A community of practice organized by mySociety TICTeC and the Civic Tech Field Guide in 2024-2025.

• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Partner networks and coalitions

In collaboration with the private and public sectors, NIST has developed a framework to better manage risks to individuals, organizations, and society associated with artificial intelligence (AI).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital standards

We’re here to help councils build better and more equal local communities. To do that we want to empower local decision making and enable councils to do what works locally.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions

The most complete citizen participation tool for an open, transparent and democratic government.

• Consul

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A community of practice organized by mySociety TICTeC and the Civic Tech Field Guide in 2024-2025.

• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

We provide data, insights, and tools for social impact organizations

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign messaging

There is a widely held belief that participatory grant-making can democratise philanthropy and transform power dynamics, but the evidence supporting these claims needs to be bolstered. That's why Porticus is commissioned [this] study.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Funders & donors
• Civil society research outfits

The Local Policy Lab (LPL) Network connects cities that are dedicated to protecting and strengthening democracy, advancing resilient and sustainable communities, and improving non-partisan civic engagement.

• city

• Peer networks

The LPL Action Lab is a think tank and civic lab, rolled into one, combining theory and practice to generate ground-breaking, actionable ideas for cities.

• city

• Innovation teams and labs
• Civil society research outfits
• Think tanks

The Local Policy Lab accelerates the adoption of effective solutions to pressing problems at the local governmental level.

• city
• local
• Climate action

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers
• Policy

Over the summer and autumn of 2021, we tackled the climate crisis through an intensive legislative theatre project led by young people.

• Legislative theater

Highlights from legislative theatre events in 2020 with GM Homelessness Action Network, the GM Combined Authority, and GM Housing First.

• housing
• homelessness

• Legislative theater

WE FIGHT FOR JUSTICE AND OPPORTUNITY FOR ALL NEBRASKANS

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Civic Nebraska's Tool to Reflect Overall Voter Engagement represents the total number of ballots cast out of the total number of registered Nebraska voters in the general election.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

The Sworn-Again America Oath helps us recommit to being useful to our community and our country.

• Citizen Engagement

Recruit more volunteers & build lasting relationships with VOMO’s responsive volunteer management software.

• Manage volunteers

The Complete Patriot’s Guide series unpacks American myths, icons, and traditions to reveal their civic DNA.

• culture

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

Civic Nebraska creates a more modern and robust democracy for all Nebraskans.

• youth
• gerrymandering

• Voting and elections
• Citizen Engagement
• Democracy organizations

Wear the fight for Justice and Opportunity for All Nebraskans

• Civic tech gifts

Over the course of a few years, Citizen University supported nearly 60 projects in eight cities around the country that served as examples of what interactive, inclusive, and joyful elections can look like.

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

Virtuous is fueling a new generation of courageous nonprofit teams to connect with donors, save time, and grow giving like never before.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Civic Saturdays are an antidote to this feeling of apathy and despair. Friends and strangers connect around the values and practices of being an active citizen, reckoning with our nation’s creed, building relationships, and creating new civic traditions that are joyful and communal.

• local

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Every year, Civic Nebraska honors individuals and organizations across the state who go above and beyond to build a more modern and robust democracy. These aren’t celebrities or elected officials (although we tip our hats to the good ones). They’re the everyday heroes, the tireless advocates, passionate educators, committed organizers, and behind-the-scenes changemakers who make our communities more connected, inclusive, and civically healthy.

• Awards and prizes
• Democracy organizations

2025 edition

• Advocacy tech
• Legislation trackers

We support individuals and communities to engage authentically and relationally with others who are different.

• Citizen Engagement
• Polarization

The Nebraska Journalism Trust is Nebraska’s first and only statewide, independent, nonprofit news organization.

• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Connecticut Democracy Center's award-winning civic education program.

• youth

• Civic literacy

Shifting the current paradigm of individual achievement towards collaboration and shared success.

• Democratic Innovations

• Citizen Engagement

Helping you practice relational, relevant, and sustainable citizenship.

• Participatory democracy
• In-person meetings
• Artistic interventions

Civic Nebraska is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that focuses on creating a modern and robust democracy for all Nebraskans.

• Civic tech gifts

Welcome to SparkBlue, a platform for development practitioners to exchange knowledge, share expertise, engage with peers, and help shape a knowledge base to drive solutions for sustainable development.

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Online forums
• Economic development
• Knowledgebase platforms

The DPIA process aims at providing assurance that controllers adequately address privacy and data protection risks of ‘risky’ processing operations.

• Digital security and privacy
• Regulation
• Data rights

This study examines 51 Freedom of Information requests to reveal how the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions uses opaque data-driven fraud detection systems in welfare, highlighting the limited transparency, the role of journalists and charities in uncovering details, and inconsistencies in the department’s disclosures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

A report on the struggle to keep public-interest technology research alive—and the growing Coalition working to protect it. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

The Algorithmic Transparency Recording Standard (ATRS) establishes a standardised way for public sector organisations to publish information about how and why they are using algorithmic tools.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Registers of government AI

Lighthouse Reports series reveals discrimination in welfare surveillance algorithms

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• AI Auditing

City council meeting scraping and agenda packet summarization, for the whole country

• Watchdogging government

Patio is a network comprising tech cooperatives, from all corners of the globe, working together in solidarity to democratize the tech sector.

• coop

• Build something
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civic apps outfits

Reclaiming privacy. Defending freedom.

• surveillance

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

responsible experimentation, real-world impact

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This paper argues that automated decision-making in UK public administration lacks adequate scrutiny, and proposes regulatory safeguards through mandatory pre-deployment impact assessments and algorithmic auditing to strengthen accountability in Parliament and the courts.

• Govtech
• Academia
• Evaluate impact

Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence, in collaboration with the UK government’s Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, has trialled an approach to involve the public in assessing AI tools for public services.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Making social services more connected, empathetic and accessible

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Access social benefits

LegiScan is a service for tracking state and Congressional legislation in the US. Some notable features include bill tracking, searching and API access to legislative data.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Civic data APIs

Privacy Eyewear & Sunglasses: Anti Facial Recognition Glasses since 2015.

• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions
• Hardware

Co-founder matching platform for civic & impact founders.

• Meet the others
• Build something
• Socialize online

Grass-roots civic signaling for Neodemocracy

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting
• Neighborhood forums

Multi-function AI assistant for police accountability, including real-time legal advice and crowdsourcing on policemen's behaviors

• policing
• police violence

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open justice