Community Advocacy Fellowship

Tech Goes Home, one of the principle partners in WTT?, led its longest-running component: the Community Advocacy Fellowship.

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This program ensured that a group of dedicated 
community members would be equipped to champion digital inclusion on the front lines​. Achieving this took place in two ways.

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The first was through a rigorous curriculum and diverse engagement opportunities, allowing fellows to gain expertise in communication, media relations, policy analysis, and strategic advocacy development.

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Through these experiences, fellows teamed up with BARI's high school summer interns to analyze preexisting legislation on emergent tech (including AI).

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This resulted in a "mock legislative hearing" which brought community hopes, concerns, and visions for AI regulation in Boston to members of Boston's City Council. A selection of these presentations is available below.

All of the What The Tech? teaching materials are free for you to download and use!