Democracy Counts is an Australian advocacy campaign.

• Fight disinformation
• Democracy organizations
• Political parties

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

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital transformation

Ethiopian Government launches new integrated electronic services portal

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Tech or Digital Policy

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

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

An NPO working to socially solve poverty issues in Japan.

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Mutual aid

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

• Mutual aid
• Fintech for good
• Economic development

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

• Mapping
• Service delivery

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

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open government data

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

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

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

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

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

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

• Archives
• Open civic data

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

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

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

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

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

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
• Open government data

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

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

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

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Hyogo Prefecture's open data dashboard published on Tableau Public

• Data visualization
• Open government data
• Dashboards

The Commons Archive of Resistance catalogues over 200 liberation tools, each evaluated against a Decolonise, Decentralise, Democratise lens rather than summarised at face value.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Activism aggregators
• Vibecoded

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

• Build something
• Civic hackathons
• Competitions

A community-run portal for the Philippines

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Bureaucracy tech

Open-data service to read public-relations magazines from municipalities nationwide on smartphones

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Access to information

Standardized data format for local government COVID-19 data; compiled by engineers, deployed nationwide by MIC

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Local sightseeing map using Sabae City open data

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Civic maps

Japan deployment of the Decidim participatory democracy platform; first adopted by Kakogawa, expanded to 30+ municipalities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

ForestMate is an open-source hiking safety companion for Korea that combines forest public data, real-time risk scoring, offline fallbacks, SOS workflows, and a k-anonymized public-agency monitoring dashboard.

• Mapping
• Mapping tools
• Vibecoded

Japanese OpenStreetMap community and supporting nonprofit OSMFJ for citizen-edited mapping

• Open government data
• Mapping
• Open civic data

Interactive map ranking the noise of every US city over 100,000 people, built from federal US DOT/BTS National Transportation Noise Map data (CC BY 4.0).

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Civic maps

A guide map visualizing the characteristics and specialties of civic tech organizations across Japan to help match citizens with the right activities.

• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others
• Data visualization

A volunteer matching app using AI-based personality assessment to achieve bidirectional matching between volunteers and organizations, rather than a simple search-based approach.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic hackathons
• Manage volunteers

Facilitating communication between residents and local government through a participatory tree management app.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Issue reporting

Every year, Democracy R&D takes stock of what our global network has created and learned.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Deliberation

"Before this project, there was no centralized archive of resolutions, no search function across meeting notes, and no easy way to quickly understand what the [Community Board] had previously said about a topic."

• Civic data
• Watchdogging government
• Archives

A feature on Threads that gives users control over their algorithmic feed.

• Social media
• Recommender feeds

The best source for job hunting in politics.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We're launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Nonprofit tech

Secure messaging that keeps working when the internet doesn't.

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Circumvention tech

Clarvia Graph is the technical engine behind Clarvia — it stores all the official rules and steps for bereavement paperwork across Europe — structured so that apps, websites, and public services can use them automatically.

• Legal tech
• Access to information
• Bureaucracy tech

Independent, non-profit research organisation studying the macroeconomics of the AI transition and the policy mechanisms for a fair one, with research in the UK parliamentary record.

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

The focus of the study is deliberately narrow: how digital participation tools can be used to engage citizens in the EU policy cycle.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The STOA Panel, established in 1987, provides the EP with independent expert assessment of techno-scientific developments and related policy options.

• Emerging tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Research and policy centers

Nearly every day, two users on r/Conservative account for more than 30% of new posts, sometimes exceeding 50%, as shown through 6 charts.

• Fight disinformation

The Allianz Foundation Next Generations Study series examines how young Europeans imagine and shape the future.

• Learn about civic tech
• Surveys & polling
• Reports

Plataforma cívica gratuita para Torrelavega. Transporte en tiempo real, eventos, comercio local y servicios municipales.

• Civic data
• Dashboards
• Neighborhood forums

Crowdsourced garbage tracker for Bengaluru

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

Free tool showing how every member of Congress actually voted on issues you care about — 1,066 real roll-call votes, 536 reps, 10 issue categories.

• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Watchdogging government

Este portal centraliza los monitores de transparencia de los tres poderes del Estado, el sistema de contrataciones públicas, el Índice de Riesgo Institucional (IRI) y el Monitor Internacional de Anticorrupción (MEACI).

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government