Popular Democracy is 50 grassroots organizations across 34 states and DC, who unapologetically demand transformational change for Black, brown and low-income communities. We upend politics as usual to forge a representative, multiracial government and society where we all thrive – no exceptions.

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Partner networks and coalitions

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Age verification

English to English translation tool from the British government.

• Translation and linguistic representation

Encouraging talented individuals to advance their research in the areas of data science, public policy, demographics, digital art, creative industries, and economic development.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Civic Tech Scholars [paid] internship program empowers emerging leaders in STEAM fields with practical skills and knowledge through real life social impact projects and a robust network of mentors.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

EU Web Portal for Video-mediated Public Service Interpreting: To improve access to basic services for migrants and refugees

• refugees
• immigration

• Service delivery
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Resettlement

The Better Futures Institute, in collaboration with San Antonio's 311 department, empowers the city's 1.5 million residents via the 311SA mobile app.

• Communicating with the government
• 311 Systems

A Decidim WhatsApp chatbot feature that allows people without an email address and/or low connectivity to participate in Decidim instances

• Decidim
• WhatsApp

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

People behind innovative tools and ideas for the next generation of democracy.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Courtroom5 helps people represent themselves in US civil courts.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech

A free resource for studying Teeline shorthand.

• trainings

• Journalism
• Research tools

We help our clients move faster, with less risk, by creating products and services that earn and maintain trust.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Ausgezeichnet werden kommunale Projekte, die in der Praxis nachweislich funktionieren und das Potenzial haben, bundesweit als Vorbild zu wirken.

• city

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Awards and prizes

@unitedstates is a shared commons of data and tools for the United States. Made by the public, used by the public.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Through research, analysis, convenings, and public education, the Project produces solutions that facilitate our nation’s transition to a well-functioning democracy that truly represents our increasingly diverse population.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

A broad coalition of 130+ tech, economic justice, consumer protection, labor, environmental justice, and civil society organizations launched the People’s AI Action Plan to provide a direct counter-weight to President Trump’s industry-backed AI executive orders and agenda.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Manifestos

"The new location alert feature can spare Snapchat users from sending message updates." - The Verge

• Snap

• Civic features
• Trust & Safety

The Philanthropy Data Commons (PDC) is a shared sector-wide governance and technical infrastructure that fosters trust, enables new ways of managing data and information as a sector asset, creates more possibilities in our collective work, and spurs more equitable access to resources in philanthropy.

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Tools for Funders

• Build something
• Artistic interventions
• Civic apps outfits

This guide seeks to serve as a comprehensive toolkit to enable different parties to make informed decisions around proposed digital ID systems.

• guides

• Govtech
• Design
• Playbooks and design principles

• People Powered

• Democracy organizations

Platform for citizen assemblies in Czechia

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Government Relations & Advocacy Software

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

You want to support downtown redevelopment but aren’t sure where to start. This playbook is for you.

• towns
• local
• guides

• Playbooks and design principles
• Economic development

The Open Wallet Foundation (hosted at the Linux Foundation) brings developers, standard development organizations and academia together to facilitate global interoperability of verifiable credentials, by establishing best practices and through collaborative development of digital wallet technology to enable standards-based OSS components that issuers, and wallet providers can rely on.

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Identity

A fork of Mastodon designed for civic communities looking to run their own social networks.

• Socialize online
• Community-building resources
• Neighborhood forums

Bring your town or neighborhood together online without the noise or toxicity of big social media platforms

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Neighborhood forums

Two days of intensive collaboration, knowledge sharing, and strategic planning for the future of digital public infrastructure.

• Conferences
• Identity
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Using AI to unlock historic planning data

• Gemini
• OpenStreetMap

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Open Voter ID is like OpenID, to allow third-party websites to confirm registered voters' city of residence.

• Voting and elections
• Identity

Europe's first Political Tech Summit was the start of a new professional community. Partisan provides this community with a digital home — connecting, informing and empowering political professionals across Europe and beyond.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Numérique en Commun[s] propose de travailler collectivement les conditions de l’émancipation des citoyens et des citoyennes en contexte numérique, à l’échelle locale et européenne.

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• In-person meetings

40 habitantes et habitants volontaires pour faire partie de l'Observatoire citoyen des engagements municipaux, ont évalué un par un, les 150 engagements de la mandature 2020-2026.

• city

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

La Oficina de Participación y Diálogo de Ciudad de la Secretaría Distrital de Planeación, OPDC, es el espacio que lidera y orienta la participación ciudadana en la toma de decisiones para el desarrollo urbano y territorial en Bogotá.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

PlanX is a content management system for creating digital planning services. It allows local planning authorities to collaboratively build and maintain data-driven planning services.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Launching 2026. L’objectif : donner à l’Europe une boussole concrète pour reconquérir son autonomie numérique en mesurant d’abord ses dépendances et vulnérabilités numériques.

• Indicators
• Digital sovereignty

Participation portal for the City of Bogotá with issue reporting, participatory budgeting, citizen consultation, assemblies, and more

• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Public project trackers

AI-generated election guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

4CAT is a research tool that can be used to analyse and process data from online social platforms.

• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools
• Social media

The objective of this strategic framework is to mainstream citizen engagement in World Bank Group (WBG)-supported policies, programs, projects, and advisory services and analytics to improve their development results and within the scope of these operations, contribute to building sustainable national systems for citizen engagement with governments and the private sector.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The AFL-CIO Tech Institute works at the intersection of technological innovation in the workplace, centering worker knowledge, expertise, and interests in our modern innovation-based economy with the goal of ensuring that technological change creates widespread prosperity for all American workers.

• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Civil society research outfits
• Unions

The Data Futures Lab is an experimental space for instigating new approaches to data stewardship challenges.

• Funders & donors
• Incubators

Founded by Melinda French Gates, Pivotal accelerates social progress through high-impact investments, philanthropy, partnerships, & advocacy.

• caregivers
• women
• racial equity

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Diversity & Inclusion

Project C is a weekly newsletter about the practice and business of independent creator journalism, by Liz Kelly Nelson

• Journalism
• Creators and Influencers
• Newsletters

Red Dot Foundation was founded in 2014 and is a non-profit organization committed to making public and private spaces safer and more accessible for everyone, especially women and girls.

• women
• youth

• Diversity & Inclusion

We are exploring AI as a tool to speed and amplify Post reporting and deliver our journalism in novel and compelling ways.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Organizational policies on AI

We aim to understand and shape the impact of technology on society.

• STEM
• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Now you can train a digital double on your own photos to create ultra-consistent, fashion-grade visuals across every single generation.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Deepfakes

Ask The Post AI delivers AI-generated answers from published Washington Post reporting.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

A publication of the nonprofit organization Post Carbon Institute.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• Nonprofit newsrooms