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Perspectives on Public Purpose

Aug. 18, 2020

For Emerging Technologies

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The Perspectives on Public Purpose Blog hosted by the Belfer Center’s Technology and Public Purpose Project (TAPP) offers a platform for TAPP Fellows to synthesize and reflect on matters related to their research projects and issues on tech and public purpose including privacy, safety and security, transparency and accountability, or inclusion. TAPP Fellows are government and industry practitioners who are appointed for a one-year term and are part of a cohort responsible for conducting research and producing a product at the end of the academic year.