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This is a liveblog of a talk by Megan Smith, US CTO and MIT Corporation Member. The No Permission, No Apology conference will provide opportunities to develop the professional and personal skills that can help women navigate spaces not necessarily created with them in mind. This will also be a […]

Online harassment has been an enduring and evolving social concern for over 40 years, yet many of the most urgent empirical questions for public well-being and freedom remain unexplored. Nor can our answers currently evolve at the pace of socio-technical change. On August 17th and 18th, we worked with Jigsaw […]

We are excited to share that over the summer we teamed up with Humanitas360 and the University of São Paulo’s CoLab for Development and Participation (CoLab) to launch a second pilot phase of Promise Tracker in Brazil. Throughout the remainder of 2016 we’ll be working with a range of civil […]

Many ideas and norms once considered unthinkable, like test tube babies and gay marriage, have now become everyday norms. It’s impossible to imagine life without them. For society to evolve, however, we must always be challenging our norms as well as the rules and laws that reflect them. Our institutions […]

liveblog by Willow Brugh, Natalie Gyenes, and me Speaker: Liz George, MIT Alum Class of 2008 and MIT Hacker Liz starts by defining hacking as any good scientific endeavor begins. Hacking, (noun) A project without a constructive end An unusual and original solution to a problem An activity that tests the […]