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The Fondation Descartes

The Fondation Descartes is a citizen-based, non-partisan, and independent European foundation dedicated to information-based issues.

Operations and Governance

The Fondation Descartes is structured around three main bodies: a board of directors chaired by Jean-Philippe Hecketsweiler; a scientific advisory board led by Gérald Bronner; and a permanent team headed by Laurent Cordonier, director of research.

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Our reports

Each year, the Fondation Descartes publishes an in-depth study on one of its key topics related to disinformation: conflicts, health, or climate. Explore these publications in full.

Thematic overviews

The Fondation Descartes publishes thematic overviews written by its research team on major themes related to information and disinformation.

Experts' blog

The Fondation Descartes publishes contributions from its affiliated experts, who speak in a personal capacity. The expert circle is multidisciplinary, including specialists from information and communication sciences, cognitive and behavioral sociology, international relations, philosophy, psychology, and journalism.

Our annual conferences

The Fondation Descartes organises annual conferences revolving around health, climate and conflict disinformation.

Our partnerships

In its efforts to tackle disinformation, the Fondation Descartes joins forces with other key players in the information ecosystem.

Our podcasts

With France Info, the Fondation Descartes explores historical disinformation in its podcast series "Les Infox de l'Histoire."

Actors

The Descartes Foundation offers you a cartography of the main actors involved in researching on the quality of information, or in fighting against disinformation, in France and throughout the world.

Initiatives

Fact checkers, web extensions, journalistic standards... The Fondation Descartes offers you a map of initiatives in France and around the world involved in asserting the quality of information or in fighting against disinformation.

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Category: Acteurs

Info Ops Polska Foundation

This Polish think-tank was created to develop and implement projects guaranteeing information security. The think-tank focuses on Russian efforts to generate informational disorder.

Netherlands Helsinki Committee

The Netherlands Helsinki Committee (NHC) is a non-governmental organization that promotes human rights and strengthens the rule of law and democracy in all countries of Europe, and the Central Asian countries participating in the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE).

NATOStratCom Centre of Excellence

NATO think-tank that concerns itself with news media, information and communication.

The global disinformation index

Indexation project aiming to catalog the news media outlets of every country so as to classify them according to the degree of trust their readers should place in them.

Conspiracy Watch

Conspiracy Watch is an offspring of the Observatoire du Conspirationnism (association under the French law of 1901), with the support of the Foundation for the Remembrance of the Holocaust.

Société Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication

The SFSIC provides a reflection and a platform for conversation on questions pertaining to the role of information, communication, and digital technology.  

UNESCO - International Programme for the Development of Communication

UNESCO, in its International Programme for the Development of Communication, assists developing countries in establishing a pluralistic and qualitative media environment. L'UNESCO dans son Programme international pour le développement de la communication aide les pays en développement à accéder à un environnement médiatique pluraliste et qualitatif.

Open Society Foundation

The Open Society Foundation financially supports organizations in various domains (information, technology, journalism) that promote civil liberties, in an effort to cultivate more inclusive and more democratic societies.

National Endowment for Democracy

The NGO explores the different types of democratic responses to attempts by anti-liberal powers to manipulate and influence information.

Yale University Law School - Abrams Institute & Information Society Project (ISP)

The Information Society Project is a think-tank affiliated to Yale University, which describes itself as an "intellectual center". It consists of academics concerned with the complex relationships between law, technology, and civil society. It notably cooperates with the Abrams Institute on topics relating to freedom of expression and information.

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