Advancing knowledge on media, audiences, and influence

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Campus Vote Project works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting.

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

Practical tools for protecting yourself, your family and your neighbors during immigration raids

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Engagement journalism

News for LA people, by LA people

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Explore the 1,091 Student Newspapers Across the U.S.

• Journalism
• Civic maps

We develop elections technology whose security and architecture are reviewed by the world’s foremost experts in academia and industry.

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

Map of NYC buildings with lead-based paint

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns
• Open civic data

We bring together colleges and universities to make civic learning central to what higher education does and who students become.

• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy
• Civics education

An all-in-one politics app designed to make politics simple, accessible, and actionable.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Communicating with the government

Printable information cards to help at-risk communities understand guidelines for safely talking to reporters

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Summit will offer practical insights and examples of how researchers, companies, governments, and communities can continue to drive innovation amid these headwinds—and how urban tech can help cities do more with less as they prepare for the future.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Where student voices shape the narrative of democracy.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Narrative tech

Map of No Kings protests, color-coded by how each location voted in 2024

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

The Global Citizens’ Assembly Network (GloCAN) is a research collective that generates actionable insights to inform policymakers, funders, process designers, advocates and the wider community of practice designing, implementing, and evaluating global citizens’ assemblies.

• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Russia's state-controlled, unencrypted messaging (super)app.

• Govtech
• Identity
• Chat and messaging

A general strike is when working people refuse their labor until demands are met. This campaign seeks to enlist 11 million Americans (3.5% of the population) to sign a Strike Card committing to collective acation upon reaching that threshold.

• Specific campaigns
• Strikes

With 390+ partners, CivxNow is the nation’s largest cross-partisan coalition working to prioritize civic education in the United States.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civic literacy
• Civics education

Student athletes and coaches are in a unique position as leaders to rise above the noise, elevate civic action, and reach a broad audience of voters on their campuses, communities, and beyond.

• Civic literacy
• Creators and Influencers

The Committee for the First Amendment is a large collective of artists, storytellers, and cultural leaders standing together to defend free expression against government repression, industry complicity, and intimidation.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The Urban Tech Jobs Program (UTJP) builds on this history and mission to connect workers to good-paying jobs in the Information Technology sector.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Tech talent

Launched at the Tallinn Digital Summit 2025, the Vision Paper maps how agentic AI systems will rewire the core functions of government — spanning public services, crisis management, governance, and procurement — and what technological, organisation, and leadership changes are needed to enable this shift.

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech

In about 15 minutes, this tool will help you discover the core moral dimensions that guide your ethical judgements.

• Learn about civic tech
• Matching views to votes

My Parliament makes politics transparent, social, and accessible. Track bills, follow representatives, and join the conversation.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Archives
• Budget explorers

Explore how designers found their path into tech or share your own to inspire others.

• Meet the others
• Build something
• Design

The State of New York passed a bill outlawing the use of algorithmic pricing by landlords to determine rent prices. Score one for not using AI to make bad things (the housing and cost of living crises) worse!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy
• Civic tech legislation and policy

An editorial platform for independent thinkers, technologists, and creatives on the front lines of digital culture.

• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• News and blogs

Did you know most voters can cast their ballot prior to Election Day? Join this day of action and celebration and empower your friends and neighbors to vote early this year.

• Voting and elections
• Holidays

The first-ever NYC PIT Pop Up is a temporary, immersive, pop-up event where technology, art, science, and community converge.

• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Free maritime sanctions database tracking 800+ vessels across OFAC, EU, UK, CA, AU, NZ with live AIS monitoring to expose shadow fleet operations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

icemap.dev aims to provide a comprehensive view of the activities of America's Immigration Customs Agency (ICE), with specific focus on its Enforcement and Removal Operations department (ERO).

• Media
• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis

We Are Civic Media is a collective manifesto for field builders, stakeholders, educators, creative professionals, and community leaders who want to understand BOTH the deeply personal human as well as the broader conceptual dimensions of civic media.

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The goal of PIT @ CUNY is clear: To inspire the next generation of young technologists – including Engineers, Designers, Computer and Data Scientists, and others with an interest in leveraging technological knowledge – to pursue work in service of the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

O futuro que queremos agora: profissionais, pesquisadores e tomadores de decisão construindo conexões relevantes e criando caminhos para um ecossistema informacional justo.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Gandhi advocated for small, local and predominantly village-based technology to help India's villages become self-reliant

• Predecessors & Pioneers

The basic function of the Freedom of Information Act is to ensure informed citizens, vital to the functioning of a democratic society.

• Government transparency
• Access to information
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Apple's closed messaging platform

• Chat and messaging

It is our response to the digital security problems faced by civil society organizations, journalists, human rights defenders and activists in Colombia and our way of contributing to the principle of co-responsibility introduced by the Digital Security Conpes in 2016.

• Cybersecurity
• Digital rights

Все средства от продажи мерча пойдут на помощь политзаключённым в Беларуси!

• Civic tech gifts

We analyzed the case of the Colombian digital ID app (“Cédula Digital”) during the second half of 2024 and early 2025. Very little is known about its functionality, and public information about how it works is scarce.

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Colombia requiere de una identificación que sea la llave de acceso a los servicios ciudadanos digitales a cargo del Estado colombiano y a las demás entidades que ya prestan servicios a través de internet.

• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

A broad coalition of philanthropic leaders today announced Humanity AI, a $500M five-year initiative dedicated to making sure people and communities beyond Silicon Valley have a stake in the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Cybersecurity

We are a non-profit that creates digital tools to support greater connection, peace and safety for people who have been displaced

• refugees
• immigration

• Build something
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Cutting-edge technology for immigration services

• immigration
• refugees

• Upskilling
• Digital peacebuilding
• Resettlement

Community list of awesome projects, apps, tools and more related to Polis.

• Polis

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Reading lists

Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs.

• mobility

• Games and gamification

Our platform equips newcomers with job market tools, interview confidence, and workplace skills, ensuring a smooth transition into the Canadian workforce with tailored job opportunities.

• immigration

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Upskilling

The Digital Technology for Democracy Lab is a collaboration across the University of Virginia that explores how rapidly evolving digital technologies can challenge, but might also fortify, democratic institutions and practices.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Case studies on open source, AI-developed apps built by newsrooms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) is an evidence-based research and training Centre based at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

LegalHub is an online service providing free legal assistance to Belarusian citizens in Belarus and abroad.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out