Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Media
• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Social media

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Open government data

This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.

• Research and policy centers
• Design
• Co-design

Refugees as City-Makers

• cities
• refugees

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Research and policy centers

100 years of social and behavioral science in the public interest

• Research and policy centers

Our lab is where technology, innovation, policy and community meet, one pilot at a time.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers