Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grants (2020) provide financial incentives to bring together individual ideas and excellence from across Berkeley’s decentralized campus, fostering connections and developing institutional awareness and support to expand positive impact.

Submissions have closed, and the review committee is evaluating the 2020 applicants to the Berkeley Changemaker Technology Innovation Grant program.

We are now accepting proposals for Berkeley’s first-ever CTO Technology Innovation program. The CTO is looking to support proposals that will enhance the University’s operations, bolster its research endeavors or help transform instruction and the classroom experience.

January 28th brings another Data Protection Day. Five years ago today we launched UC Berkeley’s “bConnected Transparency Report” to give our students, faculty, and staff a clear idea about how the University handles their personal information in services like Google, Box, and Sharepoint.

We live in a world awash in data. As individuals and as a society we need to learn how to better understand, analyze, and use it. To that end, Berkeley recently started an exciting initiative to teach every undergraduate the fundamentals of data science.

The most salient recent developments have been in focusing our work to align with the Chancellor’s strategy – in the case of cloud computing, especially towards support for scaling up Jupyterhub to meet the needs of the Division of Data Sciences.