Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

#ISOJ is the official research journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. It features articles based on original research, methodologies relevant to the study of journalism and innovative technologies (online, tablets, mobile platforms, etc.), critical syntheses of research and theoretical perspectives on journalism today.

• Media
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices. By Giulia Jole Sechi, Eef Hendriks, Maria Pregnolato

• informal settlements
• housing

• Peer-reviewed research
• Smartphones

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.

• Media
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

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, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

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 civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning
• Satellites

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 messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

• hate speech
• X (Twitter)

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Communicating with the government
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

"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 development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
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• Academia

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Communicating with the people

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.

• Participatory democracy
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• Academia

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

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• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

"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 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Behavioral economics programs

Paper by Jonathan Mellon Tiago C. Peixoto Fredrik M. Sjoberg

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

A research paper

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

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 participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

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 on February 10, 2022.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Virtual and augmented reality

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."

• research

• Access social benefits
• Peer-reviewed research

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.

• The People
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• Research and policy centers

The AI Now Institute at New York University is an interdisciplinary research center dedicated to understanding the social implications of artificial intelligence.

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

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 trust in the news media and other topics.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

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 prevent those harms.

• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer-reviewed research

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 -- including hundreds of articles on Accessibility.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

How mobile text reminders earned Madagascar a 32,900% ROI in collecting unpaid taxes

• taxes

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.

• research

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

Carnegie Melon's center for disinformation, hate speech and extremism online

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Learn about civic tech

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

We collaborate with governments to facilitate better discovery of data, to make data available while protecting privacy, and to perform advanced analytics on data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

To directly study the impact of social media on politics and to develop new methods and technology tools to analyze the impact of social media on democracy.

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Solutions that aim to increase the financial well-being for low- to moderate-income people living in the United States

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

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 People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Citizens and Technology (CAT) Lab at Cornell University works with online communities to study the effects of technology on the public interest

• experiments

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech