This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Reports

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Access social benefits

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

No code platform's solutions for gov

• state

• Govtech

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic and social impact companies
• Civic apps outfits

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Social media

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs
• Innovation teams and labs

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft. PROTESTORY! bietet eine Auseinandersetzung mit Protesten der Arbeiter:innenjugend vom 20. Jahrhundert bis heute und macht jugendkulturellen Protest digital erlebbar und historisches Wissen nutzbar. (As a web application PROTESTORY! offers a playful exploration of the protest cultures of working-class youth since the early 20th century and was created in collaboration with the archive of the working-class youth movement in 2022.)

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Archives

FediPlan is an open source application (source code) built for scheduling your messages with Mastodon or Pleroma (2.7+).

• Social media
• Mastodon

ONSHOR est une association créée en 2019. ONSHOR a pour objectif de stimuler la diffusion de l’information publique.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Reports

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Een stembureau bij jou in de buurt, zo gevonden

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place

Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.

• podcasts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Podcasts

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

An initiative that matches tech talent with impact-driven organizations.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching
• Tech talent

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Service delivery

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people

2023 applications for digital equity grant opportunities from the City of Seattle are now open for organizations and community groups looking to help close the digital divide. This year, the City is offering $545,000 for qualifying projects with Technology Matching Fund (TMF) grants.

• Get funding
• Connectivity

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Fellowships

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• cities

• Civic data
• Big listening
• Narrative tech

The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

"The applications allow users to view how a bill would change current law and differences between proposed legislation." URL will only work for US Capitol Hill IP addresses

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

We are an innovation centre dedicated to accelerating the application of social capital and technology for economic prosperity

• Hubs

mid-sized cities across America to develop ideas for an integrated,first-of-its-kind smart transportation system that would use data,applications, and technology to help people and goods move more quickly,cheaply, and efficiently. The Challenge generated an overwhelming response:78 applicant cities shared the challenges they face and ideas for how totackle them.

• cities
• mass transit

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The CR Digital Lab offers paid, non-resident fellowships to study the effects of connected products and services.  Fellows will undertake research to increase transparency and advance consumers’ interests in the marketplace—devising new testing frameworks, tools, and procedures to evaluate values such as privacy, security, and fairness. Fellows will have the opportunity to collaborate with a diverse community of technologists, leverage CR’s physical labs and testing infrastructure, and communicate findings to manufacturers, policymakers, and the public. Applications for our 2020 non-resident fellowships are now closed. We appreciate your interest and hope that you will consider applying next year when we reopen applications for the 2021 season.

• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

We help public sector leaders to modernise legacy applications and working practices, accelerate digital service delivery, drive smarter decisions with data and enable improved technology skills within teams.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Service delivery

Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Reports

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks