Democracy Reporting International (DRI) is an independent organisation dedicated to promoting democracy worldwide. We strengthen democracy by supporting the institutions and processes that make it sustainable and work with all stakeholders towards ensuring that citizens play a role in shaping their environment. DRI focuses on five key themes on democracy: justice, elections, local governance, digital democracy and human rights. DRI is financed by and partners with a diverse group of foundations, firms and governments, including: the German Federal Foreign Office, The Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, the European Union, Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), the Mercator Foundation, the Landecker Foundation and the Porticus Foundation. Our team of researchers, project managers and policy experts bring diverse backgrounds in quantitative data analysis, advocacy, law, policy and media. In addition to the colleagues listed below, our team is currently recruiting new policy and outreach officers to support our endeavours. Our global network of experienced democracy champions, both within and outside the organisation, refine and compliment this expertise to allow for multistakeholder research and analysis into online democratic discourse. In order to combat disinformation, Democracy Reporting International's Digital Democracy (DD) experts conduct research into the tools, tactics, and technologies used to disseminate disinformation. Furthermore, they develop material that assists policymakers, researchers, and practitioners in detecting even advanced forms of disinformation, such as those produced by generative artificial intelligence. With social media monitoring, especially in the context of elections, being a core competency of the DD team, DD experts identify patterns of information manipulation. In addition, they provide training for other stakeholders to conduct extensive social media monitoring.

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