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Public Knowledge is an American non-profit public interest group based in Washington, D.C. Founded in 2001 by David Bollier, Gigi Sohn, and Laurie Racine, Public Knowledge is primarily involved in the fields of intellectual property law, competition and choice in the digital marketplace, and an open standards/end-to-end internet.
The Public Knowledge Project grew between 2005 and 2009. In 2006, there were approximately 400 journals using Open Journal Systems (OJS), 50 conferences using Open Conference Systems (OCS), 4 organizations using the Harvester, and 350 members registered on the online support forum. In 2009, over 5000 journals were using OJS, more than 500 ...
Eric M. Klinenberg (born November 14, [citation needed] 1970) is an American sociologist and a scholar of urban studies, culture, and media.He is currently Helen Gould Shepard Professor in Social Science and Director of the Institute for Public Knowledge at New York University.
The PIRGs emerged in the early 1970s on U.S. college campuses. The PIRG model was proposed in the book Action for a Change by Ralph Nader and Donald Ross, in which they encourage students on campuses across a state to pool their resources to hire full-time professional lobbyists and researchers to lobby for the passage of legislation which addresses social topics of interest to students. [5]
[8] [9] The institute has also conducted studies on the dissemination of disinformation and bias from state actors, including Iran, [10] Russia, [11] and China. [12] Other research areas include the study and prevention of sextortion, [13] child sexual abuse, [14] and the negative consequences of DEI programs, such as workplace hostility and ...
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ISKME's initial research focused on the capacity of college faculty and administrators to use educational data to inform decision-making as well as knowledge management in the philanthropic sector. In 2002, ISKME conducted a study for grantmakers in education on the sharing of data and information among foundations.
A research institute, research centre, or research organization is an establishment founded for doing research. Research institutes may specialize in basic research or may be oriented to applied research .