Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.

• Archives
• Research tools
• General purpose open source tools

Envision empowers people who are blind or have low vision to access everyday visual information for themselves. Because it isn’t just information. It’s knowledge, independence and possibility.

• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

• Wikipedia

• Crowdsourcing
• Open knowledge
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Internet Archive Europe is a project by the Dutch non-profit research library Stichting Internet Archive. It is building collections and tools to bring them to life.

• culture

• Artificial Intelligence
• Archives
• Open knowledge

We are a group of passionate donors, donor advisors, and foundations deeply concerned about the present and future of American democracy. We specifically focus on driving strategic investments towards durable rules reform.

• Democracy organizations
• Foundation initiatives

Algorithmic rent-price setting company

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Everyone has their own preferences about where and how they get their news, so we're launching a new feature in Search that lets you customize your experience to see more from your favorite sites within Top Stories.

• Google

• Media
• Journalism

lowercase is a design lab and studio partnering with community-led organizations to co-design and craft accessible, impactful civic tools rooted in data and lived experience.

• Design
• Social impact design firms
• Co-design

Kinstruct is a scaffolding for participatory projects, helping communities and grassroots groups pool resources, share progress transparently, and build collective impact.

• Build something
• Incubators

Manage meetings and committees digitally

• General purpose open source tools
• E-voting and I-voting
• Tech for your meetings

Kuorum provides a tool for creating and hosting online voting and participation platforms.

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

CamBuildr is all-in-one software to help digital movements organize their data, and optimize communication and workflow.

• Organize campaigns
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

VOTO is a digital platform used to create voting advice applications (VAA).

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Voter360 by Stateless is a data management platform built for political campaigns and parties to store and manage all relevant voter information and campaign data.

• Organize campaigns
• CRM

CrowdInsights offers a cloud-based SaaS solution for online community and stakeholder engagement and participation.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

MobileMark is an online solution for enabling absentee voting by Votem Corp.

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

SkyVote Cloud is an enterprise e-voting platform.

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

Scytl provides several solutions for secure online democratic processes.

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

Nemovote voting software was designed to collect audience feedback during events and meetings. Deployed online as NemoCloud, the platform allows participants to submit votes both in advance and in real-time. The company is based in Herrenberg, Germany.

• Ideation
• Surveys & polling
• Tech for your meetings

• Wikipedia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open knowledge

The Stateless Phone Bank System is designed for political campaigns to manage live phone call campaigns in an efficient and privacy-oriented way.

• Organize campaigns
• Phone banking tools

Stateless Canvassing is a canvassing product designed for political parties for door-to-door campaigns, with a focus on simplicity and the retention of volunteers.

• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

DirectDemocracy is a mobile phone application that enables individuals to propose referendums and participate in voting processes from any location.

• Voting and elections
• Participatory budgeting
• Petitions

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• Civic tech gifts

Blitz helps you automate plan reviews to expedite building permits and approvals for homes, offices and commercial buildings across the USA with our AI-powered pre-check and plan review software.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Urban planning

We are an outcomes agency at the intersection of business, politics, and policy. Ideas alone are not enough. We make change possible.

• Campaign organizations
• Building in the private sector

PeMS is open-source software that is designed, developed, and maintained by Compiler LLC on behalf of Caltrans Traffic Operations.

• mass transit

• Evaluate impact

a weekly newsletter from The Verge about the latest battles between Big Tech and Big Government — from the juicy palace intrigue to the devastating consequences of their political games.

• Policy
• Newsletters
• Regulation

A small woman-owned software consultancy dedicated to building open-source, human-centered, secure, agile solutions to support the delivery of government services that increase equity of opportunity.

• Govtech
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

Grassroots Analytics is a Washington, DC tech company breaking down barriers in fundraising for forward-thinking candidates, causes, and nonprofits.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Tool to make it effortless to meet people you live next to

• place-based
• neighborhoods

• The People
• Meet the others
• Community-building resources

We can build what we need for care and connection.

• neighborhoods

• Build something
• Community-building resources
• Local-first tech

AI-powered platform for Smart cities and corporations, enhancing safety, streamlining communication, and optimizing crisis and workflow management.

• city
• apps

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting

Footnotes will draw on the collective knowledge of the TikTok community by allowing people to add relevant information to content on our platform.

• TikTok

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

Givefinity's platform makes tracking volunteer hours easy.

• apps

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Manage volunteers

O Comitê Gestor da Internet no Brasil tem a atribuição de estabelecer diretrizes estratégicas relacionadas ao uso e desenvolvimento da Internet no Brasil e diretrizes para a execução do registro de Nomes de Domínio, alocação de Endereço IP (Internet Protocol) e administração pertinente ao Domínio de Primeiro Nível ".br".

• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Internet governance

• Fight disinformation
• Civic features
• Content provenance

This report scans the landscape of AI use in the public sector at the state and local level, evaluating its benefits and harms through the examples of chatbots and automated tools that transcribe audio, summarize policies, and determine eligibility for benefits.

• reports
• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

Pozivamo vas sve koji niste dio raspalog sistema i koji posjeduje etičke i moralne norme i želite u budućnosti postati dio naše borbe ili na bilo koji drugi način dati doprinos da nam se pridružite. | Cardboard revolution in Bosnia

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Specific campaigns

Erasmus Mundus Master of Science in Public Sector Innovation and eGovernance

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Academic programs

"I found the real Spotify accounts of celebrities, politicians, and journalists."

• culture

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Geeks who love the NHS

• Good health and well-being

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Civic hackathons

The Japan Mini-Public Research Forum (JMPRF) is a gathering of citizens, practitioners, and scholars who implement and theoretically study mini-public citizen participation activities in Japan.

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

This paper examines emerging experiences with chatbots in government interactions, with a focus on exploring what public administration practitioners and scholars should expect from chatbots in public encounters.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Peer-reviewed research

"By conducting a national-scale field experiment among 949 provincial-level agencies in China....results show that legal regulative pressure and social normative pressure make agencies more likely to respond within the legal timeframe and provide the requested information."

• Peer-reviewed research
• Access to information

Our Think Tank team drives a progressive research agenda to build a new 21st century economy.

• Think tanks

The Future of Life Institute's AI Safety Index provides an independent assessment of seven leading AI companies' efforts to manage both immediate harms and catastrophic risks from advanced AI systems.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

The Institute for AI Policy and Strategy (IAPS) is a nonpartisan think tank that engages experts across the U.S., allied, and partner nations to deliver concrete, technically sound policy research.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civil society research outfits
• Think tanks

• Build something
• Building in the private sector