Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law is housed in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies
Science and Technology
Scholarly Publications
The Future of Platform Power: Solving for a Moving Target
This essay is a part of an exchange based on Francis Fukuyama’s “Making the Internet...
Governance Innovation for a Connected World: Protecting Free Expression, Diversity and Civic Engagement in the Global Digital Ecosystem
November 2018
The emergence of a global digital ecosystem has been a boon for global communication and the democratization of the means of distributing information.
Other Publications
Conference Report: Coalition Against Corruption [Jan. 2014]
January 2015
CoCo 2014 was the inaugural edition of the Coalition against Corruption (CoCo) conference co-hosted by The Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law, Stanford University, Janaagraha...
Capital Account Liberalization: Lessons for the Chile Singapore Trade Agreements
December 2003
Chairman King, Ranking Member Moloney and distinguished members of the committee, my name is Peter Henry Blair.
How to Look Credible in Promoting Liberty
June 2003
George W. Bush wants Americans and the world to believe that the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime two months ago represented a defeat for tyranny and a victory for liberty.
News
Foreign governments are fed up with social media - and threatening prison for tech employees
April 2019
Eileen Donahoe discusses the likely implications of government regulations a foreseeable criminal consequences on big tech companies in the piece by David Ingram for NBC News. Read it here.
Social Media and Democracy
October 2017
CDDRL Mosbacher Director Francis Fukuyama writes on social media and democracy in relaunched publication The American Interest. Read the article here.
Don’t fear the robots
July 2017
"The robots aren't going to take over, or even destroy jobs," says CDDRL's Jerry Kaplan. Read the article here.
Old Events
The Rise and Fall of Technology in Chinese History
August 12, 2021
About the Seminar: Joseph Needham famously asked why China did not have its own Industrial Revolution.
Open Government Partnership - A new platform for reforms in transparent and accountable governments
January 23, 2015
Three years ago, world leaders from 8 countries came together to launch the Open Government Partnership (OGP) - a multi-stakeholder initiative that brings together domestic reformers committed to...
Projects
Empowering Women Leaders
Sweeping reforms of Indian government institutions created space for women’s political inclusion at an unprecedented scale.
English
Combating Corruption with Mobile Phones
India’s right to information movement had tremendous success in making strategic use of transparency for securing government accountability.
English
Program on Liberation Technology
The Program on Liberation Technology at Stanford's Center on Democracy, Development, and the Rule of Law seeks to understand how information technology can be used to improve governance, empower...
English
Multimedia
Democracy Rebooted: The Future of Technology in Elections
September 2015
Event Abstract:On September 24, Stanford’s Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law in partnership with The Atlantic Counci presented a public address by President Toomas Ilves of Estonia on the future of technology in elections....
Managing Collective Intelligence in Open Journalism
October 2014
AbstractIn her talk, Aitamurto focuses on the idea that large crowds of people can be more knowledgeable than a single expert.
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