Civic Tech Field Guide

WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation

Menlo Park, California, United States

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

Digital Impact research grants

Stanford, CA, USA

Participatory Action Research at MIT

Change Research

San Francisco

Change Research provides fast, affordable and accurate public opinion polling at 80 to 90 percent less than traditional polls with the goal of ensuring that every forward-thinking candidate and campaign has access to the actionable insight they need to win

MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance

mySociety Research

483 Green Lanes, London, N13 4BS United Kingdom

Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.

Labor Research Action Network Mailing List

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

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Brandwatch Consumer Research

48 West 21st Street, New York, NY 10010, USA

Get consumer fit by accessing data from 100 million sources and over 1.3 trillion individual posts.

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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.

Community Approach to Research Partnerships @ Emerson

Emerson College, Boylston Street, Boston, MA, USA

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI)

360 Huntington Ave, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

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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.

CYRILLA (Collaborative Cyberrights Research Initiative and Localized Legal Almanac)

Global

The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

Association of Internet Researchers

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.

Open Governance Research Exchange

Lilly, T1D Exchange Diabetes Research Collaboration

Manhattan Institute for Policy Research

52 Vanderbilt Avenue, New York, NY 10017, USA

Pew Research Center data

Pew Research Center makes most of its datasets available for download once reporting has been completed for a given study. Here's how to find and access our data.

COVID-19 Open Research Dataset (CORD-19)

Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2), North Northlake Way, Seattle, WA, USA

Access this dataset to help with the fight against COVID-19

Data & Society Research Institute

Data & Society Research Institute, West 20th Street, New York, NY, USA

Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.

Microsoft Cloud Computing Research Centre

Microsoft

Harvard's Malaria Tracking Research

Namibia

Researchers used satellite and cell phone data to map how malaria spreads throughout Namibia and show where elimination efforts have the greatest impact.

Digital Activism Research Project

Technology and Social Change Research Project

124 Mount Auburn Street, 2nd Floor, South Elevators Cambridge, MA 02138

Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action

AI Existential Safety Map

A fun illustrated map charting AI Safety efforts across blogs, podcasts, training, support, governance, research, and so on.

Sourcebase Inquiry

United States of America (the)

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

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U_Code

Dresden

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

AI Palace

Germany (Deutschland)

Join a small, curated group of researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists for a 7-day unconference focused on the political economy of AI. We will build new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for AI.

Public AI Network

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

Use of AI tools in funding applications

The Research Funders Policy Group, of which Wellcome is a member, sets out expectations around the use of generative AI tools in funding applications.

Empire AI

Albany, NY

The consortium will leverage a $275 million state investment to create and launch a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center on the University at Buffalo’s campus.

Civic Engagement Microgrant Program

Arlington, VA

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

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Common Crawl

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

Overton

London

Track your policy impact

Bangladesh Open Innovation Lab (BOIL)

Dhaka, Bangladesh

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

The Internet & Democracy Initiative

The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.

Psychology of Misinformation Lab

Boston, MA

AI Intersections Database

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

Participant Advisory Council

Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.

Parliament Watch (Thailand)

Bangkok, Thailand

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

Tech4Democracy

Spain (España)

In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State, IE University is leading Tech4Democracy, a powerful initiative to identify entrepreneurs dedicated to developing technology that will promote and protect democracy worldwide.

AI4Democracy

Madrid (Spain)

The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.