This research brief explores how public participation practitioners might encounter AI tools; examines the risks, opportunities and uncertainties these tools present; and offers ethical considerations to guide their use.

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• resources
• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

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

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• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academia
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Peer-reviewed research

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."

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• Access social benefits
• Peer-reviewed research

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• city
• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

Foundation Funding for U.S. Democracy is a data visualization platform featuring tens of thousands of grants, available to anyone interested in understanding philanthropy's role in U.S. democracy

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• The People
• Get funding
• Data visualization

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.

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• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

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• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We partnered with the Ford Foundation to look at how civil society can strengthen their digital security, what and who is out there to support them, and how they can develop better digital security practices.

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• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Justice tech

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

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• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

To advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem

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• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Helping make the internet safer and more accessible

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• human rights
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

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• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

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• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

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• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling
• Deliberation

Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.

• Climate action
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• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech