Our THIRD annual fellowship program to support work from-the-ground-up on border and migration technologies is open!

• migration

• Fellowships

Apply for a 15% discount for non-profits.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

Our Courts Database is a Python library or JSON file that provides structured information about nearly every American court, past or present.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Archives

The Big Cases bot follows the biggest cases in the country, but many people want updates for specific topics they follow.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Open justice

The RECAP Suite is a collection of tools for working with PACER, the data access system for American federal courts.

• extensions

• Legal tech
• Access to laws
• Judicial opinions

The Big Cases Bot follows the most important federal cases in the country

• Legal tech
• Bots
• Access to laws

For the benefit of researchers, practitioners, and the public we are proud to host a comprehensive and growing structured database of judges and their financial interests.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Juriscraper is a data gathering library written in Python that collects legal opinions, PACER content, and oral arguments from the American court system.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Open justice

As well as the broad range of information that the regular AI uses, this modified version has been exposed to a specific set of policies and information to help unlock the power of AI for the new constituency of West Ham and Beckton.

• local
• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Eyecite is a high performance, robust, open source tool for extracting legal citations from text.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Investigative journalism tech

Argument and transparency in public debate

• Quality education
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

X-Ray is a fast and robust tool to identify bad redactions in PDF files.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Investigative journalism tech

Bots for Slack, Discord, Google Chat, and Microsoft Teams. You will tell these bots which cases to follow, and you'll get updates for those cases right in your chat app.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Access to laws

Our Reporters Database is a Python library or JSON file that provides structured information about nearly every American legal reporter.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Legal tech

Doctor is a microservice for converting and extracting documents and audio files.

• Legal tech
• Research tools
• Access to laws

We use satellites, other remote sensing techniques, and artificial intelligence to deliver a detailed look at global emissions that gets even better over time.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Satellites

A Irídia defensem els drets civils i polítics. Denunciem la violència institucional i promovem canvis en les polítiques públiques. Actua!

• human rights
• surveillance

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

Support this site that helps whistleblowers and sources by getting a "Break your NDA" t-shirt or whistle-blower sweatshirt.

• Civic tech gifts
• Whistleblowing

The Social Media Election Policy Tracker is a tool created to broadly chronicle a timeline of selected social media companies’ evolving policies which have impacted the information environment related to U.S. elections and campaigns from 2016 – the present.

• Voting and elections
• Policy
• Tech or Digital Policy

Impact Seed is a Perth based social enterprise catalysing business and investment to support communities, environment and culture to thrive, sustainably.

• Civic and social impact companies

Waymo partnered with dashcam company Nexar to analyze 500 million miles of driving, including 335 crashes, to create the 'largest ever’ dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries

• city
• cycling
• mobility

• Data science for social good
• Peer-reviewed research
• Hardware

Tune in to learn the latest on our work in Democracy, Transparency, Community and Climate.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

We strive to support the development of more equitable and inclusive places through our belief in open, collaborative and data informed urbanism.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Urban planning

The Code for America Innovator Awards honor groups or individuals that are shaping the path forward in the government and civic tech community.

• Fieldwide resources
• Awards and prizes

Faster, market-informed hiring for govs

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone

Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets

• landlord
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data science for social good

A newsletter issue with a great summary of back-office efficiencies for social good organisations using AI

• guides
• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

New Naratif is a movement democratising democracy in Southeast Asia.

• manifestos

• Participatory democracy

Project Multatuli is a collective initiative dedicated to carrying out the ideals of public journalism by serving the underreported and holding power accountable.

• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

A platform for women to be able to share their stories and knowledge related to water and river governance.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Peer networks
• Story-based campaigns
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

The Knowledge for Development (K4D) Foundation empowers communities and enables social inclusion through capacity building programs to advance data and digital literacy for data-driven innovations and culture.

• indigenous
• Gender Equality
• women

• Data rights

• Design

Capacitate Social Solutions is a social enterprise that was established in 2015 to support stakeholders across the social and green economy and drive innovation for impact.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

A civic feature that helps Americans find out to vote right from within Google Search, in partnership with VIP and Democracy Works

• Google

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Find your polling place

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Data schemas and standards

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

• commercial
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Making Generative AI Models Accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Comprehensive database tracking the use of AI systems in the Slovenian public sector.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Post outlining OpenAI's partnerships with DARPA, US AID, and US National Laboratories

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Public Private Partnerships

Open handbook about g0v and how to form a civic tech community group

• g0v

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Community-building resources

CivicTechZenChiba is an alliance of civic tech action members in Chiba to support each other.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups
• Partner networks and coalitions

The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

A a mid-century live subway map on Kickstarter

• mass transit

• Civic data
• Dashboards
• Hardware

"BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model is a 176-billion-parameter transformer-based autoregressive large language model. The model, as well as the code base and the data used to train it, are distributed under free licences." - Wikipedia

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Trans Kids Deserve Better is a UK action network and resource hub advocating for the rights, healthcare, and support of transgender youth.

• Campaign organizations

The mission is to create an open-source data science and AI toolkit to analyse, summarise, and visualise political information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A 2024 Election Simulation Game

• US Election 2024
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Games and gamification

Find Research Papers, Topics, Researchers

• commercial

• Academia
• Research tools

The Breakout Program is a $250,000 seed funding initiative launched by eQualitie to support innovations in digital communication that can withstand network shutdowns and censorship of global connectivity.

• free speech

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Connectivity