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.
Global Disinformation Index
We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.
National University of Singapore Centre for Integrated Building Energy and Sustainability in the Tropics (CiBEST)
CITRIS – Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society
CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.
Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of...
The Free Speech Project
The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an onli...
The Engine Room
We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.
Colaboratorio de Desenvolvimento e Participaçāo (Co:Lab)
O COLAB é um centro de pesquisa que atua também no desenvolvimento de software e na formação de pessoas.
Vox Populi Stanford
Décider ensemble
Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels
MIT GOV/LAB
The MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
mySociety Research
Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.
GovEx Center for Government Excellence
GovEx at Johns Hopkins successfully helps governments effectively use data in order to make informed decisions on services that improve people’s lives.
Common Cents Lab
Solutions that aim to increase the financial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States
Programa de Derechos Humanos
El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la inc...
Open Governance Research Exchange
OGRX is a platform for browsing and sharing research findings about new, innovative ways to solve public problems.
Chatham House Commission on Democracy and Technology
Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.
The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)
The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Center for Human Rights Sciences
CHRS
HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)
User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.
CityScienceLab at HafenCity University Hamburg
Das CityScienceLab der HafenCity Universität Hamburg erforscht mit PartnerInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft die Veränderung von Städten im Kontext der Digitalisieru...
Analyst Institute
Collaborating with progressive organizations and Democratic campaigns around the US to measure & increase the impact of their programs.
Data61
We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.
Centre for Internet and Society
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is an Indian, non-profit organization that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives --...
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)
Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online
Stanford PACs Center on Philanthropy and Civil Society
Scholars. Practitioners. Leaders.
Norman Lear Center
Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society
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...
PeaceTech Living Learning Community
Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”
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...
Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI)
CIGI builds bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis to offer innovative policy solutions for the digital era.
American National Election Studies
"To my mind, the ANES has been the single most important resource in my career in political psychology."
MacArthur Research Network on Opening Governance
The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to...
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.
Civic Tech Innovation Network (CTIN)
Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation
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 Civic Data Design Lab
“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.
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.
Project for Public Spaces
Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.
Institute of Information Law
The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.
OpenGov Foundation
The OpenGov Foundation is a fiercely apolitical nonprofit dedicated to serving those who serve the people in America’s legislatures.
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.
UW Tech Policy Lab
The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington brings together experts in law, information, and computer science to enhance technology policy.
MSc Media and Communications (LSE Data and Society)
MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)