The Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP) at Princeton University is a joint effort of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Woodrow Wilson School of Public Policy. The Center addresses a variety of public policy topics by engaging in hands-on technology research and development. The Center has become internationally known for a variety of work, including copyright/DRM, voting machine technology, network security, open government, and privacy.

CITP is unique in its interdisciplinary focus, combining the social sciences with engineering. The CITP community includes faculty, visiting scholars, graduate and undergraduate students, policymakers, and partner institutions. In some cases the Center works in partnership with government or corporate entities, and in other cases it critiques those entities' policies. A GSOC participant working with CITP would be a member of this broad community, engaged in various aspects of the life of the Center.

The Center is currently engaged in many software development projects, three of which are strong candidates for summer work. The RECAP project is a Firefox plugin that helps to "liberate" federal court records and place them in a free public archive in partnership with The Internet Archive. FedThread is a web application that makes the Federal Register more searchable and comment-able in partnership with the Government Printing Office of the US. All Our Ideas is a collaborative ideation and decisionmaking plaform used by a variety of governmental and non-commercial entities to take the pulse of their constituencies.

http://recapthelaw.org/

http://fedthread.org/

http://allourideas.org/