Directory of transparency initiatives

Initiatives are programmes of work or collaborations undertaken by one or more actors. They are generally subject-specific and temporary in nature by comparison with actors. Where an initiative involves ongoing disclosure of information (such as a researcher access programme) or produces a single kind of document or output (including policies and legislation) it may be better classified as a ‘product’.

Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (Princeton University)

The Empirical Studies of Conflict Project (ESOC) launched in 2009 to support research on insurgency, civil war, and other politically motivated violence, worldwide. Today, ESOC identifies and compiles a wide[...]

Subject tag: Disinformation and misinformation | Public Policy | Research | Terrorism and violent extremism

Ethics & Governance of Artificial Intelligence Initiative (Media Lab) (MIT)

Launched in 2017, the Ethics and Governance of AI Initiative is a hybrid research effort and philanthropic fund that seeks to ensure that technologies of automation and machine learning are[...]

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Democracy & Civil Liberties | Research

Freedom Online Coalition

The Freedom Online Coalition is a group of countries deeply committed to the human rights and fundamental freedoms proclaimed in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. We believe that the[...]

Subject tag: Government transparency | Privacy and data protection

Global Online Safety Regulators Network

The Global Online Safety Regulators Network is the only global forum dedicated to supporting collaboration between online safety regulators, sending a strong message about our shared commitment to online safety[...]

Subject tag: Advertising | Algorithmic systems | Child safety | Data Access | Disinformation and misinformation | Government transparency | Privacy and data protection | Terrorism and violent extremism

Global Platform Governance Network (GPGN)

The GPGN is a global community of civil servants, legislative staff and regulators committed to a collaborative and harmonized approach to address pressing issues related to digital platform governance. The[...]

Subject tag: Privacy and data protection | Terrorism and violent extremism

Information & Democracy Commission (Reporters Without Borders)

RSF gathered an International Commission on Information & Democracy in 2018 and is working to implement the principles outlined in the resulting International Declaration on Information & Democracy that support[...]

Subject tag: Data Access | Democracy & Civil Liberties | Government transparency

Information Operations Archive

The Information Operation Archive hosts publicly available and rigorously attributed datapoints from known Information Operations on social media platforms. [This entry was sourced from the Carnegie Endowment’s Partnership for Countering[...]

Subject tag: Disinformation and misinformation | Research

Information Warfare Working Group, European Security Initiative (Center for International Security and Cooperation) (Stanford University)

The Information Warfare Working Group is housed at The Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University. It is a multidisciplinary group of Stanford University scholars that meet quarterly[...]

Subject tag: Disinformation and misinformation | Public Policy | Research

ISD Digital Policy Lab

Funded by the German Federal Foreign Office, the Digital Policy Lab (DPL) is an intergovernmental working group focused on charting the regulatory and policy path forward to prevent and counter[...]

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Terrorism and violent extremism

Jigsaw

Jigsaw is a unit within Google that explores threats to open societies, and builds technology that inspires scalable solutions.

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Disinformation and misinformation | Government transparency | Research | Terrorism and violent extremism