Technology & Governance Research

Starling Lab for Data Integrity

Innovating with the latest cryptographic methods and decentralized web protocols to meet the technical and ethical challenges of establishing trust in our most sensitive digital records.

Stanford Legal Design Lab

The Stanford Legal Design Lab conducts research, designs interventions, and develops technologies and policies to promote equal access to justice.

Regulation, Evaluation and Governance Lab

RegLab partners with government agencies to design and evaluate programs, policies, and technologies that modernize government.

Golub Captial Social Impact Lab

Government Services: Technology can be leveraged to transform the public sector, improving government service delivery while increasing fairness, transparency, and accountability.

Technology Policy Accelerator

Seeks to understand the drivers and dynamics of technological innovation in the 21st century, assess opportunities and risks that breakthrough technologies are creating, and develop governance approaches that maximize the benefits and mitigate the risks.

Tech Track 2

TT2 seeks to break down barriers between the government, industry, and academia, and inspire partnerships that reinforce US advantages critical to protecting liberal Democratic values, fostering prosperity, and preserving peace worldwide.

China’s Global Sharp Power

The China’s Global Sharp Power Project delivers data-driven analysis and actionable solutions that equip decisionmakers to strike more resilient, balanced, and vigilant relationships with the People’s Republic of China.

Global Digital Policy Incubator

The mission of the Global Digital Policy Incubator at the Stanford Cyber Policy Center is to inspire policy and governance innovations that reinforce Democratic values, universal human rights, and the rule of law in the digital realm.

Program on Platform Regulation

The Program on Platform Regulation focuses on current or emerging law governing Internet platforms, with an emphasis on laws’ consequences for the rights and interests of Internet users and the public.

Program on Governance and Emerging Technologies

The Program on Governance of Emerging Technologies aims to build a path for future research and policymaking in order to explore the impacts of emerging technologies on democratic governance, rule of law, and socioeconomic inequality.

Stanford Center for Internet and Society

The Stanford Center for Internet and Society (CIS) focuses on the intersection of law, policy, and technology.

Cyber Policy Center

Stanford University's research center for the interdisciplinary study of issues at the nexus of technology, governance and public policy focused on digital technologies impacting democracy, security, and geopolitics globally.