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Library Hotspot Lending: Report to the Tocker Foundation
Based on our work with libraries in in other parts of the country (see: NYPL Hotspot Assessment and IMLS Rural Hotspots), we wanted to partner with Texas libraries in...
TIPI Team Travels to TPRC 47
TIPI awarded Richelle Crotty a travel fellowship to TRPC47 to present her poster: Fallow Fields or Unyielding Potential? An Examination of EBS Proposed Rulemaking...
AI Is Tricky: An Interview with Tim Hwang
When people hear the term artificial intelligence or AI, there may be a tendency to think of the latest “Terminator” movie or fall for the hype of menacing machines...
TIPI Teams with UT Austin’s IC² to Study Relationship Between Broadband and Economic Outcomes in Rural Areas
Several years ago, Sharon Strover met with many local economic development people throughout various Texas towns. They all said, “I want this town to be attractive...
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...