The Public Servants team is defining and explaining common civic tech terms

• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

• Open justice

• Open justice

• Open justice

The Google Trends API enables programmatic access to data from Google Trends, helping researchers, journalists, and developers conduct better analysis on search behavior and trends.

• Research tools

The bestselling book by Lou Downe about how to design services that work

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Design

• Open justice

Your AI Assistant for Tracking Procurement Risks

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The On Think Tanks State of the Sector Report 2025 provides an overview of how think tanks worldwide are navigating an increasingly polarised environment, as well as a comprehensive snapshot of the sector’s current state and future prospects.

• Fieldwide resources
• Think tanks

This interactive guide helps you connect everyday public service delivery failures to specific public procurement risks.

• Procurement

Enhancing public access to federal habeas corpus case documents restricted under FRCP 5.2(c)

• Crowdsourcing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Open justice

First launched in 2006, the Open Budget Survey is the world’s only independent, comparative, and fact-based research instrument to measure these essential aspects of governance and accountability: Participation, Oversight, and Transparency

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Evaluate impact

Our fundraising software serves newsrooms of all sizes. We even have a free option!

• Media
• Journalism

We've helped newsrooms raise over $128 million — without a paywall.

• Media
• Journalism

Our interactive world map allows you to access live updates from civil society around the world, track threats to civil society and learn about the ways in which our right to participate is being realised or challenged.

• Civic maps
• Evaluate impact
• Reports

CIVICUS is a global alliance that champions the power of civil society to create positive change.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civil society research outfits

The Madison AI™ platform unites your agency’s scattered data and systems into knowledge AI to research anything and draft staff reports/memos in minutes.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Our research project aims to understand how Karen refugees in Thailand experience digital identity systems and to inform the development of digital identity systems which are fair for the people who use them.

• Academia
• Identity

Streamline Public Sector Purchasing with Government Procurement Software

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Govtech vendors

CIV.IQ is a web utility that helps Americans find and learn about their elected representatives at federal and state levels using real government data, including voting records, campaign finance, and sponsored legislation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Find your representatives

FireGuard uses military satellites with the National Interagency Fire Center, U.S. Forest Service and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s Firefly capability to detect wildfires, notify authorities, and create products to disseminate to firefighting networks nationwide.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

Investing in the Technologies Modernizing State & Local Government

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Investors

The National Digital Inclusion Alliance (NDIA) and Public Knowledge are excited to announce the launch of the Connectivity Policy Corps (CPC), a groundbreaking program designed to shape broadband and digital inclusion policies nationwide.

• Connectivity
• Policy
• Tech or Digital Policy

Comprehensive Local Government Solutions

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

An exhibition of drawings by Karen refugees from the Thailand-Myanmar border.

• Artistic interventions
• Identity

Initially founded in 2018, the Wi-Fi Caucus is dedicated to assisting Members of Congress in better understanding how Wi-Fi benefits the American public, consumers, economy, and the larger geopolitical standing of the United States.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Connectivity
• Policy

The report introduces three indices—the AI Frontier Index, the AI Infrastructure Index, and the AI Diffusion Index—to help policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders understand where breakthroughs are happening, where capacity exists to scale, and where AI is being used to improve lives.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital transformation
• Research tools

The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

In this note we offer AI companies, specifically those that train and deploy frontier models, a set of viable and achievable options for democratizing the governance structures of their organizations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Email your Councillor, MP, MSP, MS, MLA or London Assembly Member for free

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Google's open source mobile operating system

• Smartphones

By exploring what truly helps or hinders youth organisations from sharing data openly, we aim to create practical solutions informed by governance, design, data, and sustainability, ensuring that every young person can access the support they need when they need it.

• Fieldwide resources

A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open civic data

A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data schemas and standards
• Open source

Share video with dispatchers

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic features
• Emergency services

The Microsoft Airband initiative was launched to bring transformative connectivity to unserved and underserved communities around the world.

• Connectivity
• Civic teams at tech companies

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data schemas and standards
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

your local AI agent, automating engineering tasks seamlessly install goose

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data schemas and standards
• Open source

Emergency SOS Live Video allows users to share context through streaming video and recorded media.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic features
• Emergency services

A six-year bipartisan effort to strengthen America by building the government we need to compete globally and serve citizens effectively.

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Metagov breaks up the thorny problem of AI governance into smaller, easier problems and intervention points

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Created to help state governments navigate the rapid rise of artificial intelligence.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Charities with rich informational content need to now think beyond their rankings in the “10 blue links” for visibility.

• Nonprofit tech
• AEO (SEO for AI)

These findings support preference- and incentive-based accounts of participation but suggest that light-touch interventions are unlikely to bridge participation gaps, let alone polarization.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Learn about civic tech

Mid-career technologists developing a holistic understanding of the civic landscape in the UK and beyond, to found groundbreaking projects or seek strategic positions in key institutions.

• Fellowships

We are publishing this dataset we developed as part of our efforts with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative to help close the rural broadband gap.

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Connectivity

Sudan Witness was launched in April 2023, and monitors, analyses, verifies, and archives information pertaining to human rights interferences and conflict incidents in Sudan’s current conflict.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Data science for social good

A pioneering AI platform that empowers fact-checkers and citizens worldwide to verify information accuracy with just a few clicks. Fighting misinformation across 50+ languages, powered by 60+ trusted organizations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

disint.ai - a narrative intelligence and social listening platform for YouTube.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation