The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut Lebanon
Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut Lebanon
The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut Lebanon
The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut Lebanon
The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.
Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project
National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.
We are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.
SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.
The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.
Berkman Center For Internet, Everett Street, Cambridge, MA, USA
We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.
To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.
The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.
"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."
For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.
This laboratory was formed as an effort to develop design methods and practices, which on the one hand are based on technological developments, and on the other, based on the development of social, cultural, and political issues and theories.
ADC Business Center, 1929 5th Street South, Suite 101, Minneapolis, MN 55454
The Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship is Augsburg University's civic and community engagement center. We connect students, faculty, staff, and community members in the everyday work of learning together to address public issues, make change, and build democracy.
The Policy Lab brings together experts from government, universities, and community organizations to collaborate on research tailored to inform decisions about how to improve policies and programs across the state.
The Igarapé Institute is an independent think and do tank focused on the areas of public, climate and digital security and its consequences for democracy. Its objective is to propose solutions and partnerships for global challenges through research, new technologies, communication and influence on public policies.
Reese News Lab is an experimental media and research project based at the School of Media and Journalism at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. We analyze the news from several perspectives, including from an economic, social, or political perspective.
CIDE is a center for research and higher education that specializes in social sciences in accordance with international quality standards, and is publicly funded.
21 Dupont Circle, NW, Suite 800 Washington, DC 20036 US
The Alliance for Taxpayer Access works to ensure that the published results of research funded with public dollars are made available to the American public, for free, online, as soon as possible.
From 2005-2017, CeRI was a multidisciplinary group of Cornell University researchers engaged intheoretical and applied research, in partnership with government agenciesand civil society groups, to discover how the design and process of online engagement can support public discussion that is informed, inclusive and
The CR Digital Lab offers paid, non-resident fellowships to study the effects of connected products and services.
Fellows will undertake research to increase transparency and advance consumers’ interests in the marketplace—devising new testing frameworks, tools, and procedures to evaluate values such as privacy, security, and fairness.
Fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse community of technologists, leverage CR’s physical labs and testing infrastructure, and communicate findings to manufacturers, policymakers, and the public.
Applications for our 2020 non-resident fellowships are now closed. We appreciate your interest and hope that you will consider applying next year when we reopen applications for the 2021 season.
The Mexican Institute for Competitiveness (IMCO) is a non-profit, non-partisan research center that researches and acts on evidence to solve the most important challenges in Mexico.
The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab brings together students, educators, activists, and artists to develop a critical and creative approach to data conception, production, and circulation. Our aim is to rethink and retool data for justice.
The Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 and aims to improve social well-being by funding research and innovation in education, justice and welfare.
Raymond Ghosn Building, American University of Beirut, Maroun Semaan Faculty of Engineering and Architecture
PO Box. 11-0236 Riad El Solh 1107 2020, Beirut Lebanon
deepfakes
How good are you at spotting political deepfakes? Test yourself with the
latest version
of
Detect Fakes, featuring a series of both real videos and deepfakes of the
two most recent US presidents. The goal of this work, developed by
researchers in the Affective Computing and Viral Communications research
groups, is to "prebunk" deepfakes—videos manipulated by neural networks—by
Knowing without Seeing is a research project by Amber Sinha which explores meaningful transparency solutions for opaque algorithms, and privileges comprehension over mere access to information.
Effective altruism is a research field and practical community that aims to find the best ways to help others, and put them into practice. Read our intro
Designed to open humanitarian response to startups, social entrepreneurs, researchers, and other non-traditional actors capable of contributing solutions to the resopnse