The PSAi is a new campaign by Columbia Journalism Review to use viral AI-generated images to teach people what to look for to ascertain real photos from fake. And it launched with a music video.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Foundational layers

Based on two years of research—including more than 40 interviews, pilots in Boston, New York City, and San José, and a scan of national policy trends—we propose an alternative framework for public AI adoption: Adapt, Listen, and Trust (ALT).

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Big listening

The complete workspace solution that puts you in control of your data.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• General purpose open source tools
• Digital sovereignty

We are a new division under the Department of Technology

• city

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Service delivery

John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships offer journalists an opportunity to step back from demands of daily work and spend an academic year at Stanford University reimagining the future of journalism.

• Journalism
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Spain's pro-democracy campaign, leveraging digital, influencers, and gaming, to remind the country of its post-Franco freedoms 50 years later.

• Specific campaigns
• Games and gamification
• Narrative tech

Privacy-First Open Source Workplace

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• General purpose open source tools
• Digital sovereignty

RDP scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

A Memphis-based nonprofit providing affordable, targeted IT training and professional development to facilitate IT business growth in the city.

• Economic development
• Upskilling

Folk Tech is a movement among a community of developers and people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• Local-first tech

The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media
• Open social

The Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) is designed to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of an organization’s cybersecurity efforts.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech

Urbit is designed to be run by its users. Self-hosting is the way to get the most complete Urbit experience, giving you full control over your personal server.

• Decentralization
• Web hosting

Conference and work sprint for the CiviCRM community

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Free of ads. Free of surveillance. Free of noise. With Kagi, you are the customer, not the product.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Mini apps based on your taste, habits, and context.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

BERTopic is a topic modeling technique that leverages 🤗 transformers and c-TF-IDF to create dense clusters allowing for easily interpretable topics whilst keeping important words in the topic descriptions. [It's used in several projects to classify participatory conversations]

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

A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis

Build an app right from WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something

a high-performance WebGL library for visualizing network graphs and machine learning embeddings.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• General purpose open source tools

Researchers from the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) have released a mod for Civilization V that introduces superintelligent AI into the popular video game.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Games and gamification
• Governance of AI

Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms in Kagi Search

• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing

The Society for Technological Advancement (SoTA) is a new venture designed to cultivate optimism about technoscientific development and build capacity for it to happen, forming a cross-disciplinary community around this mission.

• Research and policy centers
• Specific campaigns
• Civil society research outfits

World Day Against Cyber Censorship is an online event held each year on March 12 to draw attention to the ways that governments around the world are deterring and censoring free speech online.

• Circumvention tech
• Holidays

Aware is the first AI-powered technology to give you full, personalized insight into how government actions affect your life, while tracking every politician’s promises, kept and broken, on a live scorecard.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Legislation trackers

EquiLabs is a digital rights laboratory driving a future where data and AI serve people and the planet, putting human rights, fairness, and accountability first.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits
• Data governance

South Tyrol’s growing innovation district.

• Economic development

Let’s replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens

• Specific campaigns
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Te Hiku Media is a charitable media organisation, collectively belonging to the Far North iwi of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, Te Rārawa and Ngāti Kahu.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Petty Propolis cultivates visionary resistance through poetry, literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and social justice initiatives.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Fighting against Google’s 2025 developer verification mandate

• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

The toolkit is a set of best practices that help Member States’ regulators in their work with VLOPs and VLOSEs to address risks like hate speech, online harassment, and manipulation of public opinion, including those involving artificial intelligence-generated content and impersonation.

• Govtech
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

We are a Warsaw-based non-profit championing responsible online discourse & advocating for a democratic future where regulation and free expression go hand in hand.

• Voting and elections
• Democracy organizations

The Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act aim to create a safer digital space where the fundamental rights of users are protected and to establish a level playing field for businesses.

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Policy

The European Democracy Shield and the EU Strategy for Civil Society present measures to protect the key pillars of our democratic systems: free people, free and fair elections, free and independent media, a vibrant civil society and strong democratic institutions.

• Govtech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Beyond Self-Service: Design Patterns for Delegation-based Digital Services

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Playbooks and design principles

This document contains guidance aimed at supporting providers of VLOPs and VLOSEs to ensure that, where appropriate, they comply with their obligation to mitigate specific risks linked to electoral processes.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Policy

America's Cyber Defense Agency

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity

Mozilla Data Collective is rebuilding the AI data ecosystem with communities at the centre. Access over 300 high-quality global datasets, built by and for the community in a transparent and ethical way.

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

El Canòdrom - Ateneo de Innovación Digital y Democrática es un laboratorio ciudadano en torno a las tecnologías y la democracia.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

This study aimed to develop accurate short-term air quality forecasting models for Asunción, Paraguay using machine learning algorithms.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data

EDIA es un proyecto de la Fundación Vía Libre cuyo objetivo es involucrar a más personas en la evaluación de tecnologías de inteligencia artificial como son los modelos de lenguaje (por ejemplo, ChatGPT).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government

MethaneMapper is an open-source, AI-powered hyperspectral imaging tool to detect methane emissions and trace them to their sources.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging
• Environmental data

Bridging a critical gap in funding to help values-driven tech thrive

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

tackling safety hazards, congestion, compliance and emissions. automated curb management for cities + airports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors

Amazon Mining Watch uses machine learning to map the scars of gold mining activities in the Amazonian countries.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Environmental data

The AI 50, a new recognition program from the Center for Public Sector AI, highlights individuals and organizations making significant contributions to AI adoption and advancement in public sector agencies. Public and private sector participants focused on public service are eligible to submit.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech

AI-enabled document management and automation.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

Transforming Grant Discovery for Local Governments

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Increase speed of decision making with Dataminr First Alert, a real-time critical event discovery solution.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech vendors