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Data corrections. If a number, citation, or attribution on a working paper or scoreboard is wrong, write in. Every claim on the site resolves to a primary document; if the document says something different from what we wrote, we update the record and credit the correction in the registry.
Commissioned research and collaborations.We work with a small number of universities, foundations, governments, and firms on custom research programs alongside the public ones. If your team needs a public, dated, calibrated read on a policy or technology question — or wants to fund or co-author a program — describe the question and a rough timeline.
Press and citation. Journalists citing the scoreboards or essays in print can request the underlying dataset, methodology version, and a quote-on-record from the editors. Cite as: Forward Indicators (2026), Working Paper No. [N], forwardindicators.org/projects/[slug].
General correspondence. Tips, source pointers, dissent, methodology challenges, follow-up questions. Real names appreciated; pseudonyms accepted for source-protection reasons.
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Most correspondence comes through the form below. Direct email also works: phillip@forwardindicators.org.
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