We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brussels and Paris.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

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.

• Research and policy centers
• Partner networks

Publish and preserve your data

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing platforms

An academic and practitioner-focused journal on all aspects of technology and communities.

• Academia
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Journals

The 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.

• Research and policy centers
• Social media

Alexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Learn about civic tech

An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.

• The People
• Research and policy centers

(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The 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.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

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

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• cities
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

The 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.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

Become a Media and Technology Policy Expert

• Academic programs

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.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Korean participatory policymaking platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Start using Engage today and be part of the discussion! Vote and comment on proposals from your local government.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies

• Govtech
• Algorithmic transparency
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Executive Order to streamline the process of obtaining public benefits across 17 federal agencies

• Civic tech legislation and policy

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

Audrey will shares stories of the dramatic transformations underway to upgrade democracy in Taiwan: How they engaged thousands of citizens in bottom-up policy development to solve the Uber problem; A digital media channel where young people are engaging directly with politicians; And how virtual reality is shaping public policy.

Our first product, Action Button, empowers readers to impact news stories that inspire them—whether by donating, signing a petition or emailing a policymaker. Our users can do more than read headlines, they can change headlines.

• Media
• Graveyard
• News to action

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

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Our mission is to transform how government learns, builds, delivers, and measures digital services in the 21st century. And we do that by providing people in the federal government with the tools, methods, practices, and policy guidance they need to deliver effective and accessible digital services. It is our job to be the experts in the problems people in government face, and support them wherever they may be blocked.

a research and teaching cooperative

• Research and policy centers
• Peer networks
• Academia

• Research and policy centers
• Journalism

• Facebook

• Research and policy centers
• Civic teams at tech companies

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Journalism

Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School. The project identifies operational efficiency themes across state and local governments, and is supported by the Laura and John Arnold Foundation and conducted in partnership with United States Common Sense, a nonpartisan nonprofit policy group dedicated to opening government data and resources to the public.

• Govtech

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. GovLab believes that increased availability and use of data, new ways to leverage the capacity, intelligence, and expertise of people in the problem-solving process, combined with new advances in technology and science can transform governance.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Research into whether legislation achieved its policy goals

• Evaluate impact

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

• YouTube

• Civic fiction
• Shows and films

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

We work with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to shape a social opportunity system that supports and propels the 100 million economically insecure people in the US

• Access social benefits

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

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Partner networks

Foundation for Public Code's livestream show and podcast

• Podcasts
• Shows and films

Higher education must give the next generation of technology and policy leaders the interdisciplinary training they need to succeed, write Anne-Marie Slaughter, Darren Walker and Larry Kramer.

• Quality education

• Public Interest Tech