civic project that takes published documents about New York City and turns them into something interactive — so any New Yorker can browse, filter, and find what's relevant to them.

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data visualization

Independent public-data platform for Spanish company search, BORME registry-event timelines, downloads and API access.

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Consumer watchdogging

A tool designed to strengthen the digital infrastructure of public transportation in Mexico and Latin America. With this open-access editor, agencies can generate and manage their GTFS data with full autonomy.

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A curated list of tech and innovation jobs in government and at their civic tech partners

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Engaged California is a place for meaningful conversations. It empowers Californians to share their views on important topics. We use the latest technology to make it easy. And we work hard to include everyone. Your views then influence how government acts on problems.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Specific digital participation instances

In this paper, we set out a vision for a different path for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Governance of AI

We believe [libraries] can shine as trusted providers of public AI: community-based AI services and infrastructure.

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI literacy
• Kiosks

Nationwide ambulance fee transparency. USA only

• Consumer watchdogging
• Fintech for good

All Californians are invited to participate in California’s digital democracy effort, as Governor Newsom launches Engaged California statewide to give Californians a stronger voice in AI policy and assess its impact on the state’s economy and workers. This is the first statewide use of the tool, open to every resident.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling

VoteClarity is a free, non-partisan civic intelligence platform — conceived and developed in California in 2026 by Monika Pauwels-Wysocka — that uses AI and a transparent ethical framework grounded in the US Constitution and the Bill of Rights to evaluate elected officials against the oath they swore to uphold, producing clear, evidence-based accountability scores freely accessible to every voter.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Vibecoded
• Watchdogging government

HDTP is an open public-transport data platform by Codeando México that standardizes and publishes GTFS mobility datasets for Mexican cities. The platform also provides a replicable methodology designed to lower the technical and operational barriers for municipalities to generate, maintain, and publish open transit data.

• Civic data
• Open civic data

The Democratic Tech Alliance is a coalition of members from different political groups in the European Parliament, with civil society actors, think tanks, experts and European businesses working to create an EU tech ecosystem that supports democratic values and the public interest.

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

We are mapping all the social platforms in Europe.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Social networks
• Open social

Citizenly lets NYC community groups run verified email campaigns.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

電子地図を活用して地域を科学的に理解し、データリテラシーと分析スキルを育成する教育プロジェクト。

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Digital literacy

Is your major being cut? Get an instant safety score

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging

We argue that the use of LLMs as proxies for participants enacts the surrogate effect, raising ethical and epistemological concerns that extend beyond the technical limitations of current models to the core of whether LLMs fit within qualitative ways of knowing.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Digital twins (of the public)

The link you share when someone asks what you do.

• Social networks
• Open social
• Identity

Take control of your rent increase by starting a challenge - for free.

• Legal tech
• Consumer watchdogging

How would you explain "civic media" to someone who's never heard the term?

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

Haiket offers eligible users across Europe the option to message people on WhatsApp directly as part of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

• Speech recognition
• Chat and messaging

Connect with your professional network and stay focused.

• Chat and messaging

Elections, candidates, and representatives — all in one place.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Turn your knowledge into an interactive profile people can talk to.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital twins (of the public)

We bring together the university’s world-class, interdisciplinary, socio-technical expertise in web science, data science and artificial intelligence to leverage the unique role of online technologies in tackling global challenges.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Civic tech and urban safety project that uses participatory research and co-design with women and LGBTQ+ communities to map safe/unsafe spaces and build community-driven tools— including a safe space certification, anti-harassment interventions, and a digital platform for trusted mobility, peer support, and collective care.

• Digital security and privacy
• Crowdsourcing
• Diversity & Inclusion

iLEAD AFRICA has launched iMonitor, a citizen-driven digital accountability platform aimed at promoting transparency, strengthening public service monitoring, and deepening participation in governance ahead of the 2027 general election.

• Crowdsourcing
• Government transparency
• Issue reporting

Semantic code search over 24,500+ UK government repositories.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Open government data

A bill for an act relating to education; providing for a civic seal designation for high school students; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 120B.

• Civic literacy
• Civics education

Independent documentation of relief contributions for families affected by the Wang Fuk Court incident.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing

PublicSpaces is een netwerk van publieke organisaties die samen strijden voor een internet gebaseerd op publieke waarden.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The system has been extensively utilized by disaster management authorities, enabling the dissemination of over 134 billion SMS alerts, till date, in more than 19 Indian languages during natural disasters, weather warnings, and cyclonic events.

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Service alerts

The cms_NGO system has been designed as a comprehensive tool supporting the daily operations of non-governmental organizations — from communication and content management to activity analysis and audience interaction — and is compliant with WCAG.

• Nonprofit tech
• Content Management Systems (CMS)

SILT Core is a spec-first framework for modelling authority, consent, delegation, and revocation in digital systems, drawing on long-standing private-law concepts such as agency, mandate, and reliance.

• Digital standards
• Blockchain
• Data governance

With its 3rd edition in 2026, this high-level forum gathers international government leaders who are actively driving transformation within their institutions.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Policy intelligence tool for advocates, nonprofits, and everyday people

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Legislation trackers

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, artists, tech workers, academics, lawyers, and more to rally together and strategize our next power-building moves.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Conferences
• Decentralization

A global learning platform for inquiry, leadership, and civic imagination, powered by award-winning short documentaries from around the world.

• Media
• Civic literacy
• Narrative tech

The NYC Open Data Lab is a public-facing initiative that equips students to access, analyze, and publish civic data through reproducible workflows and open-source tools.

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital literacy

A suite of open source AI-powered tools that help caseworkers at every step of their journey connecting families with the social safety net

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Bots

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Consumer watchdogging

Serve your community. Protect their privacy.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

Community Technology Based on Data Sovereignty

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

The DPA Activity Tracker provides our latest information on developments in legislatures, judiciaries and the executive branches of G20, EU member states and Switzerland.

• Civic data
• Legislation trackers
• Policy

Turn public voice into actionable proof, AI-powered synthesis transforms raw feedback into auditable reports and structured policy recommendations.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Vibecoded

Dutch open source code platform, an alternative to Github. Het codeplatform voor de Nederlandse overheid

• Govtech
• Open source
• Digital sovereignty

Civic Tech Tools for Kentucky

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

The Japanese government has open sourced portions of its generative AI suite.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Building inside government
• Generative AI

CommonLingua is a 2.35 million-parameters language identification model trained on 2,482,568 paragraphs from Structured Wikipedia and Common Corpus trained by Pleias in partnership with the GSMA's "AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa" initiative.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Machine learning

Representatives in the palm of your hand

• Find your representatives