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.
Public Interest Technology at Cornell Tech
Public Interest Technology (PiTech) at Cornell Tech catalyzes and amplifies technical advances that promote societal welfare and address systematically unfulfilled needs
Labor Tech Research Network
We are an interdisciplinary group of experts in labor, technology, anti-racism, feminism, and transnationalism.
NYU Tandon Cybersecurity for Democracy
Cybersecurity for Democracy is a research-based effort to expose online threats to our social fabric – and recommend how to counter them. We are part of the Center for Cybersecurity at NYU.
Technical University of Munich School of Management Center for Digital Transformation
The Center for Digital Transformation researches issues related to digitization and its challenges and opportunities.
Urban AI
Urban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.
PIT Lab @Stanford
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.
Studio at Cornell Tech
The Studio at Cornell Tech is a place for students, faculty and practitioners from across disciplines and industries to come together and bridge the gap between the ideas generated in an academic inst...
NYU Public Interest Technology Institute
A 2-week virtual conference for early and mid-career faculty who seek to accelerate their work in public interest technology
Town+Gown
Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practition...
The Burnes Center for Social Change @ Northeastern University
Where ideas and action intersect to create real social impact.
Global Network of Internet and Society Research Centers
The NoC a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Intern...
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media
The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy...
Public Interest AI at HIIG
Alexander von Humboldt Institut FĂĽr Internet und Gesellschaft
The Reporters’ Lab
The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about tru...
AI Now Institute
The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
Ada Lovelace Institute
An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.
City Resilience Index
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
AI for Good Foundation
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
Stanford Impact Labs
Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems
Harvard Democracy and Internet Governance Initiative (DIGI)
Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on...
CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore
CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore is a research hub led by Dr. Weiyu Zhang. We are a team of social scientists, computer scientists, and digital cultural analysts.
The Urban Institute
Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.
The Open Institute
a research and teaching cooperative
Tow Center for Digital Journalism at Columbia University
Led by director Emily Bell since our founding in 2010, our team of researchers examines digital journalism’s industry-wide economic trends, its cultural shifts, and its relationship with the broader,...
GovLab (The Governance Lab)
GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions...
Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR)
The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
PIT @ The City University of New York
Making Tech Education and Research a Transformational Force in Serving the Public Good
Center on Privacy and Technology
The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy.
InternetLab
InternetLab is an independent research center that aims to foster academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy
Development Initiatives
Development Initiatives works to end extreme poverty by making data and information on poverty and resources transparent, accessible, and useable.
The Center for Communication and Civic Renewal
To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems
Center for an Urban Future
Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.
Citizens' Initiative Review
Citizens' Initiative Review processes bring randomly selected and representative panels of voters together to fairly and thoroughly evaluate ballot measures and give voters information they can trust.
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency in Machine Learning community compilation
Association of Internet Researchers
The Association of Internet Researchers is a member-based, academic association dedicated to the promotion of critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and exis...
Data & Society Research Institute
Data & Society is a research institute focused on the social and cultural issues arising from data-centric technological development.
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.
Instituto Update
Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.
SAFELAB
The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Turing Institute AI for science and government (ASG)
A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.
Institut fĂĽr Protest- und Bewegungsforschung
Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.
Berkman Klein Center for the Internet and Society
We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our m...
Liberation Tech
The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a...
Cal Poly Institute For Advanced Technology and Public Policy
The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.
FundaciĂłn Avina
FundaciĂłn Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders...
Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA)
ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.
Oxford Internet Institute
A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.
Digital Civil Society Lab
Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.
City Science Network
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs