Swedish network for collaboration on open data and open source code

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

This pilot, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies, and UNDP, is...a model for how open-source practices can strengthen digital ecosystems and drive inclusive innovation across the region.

• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations

• Govtech
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for digital technologies (ICTs). 

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-led multi-stakeholder initiative on Open-Source Generative AI for Public Services aims to develop an end-to-end, open-source implementation framework that enables public sector stakeholders to easily build and deploy their own GenAI solutions using modular, open-source software blueprints.

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Generative AI

Brooklyn-based creative agency behind Zohran Mamdani's campaign socials

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Advertising

ohsomeNow Stats is being developed and provided by HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) and offers up-to-date and global scale overview statistics on mapping activity in OpenStreetMap (OSM).

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

ITU Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) is committed to harnessing the power of open-source technologies to empower nations, organizations, and individuals to leverage cutting-edge digital solutions for the sustainable development. ​​

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Building public understanding of AI capabilities and dangers

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity for Cities and Nonprofits

• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Racjonalny dyskurs publiczny jest możliwy

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

BlueHats 🧢 is a worldwide community of public servants (teachers, researchers and other government workers, etc.) who promote Free and Open Source software in, by and for the public sector.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

The Open Source Ecosystem Enabler project seeks to empower local and regional public and private actors to effectively adopt open source technologies for delivering digital government services.

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Honolulu Civil Beat is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt news organization dedicated to cultivating an informed body of citizens, all striving to make Hawaiʻi a better place to live.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Transparentes es una invitación a tomar el mando y construir un espacio donde la transparencia y la ciudadanía sean parte de cada jugada de la sociedad civil.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Google Sheet aggregating attendance estimates at hundreds of No Kings Day protests in the US and beyond in 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Web- and WhatsApp-based virtual agent chatbot for residents of Bogotá

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open government data
• Communicating with the government

Makers of Chatíco and other customer service chatbots

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• AI Constituent Service

PollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregation of public opinion polls.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Voting and elections

The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research the design and functions of technology and its intersection with peacebuilding and democracy.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital peacebuilding

View parliamentary debates formatted like your favourite chat app.

• WhatsApp
• Newspeak House

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency

Operation Vulindlela is a joint initiative of the [South African] Presidency and National Treasury to accelerate the implementation of structural reforms and support economic recovery.

• Affordable and clean energy
• Clean water and sanitation
• mobility

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Design

This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increase benefit to society

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Tech for public challenges

The automatic classifiers for peace group is an open-source community of researchers, organisations and individuals that are interested in aiding social media analysis through the automatic classification of social media discourse.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

Insight, strategy, and coaching for mission-driven leaders & organizations

• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to the L.A. TACO Media Lab.

• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• Academia

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• TICTeC 25
• Polis

Geo Pol.is about land use and conservation in the San Juan Islands

• land
• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Specific digital participation instances

We build bespoke state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems that deliver value you can measure.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies

Public opinion infrastructure for cities

• Sustainable cities and communities
• place-based
• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

RIPOTI is a platform developed by Paradigm Initiative to enable individuals, CSOs, human rights defenders, advocates, activists, and the general public to report and collaboratively address African digital rights violations.

• corruption
• human rights
• cyberwar

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Digital rights

Laboratório de pesquisa independente e multidisciplinar de política digital

• Global South Alliance

• Fight disinformation
• Civil society research outfits
• Polarization

Pusat penelitian berfokus inovasi AI dan teknologi untuk demokrasi.

• Global South Alliance

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi (CCG) is a research centre within NLU Delhi and is meant to ensure that the Indian legal education establishment engages more meaningfully with communication law and policy, and offers academic contribution to communication policy making.

• Global South Alliance

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital rights

Bolo Bhi is a civil society organization geared towards advocacy, policy, and research in the areas of digital rights and civic responsibility.

• Global South Alliance

• Access to information
• Digital rights

Journalism for Citizens

• Global South Alliance

• Media
• Journalism
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Games to teach digital rights, including a quiz, password generator, and security goal setting

• Global South Alliance

• Cybersecurity
• Games and gamification

The Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Democracy + Tech Initiative centers human rights and democracy in technology and policy debates.

• human rights

• Fellowships
• Civil society research outfits

Our mission is to promote fundamental rights and values ​​rooted in social justice in the face of contemporary technologies and datafication processes.

• Global South Alliance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Policy

The European Association for Algorithmic Fairness was founded in 2023 with the goal of fostering academic research and industrial implementation of algorithmic fairness of AI applications in the context of Europe and its legislative, societal, and cultural environment.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Um podcast voltado para as mais diversas discussões entre tecnologia e sociedade. Listen on Spotify

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

This pioneering project systematically documents and organizes over 5,000 resources from civil society organizations in the Global South dedicated to advancing digital rights. 

• Global South Alliance

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital rights
• Ethical hackers

Organización ciudadana para la defensa de derechos digitales y el uso ético del internet en Bolivia

• Global South Alliance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Data governance

Driven by our mission of “shaping the global future together,” the Atlantic Council is a nonpartisan organization that galvanizes US leadership and engagement in the world, in partnership with allies and partners, to shape solutions to global challenges.

• Research and policy centers

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

• youth
• Global South Alliance
• human rights

• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy
• Digital rights

Confronting digital threats to Democracies.

• Global South Alliance

• Fight disinformation

We are a group of lawyers and technologists interested in enhancing and promoting digital rights and related freedoms in Egypt. 

• Global South Alliance

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Open justice

Citizen journalism from Sri Lanka

• Media
• Journalism
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media