Capacitate Social Solutions is a social enterprise that was established in 2015 to support stakeholders across the social and green economy and drive innovation for impact.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Govtech vendors

Making Generative AI Models Accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

• commercial
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI
• Open source

A civic feature that helps Americans find out to vote right from within Google Search, in partnership with VIP and Democracy Works

• Google

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

Post outlining OpenAI's partnerships with DARPA, US AID, and US National Laboratories

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Public Private Partnerships

Open handbook about g0v and how to form a civic tech community group

• g0v

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Community-building resources

CivicTechZenChiba is an alliance of civic tech action members in Chiba to support each other.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups
• Partner networks and coalitions

The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.

• cities
• place-based

• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

A a mid-century live subway map on Kickstarter

• mass transit

• Civic data
• Hardware
• Dashboards

"BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model is a 176-billion-parameter transformer-based autoregressive large language model. The model, as well as the code base and the data used to train it, are distributed under free licences." - Wikipedia

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

eQualitie is a Canadian digital security organisation focused on the development and distribution of free, open-source software, services and security training to civil society, NGO's, investigative journalists and independent media to protect and promote human rights and press freedom online

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Breakout Program is a $250,000 seed funding initiative launched by eQualitie to support innovations in digital communication that can withstand network shutdowns and censorship of global connectivity.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

Governments across the globe are on their way to building national-scale digital infrastructure. A comprehensive view of the state of DPI, however, is missing. The DPI Map addresses this.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Identity

A 2024 Election Simulation Game

• US Election 2024
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Games and gamification

HedgeDoc (formerly known as CodiMD) is an open-source, web-based, self-hosted, collaborative markdown editor.

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Let's fund the Fediverse

• Mastodon
• Wordpress

• Get funding
• Social networks
• Decentralization

Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

• commercial

• Academia
• Research tools

Dataset Search is a search engine for datasets. Using a simple keyword search, users can discover datasets hosted in thousands of repositories across the Web.

• Google
• commercial

• Civic data
• Research tools

Organiselab.org is an advocacy group & community making the case for a digital transformation, and innovation across all levels of the UK trade union movement.

• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Digital transformation
• Campaign organizations

The open source CRM for community energy groups.

• Affordable and clean energy

• CRM
• General purpose open source tools

Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

VoteRaisers empower your supporters to reach out directly to their Democratic friends—encouraging them to register, volunteer, and VOTE for Democrats!

• partisan
• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

The grassroots organizing app that lets you meet people where they are.

• apps
• partisan
• US Election 2024

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Games and gamification

Únete al canal oficial de la campaña Harris-Walz para recibir anuncios importantes, contenido exclusivo, y mucho más. (with 28k followers)

• WhatsApp
• partisan
• US Election 2024

• Organize campaigns

SwipeBlue is fun and easy - it's Tinder for Democratic organizing! Just swipe blue (left) to send your friends a helpful voting text.

• partisan
• 2024 elections
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

Find 10 friends who don't vote and we win.

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

Democracy Fund program dedicated to bridging critical gaps to support the safety, strength, and sustainability of groups working at the frontlines of our democracy.

• US Election 2024

• Get funding
• Specific campaigns
• Foundation initiatives

Supercharge your ground game. Fast. Preferred GOP Vendor and Trump campaign as a client.

• partisan
• US Election 2024
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

A directory of "X for Harris" groups for the 2024 US election

• partisan
• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

Somos un espacio público de producción cultural abierta en dónde todas y todos podemos colaborar, experimentar y prototipar proyectos para el bien común.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

Tech Policy Press is tracking laws and regulations, along with government investigations and litigation, that will shape the rules and accountability for tech companies.

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy

"Importantly, people experiencing distress are more likely to engage in collective action on climate change or express a willingness to do so, even when controlling for several correlates of environmental behavior"

• Climate action
• mental health

• Organize campaigns
• Peer-reviewed research

Gamification features on the Parti Campaigns platform

• Advocacy tech
• Games and gamification

데이터트러스트는 공익 단체, 공공 기관, 시민, 연구자 등 다양한 주체들이 함께 공익 데이터를 생산, 관리, 공유하는 데이터 거버넌스 체계를 만듭니다. (DataTrust creates a data governance system in which various entities, including public interest organizations, public institutions, citizens, and researchers, work together to produce, manage, and share public interest data)

• Civic data
• Data governance
• Open civic data

Join our newsletter on issues and ideas at the intersection of tech & democracy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

The Working for an MP website is a resource for anyone working for a British Member of Parliament or with an interest in how Parliament works.

• Govtech
• Predecessors
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy.

• Media
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Welcome to w4mpjobs, funded by the House of Commons to provide career development opportunities for those working for MPs and those who are looking for a job with an MP or in other areas of political activity. 

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Economic Change Unit (ECU) campaigns to change the way the economy works so that everyone has the freedom and security to

• Decent work and economic growth

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

The Sunday Show is the weekly (and sometimes more often) podcast from Tech Policy Press.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts
• Tech or Digital Policy

A pilot program to pay maintainers of critical open source technologies.

• Get funding
• Fellowships
• Open source supply chain

A "protest plugin" that allows Wordpress administrators to set their Stripe plug-in's to credit referral payments to their own accounts.

• extensions
• Wordpress

• Specific campaigns
• Payments

Forms that do it all

• commercial

• Forms

Crypto-infused newsletter platform

• commercial

• Blockchain
• Decentralization
• Newsletter tech

A Social Ecosystem connecting Voters, Elected Representatives, Thought Leaders and Authorized Organizations

• apps
• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people
• Social networks

The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)

• workshops
• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Urban planning
• Public Interest Tech

A grassroots interdisciplinary responsible AI lab for Africa and the Global South. Researching technical alignment and governance of AI

• workshops

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

As an academic community that believes in technology’s potential to have a positive impact on public life, Missouri S&T is honored to be recognized as a member of the Public Interest Technology University Network (PIT-UN).

• culture
• Gender Equality

• Public Interest Tech

This is a collective of dedicated individuals and organizations committed to fostering ethical AI practices, encouraging research, and addressing the societal implications of AI across Africa and largely the Global South.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups