Peer-reviewed research
Collaborative research programs dedicated to investigate the relations between technology and civic engagement and other challenges around concepts like citizenship, participation, and democracy.
Information Technology & Innovation Foundation
ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.
Beeck Center
The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change...
Edinburgh Futures Institute
Teams of researchers will work with up to 350 partner organisations on a range of topics and themes, including how data-driven innovation can improve public services in the region, the role of artific...
Emerging Digital Technologies & Citizen Participation
Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies
Programme on the Governance of Emerging Technologies
This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.
Center for an Informed Public
To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.
The Project on Governing the Digital Public Sphere
To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere
The Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy...
Institute of Technology & Society of Rio de Janeiro
studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world
Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet CLISI
Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales
CivLab
CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.
LSE Cities
LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad.
Citizen Data Lab Amsterdam
A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.
The Project on Democracy and the Internet
To field-leading study of the challenges that democracy faces in the digital age and what reforms are needed
Civic Signals
Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.
The Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics
To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.
Data & Policy Journal
Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.
NYU Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center (VIDA)
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 socie...
The Center for Social Media and Politics
To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.