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

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

Hyogo Prefecture's open data dashboard published on Tableau Public

• Data visualization
• Open government data
• Dashboards

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

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

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

• Build something
• Civic hackathons
• Competitions

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
• Vibecoded
• Activism aggregators

A community-run portal for the Philippines

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Bureaucracy tech

Local sightseeing map using Sabae City open data

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

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

• Open government data
• Mapping
• Open civic data

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

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Local news

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

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

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

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

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
• Civic maps
• Open government data

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

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Issue reporting

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
• Manage volunteers
• Civic hackathons

The best source for job hunting in politics.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

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

• Social media
• Recommender feeds

"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

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

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

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Deliberation

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

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
• Bureaucracy tech
• Open civic data

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

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

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

• Learn about civic tech
• Surveys & polling
• Reports

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

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

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

• Civic data
• Dashboards
• Vibecoded

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
• Watchdogging government
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

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

At the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination we call what we do 'experiments', because it allows us to truly test things out, and fall flat on our faces sometimes.

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Direct action

In this report, we examine AI chatbots through the lens of dark patterns — deceptive or manipulative design choices that may undermine user autonomy or well-being.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Bots

We help governments design and implement strategic, evidence-based and innovative policies to strengthen public governance, respond effectively to diverse and disruptive economic, social and environmental challenges and deliver on government’s commitments to citizens.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Procurement

With the Swiss Local Chapter, we are creating a shared home for all Swiss actors around Decidim.

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A curated collection of Claude Code skills for journalists, researchers, academics, and media professionals.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

We're a campaign for free public transport in London.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Kto ma co porządkuje publiczne oświadczenia majątkowe.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, AI enables a new type of conversation amongst Americans on freedom & equality.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

A professional association for congressional staff focused on artificial intelligence policy and practice.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Tech or Digital Policy

An end-to-end example of pulling DC's open property data from its public ArcGIS REST APIs and turning it into an interactive dashboard + briefing decks.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open government data

The European Commission today presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a set of measures to strengthen Europe's digital autonomy and resilience.

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Policy

ALDA's podcast - "To promote positive change and democracy, through dialogue and interaction"

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

CAMP is a think tank dedicated to addressing the issue of monopoly in Canada.

• Research and policy centers
• Think tanks
• Tech or Digital Policy

Every City In The USA is a city data explorer that lets people filter, compare, source, and export complete city population lists alongside sourced cost-of-living, climate, housing, tax, wage, and other official-data layers

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Dashboards

A free civic-data tracker for U.S. Congress stock trades disclosed through public STOCK Act filings.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

ALDA is a global alliance of local and regional authorities and civil society actors working together with a participative approach for resilient, inclusive and sustainable communities.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democracy organizations

Visa itinerary services

• The Tech

The Institute for Continuous Improvement in Public Services is a professional membership charity; upholding standards of professional practice, undertaking research and bringing members together to share knowledge; influence policy and practice.

• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government