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• Learn about civic tech
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Mainstream media coverage

An EU legislative transparency platform tracking legislation, MEP roll-call voting records, lobbying meetings, and how EU directives are transposed into national law across the 27 member states.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

VoterFile is a California campaign tool that turns a campaign's authorized voter file into voter CRM, targeting universes, canvassing turf, walk packets, and campaign-ready exports.

• Voting and elections
• Campaign tools
• CRM

ComplaintCA helps Canadians file complaints against municipalities, landlords, employers, and businesses by routing them to the correct authority and drafting the complaint with AI assistance in 7 languages.

• Communicating with the government
• Legal tech
• Issue reporting

NASA is launching the Space Apps Challenge. A hackathon to encourage to encourage anyone with an interest in space and science to address real-world challenges.

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Civic hackathons

The application, called AI-CopWriter, was developed by Blue Cloud Softech with the Hyderabad police IT Cell and launched at the Telangana Integrated Command and Control Centre in Hyderabad.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Speech recognition

WhatsApp-first software for movement organising across the Global South. Track event attendance, automate reminders and follow-ups, launch petitions and recruit to build people power.

• Organize campaigns
• Digital participation platforms
• Campaign tools

The African Internet Rights Alliance (AIRA) is a network of Africa-based civil society organisations (CSOs) that advance digital rights.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital rights
• Civil society research outfits

As the U.S. celebrates its 250th birthday, Podcasting Democracy helps students connect the Constitution and Bill of Rights to issues like food, health and voting.

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts
• Media literacy

The Housing Innovation Collaborative exists to bring people and ideas together to accelerate the production of lower-cost, higher-quality housing.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Incubators

Dr. Greg Jackson, who previously created the podcast "History that Doesn't Suck", and Political Science Professor Lindsey Cormack are launching a new podcast on the real-world impact of the policies, laws, agencies and aparati of American government, called "Government That Doesn't Suck".

• Podcasts
• Policy

The Institute for Worldmaking (IWM) is a global cultural research lab and public platform developing tools for imagining and building dynamic futures for and from the Arab world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic literacy
• Research tools

Current AI is a visualization tool meant to make the sprawling open source AI ecosystem legible.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Rede de Comunicação Comunitária Bairro dos Souzas - Monteiro Lobato

• Connectivity
• Digital literacy
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

This tool is designed for non-profit advocates, community organizers, and government staff who need a fast, user-friendly way to dig through NYC City Council data without the friction of legacy portals

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Open government data

New York City became the first local government outside Catalonia to establish a formal collaboration framework with the Decidim Association.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Specific digital participation instances

CivicCause is a civic intelligence platform designed to map the political ecosystem of a city.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency

Signal Radar helps public-sector AI, software, data, cyber, cloud, automation, and civic-tech vendors find and package the next 30 days of inspectable government pursuit opportunities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement
• Govtech vendors

Find and contact your representatives at every level.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Ninh Binh, Vienam is launching AI-integrated Digital Public Service Stations

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital transformation

Africa Innovation and Technology Forum (AITF) 2026 launched the Political Economy of Digital Governance Report.

• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Democracy Counts is an Australian advocacy campaign.

• Fight disinformation
• Democracy organizations
• Political parties

Ethiopian Government launches new integrated electronic services portal

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Tech or Digital Policy

Free, open-source bilingual (EN/ES) tool that tells a Los Angeles renter which rent law protects them, their legal rent-increase cap, and whether a specific increase is legal — from their address (information, not legal advice).

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Access to information

A library catalog search service to help find books you want to borrow.

• Civic literacy
• Access to information
• Open data publishing platforms

An organization aiming to solve child poverty.

• Communicating with the people
• Community-building resources
• Support civic projects with tech

An NPO working to socially solve poverty issues in Japan.

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Mutual aid

Providing weather, earthquake, disaster prevention and lifestyle-related information as well as consultation on its usage.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

Promoting digitalization in the welfare sector.

• Tech for public challenges
• Digital transformation

An organization focused on child support in Japan, tackling social challenges surrounding children with child poverty as the primary focus.

• Access social benefits
• Mutual aid
• Civics education

Displaying old photographs of Mishima City as a digital archive on the web.

• Archives
• Open civic data

Grameen Japan providing microfinance and employment support programs to help people achieve self-reliance through entrepreneurship or employment

• Mutual aid
• Economic development
• Fintech for good

An agricultural support app promoting the shift 'From memory to records' in farming.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open government data

A community-driven storytelling platform for unhoused individuals to document their experiences with policy impacts, while providing researchers and advocates with data-driven insights to drive systemic change, alongside a comprehensive resource directory.

• Crowdsourcing
• Research tools
• Vibecoded

Introducing a 'Community Development Council' system where local residents proactively participate in town planning.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture and Uber Japan have partnered to launch the first municipality-led rideshare service with Uber.

• Mapping
• Service delivery

Implementing 'Community Development Public Offering Projects' where the city provides funding for citizen-proposed projects.

• Funders & donors
• Open government data
• Fundraising tools

An organization providing pro bono services to NPOs to support social problem-solving, including activities to eliminate poverty.

• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Community-building resources

Providing 'GovTech Express,' a conversational application dedicated to government agencies, to support the establishment of a 'Smartphone City Hall.'

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

Promoting the utilization of open data to drive regional revitalization.

• Open government data
• Digital transformation
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Federation of American Scientists conducted retros with over 100 US civic technologists inside of government.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Beacon brings together public data on economic security, health, housing, and more into clear, place-based maps your whole team can use.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Dashboards

Kyoto City's open data initiative has reduced information disclosure requests and promotes regional revitalization through citizen collaboration

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Regional revitalization dashboard by LM on Tableau Public covering local products, hometown tax, and tourism satisfaction

• Data visualization
• Open government data
• Dashboards

Kotoura Town deployed Liqlid to promote community development and incorporate more residents' voices beyond workshops

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Citizen Engagement

Private base for open data utilization, operated by NPO Community Link.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Zo laat de overheid u weten wat er speelt in uw eigen buurt.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Open data publication and evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) promotion in Kobe City

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Hyogo Prefecture's open data dashboard published on Tableau Public

• Data visualization
• Open government data
• Dashboards

Civic tech prototype development contest for students and youth under 22 (since 2020)

• Build something
• Civic hackathons
• Competitions