Researchers developed a value-based method for prompting LLMs that uses culturally grounded survey-derived value profiles instead of demographic proxies, significantly improving the models’ ability to predict and reproduce diverse population opinions across countries, especially in underrepresented cultures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Course designed and taught by Maria Milosh at Bard College and Kronika in January - May 2026.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

We bring together the university’s world-class, interdisciplinary, socio-technical expertise in web science, data science and artificial intelligence to leverage the unique role of online technologies in tackling global challenges.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The NYC Open Data Lab is a public-facing initiative that equips students to access, analyze, and publish civic data through reproducible workflows and open-source tools.

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Nous rapprochons le monde académique, celui de l'entreprise et la société civile pour soutenir des projets de recherche et d'innovation qui améliorent la vie des gens et le fonctionnement de notre société grâce au numérique.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia
• Digital transformation

The European Digital DemocracY network (EDDY) aims to bring together academics and practitioners actively working on or with digital democracy, to foster collaboration and knowledge exchange.

• Participatory democracy
• Academia
• Conferences

Shared infrastructure for the access to justice sector — so legal aid organizations, courts, and technology partners can build better AI together, instead of reinventing the wheel alone.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Academia

The Legal Design Lab team researches, designs, and develops new interventions to ensure access to justice for all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Social Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University that studies how social media is changing the way people communicate, disseminate information, conduct business, and form communities.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

The Institute for Technology and Civic Leadership reflects Georgia Tech’s commitment to educating leaders who create new possibilities at the intersection of technology and human flourishing and exploring ways for Georgia Tech scholarship and research to inform pressing societal issues and opportunities.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

IIID conducts high-impact, responsive research that keeps pace with rapidly evolving technology while addressing its profound implications for users and society.

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

A circumvention proxy built leveraging the unique benefits of a serverless platform

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Advancing research and practice at the intersection of media, technology, and democracy.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

UM6P School of Collective Intelligence – SCI trains future changemakers to solve complex challenges through interdisciplinary methods, data-driven insights, and collective problem-solving.

• Academia
• Collective intelligence

DCU Institute for Future Media, Democracy and Society has been pioneering media & journalism research, innovation and best-practice since 2015.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We publish high-quality, interdisciplinary research that examines misinformation from different perspectives—from its prevalence and impact to the effectiveness of possible interventions—employing a fast-review process designed to publish articles within one to three months of entering peer review.

• Fight disinformation
• Academia
• Journals

Mais eficiência, menos custos: descubra o contrato de energia ideal para a sua instituição

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia

The summer institute is intended primarily for advanced PhD candidates, advanced law and medical students, post-docs, assistant professors and early career researchers seeking to better understand and address disinformation, but more senior scholars and practitioners who have recently moved into this domain are also encouraged to apply.

• Fight disinformation
• Academia
• Fellowships

Munich Center for Transformative Technologies and Societal Change

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Citizen Engagement

The lab brings together researchers from various disciplines to study how science and technology shape society and how societal perspectives influence research and innovation.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Citizen science

Innovations for the mobility transition

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Smart Cities and sensors

An interdisciplinary elite research center dedicated to world-class, curiosity-driven research. DIAS operates independently across the traditional faculty structure at SDU.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Here at the Center for Public Deliberation, we focus our energy and expertise on elevating the conversation, not winning the argument.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Digital Democracy Centre (DDC) will develop a new socio-technical, interdisciplinary approach combining theory and methods from social sciences and computer science, to study the impact of digital technology and AI on media, politics, and democracy.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Our research project aims to understand how Karen refugees in Thailand experience digital identity systems and to inform the development of digital identity systems which are fair for the people who use them.

• Academia
• Identity

The Policy Innovation Lab (PIL) is an intensive, applied policy course at Heinz College that prepares students to become public interest technologists who are creative, ethical, inclusive, and responsive.

• Academia
• Academic programs
• Public Interest Tech

The Penn Institute for Urban Research informs public and private decision-making and policy to advance sustainable urban development.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Advancing knowledge on media, audiences, and influence

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The goal of PIT @ CUNY is clear: To inspire the next generation of young technologists – including Engineers, Designers, Computer and Data Scientists, and others with an interest in leveraging technological knowledge – to pursue work in service of the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

The Digital Technology for Democracy Lab is a collaboration across the University of Virginia that explores how rapidly evolving digital technologies can challenge, but might also fortify, democratic institutions and practices.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) is an evidence-based research and training Centre based at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The National University Student Competition: Intellectual Property and Technology is a simulated arbitration process competition that serves as an alternative and peaceful means of conflict resolution.

• students

• Academia
• Challenges
• Digital peacebuilding

University initiative fostering research, education, and innovation in democracy and civic engagement.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

This paper argues that automated decision-making in UK public administration lacks adequate scrutiny, and proposes regulatory safeguards through mandatory pre-deployment impact assessments and algorithmic auditing to strengthen accountability in Parliament and the courts.

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Academia

This study examines 51 Freedom of Information requests to reveal how the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions uses opaque data-driven fraud detection systems in welfare, highlighting the limited transparency, the role of journalists and charities in uncovering details, and inconsistencies in the department’s disclosures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Academic programs

Through research, analysis, convenings, and public education, the Project produces solutions that facilitate our nation’s transition to a well-functioning democracy that truly represents our increasingly diverse population.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

Directory of Open Access Journals: Find open access journals & articles.

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Research tools

Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging con­nec­tions all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. It has more than 20,000 students from over 120 different countries.

• Academia

Our aim is to develop an international network of academics and practitioners across the world to critically examine the effectiveness and impact of public engagement with parliament.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions

The map of public engagement activities created (similar to this map showing parliaments’ access to academic research) will enable the International Parliament Engagement Network to foster lesson sharing, knowledge exchange and collaborations.

• comparative

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Academia

Strengthening global democracy through powerful civic engagement and informed, inclusive dialogue

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Combating misinformation in digital marketplaces through gamified behavioral experiments. We design two-sided platforms to study and prevent misleading claims that harm consumers and democracy.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Stanford University's research center for the interdisciplinary study of issues at the nexus of technology, governance and public policy

• TICTeC 25

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

Civic Interaction Design is an interdisciplinary research group at the Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.

• TICTeC 25

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Design

USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to the L.A. TACO Media Lab.

• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• Academia

The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research the design and functions of technology and its intersection with peacebuilding and democracy.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital peacebuilding

The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi (CCG) is a research centre within NLU Delhi and is meant to ensure that the Indian legal education establishment engages more meaningfully with communication law and policy, and offers academic contribution to communication policy making.

• Global South Alliance

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital rights

Technologien für die Zukunft von Staat und Verwaltung

• Academia
• Hubs
• Academic programs

The recently established Cambridge Political Psychology Lab attempts to apply insights from psychology to understand real world political decision making.

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