About the IFAAR
Institute for Applied Argumentation Research IFAAR, Bern, Switzerland.
The Institute for Applied Argumentation Research, hereinafter called IFAAR, is a co-operative society based in Bern, primarily specialising in eGovernment-, eGovernance- and Web-Research. Since 1994 the private research institute has been developing computer-based systems for digital content analysis of media, news, web content and websites. Additionally, the IFAAR conducts scientific basic research in the field of search engines, eGovernment, web research, website analyses and digital find engines, seen as counterparts to search engines. Founded in 1994 by the political scientist and media researcher Dr. Christoph Glauser, the IFAAR and the research methodologies developed at the IFAAR are world-wide leading in digital content analysis.
The IFAAR does research for national and international institutions, administrations, universities, colleges of higher education, schools and NGOs. The IFAAR accompanies public campaigns and offers basic research and evaluation in the fields of eGovernment and eGovernance.
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