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At the Edges of the National Digital Platform: COMMUNITY ATTITUDES TOWARD RURAL LIBRARIES
STROVER, SHARON, PI; BRIAN WHITACRE, COLIN RHINESMOTH, CO-PI; ALEXIS SCHRUBBE AND GERMAN ALVAREZ, RESEARCHERS Supported by the Institute for Museum and Library...
Critical Infrastructure Studies: A Primer
2019-09-04, 4 - 6 p.m., Patton Hall (RLP), 1.302D 305 23RD ST E, Austin, Texas 78712 Abstract: What have been the main approaches to the study of infrastructure...
Brown Bag Lunch with Sam Woolley
2019-09-20, 12 p.m. - 1:30 p.m., Lady Bird Johnson Room, CMA 5.136 Join the Technology & Information Policy Institute as we host Samuel C. Woolley, Assistant...
Rural Hotspot Lending Program
Introduction TIPI, in partnership with researchers at the University of Oklahoma and Simmons University, is examining how rural libraries address the challenges of...
Scoping New Policy Frameworks for Local Broadband Networks
Sharon Strover, Martin J. Riedl and Selena Dickey submitted a paper to TPRC47: Research Conference on Communications, Information and Internet Policy. The paper is an...
TIPI Working With Good Systems Project Teams
Ethical Data Design for Good Systems Summary: We conceptualize data and its handling as the core elements in building good systems, recognizing that data and the...
Report: Digital Inclusion in Austin
A team of researchers under the supervision of professors Joseph Straubhaar and Sharon Strover conducted the Austin Digital Assessment Survey for the City of Austin to...
Sharon Strover Receives IC2 Grant
Sharon Strover received a grant from IC2 to characterize and quantify the relationship between adequate broadband services for rural entrepreneurship efforts, and to...
Good Systems, A UT Grand Challenge: Designing values-driven AI technologies
How can we ensure that AI is beneficial - not detrimental - to humanity? How can we develop technology that makes life better for all of us, not just some? What...
Research in the Field: Libraries and their Role During Crisis and Disaster
The IMLS Libraries and Disasters project, funded by the Institute for Museum and Library Services and in partnership with the Texas State Library and Archives...