A multidisciplinary event to fix the systemic, legal corruption that is weakening our public institutions around the world. Organized by the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University and the MIT Center for Civic Media.

Hundreds of researchers, journalists, activists, and scholars from a variety of fields have come together at the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics, under the direction of Lawrence Lessig, to investigate, map, and find solutions for institutional corruption around the world. Now, after five years of research and reporting, we need your help getting this work out of the ivory tower and into the hands of the people.

"Institutional corruption is manifest when there is a systemic and strategic influence which is legal, or even currently ethical, that undermines the institution's effectiveness by diverting it from its purpose or weakening its ability to achieve its purpose, including, to the extent relevant to its purpose, weakening either the public's trust in that institution or the institution's inherent trustworthiness."

- Lawrence Lessig, "Institutional Corruption, Defined"

The Lab has data, documents, and knowledge to share in a variety of fields, from pharma to academia to Wall Street to K Street. We need your help creating usable tools for the public.

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