Projects - Research and policy centers

City Resilience Index

Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.

AI for Good Foundation

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

Stanford Impact Labs

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

Harvard Democracy and Internet Governance Initiative (DIGI)

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore

11 Computing Drive, Room 03-24. National University of Singapore

CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore is a research hub led by Dr. Weiyu Zhang. We are a team of social scientists, computer scientists, and digital cultural analysts.

Research and policy centers

The Urban Institute

Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.

The Open Institute

Lalitpur, Nepal

a research and teaching cooperative

Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Led by director Emily Bell since our founding in 2010, our team of researchers examines digital journalism’s industry-wide economic trends, its cultural shifts, and its relationship with the broader, constantly changing world of technology. Operating as an institute within Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the center provides journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of digital journalism and serves as a research and development center for the profession as a whole.

GovLab (The Governance Lab)

GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems

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 City

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

Development Initiatives

Development Initiatives Ltd., North Quay House, Quay Side, Temple Back, Bristol, BS16FL, UK

Development Initiatives works to end extreme poverty by making data and information on poverty and resources transparent, accessible, and useable.

No poverty

The Center for Communication and Civic Renewal

Madison, Wisconsin, USA

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

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

Oregon

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.

Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning community compilation

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.

Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy

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

The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.

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.

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.

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.

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

Singapore

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.

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.

The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life

Chapel Hill, NC

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

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.

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.

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

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.