With your help, we have met our 2020 funding goal and will now be able to make major progress toward our most critical goals.
The IEET community is a diverse group of researchers and practitioners working in key sectors, all towards the common goal of building positive futures. This is why the IEET encourages and nourishes the growth of transdisciplinary spaces and the contamination of different domains.
The IEET is entirely funded by people like you and we are a small organization so every dollar you give goes a long way for us. We gratefully receive your support via Paypal, check, wire transfer, or cryptocurrency here.
Let’s first review the impact your donation has:
YOUR IMPACT
Here is a brief overview of our progress in 2020. Aside from our aim to always be transparent in our progress, we share this with the hope that you join us in expanding our work in a critical 2021. The IEET’s continued goal is the advancement of technoprogressive values through foundational research as well as working across sectors to build bridges to make theory a reality. Do you want to help IEET break new ground towards these goals? The choice is yours!
ACCELERATE OUR CURRENT EFFORTS
Research Fellowships
Over the course of the next decade, the IEET aims at promoting and exploring technoprogressivism through academic research. In order to break new ground and to do this successfully, new postdoctoral fellowship programs have been designed to set up new doctoral graduates to promote the exploration of technoprogressivism and its intersectional domains at a high academic level. Thanks to donations received in 2020, we have successfully funded the first of our three proposed fellowships.
The IEET has partnered with the Applied Ethics Center (AEC) at the University of Massachusetts Boston to offer a full-time Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship (24 months) on the Future of Work (2021-2023). Some forecasters believe automation and other emerging technologies will cause a rapid loss of traditional employment in the coming decades. Other forecasters argue that there will not be a net loss of jobs, but foresee instead a rapid innovation of new jobs, and transformation of existing jobs. Policies to address the rapidly changing labor market include reforming higher education and job re-training, shortening the workweek, a federal jobs guarantee, and a universal basic income. Whether work is threatened or not, some see a post-work future as a desirable goal of public policy, while others believe work is essential to meaning and social engagement. How can higher education focus more on non-automatable skills like creativity and social-emotional intelligence? What are the impacts of employment versus guaranteed income? Many of us find the primary locus of meaning in our work. Would living in a world with less, or transformed, work be less meaningful? Or do we generate a newer version of Athens, this time without slave labor, a society in which work is not the main context in which we meet and value each other? The Future of Work Fellow will help the AEC and the IEET research the academic and policy work being done on these questions.
Breaking New Ground
Postdoctoral Fellowships
As part of the IEET’s continued aim at fostering research towards technoprogressivism, we want to design at least two other postdoctoral fellowships in continued partnership with the help of the AEC at the University of Massachusetts Boston. Your donations and support will help to fully fund these important intersectional research areas within the domain of technoprogressivism.
Open Access Research
Central to IEET’s goal in the promotion of technoprogressive research is in the publication of peer-reviewed papers in high impact journals. However, in order to promote transparency as well as stimulate the dissemination of this important knowledge, the IEET aims to publish their papers Open Access (OA).
Why is Open Access Important?
The majority of publishers, not the authors, own the rights to the articles that are published in their repertoire of journals. Anyone who wants to read the articles in these journals faces a paywall and must pay to access them. Universities and similar research institutions, as well as some libraries often negotiate subscriptions to these journals to help their affiliated researchers and students to have access. Despite this access, students, researchers, or any other individuals can reuse any part of that research without permission from the publisher, often at the cost of an additional fee. The burden of OA however lies at the feet of the individual researcher to cover the fee that the publisher would otherwise lose given its free distribution and their forfeiting of copyright.
Open Access then is an affirmation of true scientific progress and directly aligned with the enlightenment values central to technoprogressism, more specifically, in the free and ubiquitous dissemination of knowledge. With your donations, the IEET can become a force multiplier in the promotion of technoprogressivism by providing its research to all interested parties free of charge, and encourage its dissemination and promotion across all domains.
International Conferences
Once a year, IEET’s research aims to culminate in an annual conference, where we invite our favorite thinkers and goal-aligned organizations to join our members in a weekend-long brainstorming extravaganza on what should be next.
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Thank you for your technoprogressive support. We hope you join us to make 2021 count!
James, Steve, and Marcello
Your IEET Team