Our Southeast Asia Policy Observatory (SEA Observatory) provides a comprehensive overview of the state of AI policy and governance in the region.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy
• Civil society research outfits

Inventar, ativar e participar de redes cujo foco é promover acordos de convivência  e modelos de colaboração para a transformação social, contribuindo de forma criativa e inovadora para a construção de um mundo comum entre diferentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Civil society research outfits

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Procurement

We help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civil society research outfits
• Governance of AI

Los centros de pensamiento son «asociaciones de investigadores, de áreas diversas del saber, que, mediante la investigación, el debate académico, la producción de documentos y la relación con sectores y problemas estratégicos de la realidad nacional, definen e inciden, a partir de su trabajo en red, en la evaluación y formulación de políticas públicas».

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Civil society research outfits

Impulsgeber für die digitale Gesellschaft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data governance
• Civil society research outfits

As a forward-thinking policy-oriented entity, we lead innovation, actively exploring and advocating emerging technologies to transform public service delivery on a worldwide scale.

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Civil society research outfits

This project aims to conduct a comprehensive study of the relevant and available literature and present research findings that will assist the Digital Government Authority (DGA) in enhancing the online presence of key government entities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Civil society research outfits

We are a research collective dedicated to providing public communication campaigns with rigorous, state-of-the-art tools for message development. Our methodology combines machine learning, crowdsourcing, and adaptive randomized controlled trials.

• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech
• Communicating with the people

One Project collaborates with people to build tools, systems and support for the futures ahead.

• Civil society research outfits

Careful Industries gives good advice to leaders navigating the intersections of social justice and technology.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

Using social movement research to tackle the world's most pressing problems

• Advocacy tech
• Civil society research outfits
• The craft of organizing

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Civil society research outfits

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data visualization

"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Accelerating digital equality and data justice in Africa.

• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Civil society research outfits

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

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

JUST AI is an independent network of researchers and practitioners committed to understanding the social and ethical value of data and AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

The Center for News, Technology & Innovation will provide issue primers with research and legislative activity from around the world and host deliberative discussions among thought leaders in journalism, technology, and policy.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Journalism

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

FOWIGS is a network of Think Tanks from southern regions which brings data and knowledge together to build evidence-based narratives on the Future of Work. At FOWIGS, we contribute to the policy frameworks from and for developing countries.

• labor

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civil society research outfits

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

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

We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech