Conversations with the people building the Next Generation Internet (NGI). They’re working on free and open source technologies to make the internet more resilient, secure, trustworthy, accessible and human-centered.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts
• Open internet

By Jennifer Pahlka and Andrew Greenway for the Niskanen Center

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports
• Internal government tech capacity

Stanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Academia

We support organisations and people who contribute to an open internet for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Predecessors & Pioneers

The best open source [and non-profit] blog & newsletter platform

• General purpose open source tools
• Website builder
• Newsletter tech

Die DATUM STIFTUNG für Journalismus und Demokratie leistet ganz konkrete und zielgerichtete Beiträge, um Qualität und Unabhängigkeit des Journalismus und damit seine Abwehrkräfte gegenüber autoritären Tendenzen zu stärken und verfolgt dabei eine systemische Herangehensweise.

• Media
• Get funding
• Journalism

Publix is ​​a new home for everyone who does journalism, shapes public opinion and strengthens democracy.

• Meet the others
• Journalism
• In-person meetings

Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

• fires
• floods
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Service alerts

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

Accountability Lab Mexico is inspiring a national movement—led by civil society, on the ground, online and through the media—to celebrate, encourage and connect honest public servants.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The conference will bring together ACS data users and U.S. Census Bureau staff to share information about key ACS data issues and applications

• census

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Mission-minded people, powered by open, agile flow, joining together, learning from one another, building a better civic experience for the communities they serve.

• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

Fondation Botnar works with and for young people towards a world that fulfils their rights and supports their wellbeing.

• youth
• city
• mental health

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Media Forward Fund funds media diversity in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Funders & donors

A guide to public service in the digital age

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Improving how Meta treats people and communities around the world

• Meta

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

A community of care and practice building systems and tools for a regenerative future

• Meet the others
• Community-building resources

GovFresh is a media and innovation lab working at the intersection of design, technology and government.

• Govtech
• Design

Panama’s Accelerator Lab is working to understand how strengthening solid waste management practices in rural municipalities can help create pathways to optimize national recycling strategies and work towards a circular economy.

• waste
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Innovation teams and labs

The Political Technologist is a multimedia publication that covers the latest developments and trends in the field of political technology, inviting the audience to collective sense-making with the editorial board as day-to-day events unfold in front of our eyes.

• Newspeak House

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

A non-profit building technology enhancing the public sector operating at the birthplace of democracy

• Civic apps outfits

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Government transparency

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Meet the others
• Journalism
• In-person meetings

• Consul

• Engagement tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Telegram allows public figures and organizations to become verified, so users can quickly identify official sources of information. To further improve transparency on Telegram, official third-party services are now able to assign extra verification icons to user accounts and chats.

• Telegram

• Fight disinformation
• Chat and messaging
• Trustmarks

Finding a job is harder than it should be. For some reason, I find out about lots of jobs, so I try to share them with others.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Telegram offers verification for public figures and organizations so that users can easily identify official sources.

• Telegram

• Fight disinformation
• Chat and messaging
• Trustmarks

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

• local
• city
• TikTok

• Engagement tech
• Civic data APIs
• Podcasts

A non-profit civic platform designed to empower shared solutions.

• Games and gamification
• Democratic Innovations

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Platform for tracking public data metrics for local governments and nonprofits.

• local

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

• Telegram

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

• Telegram

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Por segundo año consecutivo, y con el apoyo de la National Endowment For Democracy, culminamos exitosamente la Academia Táva Apo – Hacia el desarrollo local, programa de formación dirigido a líderes comunitarios y concejales electos.

• trainings

• Supporting public sector from outside government

Los centros de pensamiento son «asociaciones de investigadores, de áreas diversas del saber, que, mediante la investigación, el debate académico, la producción de documentos y la relación con sectores y problemas estratégicos de la realidad nacional, definen e inciden, a partir de su trabajo en red, en la evaluación y formulación de políticas públicas».

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Civil society research outfits

We build healthy democratic systems through innovative Civic Assemblies that elevate the voices of everyday people in public decision-making.

• Participatory democracy
• Democracy organizations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

We are a non-profit organization that has created the ideal platform, a SFRM (Sustainability Flow Relationship Manager), to donate, make responsible purchases, measure the impact of your teams, and connect with thousands of organizations that are changing the world.

• Get funding
• Evaluate impact
• Fundraising tools

Descubrimos a grupos ciudadanos comprometidos con sus comunidades

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Acerca y conecta a los mejores ciudadanos líderes con una política responsable, que actúan con compromiso y vocación por el bien común del Paraguay.

• youth
• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

"Global Participe is a national, non-profit, non-political and non-denominational humanitarian non-governmental organisation."

• People Powered
• Open Dev Africa

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency

PGP’s health care professional networks, health care professional training program, and its significant health communications infrastructure form one program: the Trusted Messenger Program.

• Good health and well-being

• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

A survey composed of 21 questions designed to collect qualitative and quantitative data on influencers' experiences working with PGP and their respective influencer-led programs.

• Good health and well-being
• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Creators and Influencers

Erika Bonnevie, Valeria Ricciulli, Megan Fields, Ruth O’Neill, 2023

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Platoniq Foundation designs digital participatory processes and facilitates innovative participation methodologies to help form more democratic societies and organizations, making use of open civic technologies.

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies

At Accountability Lab Nigeria, we are committed to amplifying voices and ensuring that governance works for citizens through our work across themes such as Procurement Integrity, Environmental Justice, and Digital Governance. We are also working to influence narrative shifts, positive behaviours, and reforms through the Integrity Icon Campaign.

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy

PGP’s Monitoring Lab employs several commercially available media monitoring systems that collect and organize publicly available information sources.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis