We are a city-building studio to seed and scale full-stack startup cities in areas where little to no infrastructure may have existed before.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• city

• Build something
• Blockchain
• Civic apps outfits

The Aspen Institute Community Strategies Group (Aspen CSG) partners with the field of rural community development practitioners and funders to build a future where every person and place thrives, especially in communities long overlooked by philanthropy and policy investments.

• rural

Online Platform for the World Bank funded Community Support Project

• rural

• Engagement tech
• Specific digital participation instances

Online consultation platform for youth project

• youth
• Your Priorities

• Engagement tech
• Specific digital participation instances

The AI Factory is a large-scale initiative led by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center – Centro Nacional de Supercomputación (BSC-CNS), designed to position Europe at the forefront of global AI development, and deployment.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital sovereignty

Public supercomputing and AI research center and home of MareNostrum

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital sovereignty

AI-powered civic engagement platform reconnecting people and power — one voice at a time.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

UP42 transforms how organizations order, access, and analyze Earth observation data.

• commercial

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Satellites

Namesake helps trans people in the U.S. change their legal name and gender marker.

• trans rights
• LGBTQI

• Open justice
• Diversity & Inclusion

As more and more jurisdictions require digital platforms to verify their users' age, the European Commission has launched a white label, open source solution for EU Member States that's built on the European Digital Identity Wallet framework and supports compliance with Article 28 of the Digital Services Act.

• youth

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging con­nec­tions all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. It has more than 20,000 students from over 120 different countries.

The Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), under Government of India, is a stand-alone ministerial agency, responsible for formulating and implementing national policies and programs aimed at enabling the continuous development of the electronics and IT industry.

• India (Government of)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

La boite à outils libres, open source et modulable pour les organisations collaboratives !

• Engagement tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• General purpose open source tools

Company selected to build India's sovereign AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital sovereignty

Bihus.Info – команда журналістів, юристів, айтішників і активістів, що завдають змін.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism
• Watchdogging government

ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.

• General purpose open source tools
• Open source
• Generative AI

ETH Zurich and EPFL are launching the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI) to provide a national perspective on AI-based research, education and innovation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital sovereignty

The Swiss AI Initiative is operated by SNAI and the largest open science/open source effort for AI foundation models worldwide.​

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Open science

Plus mention of an internal AI tool for Parliament

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

KanishkaKloud visualises what MPs talk about most - by collating and filtering data from every word they’ve ever said in Parliament.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Our aim is to develop an international network of academics and practitioners across the world to critically examine the effectiveness and impact of public engagement with parliament.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Academia

Parliaments in Africa: Opportunities and Prospects for Sustainable Development

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Conferences

An experimental tool with information relevant to the work of junior staff in the U.S. Congress.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

The IndiaAI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem that fosters AI innovation by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital, ensuring socially impactful AI projects, and promoting ethical AI.

• India (Government of)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Digital sovereignty

Participatory Budgeting empowers communities, amplifies voices, and transforms ideas into action. Partner with Civic Trust to build engaged, thriving cities.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participation consultants

"[A] shared legislative drafting and publication platform now used by multiple UK parliaments." - Beatriz Rey, Ph.D. in ModParl

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Policy

This hub supports peer learning and knowledge exchange about public engagement with parliament.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Public engagement with parliaments and legislatures

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Archives

The Interoperability Test Bed launches an online AI assistant, trained on its official documentation, to support test developers and users of its services.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

A PB Platform Built by Civic Trust

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

• apps

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech

A fresh perspective on the work, impact, and relevance of UK Parliament, combining academic and practitioner perspectives with evidence based case studies to reveal what really goes on behind the scenes.

• books

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Books

The Guidelines for AI in parliaments offer a comprehensive framework for parliaments to understand and implement AI responsibly and effectively.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Organizational policies on AI

The Interoperability Test Bed is a service offered by the European Commission’s DIGIT to facilitate the conformance testing of IT systems.

• Govtech
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

We capture, preserve and make accessible UK central government information published on the web. The Web Archive includes videos, tweets, images and websites dating from 1996 to the present day.

• Govtech
• Archives

The map of public engagement activities created (similar to this map showing parliaments’ access to academic research) will enable the International Parliament Engagement Network to foster lesson sharing, knowledge exchange and collaborations.

• comparative

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Academia

We train women to win elections. For candidates across the political spectrum from EU member states, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office
• Diversity & Inclusion

Explore endangered languages using AI. Let your camera translate the world around you.

• culture
• Google

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation

We are the most open, secure, and universally verifiable voting protocol, used by hundreds of organizations worldwide.

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

We are a technology-driven initiative that strives to make information more accessible and foster accountability in Africa’s public sector.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Government transparency

• Google

• Civic teams at tech companies

"This strategy is boosted by a target to upskill tens of thousands of public sector workers in AI and digital by 2030 through a new Google Cloud training programme proposed to run in parallel to the partnership, helping to hit the Prime Minister’s target to have 1 in 10 civil servants working in tech roles by the same date."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Upskilling

Public Good Group helps design and implement strategies to strengthen civic knowledge and engagement (on a wide range of topics), and in turn enable democracy to be more responsive, productive, efficient and accountable.

• Build something
• Participation consultants
• Building in the private sector

A shared language for democratic AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Evaluate impact

Unlock insights from YouTube comments with the power of AI

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

What would democracy look like if it were being invented today, instead of in the 18th century? That’s the driving question of Futurepolis.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters
• Civic imagination

The Democracy Futures Project is an initiative to develop the capacity of philanthropies to think long-term about American democracy.

• Emerging tech
• Foundation initiatives
• Civic imagination

To address the issues associated with flash floods, especially the lack of capacity to develop effective flash flood warnings, the Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) was designed and developed for interactive use by meteorological and hydrological forecasters throughout the world.

• floods

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Environmental data