NYU T4SG

02/23/2021

Today @ 6:30 PM EST: Project Ideation + Decision Meeting
Zoom link for meeting sent out to mailing list and will be posted to the Discord server.
🔗 Join Discord: https://discord.gg/yv3NRyrq95

05/21/2020

We at NYU CS+Social Good are gearing up for the upcoming year and we need the next set of passionate and skilled candidates to help us help the organizations fighting for social changes. Here's your chance to interact with the most passionate and driven people who are striving to make a change.

Create a new survey on your own or with others at the same time. Choose from a variety of survey types and analyze results in Google Forms. Free from Google.

02/28/2020

Thank you all so much for joining us at our General Interest Meeting! E-board members learned so much about the direction you all want the club to go into, and we have so many exciting events and initiatives planned for the semester! Make sure to keep an eye out for what’s up next.

02/26/2020

On Jan. 14, 2019, Tyler Shultz (Stanford, ’13) and Erika Cheung (UC Berkeley, ’13) recounted their role as the whistleblowers who exposed the unethical practices that led to the high-profile fall of Theranos, the blood-testing startup once valued at $10 billion. Their talk was presented by the Stanford student group CS+Social Good and the McCoy Family Center for Ethics in Society.

On Jan. 14, 2019, Tyler Shultz (Stanford, ’13) and Erika Cheung (UC Berkeley, ’13) recounted their role as the whistleblowers who exposed the unethical pract...

02/19/2020

Some recommended reading from our e-board:
Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor
The Black Box Society: The Secret Algorithms That Control Money and Information
Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy

If you've read any of these books, let us know your thoughts in the comments!

02/15/2020

[Opportunities] The Summer School on Designing Technology for Social Impact explores how technologies express their designers' values, analyzes what values and voices are commonly embodied in technology, and looks at ways to design technologies to promote alternative perspectives and positive social impact. Read more and apply here:

Information technology is having enormous societal impacts, both positive and negative. Often, these impacts are consequences of decisions made early in the design process. At that stage of production, the voices imagining what technology could be and shaping how it emerges are limited. Ethnically u...

12/02/2019

Apple’s Housing Crisis Initiative is Social Good With Substance:

Apple's ownership of its role in remedying this crisis offers several lessons for brands hoping to create a social good program with some substance.

11/26/2019

[Opportunities] Join the CS+Social Good Projects Team and ELiTE Education, as a Junior Developer or Tech Lead, to build a robust application automating reports generation for students advisors at low-income communities with the potential of building a recommendation system for students tailored to their specific needs. Apply here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1QTCGWzI7xKq-l7xZjnDO9nvRXnvX7ldO6_NN3TF4xVk/viewform?edit_requested=true

11/03/2019

[Events in NYC] November 4th: Tech for Social Good Panel.

Get your tickets here:

Technology has opened opportunities for new ways of doing good - join Flatiron School to hear from leaders leveraging tech for social good.

10/31/2019

Tech can sustainably feed developing world cities of the future. Here’s how:

Written by Dr. Fred T. Davies, Regents Professor Emeritus, Texas A&M University, Banning Garrett, Senior Fellow, Global Federation of…

10/25/2019

Yale University is holding a global hackathon / collabathon on climate change / Paris Agreement and you can find out more here. Read more and apply

https://www.collabathon.openclimate.earth