Students at Stanford have built alphaXiv, an open discussion forum for arXiv papers

• Meet the others
• Academia
• Open knowledge

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

• Engagement tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

The First Branch LLM (Large Language Model) concept map below imagines the critical infrastructure needed at the enterprise level to create an accessible, accountable, and permanent information system for both the public and lawmakers.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

A coalition of community and news organizations providing in-depth journalism and catalyzing civic action

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Newsroom partnership networks

The world's leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

by Mehran Khalili

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

Analyses on the conflict in Sudan

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Working with external partners, Thomson Reuters Labs™ are active members of regional innovation ecosystems, delivering world-class solutions for customers.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Innovation teams and labs

Nieman Journalism Lab coverage of ProPublica's source recruiting outside government offices in DC

• place-based

• Media
• Journalism
• Whistleblowing

A collaborative analysis platform for effective aid response

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Open data publishing platforms

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.

• surveillance
• place-based
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware
• Legal tech

IFRC GO aims to make all disaster information universally accessible and useful to IFRC responders for better decision making.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Dashboards

Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening for humanitarian operations

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The GBV AoR brings together non-governmental organisations, UN agencies, academics and others under the shared objective of ensuring life-saving, predictable, accountable and effective GBV prevention, risk mitigation and response in emergencies, both natural disaster and conflict-related humanitarian contexts.

• Gender-Based Violence (GBV)
• Gender Equality

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Parody protest campaign

• Reduced inequalities
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

How do we ensure that community data from Papua New Guinea’s protected areas is reported and heard?

• biodiversity
• animals
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Evaluate impact
• Environmental data

A chatbot AI that has access to millions of pages of municipal documents from small towns throughout Vermont.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access to laws
• Meeting tech

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

[A] collection of works related with AI in public Administration, in a very broad sense.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Procurement

digitalfems es una organización que defiende la diversidad de género en la industria tech.

• Gender Equality

• Diversity & Inclusion

The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

Sahana makes high quality information management systems for emergency preparedness, response, recovery and resilience-building accessible to all.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

We are a network of ten established organizations working in the global majority, that collaborate to strengthen the digital resilience of the social justice ecosystem.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

A questionnaire for AI vendors hoping to serve Lynwood, CA's school system

• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Procurement oversight

ControlAI is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the risks to humanity from artificial intelligence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Alignment

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

As Lynwood Unified moves forward with integrating artificial intelligence technologies into the classroom, the district is assembling an AI Taskforce to help guide this process. Download Resources

• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement
• Procurement oversight

Pix is an online platform open for everyone to assess, develop, and certify your digital skills

• Digital literacy
• Economic development
• Upskilling

parlament.fyi ist Österreichs erste KI-basierte Plattform über Politik. Künstliche Intelligenz fasst Beschlüsse und Reden aus dem Nationalrat einfach zusammen und liefert kompakte Analysen zu Sprachmustern und Argumenten der Parteien. Ergebnisse aus der Politik werden damit für alle leichter zugänglich und transparent.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Open Gov Challenge Awards recognize the best initiatives submitted to the Open Gov Challenge, a global call to action aimed to encourage ambition in ten areas of open government critical to strengthening our democracies.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes

Custom Merch, USA & Union Made, Eco-Friendly

• Merchandise

A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity
• Hardware

Global Voices has launched a special series on how the decimation of US aid funding is affecting Global Majority nations and marginalized communities.

• Project 2025

• Get funding
• Journalism

• Digital literacy
• Diversity & Inclusion

We’re a not-for-profit co-op, working with people with a progressive mission who make the world a better place.

• coop

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Building in the private sector

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

Whistleblowers play a vital role in helping Congress conduct its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities. Ranking Member Merkley is interested in information regarding waste, fraud, and abuse in the public and private sectors.

• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

A podcast about the political entrepreneurs and other progressive leaders who are finding new and improved ways to fight.

• podcasts
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Podcasts

We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Media and social media analysis
• Big listening
• Digital peacebuilding

The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible data and AI practices.

• development

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Policy

A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.

• bias
• European Union
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Design
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.

• crisis
• humanitarian
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Building great open source software for Sri Lanka (and beyond!)

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Open source

Here you will find in-depth articles (deep dives), interviews and other content related to our lines of activity (Future Culture, Democratic Innovation, Citizen Empowerment, Social Economy and cooperativism).

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

We build software solutions for Democratic campaigns and organizations, focused on compliance and data management.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Autonomous Ethical Hacking

• Cybersecurity
• Red teaming
• Ethical hackers