Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to the Ostbelgien Permanent Citizens' Council.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

G1000 is a Belgian platform for democratic innovation. We develop, support and promote new forms of deliberation that reinforce democracy from the local to the national level. We believe democracy should give more space to regular citizens.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

K-Monitor database is a searchable library of articles from the online media dealing with corruption, procurements, public spending and in general with the transparency of the public sphere.

• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

The aim of this Municipal Budget Visualisation Tool is to make the management of local governments transparent to the local population and the wider society.

• budget

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

is an app where you can subscribe to alerts to be notified immediately of updates to monitored administrative and government databases.

• Government transparency

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

• extensions

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Artistic interventions

Provides a comprehensive overview of all enforcement authorities and the cases they have taken against online platforms under the Digital Services Act

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Our team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.

• fires

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Newsweek has added a "Is this article trustworthy?" poll below its articles

• Media
• Polarization

Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Democratic Innovations

DoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.

• housing
• cities
• social isolation

• Research and policy centers
• Urban planning
• Academia

Agence de communication et relations publics, Datack est spécialisée dans les stratégies de mobilisation et d’engagement des publics

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

BuzzFeed Unveils Plan to Take Back the Internet We Love; Company Aims to Disrupt Social Media With a New AI-Driven Platform Built for Creativity and Joy, Not Manipulation or Addiction

• commercial

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Governance of AI

We help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Civil society research outfits

How can we ensure that democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances? What are achievable positive visions for a world being transformed by technology? By Aviv Ovadya

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

A key question is:  who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?

• framework

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• User research

Cet appel à projet vise à créer et à rendre accessible les communs numériques sur l’ensemble de la chaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative afin d’assurer le développement de produits ou services innovants.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Building inside government

By Aviv Ovadya

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Democratic Innovations

Canada’s platform for bold policies and better leaders.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

In the context of rising concerns regarding GenAI use, a two-day deliberative process was organized and hosted at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute. A total of 17 students from 6 disciplines, gathered and deliberated on the question “How can we reimagine teaching, learning, and research methods to align with the advancements in AI and ethics?”.

• students
• Decidim

• Specific digital participation instances
• Generative AI

Have you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions
• Narrative tech

In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

We partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.

• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• User research

To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It’s also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.

• coop

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Data governance

We campaign for communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data and AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data governance
• Governance of AI

Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Report by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Campaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

We believe in strengthening and protecting people’s voices via proven quality technology and operational expertise – including election monitoring, voting systems, and data-driven outreach.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation
• E-voting and I-voting

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Small donor campaign to help protect Kyiv from aerial bombing

• Ukraine

• Specific campaigns
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

AI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy

• hate speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Community-building resources

People, organizations, and communities across the country are joining together to ensure our civil servants have resources if they are targeted or attacked.

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Our Mapping Civic Education in Europe programme is a dynamic initiative continuously evolving by adding new countries to the first-ever pan-European virtual map of civic educators.

• Civic literacy
• Civic maps

THE CIVICS supports both citizens and civic educators to deal with the challenges of our time, such as threats to democracy, causes and effects of climate change, growing polarisation, and divides. Our goal is to strengthen the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.

• Civic literacy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Artificial Intelligence: support teachers and schools in using AI effectively

• teachers & educators

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

• teachers & educators

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic literacy

Since 2016, the Laura Robot has analyzed more than 8.6 million visits in 40 clinical and hospital centers in several Brazilian states.

• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

The report explores Uber, Cabify and Bolt’s compliance with competition, labor and consumer protection laws in Spain.

• mobility
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

With the collaboration of Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Eticas carried out an audit of the natural language processing (NLP) system from the Social Services area from the Barcelona City Council.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• AI Auditing

Eticas audited the algorithmic system that predicts homelessness risk in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• homelessness

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing