This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

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 initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."

• reports

• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

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 Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Public Interest Tech

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.

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Reports

A report: How can stories help us change systems?

• reports

• Media
• Narrative tech

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

All Tech Is Human’s Tech & Democracy report addresses key issues and best practices in the field, and highlights a diverse range of individuals working in the field (across civil society, government, industry, academia, and entrepreneurship).

• reports

• Fieldwide resources

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports
• hurricanes

• Social media
• Public media

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups
• Algorithmic transparency

The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Index is the most comprehensive study of the state of nonprofit news.

• reports

• Media
• Fieldwide resources
• Nonprofit newsrooms

by Silvana Fumega y Fabrizio Scrollini

• reports

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

A report on 'data for good' efforts by Susan Ariel Aaronson, George Washington University

• reports

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Data donations

A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials

• reports

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

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 desinformação.

• guides
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Building in the private sector

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 sphere.

• reports

• Reports
• Digital Public Infrastructure

A 2021 report by SimplySecure and The New Design Congress

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

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 democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Reports

A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation

In this project, we studied 13 government mobile apps – eight from the federal public administration and five from the state of São Paulo – that we believed most affect Brazilian citizens on a daily basis for their relation to services that are especially relevant to our day-to-day life and to the government-citizen relationship.

• apps
• reports

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

El acceso a los servicios de la información y la comunicación y las personas con discapacidad - Un estudio exploratorio realizado en la región del Cono Sur

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

An ongoing series of reports about ad-funded disinformation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

Interviews with 90 respondents

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation

This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.

• Gender Equality
• reports

• Voting and elections
• Media and social media analysis
• Reports

Report striving to build awareness of the direct and indirect impacts of gendered and sexualized disinformation on women in public life, as well as its corresponding impacts on national security and democratic participation.

• harassment
• women
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Reports

This new guide is designed to help democracy practitioners better understand social media trends, content, data, and networks.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

A report analyzing the online environment and potential risks for the 2021 German Federal Elections.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.

• reports
• public space

• Smart Cities and sensors

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability

• reports

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Pew Trusts report: What the changes mean for the millions of people who interact with the civil legal system each year—and what remains to be done

• reports

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Reports

Covering data for social good, data governance, and societal-level data considerations

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data science for social good
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

a map of the disinformation initiatives currently in play to undergird newsrooms and improve media literacy at this challenging moment for the free press

• reports

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

a McKinsey report

• city
• reports
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors