Research and policy centers
Research and policy centers develop evidence- and ideology-based recommendations to address societal challenges, inform policy decisions, and promote effective governance.
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 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...
Digital Commons Lab
Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.
The International Public Policy Observatory (IPPO)
The International Public Policy Observatory finds, distils and shares the best global evidence for policy practice across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE)
A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment
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...
Israel Tech Policy Institute
Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies
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.
Responsible Technology Initiative
A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums
Eticas
We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compl...
Data for Development Network
Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally
Polis (London School of Economics)
London School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.
JournalismAI
JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.
Jacobs Urban Tech Hub at Cornell Tech
Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.
Critical Infrastructure Lab
the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.
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...
Centre for Deliberative Democracy and Global Governance
Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy
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...
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.
Collaborative Indigenous Research
The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.
Institute for Rebooting Social Media
We are a three-year research initiative addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.
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...
Data Foundation
Improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy
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...
The IDA B. WELLS Just Data Lab
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 r...
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...
The Cato Institute
Libertarian think tank conducting research and advocacy on public policy issues.
research4impact
We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.
Social Science Research Council (SSRC)
100 years of social and behavioral science in the public interest
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...
UNC Center for Innovation & Sustainability in Local Media
CISLM will grow a more equitable and sustainable future for local news, the journalists who make it and the communities that need it.
CIPESA
ICT Policy Centre for Eastern and Southern Africa — Promoting effective and inclusive ICT Policy in Africa
The Media Manipulation Casebook
Case studies. The Media Manipulation Casebook is a digital research platform linking together theory, methods, and practice for mapping media manipulation and disinformation campaigns.
The Computational Propaganda Project
Since 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.
The (mis)informed citizen
Research project at the Alan Turing Institute
Institute for Development of Freedom of Information MEMORY AND DISINFORMATION STUDIES
Within the disinformation and memory studies direction, the Institute for Development of Freedom of Information (IDFI) team is developing tools in several ways.
Mobile Information Literacy Project
The Technology & Social Change Group (TASCHA) at the University of Washington's Information School explores the role of digital technologies in building more open, inclusive, and equitable societies.
Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech
We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017
Initiative for Digital Public Infrastructure
We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.
The Surveillance Technology Oversight Project (STOP)
S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.