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Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

Information Technology & Innovation Foundation

1101 K Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20005, USA

ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

https://itif.org/publications/2017/11/27/benchmarking-us-government-websites
Beeck Center

Beeck Center

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

http://beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/
PeaceTech Living Learning Community

PeaceTech Living Learning Community

Waterloo, ON, Canada

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

https://uwaterloo.ca/centre-peace-advancement/peacetech-living-learning-community
MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance

MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance

https://www.macfound.org/networks/research-network-opening-governance/details/
American National Election Studies

American National Election Studies

https://electionstudies.org/
Center for an Informed Public

Center for an Informed Public

The Information School, Mary Gates Hall, Northeast Grant Lane, Seattle, Washington, USA

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

https://ischool.uw.edu/research/center-informed-public
Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies

Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies

Oxford, UK

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/research/governance-of-emerging-technologies/
The Civic Data Design Lab

The Civic Data Design Lab

MIT Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA, USA

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

http://civicdatadesignlab.mit.edu/
The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere

The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere

New Haven, CT

To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

https://knightfoundation.org/grants/8242
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto

The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto

Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, Devonshire Place, Toronto, ON, Canada

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

https://citizenlab.ca/
Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro

Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

https://itsrio.org/pt/home/
Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI)

Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI)

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

https://clisi.org/
CivLab

CivLab

Lehigh University, Memorial Drive West, Bethlehem, PA, USA

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

https://cce.lehigh.edu/project/civlab
OpenGov Foundation

OpenGov Foundation

Washington, DC

https://www.opengovfoundation.org/
LSE Cities

LSE Cities

Clement's Inn, London, United Kingdom

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad.

https://lsecities.net
Institute of Information Law

Institute of Information Law

http://www.uva.nl/en/shared-content/organisatiegids/en/university-of-amsterdam/faculties/faculty-of-law/institute-for-information-law/institute-for-information-law.html
Citizen Data Lab Amsterdam

Citizen Data Lab Amsterdam

Hogeschool van Amsterdam (HvA), Weesperzijde, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

http://www.citizendatalab.org/
MSc Media and Communications (LSE Data and Society)

MSc Media and Communications (LSE Data and Society)

Houghton Street London WC2A 2AE

MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)

http://www.lse.ac.uk/study-at-lse/Graduate/Degree-programmes-2020/MSc-Media-and-Communications-Data-and-Society
The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics

The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics

2121 I St NW, Washington, DC 20052, USA

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

https://iddp.gwu.edu/
The Project on Democracy and the Internet

The Project on Democracy and the Internet

450 Serra Mall, Stanford, CA 94305, USA

To field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed

https://knightfoundation.org/grants/8247
Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

https://www.manhattan-institute.org/
Civic Signals

Civic Signals

The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA

Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.

http://web.archive.org/web/20220330053629/http://civicsignals.io/
Evaluating Civic Open Data Standards

Evaluating Civic Open Data Standards

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

https://www.sciencegate.app/document/10.31235/osf.io/gns9a
BU Initiative on Cities

BU Initiative on Cities

75 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215, USA

The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

http://www.bu.edu/ioc/
NYU Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center (VIDA)

NYU Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center (VIDA)

New York University

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

https://vida.engineering.nyu.edu/
Research Action Design (RAD)

Research Action Design (RAD)

https://rad.cat/
The Center for Social Media and Politics

The Center for Social Media and Politics

70 Washington Square South, NY, New York 10012, USA

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

https://knightfoundation.org/grants/8234