Engagement

Advancing public values

PIT engagement and collaboration means advancing public values that serve the community by working in close collaboration with that community. Such PIT work ideally can develop activities that improve a community’s quality of life while simultaneously cultivating knowledge and scholarship. Institutions should take responsibility for the social, economic, and cultural health of the communities that they serve. Building extensive networks between the institution and the community will intensify engagement with PIT and will help institutional actors understand how to define public interest or public values in specific circumstances. Institutions can collaborate at multiple levels of organization, and engagements can be driven either by the various communities or by the institution itself.

Community-driven

Engagement and collaboration occur through needs driven by the community; the institution supports the community and its members in advancing activities and technologies of interest to them.

Institution-driven

Engagement and collaboration take place through the initiative of faculty, students, and other institutional actors who elicit the involvement of community actors in participatory-action or other similar types of research, and co-produce an agenda that leads to the development or expression of public values in technology.