research
Democratic Innovation in Megacities
NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.
NDI, Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
Digital Government Units: Origins, Orthodoxy and Critical Considerations for Public Management Theory and Practice
Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University
Digital Rights Foundation
Helping make the internet safer and more accessible
Pakistan
Evaluating Civic Technology Design for Citizen Empowerment
Civic technology should empower us as citizens.
75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
The Engine Room, Albany Street, London, UK
HiiL (The Hague Institute for Innovation of Law)
- www.hiil.org
- Adjacent Fields, Govtech, Justice tech, Learn about civic tech, Legal tech, Peer-reviewed research, Research and policy centers, Tech for public challenges, The People, The Tech
User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.
Fluwelen Burgwal 582511, The Hague, The Netherlands
Machine Learning and the Rule of Law
Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.
Participation 2.0? Crowdsourcing Participatory Development @ DFID
- itidjournal.org
- Civic crowdfunding, Engagement tech, Evaluate impact, Participatory democracy, The People, The Tech
We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.
Public Square
Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.
Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning
- arxiv.org
- Artificial intelligence, Emtech, Emtech Projects, High-tech civic tech, Machine learning, The Tech
Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.
The Centers for Civic Impact
- civicimpact.jhu.edu
- Learn about civic tech, Peer-reviewed research, Research and policy centers, The People
Empowering the public sector through expertise, training, research, and collaboration.
The democratic potential of civic applications
This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.
The Public Impact Observatory
- www.centreforpublicimpact.org
- Civic tech catalogs, Evaluate impact, Learn about civic tech, The Tech
The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work
Truthiness Collaborative
to advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem
3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281
WhatsApp Research Awards for Social Science and Misinformation
It cares about the safety of our users and is seeking to inform our understanding of the safety problems people encounter on WhatsApp
Menlo Park, CA