Projects - Research and policy centers

DAIR Institute

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

PIT @ The City University of New York

New York, NY

Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good

Center for an Urban Future

Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.

Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest

experiments

Citizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.

The Center for Communication and Civic Renewal

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning community compilation

Emerson Engagement Lab

We are an applied research lab dedicated to innovating the ways people participate in civic life and expanding the study of citizenship in a digital era.

Association of Internet Researchers

The Association of Internet Researchers is a member-based, academic association dedicated to the promotion of critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders.

Data & Society Research Institute

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA

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

UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose

55-56 Russell Square, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4HP, UK

changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.

Instituto Update

Brazil (Brasil)

Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.

SAFELAB

1255 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10027, USA

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

racial equity

Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)

The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UK

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society

Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy

California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Grand Avenue, CA, USA

Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung

Berlin

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

Fundación Avina

Ciudad del Saber, Clayton, Panama City, Panama

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)

Rincón 477 Of.803 CP.11000 Montevideo Uruguay

ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.

Liberation Tech

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

Oxford Internet Institute

University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UK

A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.

Digital Civil Society Lab

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

City Science Network

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

cities

Global Disinformation Index

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

National University of Singapore Centre for Integrated Building Energy and Sustainability in the Tropics (CiBEST)

CITRIS – Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society

CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.

Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)

113 Moses Hall University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720

EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.

guides

The Free Speech Project

3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, USA

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

The Engine Room

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

Vox Populi Stanford

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Décider ensemble

128 rue Vieille-du-Temple, 75003, Paris, France

Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels

MIT GOV/LAB

30 Wadsworth Street, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA

The MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.

mySociety Research

483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS United Kingdom

Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life

Chapel Hill, NC

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

GovEx Center for Government Excellence

Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

GovEx at Johns Hopkins successfully helps governments effectively use data in order to make informed decisions on services that improve people’s lives.

Programa de Derechos Humanos

Mexico City, CDMX, Mexico

El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la incidencia en el contexto político y social y la promoción de la justicia.

Common Cents Lab

Duke University, Durham, NC, USA

Solutions that aim to increase the ﬁnancial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States

Open Governance Research Exchange

Chatham House Commission on Democracy and Technology

10 St James's Square, London, UK

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

Center for Human Rights Sciences

CHRS

human rights

HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)

Fluwelen Burgwal 582511, The Hague, The Netherlands

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

research

CityScienceLab at HafenCity University Hamburg

Überseeallee 16, Hamburg, Germany

Das CityScienceLab der HafenCity Universität Hamburg erforscht mit PartnerInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft die Veränderung von Städten im Kontext der Digitalisierung