The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

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.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Find a job or hire someone

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.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Media
• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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.

• Life below water

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports

• Social media

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

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.

• Digital rights
• Fellowships

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Social media

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.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

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.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

"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."

• vaccines

• Peer-reviewed research
• Behavioral economics programs
• COVID Engagement Projects

Improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Open government data

For the 2022 midterm General Election, BallotReady’s researchers have uploaded 133 statewide ballot measures and 3,892 local ballot measures to our database.

• Ballot information

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.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Design

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.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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.

"an investigative toolkit for researchers, journalists, students, and scholars interested in visualizing, analyzing, and documenting supply

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.

• Media
• Journalism

CIDE is a center for research and higher education that specializes in social sciences in accordance with international quality standards, and is publicly funded.

Tutech connects research, business and society

• Academia

Washington Watch is a daily program hosted by Family Research Council President Tony Perkins that covers the issues of faith, family and freedom.

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.

• Open knowledge

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

• Engagement tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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.

• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

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.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

The Nuffield Foundation was established in 1943 and aims to improve social well-being by funding research and innovation in education, justice and welfare.

Refugees as City-Makers

• cities
• refugees

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Explore and analyze large collections of documents. By Google Journalist Studio.

• Google

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

Ideas to action: independent research for global prosperity

• Reduced inequalities

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.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

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

• Get funding
• Effective altruism
• Open philanthropy

We search for the charities that save or improve lives the most per dollar.

• Civic data
• Effective altruism
• Open philanthropy

Designed to open humanitarian response to startups, social entrepreneurs, researchers, and other non-traditional actors capable of contributing solutions to the resopnse

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Participatory aid

A research paper

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research