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RJI Interactive Map of Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPP) Laws

The Reynolds Journalism Institute's up-to-date guide to anti-SLAPP laws — which target frivolous lawsuits that attempt to impede free speech — is now available as an interactive map.

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA
2026

Data Governance Self-Assessment

The Data Governance Self Assessment is an interactive tool that helps organizations examine the maturity of their data governance practices, identify gaps, and set priorities for action.

2026

The Budget Lab at Yale

The Budget Lab at Yale is a non-partisan policy research center that provides in-depth analysis of federal policy proposals for the American economy.

New Haven, CT

Harnessing Data for Democratic Development in South and Southeast Asia (D4DAsia)

The 'Harnessing Data for Democratic Development in South and Southeast Asia' project currently being implemented by LIRNEasia is focused on the data policy ecosystems in South and Southeast Asia.

ENHANCE Cities

ENHANCE Cities is a free interactive mapping tool from UCL's CASA that visualises urban-planning and sustainable-transport indicators, transport accessibility, travel sustainability, brownfield sites, 15-minute-city access, across England and Wales, from national to neighbourhood scale.

Marylebone, London, UK
2026

Digital Civic Infrastructure Initiative

The Digital Civic Infrastructure Initiative is a new Harvard Kennedy School program (in the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, led by Danielle Allen) helping local governments use technology to strengthen democracy, transparency, and citizen engagement, with an early output being Open Book, a free open-source municipal budget-transparency tool.

Cambridge, MA
2026

Computable Competition–Cooperation Mechanisms

An open-source reference implementation for making declared multi-actor constraints explicit, reproducible, and challengeable across competition and cooperation scenarios.

Informational Democracy

A working group of the Max Planck Institute for Political and Social Science. Informational Democracy publishes provocations, groundings, and reflections on topics such as collective intelligence, the role of AI in democratic systems, attention as a democratic resource, and the infrastructural transformation of the public sphere.

2026