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Research And Policy Centers

Explore 274 projects in the Research And Policy Centers category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.

274 projects

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.

Tbilisi

Knight-Georgetown Institute (KGI)

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 related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.

Georgetown University, 3700 O St NW, Washington, DC 20057, United States
2023

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

MIT Media Lab

Mitigating Wildfire

The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.

Burnaby, Canada
fires

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 Digitalisierung

Überseeallee 16, Hamburg, Germany
city, Sustainable cities and communities

Visualization and Data Analytics Lab (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 societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

New York University
2014

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.

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA, USA

DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society (FuJo)

DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society has been pioneering media & journalism research, innovation and best-practice since 2015.

Dublin, Ireland