Truly sustainable funding for critical OSS through a community‑driven endowment

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source

Open Source United (OSU) is a UN-wide initiative to coordinate and scale open source efforts across the United Nations system.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Every day, the world’s leading tech companies share critical intelligence on threats to child safety through Lantern, using that information to make their platforms safer, removing abusive material and bad actors.

• Trust & Safety
• Child safety

Words of Mouth is a weekly newsletter sharing humane professional and creative opportunities across design, the arts, education, information, and the built environment.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We're building a public, inspectable ranking of civic and political technology projects — the kind of tools that help citizens understand institutions, participate in democracy, and hold power to account.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact

The City of Aurora's Open Data Portal

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

This study addresses one of the most frequently cited explanations for PB’s instability: changes in the ruling party.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Fais un don de 15 euros ou plus et reçois tes chaussettes de vote en retour

• Voting and elections
• Civic tech gifts

At Belenga Dev, we craft innovative solutions that transform data into actionable insights.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

We are the new platform for those who want to organize, scale and sustain their cause.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

The Almanack includes novel talks, vulnerability discoveries, and experiments from the most recent DEF CON summit.

• Learn about civic tech
• Cybersecurity
• Reports

Upload shapes, join data, color your map.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Open-source real-time city dashboard aggregating 20+ public data feeds (weather, transit, news, air quality, water levels, police reports, and more). Currently covering Berlin. Easy to apply to other cities.

• Civic data
• Dashboards

Online & IRL studies and prototypes healthier digital ecosystems through research, cultural strategy, and community experiences that reconnect online technology with real-world human relationships.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Public Relations and amplification

The California Department of Technology (CDT) is the guardian of public data, a leader in information technology (IT) services and solutions and has broad responsibility and authority over all aspects of technology in California state government, including policy formation, interagency coordination, IT project oversight, information security, technology service delivery, and advocacy.

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity
• Innovation capacity

Leading Edge Fellowships place recent humanities PhDs with nonprofit organizations committed to promoting justice and equity in their communities.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Open-source tax assessment system.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Tax offices

Brightlines protects people and organizations from real-world harm caused by online exposure.

• Digital security and privacy

Procurement intelligence platform that makes 16 years of UK council spending data searchable, helping businesses find and win local government contracts

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Procurement

A site documenting the web of dark money and influence that undermine democracy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A managed runtime for rule encodings, calibrated populations, and economic simulation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data APIs
• Open source

The Axiom Foundation builds open, machine-readable encodings of statutes, regulations, and policy rules.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legislation trackers
• Access to laws

El Consorcio AlSur está conformado por 11 organizaciones latinoamericanas que articulan acciones conjuntas para promover los derechos humanos en entornos digitales a nivel regional.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital rights

The New York Climate Exchange is a nonprofit that unlocks climate solutions by activating a unique partner model and climate campus—coming to Governors Island in 2029.

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• Partner networks and coalitions

Free walkability and pedestrian safety analysis for any street address globally, scoring streets using OpenStreetMap, satellite imagery, and open government data.

• Civic maps
• Mapping
• Evaluate impact

The home of open source giants and emerging talent, the European Open Source Awards is one of a kind celebration of the leading innovators and contributors in European open source.

• Open source
• Awards and prizes

How outdated systems undermine the day-to-day work of members of parliament

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Govbase uses AI to track federal policy, political news, and elected officials' social media, then scores how each policy personally impacts citizens.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government
• Evaluate impact

A thorough and accessible account of how to use the Freedom of Information Act and other access laws, written by a leading expert

• Learn about civic tech
• Access to information
• Books

A proposal by POPVOX to establish the Congressional Capacity and Technology Office (C-TECH)

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Internal government tech capacity

Identity-verified civic engagement platform where citizens participate in polls, surveys, and community discussions with authenticated identities, providing organizations with trustworthy public opinion data.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Identity

We are an international network of technologists, practitioners, and experts who are building, studying, and using technology to enhance deliberation and to create digital infrastructure for deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks
• Deliberation

The UN Open Source Principles are comprised of eight guidelines and provide a framework to guide the use, development and sharing of open source software across the organization.

• Open source
• Playbooks and design principles

ChatGPT is Trump's biggest donor, and ICE uses ChatGPT. It's time to Quit.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns
• Boycott or buycott

attempting to detect smart glasses nearby and warn you

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware

When decentered people have the tools to exist, resist, and thrive, so do we all.

• Social impact design firms

Cidadãos ajudam a escrever projetos de lei com ferramenta de inteligência artificial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Mais eficiência, menos custos: descubra o contrato de energia ideal para a sua instituição

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia

A resource bank designed not just to explain AI, but to help MPs and staff with step-by-step guides to foster responsible adoption to meet the needs of the people they serve.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

O e-Cidadania é um portal criado em 2012 pelo Senado Federal com o objetivo de estimular e possibilitar maior participação dos cidadãos nas atividades legislativas, orçamentárias, de fiscalização e de representação do Senado.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

PROPONHA E APOIE IDEIAS PARA NOVAS LEIS

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Finally, a wireless service that wants to know as little about you as possible. Your privacy is Phreeli's priority.

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Smartphones

A Curated Resource Library and Knowledge Sharing Community for the Digital Democracy Initiative

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

We publish high-quality, interdisciplinary research that examines misinformation from different perspectives—from its prevalence and impact to the effectiveness of possible interventions—employing a fast-review process designed to publish articles within one to three months of entering peer review.

• Fight disinformation
• Academia
• Journals

We need bold, highly talented people to be the next generation of MPs, advisers, civil servants, commentators, or something else entirely.

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Tech talent

Movements Conference against Big Tech

• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

At a moment when diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives face mounting political backlash and institutional retrenchment, this research asks a question that is both urgent and foundational: Who gets to shape technology policy, and what determines who stays long enough to lead?

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Diversity & Inclusion

Using global case studies from the Participedia database, the findings reveal that democratic innovations excel in various attributes but rarely deliver substantial redistributive impact.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

NGOwise is an AI-powered platform that helps civil society organizations find funding, manage projects, and complete donor reporting, reducing administrative burden and strengthening their sustainability.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech

We are a member-led network, shaping the future of independent journalism in Europe. Together we strengthen democracy, sustainability, and innovation in media.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions