Projects - Research and policy centers

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.

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

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)

Singapore

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.

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.

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

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

OGRX is a platform for browsing and sharing research findings about new, innovative ways to solve public problems.

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

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

The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)

5000 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, USA

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

Data61

Australia

We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.

Stanford PACs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society

Stanford, CA, USA

Scholars. Practitioners. Leaders.

Norman Lear Center

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

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.

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.

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.”

Edinburgh Futures Institute

Edinburgh, Scotland

Teams of researchers will work with up to 350 partner organisations on a range of topics and themes, including how data-driven innovation can improve public services in the region, the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of data.

Research Action Design (RAD)

Research Action Design (RAD) uses codesign, community-led research, and development of technology and media to build the power of grassroots social movements.

Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)

Waterloo, ON, Canada

CIGI builds bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis to offer innovative policy solutions for the digital era.

American National Election Studies

"To my mind, the ANES has been the single most important resource in my career in political psychology."

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.

Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)

Johannesburg, South Africa

Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

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.

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.

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

Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro

Rio de Janeiro

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

Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI)

Valencia, Carabobo, Venezuela

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

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.