Academia
Academic programs, relevant research centers, journals, and peer-reviewed articles.
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Research, ideas, and leadership for a more peaceful world.
Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY
At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, change is in our DNA.
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab (STSV Lab)
Led by Harold F
City AI Connect
A global community for cities to learn about generative AI together, faster.
Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab
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 a...
Harvard Kennedy School of Government
#ISOJ
#GotaGoGama, which criticized Gotabaya's candidacy and highlighted human rights abuses.
Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab)
We pilot, build, and test solutions for compliance, mass adjudication, policy making, and government services
NuLawLab
The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.
The Decidim ‘soft infrastructure’: democratic platforms and technological autonomy in Barcelona
Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers...
The Centre for Excellence in e‑Governance Studies (eGovlab)
eGovlab is the Stockholm University Centre for Excellence in e-Governance Studies focused on driving European and International research collaboration for research and development in the area of IT in...
EUfactcheck.eu
EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims ma...
The Knight-Georgetown Institute
Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues rela...
Curricular Resource: Public Interest Data Literacy
Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.
Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy (CITP)
The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.
Polis (London School of Economics)
London School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.
Cornell Tech
Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University, located on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, in New York City.
Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech
Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.
Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)
The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.
Immigration Policy Lab
With branches at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, IPL is an international community of scholars dedicated to innovation in immigration policy.
Boston University Initiative on Cities
The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to...
Case Western Reserve Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Scie...
The Role of Community Engagement in Urban Innovation Towards the Co-Creation of Smart Sustainable Cities
"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city de...
Public Interest Technology University Network: Understanding the State of the Field in 2021
This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University N...
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy
Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings
A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset
Public Interest Technology, MS at Arizona State University
Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or p...
Empathy Helps Counter Hate Speech
A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of...
Public Technology Leadership Collaborative
The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of...
Center for Human Services Research at University at Albany SUNY
CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York St...
Research Excellence Framework Impact case study database
"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."
NYU Public Safety Lab
Using data + social science to support communities' efforts to improve equity and efficiency in public safety outcomes
The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University
Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations...
Task Force: Digital Organizing at HIIG
The task force Digital Organizing is a group of researchers who study the implications of digital practices for the processes of organizing.
Big Local News
Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations
Indigenous Land & Data Stewards Lab
Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science
Coalition for Independent Technology Research
Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Hub for Civic Tech Impact
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...
Justice Media co-Lab
The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and d...
Design Ethnography Lab
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, cu...
Beirut Urban Lab
Refugees as City-Makers
Center for Democracy and Citizenship
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 learnin...
The Policy Lab
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 acr...
Coalition for Independent Tech Research
The mission of the Coalition for Independent Tech Research is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.
Conectados al Sur
Bienvenidxs!
LaborTech Book & Graduate Student Paper Awards
We aim to reframe the conversation about technology and labor towards issues of power, inequality, and social justice, and incorporate themes of feminism, anti-racism, and transnationalism.
Brown Information Futures Lab
Our lab is where technology, innovation, policy and community meet, one pilot at a time.
Global Disinformation Lab at UT Austin
The Global DisInformation Lab (GDIL) was established in 2020 at the University of Texas at Austin to encourage collaborative interdisciplinary academic research on the global circulation of misinforma...
Public Interest Technology (PInT) at Olin College
PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at Olin College of Engineering
PIT-UN Network Challenge
The Network Challenge is a grant program designed to seed and support initiatives that promote public interest in technology at the university level.