The Polis Center works with communities in Indiana and beyond to develop and apply knowledge, to build collaborations, and to find innovative solutions to common problems. We excel in community-based research and advanced information technologies, especially geographic information systems (GIS). Working in partnership with other organizations, we address issues of mutual concern, and with our network of relationships, we bring together disparate groups and interests to find common ground.

We are a unit of the Indiana University School of Liberal Arts at Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis.