Reports
Reports about the field itself.
AI in the Street report
One year on from AI in the Street project, this new report discusses what we learnt about how local communities and everyday publics make sense of data-intensive and AI-based technologies in their eve...
CIVICUS Monitor
Our interactive world map allows you to access live updates from civil society around the world, track threats to civil society and learn about the ways in which our right to participate is being real...
When Aid Fades: Impacts and Pathways for the Global Democracy Ecosystem
This report assesses the impact of the foreign aid cuts on the global democracy ecosystem.
Facilitation in the AI Era
A Community Roadmap for Technologies to Support Practitioners
ScaleDem Knowledge Map
Discover how [EU HORIZON] R&I-driven democratic innovations scale!
The Agentic State
Launched at the Tallinn Digital Summit 2025, the Vision Paper maps how agentic AI systems will rewire the core functions of government — spanning public services, crisis management, governance, and pr...
Governing with Artificial Intelligence report
The State of Play and Way Forward in Core Government Functions
UN E-Government Survey
Since 2001, the United Nations E-Government Survey has provided a comprehensive assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States.
Government AI Landscape Assessment
Most states are navigating early or developing phases in these categories, building foundational capabilities while defining governance structures and strategic direction. But a few have emerged as na...
Meaningful Stakeholder Engagement in Public Procurement for Artificial Intelligence
A playbook commissioned by Participation AI
Software Reuse through Open Source Software in the Public Sector
A qualitative survey on Policy and Practice, by Johan Linåker, Sachiko Muto
A New Phase of Civic Movements: Implications for International Democracy Support
This report examines the implications of this new phase of activism for democracy and democracy-support strategies.
Exploring Worldwide Democratic Innovations: A Series of Case Studies
2022 Compilation report by European Democracy Hub and European Partnership for Democracy, funded by Carnegie Europe
Youth Political Participation – Literature and Policy Review 1980–2023
This scoping study presents an in-depth exploration of youth political participation, focusing on the design and implementation of youth-related policies.
Governing in the Age of AI: Reimagining Local Government
In this paper, we examine how AI could help reimagine local government.
Deliberative Approaches to Inclusive Governance
From world-leading experts in deliberative democracy, civic technology, and AI governance we introduce a seven-part essay series exploring how deliberative democratic processes like citizen’s assembli...
Tackling civic participation challenges with emerging technologies
This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.
Civic Tech Project & Community Handbook
From Taiwan’s g0v Community to the World: The Collaborative Wisdom of Digital Citizens
The Global Public Impact of GovTech
A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)
Scanning the Horizon
The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are f...
How AI Can Support Democracy Movements: Summary Report of a Research and Practice Workshop
This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.
How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?
Ever wonder, “How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?” If so, check out this new research from the Canadian Digital Service! It includes 5 case studies of partnerships between the...
State of Digital Government Review (UK)
This review examines the state of digital government in the UK, highlighting successes, challenges, and root causes
Global Trends in Government Innovation 2024
This report analyses nearly 800 case studies from 83 countries and identifies five critical trends in government innovation that are reshaping public services.
The How We Need Now: A Capacity Agenda For 2025 And Beyond
By Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway for the Niskanen Center
Centro de Pensamiento y Acción
Los centros de pensamiento son «asociaciones de investigadores, de áreas diversas del saber, que, mediante la investigación, el debate académico, la producción de documentos y la relación con sectores...
Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government
Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government
Africa Open Parliament Index (OPI)
The Index will enable civil society to work together with national and regional parliaments to identify systemic challenges to achieving parliamentary openness and to co-create reforms that will stren...
Pitfalls of Aiming to Empower the Bottom from the Top: The Case of Philippine Participatory Budgeting
Paper by Joy Aceron, 2019. This paper explains why and how a reform program that opened up spaces for participatory budgeting was ultimately unable to result in pro-citizen power shifts that transform...
Leveraging AI for Democracy: Civic Innovation on the New Digital Playing Field
3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI
Future-Proofing Congress
How Member-Led Upgrades Are Optimizing Legislative Branch Capacity and Resilience
Civic Tech Report 2025
Hardcover book and online platform providing an overview of over 80 solutions from the European civic tech ecosystem
Hashtag Generation
Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation...
Living with VANxiety: The Present and Future of Progressive Movement Tech
A special report by Micah Sifry
Global Multidimensional Poverty Index
The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, nati...
Poverty Lawgorithms
State of AI Report 2023
Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.
Encrypted Messaging Applications and Political Messaging: How They Work and Why Understanding Them is Important for Combating Global Disinformation
This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been...
Trapped in a Web: The Exploitation of Personal Data in Hungary’s 2022 Elections
The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membershi...
Chatbots in humanitarian contexts
Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective
Ethics in Artificial Intelligence and Government report
This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns,...
Growing & Sustaining African Civic Tech
A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.
How Cities Make Software Together
A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.
Sustaining and Scaling Civic and Government Technology
A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech init...
Public Interest Technology University Network: Understanding the State of the Field in 2021
This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University N...
Building a Culture of Innovation in Government
This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.
Pathways Through the Portal: A Field Scan of Emerging Technologies in the Public Interest
A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest
Publi Ou Fake
Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e des...
Yale Law School series: A Healthy Digital Public Sphere
In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public...
Digital democracy: analysis of the disinformation ecosystems on Telegram during the 2022 Brazilian electoral process
Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against dem...