“Thank goodness for this book, and for Francine Berman’s rare mix of clarity and expertise. Better Tech is an essential, commonsense guide to making emerging technologies answerable to the public interest.”

— Jill Lepore, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of The Rise and Fall of the Artificial State

“This novel reframing of digital technology as a public good offers a practical road map to how we can make technology work for us. A must-read for policymakers, local leaders, and anyone who wants to do something but doesn’t know where to start.”

— Bruce Schneier, coauthor of Rewiring Democracy and Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World

“This is the book to read to understand both what's broken about technology and what to do about it. We get to learn from Fran Berman, a world-leading computer scientist and one of the pioneers of public interest technology … Fran writes like the seasoned computer scientist she is, but in terms a broad audience understands. The book provides a playbook of concrete strategies for design, engineering, and policy, helping us understand how to make day-to-day choices in the products we build and the policies we set in our own organizations.”

— Kathy Pham, Faculty Member at the Harvard Kennedy School and former executive leader at WorkDay, the Mozilla Foundation, the U.S. Digital Service, and the Federal Trade Commission.