Skills
Public Interest Partners applies the principles of Service Innovation and Responsible AI to the design of user-centered public interest technology. Public Interest Technology University Network produced the The ComPITence Project, which can be aligned with the T-Shaped skills assessment model to provide technologists, scientists and others in academia and across all industries and sectors with the ability to evaluate the possible outcomes of the creation and deployment of technological systems that focus on the digital equity, sustainability and other societal imperatives.
Public interest technology, journalism, communications and law focus on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by aiming to harness digital advancements to reduce inequalities, ensure privacy, promote transparency, and enhance public service delivery. They focus on creating, monitoring, and regulating "digital public goods" to ensure technology serves humanity rather than just corporate or governmental interests. This collective action can be improved by applying service innovation through user-centered design, open-source solutions and cross-sector collaboration to make services more accessible, equitable, and sustainable.
Storytelling is central to our process, which focuses initially on the emerging fields and diverse academic and professional disciplines of public interest technology, journalism, publishing communications and law. They can function collectively as a social sector ecosystem, formed to stimulate bipartisan public policy discourse, which can include local news readers, and dedicated to serving the public good.
The strategy can also empower the education and nonprofit sectors to co-create a public interest technology stack for the built environment, which aligns human capital management , placemaking and digital twin solutions. Additional applications can include: file storage, content sharing and data security for the architecture, engineering and construction continuum and for tax, accounting, auditing and other professional services.
