MIT Technology and Policy Program

Please join us for our second meeting and interactive discussion on cross-cutting issues linking science, technology, and practice.
Discussion #2: Technology and Societal challenges: What’s policy design got to do with it? organized by Dr. Poushali Maji (majip@mit.edu), Dr. Katlyn Turner (katlyn@media.mit.edu) and Jenny Blessing (jbless@mit.edu)
In our second interactive discussion, we will be exploring how the design of policies influences the interface between technology and societal challenges. We’ll draw examples from data privacy laws and nuclear policy in the US and agricultural policies in India, highlighting how policy structures and implementation processes impact the nature and distribution of technology adoption and can reinforce existing societal hierarchies. We will then move on to group discussions of further examples and think through elements of effective policy design and the role of evidence and information in policymaking.
MIT’s Technology and Policy Program and its Research to Policy Engagement Initiative aims to to create a community of researchers who can learn, apply, and contribute to developing best practices in bridging knowledge to action on societal challenges, across experiences in different research domains. The initiative seeks to connect researchers from diverse disciplines, policymakers and other stakeholders interested in the implementation aspects of technology by creating a discussion space for technology-policy interfaces.

At each TPP Research seminar, students give 12 minute presentations of their technical and policy work, each followed by a Q&A with their peers and MIT researchers.

Miles Lifson: Towards Space Traffic Management: conceptual system design, key stakeholder preferences, and a methodology for orbital slotting

Uyiosa Oriakhi: A Stochastic Life Cycle and Greenhouse Gas Abatement Cost Assessment of Renewable Drop-in Fuels

See the full list of Research Seminars for Fall 2019.

This informational webinar is intended for students who are considering applying to the Technology and Policy Program at MIT.
The webinar will take place at 10AM on Tuesday, December 3rd.
To register please fill out the this form.

This informational webinar is intended for students who are considering applying to the Technology and Policy Program at MIT.
The webinar will take place at 2pm on Friday, November 15th.
To register please fill out the this form.

At each TPP Research seminar, students give 12 minute presentations of their technical and policy work, each followed by a Q&A with their peers and MIT researchers.
Benny Ng: A machine learning approach to evaluating renewable energy technology: An alternative LACE study on Solar Photo-Voltaic (PV)
Pankhuri Sen: Design, development, and analysis of societal impacts of healthcare IoT
See the full list of Research Seminars for Fall 2019.

At each TPP Research seminar, students give 12 minute presentations of their technical and policy work, each followed by a Q&A with their peers and MIT researchers.

Jean-Baptiste Seby: Don’t miss the hole: get new insight of your data with algebraic topology

Pedro Maddens Toscano: Quality of Life Impacts of Airports on Surrounding Communities

See the full list of Research Seminars for Fall 2019.

MIT’s Technology and Policy Program and its Research to Policy Engagement Initiative aims to to create a community of researchers who can learn, apply, and contribute to developing best practices in bridging knowledge to action on societal challenges, across experiences in different research domains. The initiative seeks to connect researchers from diverse disciplines, policymakers and other stakeholders interested in the implementation aspects of technology by creating a discussion space for technology-policy interfaces.
Please join us for the kick-off meeting and the first in a series of interactive discussions on cross-cutting issues linking science, technology, and practice.
Discussion #1: Technology, Design and Policy for Equity, organized by Dr. Poushali Maji, majip@mit.edu, and Dr. Katlyn Turner (katlyn@media.mit.edu)
In this kick-off interactive discussion, we will be exploring how the design of technologies and their interaction with policy has implications for societal equity. We’ll draw examples from large scale technologies within the global energy sector, small-scale applications such as household cooking fuel in India, and computing applications such as and AI voice and facial recognition technology. Examples highlight how implementation of specific technologies relates to structural and economic disparity and entrenched societal structures such as gender or racial hierarchies. We will then move on to group discussions of further examples and seek out examples of technologies designed to address equity challenges.

At each TPP Research seminar, students give 12 minute presentations of their technical and policy work, each followed by a Q&A with their peers and MIT researchers.
Lydia Zhang: How does Open Innovation help organizations of different sizes and industries obtain the next big idea?
Karan Bhuwalka: What makes up your EV? Identifying materials that are hard to get
See the full list of Research Seminars for Fall 2019.

This informational webinar is intended for students who are considering applying to the Technology and Policy Program at MIT.

The webinar will take place at 12PM on Tuesday, October 29th at 4PM.

To register, please fill out form here.