Academia
Academic programs, relevant research centers, journals, and peer-reviewed articles.
Disinformation Summer Institute (DSI)
The summer institute is intended primarily for advanced PhD candidates, advanced law and medical students, post-docs, assistant professors and early career researchers seeking to better understand and...
Münchner Cluster für die Zukunft der Mobilität in Metropolregionen – Innovationen für den Mobilitätswandel (MCube)
Innovations for the mobility transition
TransforM
Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change
Public Science Lab
The lab brings together researchers from various disciplines to study how science and technology shape society and how societal perspectives influence research and innovation.
Danish Institute for Advanced Study (DIAS)
An interdisciplinary elite research center dedicated to world-class, curiosity-driven research. DIAS operates independently across the traditional faculty structure at SDU.
Digital Democracy Centre at SDU
The Digital Democracy Centre (DDC) will develop a new socio-technical, interdisciplinary approach combining theory and methods from social sciences and computer science, to study the impact of digital...
Center for Public Deliberation
Here at the Center for Public Deliberation, we focus our energy and expertise on elevating the conversation, not winning the argument.
Reimagining Digital ID (REDID)
Our research project aims to understand how Karen refugees in Thailand experience digital identity systems and to inform the development of digital identity systems which are fair for the people who u...
Policy Innovation Lab (PIL) at Heinz College
The Policy Innovation Lab (PIL) is an intensive, applied policy course at Heinz College that prepares students to become public interest technologists who are creative, ethical, inclusive, and respons...
Penn Institute for Urban Research
The Penn Institute for Urban Research informs public and private decision-making and policy to advance sustainable urban development.
Shorenstein Center on Media, Politics, and Public Policy
Advancing knowledge on media, audiences, and influence
PIT @ CUNY
The goal of PIT @ CUNY is clear: To inspire the next generation of young technologists – including Engineers, Designers, Computer and Data Scientists, and others with an interest in leveraging technol...
Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT)
The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) is an evidence-based research and training Centre based at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya.
Digital Technology for Democracy (DTD) Lab
The Digital Technology for Democracy Lab is a collaboration across the University of Virginia that explores how rapidly evolving digital technologies can challenge, but might also fortify, democratic...
National University Student Competition: Intellectual Property and Technology
The National University Student Competition: Intellectual Property and Technology is a simulated arbitration process competition that serves as an alternative and peaceful means of conflict resolution...
Rutgers Democracy Lab
University initiative fostering research, education, and innovation in democracy and civic engagement.
The Inscrutable Code? The Deficient Scrutiny Problem of Automated Government
This paper argues that automated decision-making in UK public administration lacks adequate scrutiny, and proposes regulatory safeguards through mandatory pre-deployment impact assessments and algorit...
Algorithmic Accountability in the UK - How FOIA Sheds Light on Automated Welfare
This study examines 51 Freedom of Information requests to reveal how the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions uses opaque data-driven fraud detection systems in welfare, highlighting the limited tran...
Pioneer
Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance
Multiracial Democracy Project
Through research, analysis, convenings, and public education, the Project produces solutions that facilitate our nation’s transition to a well-functioning democracy that truly represents our increasin...
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Directory of Open Access Journals: Find open access journals & articles.
ETH Zurich
Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging connections all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. It has more than 20,000 students from...
International Parliament Engagement Network (IPEN)
Our aim is to develop an international network of academics and practitioners across the world to critically examine the effectiveness and impact of public engagement with parliament.
Mapping Public Engagement in Parliaments across the world
The map of public engagement activities created (similar to this map showing parliaments’ access to academic research) will enable the International Parliament Engagement Network to foster lesson shar...
Stavros Niarchos Foundation SNF Agora Institute (SNF Agora)
Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue
BU Platform Governance Lab
Combating misinformation in digital marketplaces through gamified behavioral experiments. We design two-sided platforms to study and prevent misleading claims that harm consumers and democracy.
Stanford Cyber Policy Center
Stanford University's research center for the interdisciplinary study of issues at the nexus of technology, governance and public policy
Civic Interaction Design Research Group
Civic Interaction Design is an interdisciplinary research group at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.
Peacetech and Polarization Lab at University of Notre Dame
The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research...
L.A. TACO Media Lab
USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to th...
Centre For Communication Governance at NLU Delhi
The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi (CCG) is a research centre within NLU Delhi and is meant to ensure that the Indian legal education establishment engages more m...
GovTech Campus Deutschland
Technologien für die Zukunft von Staat und Verwaltung
The Cambridge Political Psychology Lab
The recently established Cambridge Political Psychology Lab attempts to apply insights from psychology to understand real world political decision making.
Defending Democracy in a Digital World
Zuckerman and students explore digital media, polarization, and democracy
The Workers' Algorithm Observatory (WAO)
Worker-led audits in the platform economy
Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill
The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy.
Applied Social Media Lab (ASML)
The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center brings together technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good and establish a l...
School for Poetic Computation (SFPC)
School for Poetic Computation (SFPC) is an experimental school in New York and online founded in 2013. SFPC facilitates the study of art, code, hardware, and critical theory through lenses of decoloni...
Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI)
Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at IIT Madras.
Escola Nacional de Administração Pública (ENAP)
Conhecimento e prática para a transformação do Estado
Instituto de Governo Aberto
Transparência, participação e inovação para uma sociedade mais justa, inclusiva e igualitária
Digital Society Initiative Democracy Community
The DSI Community Democracy at the University of Zurich focuses on research related to the impact of digitalisation on the political system, on democracy, and on related topics.
Pilot Pitchfest
We match New York City agencies to local researchers and technical assistance from civic society
mInt: Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable text messaging platforms
At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University
alphaXiv
Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers
University of Miami's Office of Civic and Community Engagement
The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University
Research, programs and interventions that address the root causes and consequences of poverty. Learn moreabout What We Do
Improving Delivery of the Social Safety Net: The Role of Stigma
Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos
Protests in the United States on Palestine and Israel, 2023–2024
Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their da...
Data as Material Course
Taught By Richard The