UC Berkeley School of Information

In Ghana, flooding is a recurring issue that has devastated local communities, destroying homes and disrupting daily life. This summer, Leslie Noye and Frances Brittingham (both MIMS ’25) traveled to Accra, Ghana, to establish connections with local resources for their award-winning flood platform — FloodNavigator. They spoke to disaster response teams, driver associations, and telecommunications companies to understand the current market.

Gathering the thought leaders in technology and public policy, the School of Information, Goldman School of Public Policy, and the Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) hosted UC Berkeley’s inaugural Technology Policy Week. Throughout the four-day event, which ran from October 20 to October 23, experts hosted panels and workshops to recount their experiences working in public policy and to give advice to the next generation of technology and policy leaders. In particular, the 2024-2025 Tech Policy Fellows and the Executive Fellows in Applied Technology Policy presented their year-long research projects and shared some crucial lessons learned from throughout the last few years of their civic careers.