Computing for the Social Good Resources
Computing for the Social Good in Education (CSGEd) – is a community of like minded educators who strive to convey that learning about computing is a means for learning how to improve our world.
Community Leaders:
- Mikey Goldweber: Xavier University mikeyg@xavier.edu
- Lisa Kaczmarczyk: Lisa Kaczmarczyk PhD Consulting, LLC & Harvey Mudd College lisa@lisakacz.com
- Richard Blumenthal: Regis University rblument@regis.edu
- Johanna Blumenthal: The Harris Law Firm & Regis University jblumenthal@gmail.com
The CSGEd community promotes the adoption of socially engaging programming projects throughout the CS curriculum. Contact Mikey Goldweber for questions or assistance with this.
Organizations:
The CSGEd movement is sponsored by ACM SIGCAS – the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society: https://www.sigcas.org/
We urge all CSG-Ed community members to consider joining and participating in SIGCAS!
In addition to the articles referenced below in the short bibliography, the SIGCAS publication: Computers and Society frequently contains CSGEd community member contributions. https://www.sigcas.org/publication/
The Humanitarian Free and Open Source Software (HFOSS) group is a SIGCAS and CSGEd related community whose focus is a bit more narrowly defined (http://foss2serve.org). Contact Greg Hislop (hislop@drexel.edu) or Heidi Ellis (ellis@wne.edu) for questions or assistance with HFOSS.
CSGEd Related Books:
- Computers and Society: Computing for Good, by Lisa Kaczmarczyk, CRC Press, 2011.
- Geeks on a Mission, by Alex Hill, editor, Alex Hills Associates, 2013.
Recent CSGEd-related Academic Papers:
- Computing for the Social Good in Education. Michael Goldweber, Lisa Kaczmarczyk, and Rick Blumenthal. ACM Inroads, Volume 10, Number 4, 2019.
- Strategies for Adopting CSG-Ed In CS 1. Michael Goldweber. Proceedings of the 3rd Con- ference for Research on Equity and Sustained Participation in Engineering, Computing, and Technology (RESPECT ’18).
- A Framework for Enhancing the Social Good in Computing Education: a Values Approach. Michael Goldweber, John Barr, Tony Clear, Renzo Davoli, Samuel Mann, Elizabeth Patitsas, and Scott Portnoff. Proceedings of the the 2012 ITiCSE Working Group Reports (ITiCSE- WGR ’12) – reprinted in ACM Inroads, Volume 4, Number 1, 2013.