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Research and policy centers develop evidence- and ideology-based recommendations to address societal challenges, inform policy decisions, and promote effective governance.
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The Computational Propaganda Project
University of Oxford, 1 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3JS, UKSince 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
Within the disinformation and memory studies direction, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) team is developing tools in several ways.
The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.
Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechWe explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
New York University, New York, NY, USAS.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.
Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechPublic Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs
We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
NYU Tandon Cybersecurity for Democracy
New York University, New York, NY, USACybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.
Technical University of Munich School of Management Center for Digital Transformation
Munich, GermanyThe Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.
Urban AI
FranceUrban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.
PIT Lab @Stanford
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAThe PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.
Studio at Cornell Tech
Cornell TechThe Studio at Cornell Tech is a place for students, faculty and practitioners from across disciplines and industries to come together and bridge the gap between the ideas generated in an academic institution and the products that people use every day.
NYU Public Interest Technology Institute
New York University, New York, NY, USAA 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology
Town+Gown
New York CityCreated in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.
Where ideas and action intersect to create real social impact.
The NoC a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USAThe Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.
Public Interest AI at HIIG
Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, GermanyAlexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft
The Reporters’ Lab
Duke University, Durham, NC, USAThe Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.
AI Now Institute
New York City, NY, USAThe AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.
AI Ethics Initiative
Cambridge, MA, USAThe AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
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, USACenter at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems
Harvard Democracy and Internet Governance Initiative (DIGI)
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USAThrough 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 SingaporeCivicTech 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.
Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.
Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University
Columbia University, New York, NY, USALed 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 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
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 CityMaking 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, UKDevelopment Initiatives works to end extreme poverty by making data and information on poverty and resources transparent, accessible, and useable.
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' Initiative Review
OregonCitizens' 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, USATo support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USAThe Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
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, USAData & 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, UKChanging 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, USAThe SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
The Alan Turing Institute, Euston Road, London, UKA 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, USAWe 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.
Liberation Tech
Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USAThe 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.
Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, Grand Avenue, CA, USAThe 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.
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, PanamaFundación 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).
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