Projects - Research and policy centers

Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy at McGill

Canada 🇨🇦

The Centre for Media, Technology and Democracy examines how media and emerging technologies shape democracy.

Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI)

Chennai

Centre for Responsible AI (CeRAI) is a virtual interdisciplinary research centre at IIT Madras.

GNOVA

Brasília

Na GNova somos pessoas apaixonadas por impulsionar a inovação no setor público, resolvendo problemas de forma criativa.

Instituto de Governo Aberto

São Paulo

Transparência, participação e inovação para uma sociedade mais justa, inclusiva e igualitária

Digital Society Initiative Democracy Community

Zürich

The DSI Community Democracy at the University of Zurich focuses on research related to the impact of digitalisation on the political system, on democracy, and on related topics.

mInt: Human-centered design principles for effective management of social boundaries in interoperable text messaging platforms

Copenhagen

At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

University of Miami's Office of Civic and Community Engagement

Miami, FL

The McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy and Research at New York University

New York University

Research, programs and interventions that address the root causes and consequences of poverty. Learn moreabout What We Do

No poverty

ESRC Digital Good Network

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

Center for Science and the Imagination

Arizona State University

Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination brings writers, artists and other creative thinkers into collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists to reignite humanity’s grand ambitions for innovation and discovery.

Democracy Innovation Hub

New York state

We convene and train public servants, community leaders and educators to use participatory methods of engagement and tools, with a focus on citizens’ assemblies.

Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (SMIT)

Brussels

We are dedicated to shaping the future of technology through interdisciplinary research and collaboration.

Hannah Arendt Center for Politics and Humanities at Bard College

New York state

HAC is the world's most expansive home for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world inspired by the spirit of Hannah Arendt.

AI and Democracy Movements Project

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.

Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Harvard’s hub for research and teaching on democracy

Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA

Founded in 2021 with Bloomberg Philanthropies, the Bloomberg Center for Cities at Harvard University serves a global community committed to improving public management, leadership, and governance.

Nonviolent Action Lab

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA

The Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.

Governance of Emerging Technology and Tech Innovations for Next-Gen Governance (GETTING-Plurality)

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA

A multi-disciplinary research network linking philosophers, social scientists, computer scientists, legal scholars, and technologists.

Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation

Harvard Kennedy School, John F. Kennedy Street, Cambridge, MA

The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation aims to reinforce democracy through strengthening institutions, building interpersonal and informational trust, and reducing hyper-partisan affective polarization with research and field-building.

The Dialogue on Technology Project (DoT)

Burnaby, Canada

DoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.

Mitigating Wildfire

Burnaby, Canada

The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.

fires

Hey Neighbour Collective

Burnaby, Canada

Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.

The Dais

Toronto

Canada’s platform for bold policies and better leaders.

KICTANet

Nairobi

KICTANet is a multi-stakeholder think tank in Kenya that serves as a catalyst for ICT sector reforms through policy advocacy, capacity building, research, and stakeholder engagement.

Global South Alliance

科技、民主與社會研究中心 - Center for Research on Technology, Democracy and Society (DSET)

Taiwan (T'ai-wan) 🇹🇼

As a national think tank, we are committed to proposing policy recommendations on emerging technologies based on the public needs of democracy and society and to offering the international community a unique Taiwanese perspective.

Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

Plattform://Demokratie

Humboldt-Institut Berlin, Invalidenstraße, Berlin, Germany

Im Zentrum steht dabei folgende Frage: Können “Plattformräte” oder andere Institutionen dafür sorgen, dass öffentliche Interessen und demokratische Werte in den Regelsetzungsprozessen von Plattformen berücksichtigt werden?

United Nations University

Tokyo

United Nations

Research and policy centers

Tufts Cybersecurity Center for the Public Good

Massachusetts

Research, Education, and Civic Engagement

MIT Center for Constructive Communication

MIT Media Lab, Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

GloTech Lab @ UMass

Global Technology for Social Justice Lab (GloTech) is a hub for interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of critical tech studies and global studies.

Pro-Democracy Organizing against Autocracy in the United States: A Strategic Assessment & Recommendations

A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks

Project 2025

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構 (Digital Sapital Society (DSS))

Tokyo

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通

シビックテック・デザイン学創成寄付研 (Civic Tech Design Initiative (CTDI))

Tokyo

東京大学内に設置された「デジタル空間社会連携研究機構」を中心に、市民や地域企業、行政、関連団体など多様なステークホルダーが関わり、地域やコミュニティのためのデータ・

Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.

Public Service Accountability Monitor (PSAM)

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika) 🇿🇦

PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.

Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity (CLTC)

Berkeley, California

at University of California Berkeley

Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign

Brown University

CNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all those that technology has left behind.

Psychology of Misinformation Lab

Boston

The Internet & Democracy Initiative

The Internet & Democracy Initiative will study problems that have widespread information and social media implications.

AI4Democracy

Madrid

The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.

Ohio State Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA)

Columbus, OH

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

The Aspen Institute

Aspen Institute, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

The Aspen Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time.

Research and policy centers

Tech Policy Institute at Cornell

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York

Brooks School of Public Policy

Aspen Digital

Aspen Institute, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

Our mission is to connect and spark policy action among those crucial to making our interconnected world accessible, safe, and inclusive — both online and off.

Research and policy centers

AI Elections Initiative

Aspen Institute, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.