The IDPO collects and curates content from multiple resources: news (GDELT), academic research (Semantic Scholar), digital platforms (Spotify, YouTube), plus a range of publicly sourced bills, laws, regulations, and policymaking outputs. We prioritise resources which are freely accessible and in the public domain.

The data and information available from IDPO is subject to Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY-SA-4.0). This means you are free to:

• Share: copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format for any purpose, even commercially.
• Adapt: remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially.

You may use one or more of the applicating programming interfaces (APIs) to facilitate access to IDPO data. Further documentation is available here

If you utilise IDPO datasets and insights for your research, policy, or practice we would expect you to include a citation to the IDPO section with a link to this project. The project can be cited in APA format as:

[Page] [Year]. International Digital Policy Observatory (2024). The University of Sydney. [Web address].

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