by TIPI Staff | Jul 1, 2023
Summary There are very few current flood maps designed to actually help people understand their flood risk: they are designed as regulation and planning tools. In an effort to understand how flood maps can more accurately show and communicate the changing nature of...
by TIPI Staff | Apr 20, 2023
Summary A recent study in Risk Analysis by researchers at the Technology and Information Policy Institute (TIPI) found that a shared sense of duty around seeking flood information — if your family or community thinks it’s important to do, so will you — is the most...
by TIPI Staff | Mar 20, 2023
Surveillance and ethical governance: A contextual approach to privacy in the deployment of smart city technologies Wednesday, March 22nd 12:30-2pm Cities worldwide are increasingly turning to AI-based surveillance technologies to achieve various public benefits, but...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 31, 2022
We don’t know what we don’t know. I’ve been reminded of this phrase so many times this summer while doing fieldwork for the Digital Risk Infrastructure Program (DRIP) for Underserved Rural Texas Counties. I still remember the first National Science Grant I applied...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 30, 2022
Walking around La Grange, Texas and visiting communities in Fayette County, we were struck by the huge oak trees, including many of them in the middle of a paved road! Right on the edge of La Grange is the Colorado River, and that beautiful source of water is, in...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 30, 2022
Leaders from the cities of Premont and Orange Grove committed to addressing flooding issues who met with Sam and Keri. Driving down Highway 281 about and hour west of Corpus Christi, Sam Brodyand I made a right hand turn onto Main Street in Premont Texas. The entire...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 18, 2022
Digital technologies were supposed to help strengthen democracies around the world, not threaten them. In this talk, Professor Gina Neff of the Minderoo Centre for Technology and Democracy at the University of Cambridge looks back on the optimism about digital...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 14, 2022
With support from the Technology & Information Policy Institute, two UT Austin PhD students attended the Oxford Global Media Policy Summer Institute this past August. André Rodarte and Sheila Lalwani, both PhD students in the School of Journalism and Media, were...
by TIPI Staff | Oct 13, 2022
Please join us for a talk from Professor J. Trevor Hughes, Executive Director, International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) Time: 3:30-5 p.m. Date: October 13 Place: Moody College of Communication, DMC 3.206 As President and CEO of the International...
