The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Surveys & polling

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

Leveraging digital data in ways that advance your mission and respect the rights of the people you serve is a core capacity of foundations and nonprofits in the 21st century. That’s why the Digital Civil Society Lab at the Stanford Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society created the Digital Impact Toolkit—to support civil society organizations in using digital data ethically, safely, and effectively.

• Nonprofit tech
• Digital transformation
• Toolkits

Each will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support

• Academia
• Funders & donors

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We make one-year, $50,000 investments in faculty from across the university who want to conceptualize new impact labs through participation in our year-long Impact Lab Design Fellowship.

• Fellowships
• Design

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Scholars. Practitioners. Leaders.

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

A platform for running online participatory budgeting elections

• Participatory budgeting

COMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY

• No poverty

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

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

With branches at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, IPL is an international community of scholars dedicated to innovation in immigration policy.

• immigration
• refugees

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Civic data
• Media
• Research and policy centers

"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
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Behavioral economics programs

For the first time, a representative microcosm of the entire American electorate was brought together to a single location.

• Participatory democracy

The COR curriculum was developed by the Stanford History Education Group as part of MediaWise—a partnership of SHEG, the Poynter Institute, and the Local Media Association.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

By the Stanford Public Interest Redistricting Project. The student plans uploaded here are guided by one or more clearly-identified redistricting principles, and attempt to comply with all applicable state and federal legal requirements.

• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

It educated policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues. CPSR incubated numerous projects such as Privaterra, the Public Sphere Project, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, the 21st Century Project, the Civil Society Project, and the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference. Founded by U.S. computer scientists at Stanford University and Xerox PARC, CPSR had members in over 30 countries on six continents. CPSR was a non-profit 501.c.3 organization registered in California.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks
• Predecessors

Stanford University's Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law bridges the worlds of scholarship, policy, and practice to promote democracy and sustainable economic development.

A field scan of blockchain for social good projects by the Stanford Graduate School of Business

• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Introducing The Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Design
• Civic literacy

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Academia
• Partner networks
• Public Interest Tech