Our Team
Founding Leadership:
Ethical and humanistic technology
Law and human rights
Equitable and inclusive innovation
Literature, data analytics, and globalization of literary and political networks
Civil society involvement in policy making for genetically-modified crops in Kenya
Capacity building for computer science research in East Africa;
Equity implications of nanotechnology applications for water, energy and agri-food in South Africa;
The affects of political unrest on research and education in Kenya
The 2021-2022 National Science Foundation Grant Award:
"Ethical Technology and the Future of Work”
We are thrilled to announce that the Ethical Technology Initiative @ Cal Poly has been awarded a National Science Foundation grant to research the future of technology work.
Meet the Team
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Dr. Deb Donig
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Dr. Matthew Harsh
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Dr. Hunter Glanz
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Dr. Ava Wright
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Dr. David Askay
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Dr. Martine Lappé
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Dr. Bruce DeBruhl
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Paul Jurasin
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Yaël Eisenstat
In 2020, Drs. Donig and Harsh launched the Cal Poly Ethical Technology Initiative. Awarded the University’s Strategic Research Initiative for their vision of creating a curriculum and field of study at the intersection of ethics and technology, the initiative seeks to understand the scope and the character of Ethical Technology as an emerging profession, and to address the future of Ethical Technology work by creating a new vision for teaching the next generation of humanists and technologists to imagine ethically. .
The major questions that will dominate the tech industry in the upcoming decades will not be primarily technical. Rather, they will be ethical. Rather than asking whether we “can” create technological innovation, technologists will ask: “ought” we or “should” we build it?
Since its launch, the Ethical Technology Initiative has grown to include over 20 faculty across 3 schools and 12 academic disciplines. Our work includes undergraduate and graduate student research collaborations, symposia and colloquia, interdisciplinary faculty collaborations, industry and public interest technology partnerships, conference sponsorships, a pilot undergraduate “Technically Human” course on ethical technology, and the “Technically Human” podcast.
Meet Our
Student Research Assistants
2020-2021 “Technically Human” Research Assistants
About Us:
We are a group of interdisciplinary faculty at Cal Poly committed to building a better culture of technology through understanding the relationship between humanism and technology.
We strive to teach the next generation of technologists how to think about technology humanistically, and to teach the next generation of humanists to apply their knowledge to the production of ethical technology.