Projects - Learn about civic tech

Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

These findings support preference- and incentive-based accounts of participation but suggest that light-touch interventions are unlikely to bridge participation gaps, let alone polarization.

Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Keseb Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide is a digital resource hub offering key trends, frameworks, and strategic recommendations to advance democratic resilience and innovation.

The Outlook

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Outlook is a digital global magazine for and by democracy champions.

The AI 50, a new recognition program from the Center for Public Sector AI, highlights individuals and organizations making significant contributions to AI adoption and advancement in public sector agencies. Public and private sector participants focused on public service are eligible to submit.

Youth Political Participation: Literature and Policy Review 1980–2023

Brussels

The aim of this research was to conduct a literature review of landmark research pieces and major policies in the field of youth political participation to support the design of EPD programmes.

Making Sense of Open Government: A Conceptual Framework and Ideas for Future Research | Perspectives on Public Management and Governance

Oxford

"[T]his article proposes an open government framework that integrates multiple concepts related to open government and categorizes them as either constitutive components or potential results"

The Functional Government Podcast

Canada 🇨🇦

Government doesn't have to suck.

Civic Punks

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

YouTube channel by Derek Alton

Understanding Your Morality

In about 15 minutes, this tool will help you discover the core moral dimensions that guide your ethical judgements.

The Agentic State

Tallinn

Launched at the Tallinn Digital Summit 2025, the Vision Paper maps how agentic AI systems will rewire the core functions of government — spanning public services, crisis management, governance, and procurement — and what technological, organisation, and leadership changes are needed to enable this shift.

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NYC PIT Pop Up

The Oculus NY

The first-ever NYC PIT Pop Up is a temporary, immersive, pop-up event where technology, art, science, and community converge.

Nothing Personal

Mountain View, CA

An editorial platform for independent thinkers, technologists, and creatives on the front lines of digital culture.

We are Civic Media

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA

We Are Civic Media is a collective manifesto for field builders, stakeholders, educators, creative professionals, and community leaders who want to understand BOTH the deeply personal human as well as the broader conceptual dimensions of civic media.

What’s Emerging in Digital Democracy

Introducing a Research Digest on Digital Deliberation

Computer Says Maybe

United States of America 🇺🇸

A podcast about the politics of technology

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Localization Lab's Glossary

Terms and Definitions you should know when localizing a product

The Better (Political) Leadership Substack

Berlin

My promise with Better (Political) Leadership is simple: reflections that are practical, timely, evidence-based, inspiring, and human. For all leaders—but especially for those in politics, where every decision is magnified and every mistake can feel existential.

Bellingcat Tech Series

A how-to-series on the command line and Bellingcat research tools. Created with the beginner researcher in mind.

InnovateUS

Boston

InnovateUS provides no-cost, at-your-own-pace, and live learning on data, digital, innovation, and AI skills for public service professionals like you.

Assemblies as a Tool for Just Democracy

"In this report, we look at all multiple forms of assemblies including civic assemblies, people’s movement assemblies and governing power assemblies. We discuss the potential and limitations of each model, explore how assemblies across the board have struggled to achieve impact and durability, and discuss ways that an “equitable power-building approach” can strengthen assemblies’ impact and durability over time."

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Data & Technology Politics at GPPi

Berlin

Research division focused on new digital technologies and politics

Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi)

Berlin

The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is an independent non-profit think tank based in Berlin. We conduct research, offer ideas and advice and facilitate dialogue, seeking to contribute to a world that is more peaceful, just and equipped to address global challenges.

Pioneer

Europe

Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance

Democracy Innovators Podcast

Europe

People behind innovative tools and ideas for the next generation of democracy.

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World Bank Global Program on GovTech & Public Sector Innovation

The World Bank Group, H Street Northwest, Washington D.C., DC

The objective of this strategic framework is to mainstream citizen engagement in World Bank Group (WBG)-supported policies, programs, projects, and advisory services and analytics to improve their development results and within the scope of these operations, contribute to building sustainable national systems for citizen engagement with governments and the private sector.

Local E-Government Toolkit

The learning outcomes of this training toolkit are crafted to address the frequently voiced challenges associated with implementing and improving government capacities for inclusive and effective local e-government.

National E-Government Toolkit

The learning outcomes of this training toolkit are crafted to address the frequently voiced challenges associated with implementing and improving government capacities for inclusive and effective local e-government.

UN E-Government Survey

Since 2001, the United Nations E-Government Survey has provided a comprehensive assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States.

The Philea Virtual Library

Brussels

The Philea Virtual Library includes over 1,000 free-to-download publications from a range of organisations and publishers on the topics of philanthropy, the management of foundations and the areas they are involved in and support.

Futurepolis

Berkeley, CA

What would democracy look like if it were being invented today, instead of in the 18th century? That’s the driving question of Futurepolis.

Cabo Eleitoral

São Paulo

O podcast traça um panorama sobre os impactos e as mudanças que a internet trouxe para as campanhas eleitorais.

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Caixa-Preta

São Paulo

Caixa-Preta é um podcast que trata de assuntos ligados ao impacto da tecnologia na sociedade.

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Software Reuse through Open Source Software in the Public Sector

Denmark (Danmark) 🇩🇰

A qualitative survey on Policy and Practice, by Johan Linåker, Sachiko Muto

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Dadocracia

São Paulo

Um podcast voltado para as mais diversas discussões entre tecnologia e sociedade. Listen on Spotify

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The Cambridge Political Psychology Lab

Cambridge, UK

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

Exploring Worldwide Democratic Innovations: A Series of Case Studies

Brussels

2022 Compilation report by European Democracy Hub and European Partnership for Democracy, funded by Carnegie Europe

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A New Phase of Civic Movements: Implications for International Democracy Support

Brussels

This report examines the implications of this new phase of activism for democracy and democracy-support strategies.

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Beyond Ballots

Brussels

This is EPD's weekly newsletter providing updates on the latest democracy news, research, events and job offers.

Youth Political Participation – Literature and Policy Review 1980–2023

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

This scoping study presents an in-depth exploration of youth political participation, focusing on the design and implementation of youth-related policies.

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ACY Learning Hub

Myanmar (Myăma) 🇲🇲

E-learning Platform for Myanmar Youth, including Public Engagement courses on media literacy, digital safety, and news literacy.

Digital Public Infrastructure For Digital Governments

OECD, Rue André Pascal, Paris, France

This OECD policy paper explores digital public infrastructure (DPI), defined as shared digital systems that are secure and interoperable and that can support the inclusive delivery of and access to public and private services across society.

g0v Underground 零時電台

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

g0v podcast

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Deliberative Approaches to Inclusive Governance

Montreal, QC, Canada

From world-leading experts in deliberative democracy, civic technology, and AI governance we introduce a seven-part essay series exploring how deliberative democratic processes like citizen’s assemblies and civic tech can strengthen AI governance.