New America Foundation

Technology policy programsopen technology institute: the open technology institute strengthens communities through grounded research, technological innovation, and policy reform. New america creates reform to support open-source innovations and foster open technologies and communications networks. Partnering with communities, researchers, industry and public interest groups, new america promotes affordable, universal, and ubiquitous communications networks. In 2024 the program contained one initiative:the wireless futures project develops and advocates policy proposals to promote universal, affordable, and ubiquitous broadband and improve the public's access to critical wireless communication technologies. Public interest technology program: the public interest technology program connects technologists to public interest organizations to improve services to vulnerable communities and strengthen local organizations that serve them. In 2024 the program focused primarily on one initiative:pit university network (pit-un) mission is to help advance the field of public interest technology to bring positive impact to communities around the globe. We focus on the university ecosystem since this is where talent, skills, and ideas are born. Through our network, challenge, and content, we empower pit students, faculty, and practitioners to achieve their goals. Pit-un concluded operations at new america as of december 31, 2024.future tense: future tense is a partnership between new america and arizona state university to explore emerging technologies and their transformative effects on society and public policy. Central to the partnership is a series of events that take in-depth, provocative looks at issues that, while little understood today, will dramatically reshape the policy debates of the coming decade.digital impact and governance initiative: the digital impact and governance initiative (digi) develops technology platforms that transform the way institutions deliver value for citizens. The program works with partners in government and the private sector to create modular, interoperable technology solutions built on open source code that address key challenges facing the public sector. These platforms provide 80 percent solutions, with governments able to customize the last 20 percent of each platform to meet their specific needs.#sharethemicincyber: the #sharethemicincyber fellowship, hosted in partnership between #sharethemicincyber and new america, is focused on providing a platform for under-represented mid-career cybersecurity professionals or those transitioning into the cyber field, and presenting opportunities for professional development to further their careers in the field.

Global policy programsfuture security initiative: future security initiative is a collaboration between new america and arizona state university that reconceptualizes u.s. Security policy as a holistic engagement with current and future challenges including domestic terrorism, armed drones, climate change, pandemics, rising authoritarianism, and new and emerging technologies. Fsi generates transformative ideas and solutions grounded in concrete, transdisciplinary efforts to improve human flourishing and well-being. Focus areas include tracking drone strikes, tracking terrorism in america post 9/11, and examining the future of proxy warfare.future frontlines: future frontlines uses open source investigative tools, data mining techniques, and journalistic methods to explore how the digital revolution is reshaping global conflict, competition and influence. From satellite imagery to flight and shipping data to social media platforms, the program connects the dots to ferret out facts that might otherwise be hidden or even purposely obscured for strategic reasons. Using data that is publicly accessible, the program's aim is to discern connections, patterns and trends that explain how competition for attention and influence in cyberspace plays out online and in the real world.planetary politics: the planetary politics initiative is a call to action for reimagining a more inclusive, equitable, and sustainable global order. It produces research, journalism, and policy briefs rooted in three values: power flows from adaptation; global governance must be inclusive; people and the planet are the priority. Projects include digital futures (mapping digital harms and developing principles digital governance globally), power reimagined (climate strategy), and a fellowship program elevating new voices in the security field.

Other programs

Fellows programs: the new america national fellows program invests in thinkers-journalists, scholars, filmmakers, and public policy analysts-who generate big, bold ideas that have an impact and spark new conversations about the most pressing issues of our day.