A platform for collecting and sharing personal stories from community members to build connection and understanding among neighbors.

• neighborhoods

• Community-building resources
• Story tech

Tools and resources for organizing neighborhood block parties, including planning templates, coordination features, and community engagement.

• neighborhoods

• Community-building resources
• Tech for your meetings

Tool that shows your IP address and its association with torrent records

• Digital security and privacy

A hyperlocal neighbor hub that brings care, resources, and connection to a specific neighborhood or block.

• neighborhoods

• Media
• Community-building resources
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Fund Your Mission, Cause or Idea. One Block at a Time.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

A campaign by The Points Guy to rally consumers to fight for their credit card points (at the expense of businesses paying exchange fees)

• User lobbying

Bitpart is a one-to-many messaging tool that plugs into Signal. It was designed with rights defenders, activists and journalists operating in risky or repressive environments, and is intended for anyone needing to communicate with a large network safely over Signal.

• Digital security and privacy
• Chat and messaging

A behind the scenes telling of how the international team collaborated with NGOs, scientists, funders, and newsrooms to combine open government data, mapping, and data journalism to produce the piece.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic data
• Media
• Journalism

Ukrainian government map of the war in Ukraine

• Ukraine

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

• Ukraine

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Protomaps is a free, customizable map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Mapping

ADES is the national groundwater data access portal for metropolitan France and overseas departments. It gathers quantitative and qualitative data on groundwater on a public website.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open data publishing portals

The Under the Surface project, coordinated by Arena for Journalism in Europe and initiated by Datadista, delved into official data from European countries to reveal, for the first time, the extent of the danger we face.

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic maps

Branded merch from the creators DeepState

• Ukraine

• Civic tech gifts

InnovateUS provides no-cost, at-your-own-pace, and live learning on data, digital, innovation, and AI skills for public service professionals like you.

• coaching
• workshops
• courses

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The UN Democracy Fund supports civil society projects around the world that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes.

• United Nations

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Democracy organizations

Le Monde investigation into groundwater chemicals in France

• Civic data
• Media
• Journalism

University initiative fostering research, education, and innovation in democracy and civic engagement.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Library Freedom Project is a network of values-driven librarians working together to build information democracy.

• libraries
• trainings

• Digital security and privacy
• Peer networks

[A]n urgent call for action by all countries - developed and developing - in a global partnership

• United Nations

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Allmaps makes it easier and more inspiring to curate, georeference and explore collections of digitized maps.

• history

• Mapping
• Archives
• Mapping tools

RSL is an open standard that lets publishers define machine-readable licensing terms for their content, including attribution, pay per crawl, and pay per inference compensation.

• Responsible consumption and production

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

Lots to Gain explores how we can construct thriving democratic systems from building blocks called mini-publics, where randomly selected citizens gather, learn, connect, deliberate, seek agreement, and choose a way forward.

• Newsletters
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together millions of online publishers and creators to protect their rights and negotiate for fair compensation from AI companies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data schemas and standards

How to use the POPVOX API to deliver messages to lawmakers

• Communicating with the government
• Civic data APIs

Voting Solutions for organizations of any size

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

We focus on equipping courageous leaders with new tools and ideas to reimagine political systems.

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Democracy organizations

Our team builds products and organizes advocacy to support the work of public AI model builders like the Swiss AI Initiative, AI Singapore, AI Sweden, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. We believe in public AI—AI as public infrastructure like highways, water, or electricity. Think of a BBC for AI, a public utility for AI, or public libraries for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

LatinoProsperity is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the Latino wealth gap through national, state, and local advocacy.

• Latinx

• Economic development

UK Pathways to Work Response Website that lets people tell their story by voice

• Newspeak House

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

A Better Tech Industry for Everyone

• Responsible consumption and production
• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Consumer watchdogging

"In this report, we look at all multiple forms of assemblies including civic assemblies, people’s movement assemblies and governing power assemblies. We discuss the potential and limitations of each model, explore how assemblies across the board have struggled to achieve impact and durability, and discuss ways that an “equitable power-building approach” can strengthen assemblies’ impact and durability over time."

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

"Schoolhouse Dialogues, hosted on the nonprofit tutoring platform Schoolhouse founded by Sal Khan, pairs high schoolers with opposing viewpoints to discuss controversial issues one-on-one and give feedback on each other’s civility." - Hannah Feuer, Forward

• students

• Polarization

The Global Public Policy Institute (GPPi) is an independent non-profit think tank based in Berlin. We conduct research, offer ideas and advice and facilitate dialogue, seeking to contribute to a world that is more peaceful, just and equipped to address global challenges.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civil society research outfits
• Think tanks

A coalition calling for transparency on OpenAI's efforts to transition from public benefit nonprofit to for-profit

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Research division focused on new digital technologies and politics

• Learn about civic tech
• Civil society research outfits

Sway is a chat platform that connects students with differing perspectives into one-on-one conversations and facilitates better discussions between them.

• students

• Artificial Intelligence
• Polarization

Digital communication for politics and society

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

FreedomLab’s Tool Library compiles all online tools and resources that can be relevant for human rights defenders, spanning a wide variety of topics. Use the filters below to find relevant resources - tools can be filtered by Topic, Type, and Target Group.

• human rights

• Civic tech catalogs

Starlight Stadium spans four episodes that each tackle a different aspect of the human rights monitoring cycle.

• human rights

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

Waschmittel Verkaufen Können Andere Besser. Wir Kampagnisieren Themen, Interessen Und Anliegen Für Politische Akteure, Unternehmen Und Ihre Leader. Und Das Mit Ordentlich Schubkraft.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Unlock the full potential of your supporters

• CRM
• Manage volunteers

A virtual space for Human Rights Defenders

• human rights

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

[A] living document designed to help libraries become more engaged in their local civic data ecosystems [including a guide to mapping your ecosystem]

• Civic data
• Community-building resources
• Civic tech community surveys

Google Group for Civic Switchboard

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Civic Switchboard is an Institute of Museum and Library Services supported effort that aims to develop the capacity of academic and public libraries in civic data ecosystems.

• libraries

• Civic data
• Community-building resources

AI technologies can empower public agencies by enabling real-time network monitoring, predictive analytics for risk prevention, and automated responses to cyber incidents

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Peer-reviewed research