED 2024
At INFORMED 2024, Knight Foundation brought together experts from policy, academia and civil society for a series of conversations on democracy in the digital age. At a moment marked by the rapid development and adoption of technologies that are transforming how we connect with information, ideas and each other, INFORMED draws on the wealth of […]
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Learning and ImpactA New Effort Aims to Ensure that the Future of Information Serves the Common GoodEmpowering Decision-Making through Research: Knight Foundation and Georgetown University Commit $30 Million Washington, D.C. – The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation and Georgetown University announced today the launch of a new institute to serve as a central hub for the growing network of scholarship that seeks to shape how technology is used to […]
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Learning and ImpactFacebook must not block research into disinformationAn Open Letter from the NetGain Partnership On the evening of Tuesday, August 3, 2021, Facebook abruptly shut down the accounts of a group of New York University researchers from Cybersecurity for Democracy, a project whose Ad Observer browser extension has done pathbreaking work tracking political ads and the spread of misinformation on the social media company’s platform. In […]
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Ron Wyden
Knowing what you know now about the internet and how your venture turned out, what do you wish you had done differently from the beginning? In 1996, Republican Congressman Chris Cox and I wrote a law now known as Section 230. At its core, Section 230 is simple: it states that the person who creates […]
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Lessons from the First Internet Ages Symposium Reflections
Like all technologies, the Internet bears the imprint of the society that produced it. It was born of America’s Cold War, its one-million-dollar price tag a rounding error in the enormous technological investment the U.S. government made in the name of fighting Soviet socialism. It evolved into an open, distributed network at a time of […]
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CommunitiesTechCongress to place more technologists in Congress with a $2.5M investment from Knight FoundationMay 25, 2022 — TechCongress, a nonpartisan initiative that places early and mid-career technologists as advisers to members of Congress, will expand tech expertise on Capitol Hill thanks to a $2.5 million investment from the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. How it works Through its Congressional Innovation Fellowship, TechCongress pairs early and mid-career […]
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Communities and National InitiativesNew report outlines roadmap for cities to deploy autonomous delivery technologyPilot projects showed autonomous delivery can be safely and successfully deployed in controlled environments, but much more than smart tech is needed for broader adoption in U.S. cities MIAMI, FLORIDA – Pilot projects supported by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation testing the use of autonomous delivery robots in four U.S. cities found […]
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