Expert Working Groups

KGI convenes expert working groups (EWGs) that bring together relevant experts to produce policy options and tools based on existing knowledge and evidence. KGI builds EWGs by inviting selected volunteer contributors from across academia, industry, civil society, journalism, and practitioner communities to engage in a focused collaboration on a specific policy topic over the course of 6-12 months or more. The goal of each EWG is to produce non-partisan resources of broad utility to policymakers and industry decisionmakers. Learn more about KGI Expert Working Groups here.

Gold Standard Expert Working Group

The Gold Standard Expert Working Group brings together leading researchers, advocates, and journalists with deep and diverse experience related to social media platform transparency. The EWG works to proactively articulate a Gold Standard for Publicly Available Platform Data, a framework for what kind of platform data should be made publicly available, under what circumstances, and in what format. The Gold Standard EWG is designing   a uniform, cross-industry framework that allows for understanding the online information ecosystem as a whole, not in platform-specific silos mediated by ever-dwindling and highly structured researcher access opportunities. Learn more about the Gold Standard here.

Expert Working Group on Recommender Systems

The KGI Expert Working Group on Recommender Systems brings together researchers at the frontier of online recommender system design with leading civil society and industry practitioners. With expertise spanning computer science, data science, economics, social science, law, and policy, the group works to articulate how the algorithmic feeds that power today’s online experiences can be designed to put users’ interests first, and how public policy can support that goal. Read the group’s work in Better Feeds: Algorithms that Put People First.