It's like Google Maps...But for navigating complex human perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

ByMapka is a platform that unites Belarusian diasporas and their businesses around the world.

• diaspora

• Civic maps

Legacy news outlets have owners and agendas. We'll sift through all the sources and add a layer of critical thinking, for you.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

FragDenStaat.at ist das Anfrage-Portal des Forum Informationsfreiheit. Es erleichtern Ihnen, Anfragen nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz zu stellen und zu verwalten.

• Government transparency
• Access to information

Introducing a Research Digest on Digital Deliberation

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

This post is the culmination of a months-long effort to translate principles into a measurable signal and develop an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Report cards and audits

Beteiligungsplattform der Stadt Wien

• city
• youth
• seniors

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Specific digital participation instances

Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI Act and its implementation

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Tech or Digital Policy

An initiative led by the National Treasury to build a connected and secure data ecosystem for better planning, policy, reporting and service delivery.

• Govtech
• Data Exchanges

How to make a difference with your career

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Over 2024/25, ParticipationAI undertook an inquiry driven by the question: “How do we ensure meaningful public participation in decisions about data & AI?”. This led us to procurement...

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Procurement

Wir setzen uns unabhängig von Parteistrukturen für konkrete Umgestaltung, Aufwertung oder Erhalt von öffentlichem Raum in Wien im Sinne von Klimaschutz, Gesundheit, aktiver Mobilität, Begrünung, Lebensqualität und Verkehrsberuhigung ein.

• city

• Participatory democracy
• Civic maps
• Help out

The Disability and Access in Tech and AI Summit, powered by YAI, is our annual conference to discuss issues around accessibility, including research, identity, and policy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Making the Internet better, one tea towel at a time.

• Civic tech gifts

Follow local neighbourhood policing events in your calendar

• policing
• local
• Newspeak House

• Communicating with the government

Portal de publicación de información de proyectos de infraestructura de Nuevo León

• Govtech
• Procurement

Senegal and Gates Foundation Seal $10M Deal to Accelerate Digital Transformation

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Identity

• Think tanks

All House & Senate hearings for 2025 with real-time transcripts, live video, instant clipping, and AI email alerts. Search our entire 2025 archive of House and Senate hearings to clip the moment you need, instantly.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Legislation trackers

Horizontal, a tech for rights and justice organization has just launched a service provider branch to our work called Horizontal Labs - we build tech for you that's transparent, safe, and a joy to use.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

• Civic tech gifts

The Digital Parliaments Project (DPP) is an initiative of POPVOX Foundation that aims to support legislatures around the world as they modernize to remain strong and resilient into and beyond the 21st century.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The DataHaven Youth Advisory Council (DHYAC) has created a model for democratizing data and AI literacy by equipping young people with practical skills to interpret and apply data for participatory action research.

• youth

• Civic data
• Digital literacy
• Courses

• Crowdsourcing

The project’s aim is to enhance the search functionality of Wikidata by integrating vector-based semantic search.

• Wikipedia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Decentralization
• Open knowledge

The folks who brought you TRILLIONAIRE$ FOR TRUMP are back with some Upper East Side accents! This creative campaign tactic employs the Opposite Day methodology to draw attention to who's really supporting the opposition.

• Reduced inequalities

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Press Forward’s new toolkits — one for funders and one for local newsrooms — offer practical, research-backed guidance on how to make the case for local news in ways that resonate with today’s audiences.

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Fundraising tools

The creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Social media

The site has onboarded 40+ governments (plus CERN) to its free service scanning government domains for data breaches

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

CLI is a data-driven nonprofit aiming to be the interface to unlocking civic organizations’ potential: we equip both funders and civic organizations in making the best use of data, helping them work better together.

• Civic data
• Digital literacy

The report assesses digital ID and government digital services in Kenya and Zambia, noting significant strides in digitisation but also persistent gaps in enforcement, capacity, and inclusivity.

• reports

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Through the ‘Breathe-in’ project, part of the Breathe Cities Programme, teenagers are influencing mobility decisions that will affect their futures.

• youth
• place-based
• air quality

• Engagement tech

As humanitarian organisations, we often need to share data in order to help households and communities more efficiently and effectively. We developed this Toolkit as a resource to help you and your colleagues to share data responsibly in order to address critical challenges, such as deduplicating data and making referrals.

• toolkits

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

DCinbox Insights tracks how members of Congress communicate with constituents by highlighting what’s emphasized, what’s shifting, and what those changes reveal about emerging political narratives.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Communicating with the people

The Belarus ID project is a secure, data-encrypted digital identity system through which Belarusians (including exiles) could authenticate themselves and participate in the 2024 Rada-in-exile election.

• Blockchain
• Identity

Future Force is a tech-for-good community and social impact startup accelerator.

• Meet the others
• Build something
• In-person meetings

We demand that the UK Government immediately commits to not introducing a digital ID cards. 2.7 million signatures as of 3 October 2025

• Specific campaigns
• Petitions
• Identity

Academic research project on algorithmic risk assessments mediating access to private renting, social housing, mortgages.

• housing

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Current and historical data on the Zurich Cantonal Council

• Civic data

ind + Engage + Retain your best supporters in the field – more effectively than ever.

• extensions

• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

In just five months, 850+ residents engaged as Westminster’s Church Street team shifted from spreadsheets to real-time, data-driven engagement to build affordable homes in the community.

• housing

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Specific digital participation instances

The National University Student Competition: Intellectual Property and Technology is a simulated arbitration process competition that serves as an alternative and peaceful means of conflict resolution.

• students

• Academia
• Challenges
• Digital peacebuilding

At CoAfina 2025, university students from across Latin America will have the opportunity to develop collaborative solutions to scientific and educational challenges using open access data. This virtual hackathon will take place remotely from November 7 to 9.

• students

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• Civic hackathons

Placemaking Europe is a European network that connects practitioners, academics, community leaders, market players and policy makers across the field of placemaking.

• Urban planning

Mark-a-Spot is a modular platform for digital citizen engagement and municipal case management. Citizens can easily report issues such as infrastructure damage, waste, or environmental concerns via smartphone, enriched with photos and geodata.

• city

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Challenging the power and politics of tech

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Building in the private sector

A podcast about the politics of technology

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

A one-stop-shop for accessible local political knowledge and discussion (for small towns in the NJ-NY-PA area).

• local

• Mapping tools
• Budget explorers
• Public meetings

We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks. Launched during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, this call has broad support from prominent leaders in policy, academia, and industry.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns
• Governance of AI

En RIJA promovemos reformas de justicia abierta y centradas en las personas para mejorar la confianza ciudadana en las instituciones judiciales y la protección de derechos fundamentales.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions