CAMP is a think tank dedicated to addressing the issue of monopoly in Canada.

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

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

We are an independent, nonprofit research startup devoted to the analysis and design of public policies that help make midsize cities work better for people.

• Research and policy centers
• Urban planning
• Policy

Social Science Works is a social enterprise driven by pregnant societal problems.

• Research and policy centers
• Democracy organizations
• Think tanks

The institute was established with the aim of contributing to the advancement of good governance and evaluation of policy making at regional level (Western Balkans 6) through independent research analysis, public debates, multimedia advocacy and lobbying with different relevant stakeholders.

• Research and policy centers
• Policy
• Think tanks

REAL ML supports and advances interdisciplinary research that holds the use of algorithms and AI technologies to account—with a focus on the perspectives and experiences of marginalized communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

OpenForum Europe is a not-for-profit, Brussels-based independent think tank which explains the merits of openness in computing across Europe.

• Research and policy centers
• Conferences
• Open source

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

A catalog of state research programs' Github accounts

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers

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

The Busara Lab is now the largest behavioral science lab in the world with a panel of more than 133,000 participants across sites in India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Surveys & polling

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

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

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

RISE is Sweden's independent government research institute, with a mission to promote sustainable growth by strengthening business competitiveness public sector innovation.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers

• Journalism
• Research and policy centers

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

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

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

The Society for Technological Advancement (SoTA) is a new venture designed to cultivate optimism about technoscientific development and build capacity for it to happen, forming a cross-disciplinary community around this mission.

• Research and policy centers
• Specific campaigns
• Civil society research outfits

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

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

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

The Local Policy Lab accelerates the adoption of effective solutions to pressing problems at the local governmental level.

• city
• local
• Climate action

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government

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

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.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Public supercomputing and AI research center and home of MareNostrum

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital sovereignty

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

• 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

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

We are home to over 50 councils and partners, united in a drive to create sustainable, inclusive and community-powered public services.

• local

• Meet the others
• Research and policy centers
• Partner networks and coalitions

• labor

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

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

Driven by our mission of “shaping the global future together,” the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.

• Research and policy centers

Pusat penelitian berfokus inovasi AI dan teknologi untuk demokrasi.

• Global South Alliance

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

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

Connecting governments, technology, and academia with GovTech intelligence to enhance public service delivery.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

We use artificial intelligence to help institutions and communities solve problems together.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

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

Worker-led audits in the platform economy

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Crowdsourcing

The Applied Social Media Lab at Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center brings together technologists and practitioners to reimagine, rebuild, and reboot social media to serve the public good and establish a long-lasting community of practice.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Social media