Tech Policy Research & Education Hub

Tech Policy Website

The University of Maryland’s Tech Policy Hub studies tech policy from a socio-technical perspective, building the bridge between computer science & public policy to understand how policy is designed and implemented for, by, and with tech. Our hub spans across the forefront of tech policy issues, including cybersecurity, consumer privacy, misinformation, and trustworthy machine learning (ML). We bring together issue networks of practitioners, academics, industry leaders, and civil activists to inform, impact, and shape the future of technology in society, applying a mix of comparative, qualitative, and computational research methods to advance our understanding and craft future paths for tech policy development.

Our questions of interest include:

1 – How do we deal with the social problems of computing through top-down and bottom-up policymaking & implementation?

2 – What can we learn from the history of policymaking across technology issues?

3 – What can we learn about tech policy from a comparative perspective? Across sectors? Across jurisdictions?

4 – How and by whom tech policy issues enter the political agenda?

5 – How does the efficacy of tech policies can be assessed and evaluated?

6 – What are the politics of tech policy design?

7 – How can we use crowdsourcing to improve tech policies?

8 – How can we teach tech policy through an experiential learning perspective?