New Dashboards for a Rapidly Changing World

In a year marked by threats to civic freedoms, climate shocks, and shifting geopolitical influence, clear insights into trends matters more than ever.

At PDRI-DevLab@Penn, our Machine Learning for Peace (MLP) team transforms local news reporting into structured data for policymakers and researchers.

Today, we’re launching three public dashboards:

• Civic Space Explorer: Track 20 monthly civic dynamics including protest activity, legal changes, police mobilization, and media threats.
• Resurgent Authoritarian Influence (RAI) Explorer: Examine 22 Russian and Chinese influence activities across diplomatic, economic, information, and security domains.
• Environmental Events (MLEED) Explorer: Move beyond climate data to trace how environmental stressors induce 13 types of social, private sector, and government responses.

Users can move from global to country-level views, follow trends over time, compare countries, and analyze patterns using built-in analytical tools.

For example: examine how legal pressure on civil society evolves before and after elections, compare foreign influence across world regions, or track environmentally-induced displacement over time.

Together, these dashboards create high-impact analytical infrastructure for early warning, evidence-based policy decisions, and cross-country comparative research on civic space, security, and climate.

Methodological documentation and indicator definitions are available on each dashboard page. We welcome feedback and collaboration inquiries.