Research in Digital Democracy
We improve understanding of digital politics, digital government, and digital democracy through advanced research and analysis of their theoretical, technical, and social dimensions.
// Institutional
Areas of Work
INCT.DD works in research, development, and innovation across digital government, digital parliaments, digital politics, and digital democracy.
// About
In search of more and better democracy
The National Institute of Science and Technology in Digital Democracy (INCT.DD) brings together a network of researchers, laboratories, universities, civil society organizations, and public agents dedicated to promoting more and better democracy through digital technologies.
INCT.DD projects cover studies, diagnostics and benchmarks, technical-scientific advisory work, planning and implementation of initiatives, development and evaluation of digital solutions, project monitoring, team training, and specialized education. The Institute also supports government bodies in meeting Brazilian legal requirements for public transparency and open data.
// Principles and approaches
Interdisciplinarity, practice orientation, and multiple methodological approaches
Producing knowledge to solve concrete problems and create innovative technological solutions through methodological choices that reflect the Institute’s interdisciplinary diversity.
Promotion of innovation and social technologies, defense of democracy, public policy improvement, and civic inclusion
Monitoring, identifying, and evaluating threats to democratic life and public life, providing empirical data to support decisions by government, parliament, and other state bodies, such as the Federal Court of Accounts or the Electoral Justice system.
Development and testing of social technologies
Promoting procedures and training researchers, professionals, and graduate students in techniques for collecting, processing, analyzing, and extracting data from the digital environment, while consolidating the Data Science Laboratory for Digital Communication (C2D2).
Ethical and regulatory aspects
Careful adoption of methodologies that ensure personal data protection and digital platform security, including ethical guidelines, avoiding algorithmic bias, and ensuring that technologies respect democratic principles and laws on digital governance and data protection.
// Laboratories
C2D2 is INCT.DD's unit dedicated to turning online data into scientific infrastructure, evidence, and applied solutions. The laboratory collects and documents data from social networks and websites through responsible governance practices, with attention to privacy, traceability, methodological transparency, and compliance requirements. From this foundation, it builds reusable datasets, runs statistical and computational analyses, and develops AI systems, language models, forecasting models, and other scientific tools. Its work supports research, institutional projects, technical consultancy, and public-interest demands in digital democracy, serving the institute, its network, the broader scientific community, and the public.
Data collection and curation
Planning online data collection, documenting methods, organizing datasets, and preparing data for research, auditing, and scientific reuse.
AI, analysis, and modeling
Applying artificial intelligence, language models, forecasting models, statistical methods, and other computational techniques to interpret digital phenomena.
Scientific infrastructure
Building, integrating, and managing technical environments for storage, processing, automation, and collaboration in data projects.
Consulting and solutions
Technical-scientific support, solution development, and compliance guidance for the institute, its network, the scientific community, and the public.
// Contact
School of Communication at UFBA
- contato@inctdd.org
- Address
- Faculdade de Comunicação da Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA), Rua Barão de Jeremoabo, s/n, Ondina, Salvador - BA, CEP 40170-115