About
About CITRIS
The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society (CITRIS) creates information technology solutions for many of our most pressing social, environmental and healthcare problems.
The first public-private partnership created to use IT in this way, CITRIS partners more than 300 faculty and thousands of students from myriad departments at four UC campuses (Berkeley, Davis, Merced and Santa Cruz) with industrial researchers from over 60 corporations. Together they are thinking about IT in ways that have not been thought of before. They see solutions to many of the concerns that face all of us today, from the environment and finding viable sustainable energy alternatives to healthcare delivery and developing secure electronic medical records and remote diagnosis, ultimately boosting economic productivity. CITRIS represents a bold and exciting vision that is leveraging one of the top university systems in the world with highly successful corporate partners and government resources.
In recognition of their early cornerstone commitment to the CITRIS initiative and their ongoing leadership advocacy, the Berkeley component of the four-campus CITRIS collaboration has been named the Dado & Maria Banatao Institute@CITRIS Berkeley.
CITRIS is one of four Governor Gray Davis Institutes for Science and Innovation.
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CITRIS Offers |
CITRIS Wants |
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Industrial
Partners |
· Access to Researchers, Research and Grad Students · One-on-one support for finding and connecting with the right people · Neutral ground to collaborate with other Industrial Partners. · Access to CITRIS events
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· Access to CITRIS incubated startups · Contribute to governmental policy debates · Help solving the big problems of society · Association with CITRIS brand |
· Potential partners to become members · Current members to stay members and upgrade their membership · Funding and in-kind gifts for CITRIS Researchers, operations and seed funding pool · Opportunities for Researchers and Students to collaborate with Industry · Insight into industry trends · Recruiting of CITRIS graduates · Investment in CITRIS startups · Pro-CITRIS advocacy with potential Partners and Legislature |
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Researchers |
· Improved opportunities to obtain research funding · Physical space in Sutardja Dai and at other CITRIS campuses. · Opportunities for collaboration with Industry and other CITRIS Researchers · Increased visibility and positive publicity · Insight into industrial trends · Association with CITRIS brand
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· Potential members to become members · Member to think of themselves as belonging to cohesive group. · Participate in CITRIS events · Include funding for CITRIS programmatic staff in grant proposals when appropriate, such as when CITRIS programmatic staff works on and/or develops the proposals · Collaborate in multi-campus, multi-disciplinary research · Provide content for the website · Work with industrial liaisons and share insight with Industry and Government · Pro-CITRIS advocacy with potential Partners and Legislature |
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Students |
· Opportunities to work on high-impact, societal-scale, multi-disciplinary real-world problems · Access to CITRIS events · Membership in four-campus community · Access to Industrial Partners |
· Identify themselves as part of CITRIS · Participate in CITRIS events |
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Solutions to · Insight into connection between problems and ongoing research · Gateway into understanding the opportunities afforded by cutting edge research · Objective reporting on complex issues · Return on investment |
· Funding to support CITRIS, CITRIS projects, and the entire UC System · Use CITRIS as a go-to location for information on technology and society · Understand where and why its money is being spent and to see it as a valuable investment
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General
Public |
· Solutions to society’s most demanding problems · Education via public access to our open door events |
· Understand that the investment of their tax dollars toward CITRIS and the research done at the UC system yields an enormous return · Listen to the conclusions of our research and the policy advice of academics that come out of that research |