New publication: The Little Book of Public Interest Technology

I just wrapped up writing a longer-form publication, maybe best described as a collection of short essays: Reflections on Public Interest Technology from someone with a governance / policy / power dynamics perspective. You can read and/or download it here: The Little Book of Public Interest Technology. It’s a short distillation of my work around public interest technology: As vaguely defined this space might be, I think it’s more than worth engaging with technologies that serve first and foremost the public interest, not shareholders. It’s not a definite publication, not a final word: These are my thoughts as a practitioner in the space who comes at things from a governance / policy / power dynamics perspective. This is, in other words, an unapologetically opinionated document. Some of the ideas here are more universal, some might be a little more controversial. Everything that is included here has been useful at some point or another in discussions around the role of public interest…