Peer-reviewed research
Collaborative research programs dedicated to investigate the relations between technology and civic engagement and other challenges around concepts like citizenship, participation, and democracy.
Understanding journalism impact: A multi-dimensional taxonomy for professional, organizational and societal change
Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.
The Decidim ‘soft infrastructure’: democratic platforms and technological autonomy in Barcelona
Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers...
Do Open Data Impact on Citizens’ Behaviours?
This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.
The state of Civic Tech Research in Africa: An Evidence Map
The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civi...
Tile2Net
"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"
Journal of Deliberative Democracy (previously the Journal of Public Deliberation)
The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.
The Role of Community Engagement in Urban Innovation Towards the Co-Creation of Smart Sustainable Cities
"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city de...
Do Open Meetings Affect Deliberation? A Comparative Study of Political Meetings In Two Institutional Settings
A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset
Empathy Helps Counter Hate Speech
A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of...
Research Excellence Framework Impact case study database
"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."
A citywide experiment testing the impact of geographically targeted, high-pay-off vaccine lotteries
"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vacci...
The Haves and the Have Nots: Civic Technologies and the Pathways to Government Responsiveness
Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg
Crowdsourcing Aid: A Case Study of the Information Chaos During India's Second Covid-19 Wave
A research paper
Designing Digital Participatory Budgeting Platforms: Urban Biking Activism in Madrid
Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participa...
Artificial Intelligence in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust
A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely o...
A Qualitative Exploration of Individual Experiences of Environmental Virtual Reality Through the Lens of Psychological Distance: Environmental Communication
How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.
Matching to Categories: Learning and Compliance Costs in Administrative Processes
Research with Code for America on CalFresh, by Donald Moynihan, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, and Julie Sutherland finds "hard evidence on the barriers administrative burdens pose."
The Reporters’ Lab
The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about tru...
AI Now Institute
The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.
City Resilience Index
Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.
AI for Good Foundation
The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.
Journal of Online Trust and Safety
The Journal of Online Trust and Safety is a cross-disciplinary, open access, fast peer-review journal that publishes research on how consumer internet services are abused to cause harm and how to prev...
The Center for Communication and Civic Renewal
To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems
Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab
The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest
Machine Learning and the Rule of Law
Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.
UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
Changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.
Instituto Update
Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.
SAFELAB
The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.
Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung
Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.
Digital Civil Society Lab
Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.
City Science Network
MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs
Global Disinformation Index
We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.
Evidence in Governance and Politics (EGAP)
EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of...
Acumen Academy (formerly Plus Acumen)
Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.
Décider ensemble
Décider ensemble met en place des échanges sous forme de groupes de réflexion à travers l’organisation de colloques, matinées de questionnements, formations et événements annuels
MIT GOV/LAB
The MIT GOV/LAB is a group of political scientists focusing on innovation in citizen engagement and government responsiveness.
The Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life
The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media
mySociety Research
Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.
Common Cents Lab
Solutions that aim to increase the financial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States
Programa de Derechos Humanos
El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la inc...
Open Governance Research Exchange
OGRX is a platform for browsing and sharing research findings about new, innovative ways to solve public problems.
Chatham House Commission on Democracy and Technology
Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.
The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)
The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism
Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline
“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”
HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)
User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.
CityScienceLab at HafenCity University Hamburg
Das CityScienceLab der HafenCity Universität Hamburg erforscht mit PartnerInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft die Veränderung von Städten im Kontext der Digitalisieru...
Data61
We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.
Centre for Internet and Society
The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is an Indian, non-profit organization that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives --...
The Center for Informed Democracy and Social Cyber-Security (IDeaS)
Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online
Mobile text reminders for tax payments in Madagascar
How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes