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Cornell University

Cornell Digital and AI Literacy Initiative

Leading the way in fostering digital and artificial intelligence literacy

Fostering research and community engagement to enhance digital and AI technologies’ positive impact on individuals, families, and communities.


The mission of the Cornell Digital and AI Literacy Initiative (DALI) is to address people’s needs for digital tech and AI literacy in order to critically engage with these novel technologies. The Initiative focuses especially on the technology literacy challenges facing youth and vulnerable communities.

The Initiative brings together a community of researchers and practitioners who develop, expand, and scale research and public engagement opportunities to collectively pursue this goal. We design, evaluate, and disseminate innovative, community-driven, and evidence-based solutions that promote the public’s critical and informed engagement with technologies.

Photo of a speaker giving a seminar presentation to a seated audience in an auditoriumBuilding a community of scholars and practitioners pursuing the digital and AI literacy innovation across disciplines and programs.

Photo of a group of people at a table working togetherCurating digital tech & AI design toolkits that make creating positive-public-impact tech easier.

Photo of students working together with laptops at a tableCreating a platform for technology application-oriented and community outreach work through collaborations and partnerships.