Explore 22 projects in the Reports category of the Civic Tech Field Guide.
Since 2001, the United Nations E-Government Survey has provided a comprehensive assessment of the digital government landscape across all 193 Member States.
Plurality Institute and Council on Technology and Social Cohesion gathered over seventy researchers and technologists to answer the question: how can we harness that enormous power to foster public discourse, pluralism, and social cohesion in digital spaces?
In this report, we examine AI chatbots through the lens of dark patterns — deceptive or manipulative design choices that may undermine user autonomy or well-being.
Mozilla's inaugural assessment of open source AI in 2026 includes the finding that there's near-parity on capability and that open source models account for a third of all tokens. It warns that the real contest has moved up a layer to the harness.
In the spring of 2022, we partnered with the editors of the Yale Journal of Law and Technology to commission a collection of papers examining what it means to have a healthy or vibrant digital public sphere.
This [Canadian] report includes the following: Importance of ethics in AI and government, Understanding the impacts of AI on society, Balancing AI-driven efficiency with privacy and security concerns, and Cyber-security and digital trust.
The Index will enable civil society to work together with national and regional parliaments to identify systemic challenges to achieving parliamentary openness and to co-create reforms that will strengthen the capacity of parliaments to enhance their openness.
Every year, Democracy R&D takes stock of what our global network has created and learned.
Los centros de pensamiento son «asociaciones de investigadores, de áreas diversas del saber, que, mediante la investigación, el debate académico, la producción de documentos y la relación con sectores y problemas estratégicos de la realidad nacional, definen e inciden, a partir de su trabajo en red, en la evaluación y formulación de políticas públicas».