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."

• Decidim

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.

• Legal tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• cities

• Govtech
• Co-design
• Service delivery

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Fight disinformation

eGovlab is the Stockholm University Centre for Excellence in e-Governance Studies focused on driving European and International research collaboration for research and development in the area of IT in the Public Sector.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The International Public Policy Observatory finds, distils and shares the best global evidence for policy practice across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

• Research and policy centers

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Conferences
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

The EMIF is entrusted with an objective of public interest to support fact-checking and media literacy initiatives, as well as fundamental research projects, with a view to addressing the phenomenon of online disinformation in Europe and promoting a more resilient and fact-based digital information ecosystem.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Media

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Open science

Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective

• reports

• Bots
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Reports

Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.

• podcasts

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Podcasts

Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech

Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.

• No poverty

• Access social benefits

We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

ConsiliumBots uses technology and data to help people make important decisions by turning complex and underutilized information into virtual assistance and personalized recommendations across education, housing, and other areas of government programs. Research has shown that providing relevant information at the right time can make a significant difference in students' trajectory by reducing school dropouts and introducing education options with better job prospects. They have so far created 36 digital solutions to address information asymmetries, supporting 3.9 million parents, students, and teachers from over 7 countries in the region. Some of these digital solutions have now been adopted as national public policies.

• Access social benefits
• Behavioral economics programs

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

The Media Ownership Monitor is a global research and advocacy initiative that creates transparency on “who owns the media?” - and ultimately answers the question “who controls the media?” through contextualization and analysis.

• Media
• Media monitoring

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

• Build something
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Voting and elections
• Participatory democracy
• Voter assistance tech

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

• Facebook

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Fight disinformation

Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.

• Research and policy centers
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Academia

Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work that’s already been done.

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Fight disinformation

Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Summarize research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Research, training, support and awards to promote citizen-centred public sector service to Canadians

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Service delivery

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

• Data science for social good
• Evaluate impact

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

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

• Civic data
• COVID
• Peer-reviewed research

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Legal tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers

FOWIGS is a network of Think Tanks from southern regions which brings data and knowledge together to build evidence-based narratives on the Future of Work. At FOWIGS, we contribute to the policy frameworks from and for developing countries.

• labor

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civil society research outfits

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Open data publishing portals

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Research tools

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.

• Govtech
• Grant management
• Bureaucracy tech

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Research tools

London School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia