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posted by Fnord666 on Sunday October 13 2019, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the last-throes-of-public-culture dept.

https://public-interest-tech.com/

Mr. Schneier and friends have created a new website to promote a change to the socio-economic technical milieu we are currently facing.

He suggests we need to have "public interest technologists" to help the situation.

He writes:

"We need technologists who work in the public interest. We need public-interest technologists.

Defining this term is difficult. One Ford Foundation blog post described public-interest technologists as "technology practitioners who focus on social justice, the common good, and/or the public interest.""

Is he right? How can this be implemented without becoming as riddled with government agents, spies and mafias as the key positions of our corporations and institutions are right now?

Full disclosure: this writer has been a public interest technologist for a while now and I have actually alluded to the need for something like what is being suggested on multiple occasions, 'a different kind of organization' is the way I put it, way back a few months ago.

Discuss.


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @02:41AM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 14 2019, @02:41AM (#906816)

    What is social justice?

    Social justice means taking TMB's money and redistributing them to the poor for a greater common good.
    Even Plato agreed this is a Good Thing™

  • (Score: 4, Funny) by The Mighty Buzzard on Monday October 14 2019, @03:46PM

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Monday October 14 2019, @03:46PM (#906977) Homepage Journal

    S'true. He had to visit Delphi to do so but he named me specifically. He was a dick. S'why I prefer Socrates. That and his appearance in Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.