This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech

Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos

• Govtech
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Mike Tahani's data viz gallery. It includes mapping, journalism, politics, outer space, and data visualization.

• Data visualization
• Mapping

Organizing Info About Congress

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

• Funders & donors
• Open science
• Open knowledge

Paid job listserv. The Sujata Strategies Job List is one of the most well-read and respected job lists in the progressive community.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies

• Israel Palestine

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

The American Governance Institute develops ideas and educates policymakers on innovative approaches to strengthening American democracy, state capacity, and federal governance.

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

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

The Lenfest Institute is home to communities of practice serving various types of journalism professionals and organizations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

DataCameroon est un site d’information généraliste, spécialisé dans le Data journalisme et le journalisme d’investigation.

• Media
• Civic data
• Journalism

DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.

• Evaluate impact
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Advertising

Norton and TechSoup offer knowledge and digital tools to protect survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexual assault.

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• Nonprofit tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Taught By: Eduardo Staszowski

• Project 2025

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

NPR and PBS have teamed up to fight US Congress's elimination of $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Public media

A core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

Building on expertise from across Tech & Society, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.

• Fellowships
• Academia

Award-winning independent investigative news agency in Ukraine

• Ukraine

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Learn about civic tech

The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmental protection, democracy, and anti-corruption efforts.

• Awards and prizes
• Access to information

The Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to reformulate participation and decision making in the creation of public policies, programs, and services, with the goal of fostering more just and equitable cities and societies.

• Design
• Academia
• Academic programs

No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship

• guides

• Media
• Journalism
• Organizational policies on AI

The Digital Good Network will produce a Digital Good Index which can be used to evaluate digital innovations to ensure good societal outcomes.

• Evaluate impact

Taught By Richard The

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Design

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities
• resilience

• Get funding
• Research and policy centers
• Funders & donors

Benefits organizations supporting USAID’s global workforce that have lost their jobs including Democracy Forward, which fights in court for people and democracy.

• Civic tech gifts

The Outrage is a hub for activism. We’re leveraging the power of community + fashion to mobilize our growing network of activists to shift the political landscape of our country and change the world we live in.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech gifts

Arizona State University’s Center for Science and the Imagination brings writers, artists and other creative thinkers into collaboration with scientists, engineers and technologists to reignite humanity’s grand ambitions for innovation and discovery.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Civic imagination

An open and transparently-run community space for the g0v community in Taipei

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.

• Affordable and clean energy

• Emerging tech
• Data visualization
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Empowering the Human Workforce Behind AI

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

O assistente de pesquisa inteligente do Diário da República - AI interaction features with Portugal's national legislative gazette

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Access to laws

Explore charities that match your passions, view their ratings, and support them with your donation.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

We convene and train public servants, community leaders and educators to use participatory methods of engagement and tools, with a focus on citizens’ assemblies.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

With over 15 years of experience working with domestic and international non-profits to create and manage programs, events, and communication projects for global health we have a successful record of systematically improving processes and outcomes.

• Govtech vendors

As ARVA, our mission is to empower communities to recognize, diagnose, and manage vulnerabilities in AI that affects them.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Red teaming

The Federal Unionists Network (FUN) is an informal association of federal unionists and our allies organizing to support each other in strengthening our unions, improving our agencies and building solidarity across the federal sector of the labor movement.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Govtech
• Celebrating public service and public servants
• Civic tech unions

Article in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke

• No poverty

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer-reviewed research

We make America work. Federal workers working for you.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Govtech
• Story-based campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

Focusing exclusively on democracy, the Journal monitors and analyzes democratic regimes and movements around the world.

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Democratic Innovations

Ranking Digital Rights's inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard reveals that telecom companies, despite being gatekeepers of the internet for most of the world, are less transparent overall and more susceptible to government demands than their Big Tech peers.

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Report cards and audits
• Digital rights

NGOs in the democracy, rights, and governance space are facing unprecedented cuts to their funding. This blog explores new revenue streams to help them continue their critical work.

• Project 2025
• guides

• Get funding

Standing with federal workers against a corporate-backed coup led by DOGE.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

We are dedicated to shaping the future of technology through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. 

• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis
• Academia

Political edu on resistance. Stand w/ federal workers. Stop the authoritarian takeover. Organizing a positive vision for public good. Get on the bus 🚌

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

Create a Freedom of Information request to the United States government

• United States (federal government)

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

This 10 Credit CTLE (Continuing Teacher and Leader Education) course presented with Democracy Without Elections introduces secondary teachers to the expanding use of lottery (sortition) to bring diverse groups of citizens together to form policy recommendations.

• teachers & educators

• Learn about civic tech
• Courses
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

HAC is the world's most expansive home for bold and risky humanities thinking about our political world inspired by the spirit of Hannah Arendt.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Hubs

An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• Red teaming