The Forum on Information and Democracy is pleased to announce the creation of a strategic partnership between its International Observatory on Information and Democracy and the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), through its Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF). The aim of this partnership is to strengthen their collaboration around the use of the Gargantext platform, an innovative tool developed by the ISC-PIF, enabling collaborative and in-depth analysis of textual corpora.
‘This partnership with the CNRS Institut des Systèmes Complexes will strengthen our methods for analyzing the digital information ecosystem and its impact on democracy. This cooperation will enable us to expand and synthesize the Observatory’s meta-research with innovative tools for processing large text corpora and visualizing scientific data, promoting knowledge exchange and innovation in the field of research.’
Iris Boyer, Head of the Observatory
The International Observatory on Information and Democracy is currently making progress on the production of its inaugural report (to be published in January 2025), which aims to take stock of global research on the impact of the information ecosystem on democracy. The report explores major themes such as artificial intelligence, media in the digital age, data governance and disinformation. To date, the observatory has gathered and synthesized more than 3,000 sources dealing with these themes.
The aim of the partnership with the ISC-PIF is to extend and illustrate this research using the Gargantext tool and all its available functions, in particular to create cartographic representations analyzing the connections between these bodies of text. This will enable a dynamic visualization of the data and conclusions of the report, and more broadly, facilitate understanding of the crucial issues at the intersection between information and democracy.
‘The ISC-PIF is convinced that the scientific analysis of documentary content is the key to restoring global confidence in scientific and political discourse. This partnership marks a crucial step in our mission to strengthen democratic foundations in the information age.’
David Chavalarias, Director of the Institut des Systèmes Complexes de Paris Île-de-France (ISC-PIF)
