The Just Tech program empowers an intersectional network of scholars and practitioners to imagine more equitable technological futures. Just Tech will foreground questions of justice and public impact to enrich discourse and inform policy on technological development.
The Abe Fellowship Program fosters the development of and connection between US and Japan-based researchers interested in policy-relevant topics. The program was established in 1991 by the Japan Foundation Center for Global Partnership (CGP).
The Social Data Initiative explores social media’s impact on society by supporting cutting-edge research and engaging with questions of research ethics and privacy in an era where the internet shapes business, journalism, and global politics.
The Media & Democracy program explores the relationship between media, technology, and politics. Through research workshops, public events, and publications, Media & Democracy incubates research and situates modern political change in historical and cultural contexts.
Measure of America promotes fact-based public debate about well-being and access to opportunity in the United States, focusing on three issues Americans care deeply about: health, education, and standard of living.
The Digital Culture program examines the role of technology in social science research, in the distribution of information, and in the shaping of cultural and political systems to serve the SSRC’s core aims of deepening and democratizing knowledge.
The Cuba Program is designed to extend scholarly relations between Cuba and the United States by organizing travel by researchers, enabling the translation and publication of Cuban scholarly works, and maintaining Cuban libraries, archives, and museums.
