{"id":5,"date":"2023-02-13T12:09:57","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T17:09:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/pitun-convening-2023\/"},"modified":"2023-10-17T10:14:19","modified_gmt":"2023-10-17T14:14:19","slug":"pitun-convening-2023","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/","title":{"rendered":"PIT-UN Convening 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"max-width: 608px;\">\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 66.118421052632%;\">\n<div style=\"width: 1920px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('video');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-5-1\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" loop=\"1\" autoplay=\"1\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/10\/PIT-UN-All-Speakers-Social-Media-Video_3.5.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/10\/PIT-UN-All-Speakers-Social-Media-Video_3.5.mp4\">\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/10\/PIT-UN-All-Speakers-Social-Media-Video_3.5.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p><span><br style=\"clear: both;\" \/>Boston University (BU), in partnership with New America\u2019s PIT program,\u00a0proudly hosted the annual <\/span><span>Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN) Convening 2023 on\u00a0<\/span>October 12-13, 2023 <span>at the newly constructed <\/span><span>Center for Computing &amp; Data Sciences,\u00a0<\/span><span>665 Commonwealth Ave., Boston, MA 02215.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><strong><a class=\"button-primary\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/live-stream\/\">View the Convening Videos\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n<p><span>Organized around the theme of <\/span><b>Partnership for Impact<\/b><span>, the 2023 Convening explored how universities can partner with government, companies, universities and community organizations to foster public interest technology, and address modern challenges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to New America, our distinguished guests, panelists and moderators, Convening staff, and more, for spurring powerful conversations and ensuring the event&#8217;s overall success.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><i><span><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/10\/azer-bestavros.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"353\" class=\"wp-image-440 alignleft\" \/>\u201dIncreasingly, our society has to navigate challenging sociotechnical issues ranging from privacy and security to algorithmic fairness and bias in AI. These are issues that government, public, and private organizations must tackle collectively, and ones that universities are best positioned to address through collaborative, interdisciplinary research.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/i><i><span>Azer Bestavros,<\/span><\/i><i><span> Associate Provost for Computing &amp; Data Sciences at Boston University<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/04\/BOSTON_UNIV_Web.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"265\" height=\"119\" class=\"wp-image-55 aligncenter\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.pitcases.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/04\/PITcases-Black-636x212.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"113\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-56\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/04\/PITcases-Black-636x212.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/04\/PITcases-Black-768x256.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/04\/PITcases-Black-810x270.jpg 810w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/04\/PITcases-Black.jpg 1020w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 338px) 100vw, 338px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/06\/New-America-Dark-version-logo-636x156.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"355\" height=\"87\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-248 \" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/06\/New-America-Dark-version-logo-636x156.png 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/06\/New-America-Dark-version-logo-1024x251.png 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/06\/New-America-Dark-version-logo-768x188.png 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/06\/New-America-Dark-version-logo-1536x376.png 1536w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/files\/2023\/06\/New-America-Dark-version-logo-2048x502.png 2048w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 355px) 100vw, 355px\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boston University (BU), in partnership with New America\u2019s PIT program,\u00a0proudly hosted the annual Public Interest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18026,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"bu-landing","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18026"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":46,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":588,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/588"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pitun2023\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}