Building the Responsible Workforce of Tomorrow through PIT
summary
A new regional consortium runs a six-week, full-time summer fellowship that places undergraduates on six community projects and delivers maintainable, open-source products — for example a customizable Boston District 4 civic app with events, announcements, resources and mailing list that the team builds using React, Postgres and Firebase plus a Strapi-style API so nontechnical partners update content. Projects prioritize community-centered design, accessibility, no PII storage, stable libraries, clear documentation and easy cloning for handoff.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Public Interest Technology intro
- 3:30PIT values defined
- 8:21Open source for PIT
- 9:04Impact Tech Fellowship case
- 16:44Open source audience focus
- 27:35Diverse perspectives in open source
- 29:22Becoming a PIT technologist
- 32:08PIT resources
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