Connecting top public sector talent with essential local government jobs.

• Project 2025

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

Since 1995, we've coordinated the philanthropic endeavours founded by the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, continuing a tradition of social engagement stretching back as far as 1841.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

whatsmeow is a Go library for the WhatsApp web multidevice API.

• Matrix
• WhatsApp

• Chat and messaging
• Group communication tools

Ever wonder, “How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?” If so, check out this new research from the Canadian Digital Service! It includes 5 case studies of partnerships between the Canadian government and civic tech groups, plus tools to assess if civic tech might be a good partner for a government initiative. Find it here: https://digital.canada.ca/2025/01/23/how-can-civic-tech-help-improve-government-service-delivery/

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Gestisci la tua identità digitale e accedi velocemente ai servizi online con l’app CieID.

• apps

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official Digital Identity Systems

The UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

• General purpose open source tools

Here, you'll find stories from real government employees: How we save you time and money, how we protect your personal information, and how DOGE's dangerous dismantling of government technology puts you at risk.

• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Build something
• Narrative tech

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

• Govtech vendors

• criminal justice

• Justice tech

People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

• trees

• Data visualization

ShotSpotter creates thousands of unfounded police deployments, fuels unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, and can lead to false arrests.

• surveillance
• crime
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns

The NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.

• youth
• surveillance
• criminal justice

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.

• Quality education
• surveillance
• CTFG partners

• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights
• Campaign organizations

[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Open source AI

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

• surveillance
• youth
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

by Rahul Bhargava

• books

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

Advancing AI in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Red teaming

We are a new social enterprise developing tools to strengthen place-based awareness and engagement. ​

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).

• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

A report by the Royal Society on the impact of the internet on our information environment, and on misinformation relating to scientific issues

• reports

• Fight disinformation

We provide democratic tools and methods for communities of all shapes and sizes.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Public Interest Tech

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

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
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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

• local

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

Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.

• commercial
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

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

A Figyusz egy alkalmazás, amelyben értesítésekre iratkozhatsz fel, hogy azonnal értesülj a figyelt közigazgatási és állami adatbázisok frissülése esetén.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Service alerts

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

• Government transparency

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.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

• extensions
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Mapping tools

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

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

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

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

• Media
• Polarization

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

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

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

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

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
• city
• social isolation

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Urban planning

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
• Civic features

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

• Generative AI
• Specific digital participation instances