Past Programs and Activities
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The Cities program advanced policy discussion and knowledge sharing about expanding opportunity in cities and urban areas.
The American Assembly launched the Open Syllabus Project (OSP), an effort to build the first large-scale online database of university course syllabi as a platform for the development of new research, teaching, and administrative tools.
Shadow Libraries was large-scale comparative research project on the provision of educational materials in higher education, with a focus on how students get the materials they need.
The Next Generation Project set out to discover fresh perspectives about US global policy by identifying and engaging the best emerging young talent from a wide range of vocations and regions of the country.
The American Assembly successfully incubated and established an independent working group on Middle Neighborhoods on June 30, 2019. Today, the Middle Neighborhoods project is administered by NACEDA.
The American Assembly successfully incubated the Global Institute on Innovation Districts (GIID) on June 30, 2019 by establishing an independent nonprofit.
The Global Congress is the home of an international network of scholars and activists working on the changing regulatory and policy environment around knowledge and information.
An effort to better understand how the ‘Notice and Takedown’ process mediates conflicts between Internet users, rights holders, and online service providers. An empirical study of the issue was published in March 2016.
The first independent, large-scale study of music, film and software piracy in emerging economies, with a focus on Brazil, India, Russia, South Africa, Mexico and Bolivia.
Influence Mapping is an effort to take the next step in making mapping a more powerful collaborative enterprise. The project’s focus is standards development and the improvement of sharable toolsets.
