Research and policy centers
Research and policy centers develop evidence- and ideology-based recommendations to address societal challenges, inform policy decisions, and promote effective governance.
Nonviolent Action Lab
The Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests,...
Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation
The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation aims to reinforce democracy through strengthening institutions, building interpersonal and informational trust, and reducing hyper-partisan affective polarizatio...
Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation
Harvard’s hub for research and teaching on democracy
Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University
Founded in 2021 with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University serves a global community committed to improving public management, leadership, and governance.
AI and Democracy Movements Project
The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.
The Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT)
DoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.
Hey Neighbour Collective
Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experi...
Mitigating Wildfire
The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Co...
The Dais
Canada’s platform for bold policies and better leaders.
KICTANet
KICTANet is a multi-stakeholder think tank in Kenya that serves as a catalyst for ICT sector reforms through policy advocacy, capacity building, research, and stakeholder engagement.
科技、民主與社會研究中心 - Center for Research on Technology, Democracy and Society (DSET)
As a national think tank, we are committed to proposing policy recommendations on emerging technologies based on the public needs of democracy and society and to offering the international community a...
Plattform://Demokratie
Im Zentrum steht dabei folgende Frage: Können “Plattformräte” oder andere Institutionen dafür sorgen, dass öffentliche Interessen und demokratische Werte in den Regelsetzungsprozessen von Plattformen...
United Nations University
Tufts Cybersecurity Center for the Public Good
Research, Education, and Civic Engagement
MIT Center for Constructive Communication
Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.
Accountability Research Center (ARC)
Accountability Research Center bridges research and frontline perspectives to learn from ideas, institutions, and actors that advance strategies to improve public and corporate accountability. Learn m...
GloTech Lab @ UMass
Global Technology for Social Justice Lab (GloTech) is a hub for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of critical tech studies and global studies.
Pro-Democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations
A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks
シビックテック・デザイン学創成寄付研 (Civic Tech Design Initiative (CTDI))
東京大学内に設置された「デジタル空間社会連携研究機構」を中心に、市民や地域企業、行政、関連団体など多様なステークホルダーが関わり、地域やコミュニティのためのデータ・
デジタル空間社会連携研究機構 (Digital Sapital Society (DSS))
デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通
Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University
The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.
Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)
PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and...
Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)
at University of California Berkeley
Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign
CNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all those that technology has left behind.
The Internet & Democracy Initiative
The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.
Psychology of Misinformation Lab
AI4Democracy
The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civi...
Ohio State Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA)
We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.
Tech Policy Institute at Cornell
Brooks School of Public Policy
Aspen Digital
Our mission is to connect and spark policy action among those crucial to making our interconnected world accessible, safe, and inclusive — both online and off.
The Aspen Institute
The Aspen Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time.
AI Elections Initiative
Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.
Democracy Reporting International
Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.
The Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
Research, ideas, and leadership for a more peaceful world.
Demos
Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. We put people at the heart of policy-making to create bold ideas and a more collaborative democracy.
European Partnership for Democracy
We are a partnership bringing together 20 specialist organisations to support democracy.
European Digital Media Observatory (EDMO)
the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.
Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab (STSV Lab)
Led by Harold F
Global Observatory of Urban Artificial Intelligence
Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.
City AI Connect
A global community for cities to learn about generative AI together, faster.
Stanford Deliberative Democracy Lab
The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research a...
Cooperative AI Foundation
CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.
Regulation, Evaluation, and Governance Lab (RegLab)
We pilot, build, and test solutions for compliance, mass adjudication, policy making, and government services
Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, DC seeking to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.
Center for AI and Digital Policy (CAIDP)
"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institu...
Núcleo de Estudos sobre o Congresso (NECON)
O Núcleo de Estudos sobre o Congresso tem por objetivo contribuir para o avanço desta área de estudos através da constituição de um laboratório de pesquisas dedicado à investigação de diversas questõe...
Africa Digital Rights Hub
Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa
Center for News, Technology & Innovation
The Center for News, Technology & Innovation will provide issue primers with research and legislative activity from around the world and host deliberative discussions among thought leaders in journali...
JUST AI
JUST AI is an independent network of researchers and practitioners committed to understanding the social and ethical value of data and AI
Research ICT Africa
African think tank that has operated for over a decade to fill a strategic gap in the development of a sustainable information society and network knowledge economy.