Our vision is to transform the way we learn, play, work, and live to create the society in which we want to live.

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• Build something

ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

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• Research and policy centers

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.

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• Civic data
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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 artificial intelligence and the ethics of data.

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CIGI builds bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis to offer innovative policy solutions for the digital era.

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• Govtech
• Emerging tech

"To my mind, the ANES has been the single most important resource in my career in political psychology."

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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 defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

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To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

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• Media

Making technologies work for governance, accountability, and civic participation

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This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

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“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

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To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

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• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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 and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

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studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

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Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

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• Peer-reviewed research

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

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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.

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The University of Amsterdam’s organisational structure and governance model.

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The OpenGov Foundation is a fiercely apolitical nonprofit dedicated to serving those who serve the people in America’s legislatures.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Peer-reviewed research

A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

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The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington brings together experts in law, information, and computer science to enhance technology policy.

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• Research and policy centers

MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)

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• Research and policy centers

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Civic Signals aims to inspire and connect designers and technologists to build more flourishing, public-friendly digital spaces.

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• Research and policy centers