A practical resource for responding to major cyber incidents.

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity

The updated FME 2.0 offers very practical suggestions on how to engage civil society and affected communities in AI development to support platforms and AI developers in creating rights-based products.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Build something

The 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards celebrate excellence in digital government modernization.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Celebrating public service and public servants

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza.

• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

Together, let’s accelerate the digital social economy in France and Europe

• Digital transformation

fabriquons un internet convivial

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Local-first tech
• Web hosting

Keseb’s Democracy Innovation Lab catalyzes promising early-stage innovations reimagining the building blocks of democracy.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Keseb Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide is a digital resource hub offering key trends, frameworks, and strategic recommendations to advance democratic resilience and innovation.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic literacy

The AI Incident Database (AIID) tracks instances of ethical

• AI Auditing

Alongside our regular output that makes it easier to compare each APPG register to the previous one, there’s now a big new update on TheyWorkForYou allowing you to browse your MP’s memberships for the first time.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Find your representatives
• Caucuses

We are building a vibrant transnational civil society ecosystem for learning, collaboration, and innovation to advance inclusive and resilient democracies.

• Democracy organizations

New_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Neighborhood forums

We help organizations, communities, workplaces, and collectives learn sociocracy — a decentralized way of organizing that makes decision-making more equitable, efficient, and transparent.

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Beginning with an intensive 2-year Immersion, Keseb’s Fellowship provides ongoing support and community to a mosaic of leading and established national Democracy Entrepreneurs and organizations from Brazil, South Africa, and the United States.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Outlook is a digital global magazine for and by democracy champions.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Qiqo is a trusted community hub of positive & useful local information to help you love where you live

• Community-building resources
• Local-first tech

8 and counting active protests against data centers in the US

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The Common News makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Sparkable is a nonprofit aiming to strengthen democracy and social cohesion by rebuilding social media into a force for good.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

The Journalism Support Exchange (JSX) is a matchmaking service for the news industry.

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

The European AI Office is the centre of AI expertise across the EU, that promotes the development and deployment of AI solutions that benefit society and the economy.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech or Digital Policy

Get a Dinners for Democracy giftbox or a democracy scented candle

• Civic tech gifts

Democracy Works 250 is a new initiative from Democracy Forward that is building the foundations of a democracy that works for all of us.

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Democracy organizations

Public Data Works is an engineering and design workshop. We build tools that help make data useful to the public.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Our work brings mission-driven organizations, philanthropies and communities to the table to make ambitious ideas actionable.

• Media
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

• Media
• Journalism
• News and blogs

"A small Python library I've built for cleaning messy human-centric data: HumanMint, a completely open-source library. Think government contact records with chaotic names, weird phone formats, noisy department strings, inconsistent titles, etc."

• Civic data
• Open government data
• General purpose open source tools

It’s time to unlock Parliament and build a House of the People up from the grassroots.

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Ayudamos a personas, familias, escuelas y empresas a encontrar un uso equilibrado de la tecnología.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

A campaign to establish a parallel UK Parliament with a representative Citizen's Assembly of the public

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We’re a philanthropic funder that partners with leading donors to multiply their impact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing

Transformer is a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

America's Essential Data is a collaborative effort dedicated to documenting the value that data produced by the federal government provides for American lives and livelihoods.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

Freely Accessible Government Data, Documents, Records, and Research

• Govtech
• Archives
• Public records

The GWOW project’s goal is to preserve the current government websites of every country in the world to ensure perpetual access to online government information for an informed citizenry and democratic resilience.

• Govtech
• Archives

An easier way to see what your group chat really thinks and feels.

• Surveys & polling

The AI Act Whistleblower Tool is a secure channel set up by the European AI Office for individuals who wish to anonymously report potential breaches of the AI Act, thereby contributing to the safe and transparent development of AI technologies.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Regulation

This report assesses the impact of the foreign aid cuts on the global democracy ecosystem.

• Get funding
• Evaluate impact
• Reports

The Global Democracy Coalition is a multi-stakeholder alliance of over 160 democracy organizations worldwide, working together to advance and protect democracy globally.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Foundation initiatives
• Democracy organizations

Each regional forum will bring diverse perspectives to the global conversation on democracy, ensuring that local insights inform international efforts. The discussions will contribute to policy recommendations, advocacy strategies, and cross-regional partnerships, feeding into the GDC’s broader global initiatives.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Through a positive narrative, the campaign raises awareness of the benefits of democratic systems across the world, spurring engagement and highlighting our responsibility to preserve them. #ThankYouDemocracy

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

Exploring the intersections of democracy, youth, and technology.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Luke Igel and Riley Walz have launched a Gmail-like interface where you can browse Epstein's emails (some of which were released by Congress).

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Artistic interventions
• Social and financial connections

Ethical Shopping & Secure VPN Services

• Advocacy tech
• VPN
• Boycott or buycott

A Community Roadmap for Technologies to Support Practitioners

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Reports

We are a social enterprise in China applying open principles to shaping and governing the digital future

• Civic data
• Digital rights
• Open civic data

Arena’s 2025-26 Cycle Political Tech and Consultant Catalogue is the go-to resource for senior campaign staff, candidates, and other decision makers deciding who to hire and what technology and services to deploy.

• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

The Open Data Board Game is a board game built around the creation of tools using data.

• Civic data
• Games and gamification
• Board games

This portal provides information and reports about the work done by UNESCO.

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