Actors

These actors are engaged in transparency initiatives in some way, including through the production of transparency products, materials, or reports. By contrast with initiatives, actors are not time-limited – they have an indefinite duration – and may be engaged in a range of different initiatives unrelated to transparency, as well as transparency itself.

Barcelona Centre for International Affairs (Centro de Barcelona para Asuntos Internacionales) (CIDOB)

CIDOB conducts research and policy analysis on global issues in peace and security. As part of its work on security, CIDOB researchers have published on disinformation and EU responses, Russia’s[...]

Subject tag: Disinformation and misinformation | Public Policy | Research

Bellingcat

Bellingcat is an independent international collective of researchers, investigators and citizen journalists using open source and social media investigation to probe a variety of subjects, including online influence operations. It[...]

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

Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University

The Berkman Klein Center’s mission is to explore and understand cyberspace; to study its development, dynamics, norms, and standards; and to assess the need or lack thereof for laws and[...]

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Data Access | Privacy and data protection

Bitly

Bitly is a URL shortening service and a link management platform. The company Bitly, Inc. was established in 2008. It is privately held and based in New York City.

Brainbox Institute (Brainbox)

The Brainbox Institute is a think tank and consultancy founded in 2018 and based in New Zealand. It specialises in issues at the intersection of technology, law and public policy[...]

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Artificial Intelligence (AI) | automated decision-making | Data Access | Deepfakes | disability rights | Disinformation | Disinformation and misinformation | Government transparency | human rights | law as code | multi-stakeholder governance of technology | synthetic media | Terrorism and violent extremism

Brennan Center for Justice

Brookings Institution

The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to conduct in-depth, nonpartisan research to improve policy and governance at local, national, and global levels.

Bruegel

Established in 2005, it is independent and non-doctrinal. Bruegel’s mission is to improve the quality of economic policy with open and fact-based research, analysis and debate. Bruegel are committed to[...]

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

Center for an Informed Public (University of Washington)

The CIP is an interdisciplinary, non-partisan effort to convene industry, government, nonprofit, and academic stakeholders around developing strategies to resist misinformation and support an informed public in order to strengthen[...]

Subject tag: Democracy & Civil Liberties | Disinformation and misinformation | Research

Center for Computational Analysis of Social and Organizational Systems (CASOS) (Carnegie Mellon University)

CASOS develops and applies computational tools for utilizing data to analyse social phenomena, to explain and predict social behaviour using these tools, and to measure and evaluate the impact of[...]

Subject tag: Algorithmic systems | Democracy & Civil Liberties | Disinformation and misinformation | Privacy and data protection | Public Policy | Research | Terrorism and violent extremism