A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Civic maps

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

The Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

A MariaLab é uma associação sem fins lucrativos, sem vínculo político-partidário e com empresas do setor privado, que atua na intersecção entre política, gênero e suas tecnologias.

• Gender Equality
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Escola de Ativismo é um coletivo independente constituído em 2011 com a missão de fortalecer grupos ativistas por meio de processos de aprendizagem em estratégias e técnicas de ações não-violentas e criativas, campanhas, comunicação, mobilização e segurança e proteção integral, voltadas para a defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A publicação visa colaborar na construção de estratégias de proteção, fomentando oficinas coletivas com defensoras e defensores de direitos humanos (DDHs), movimentos sociais e organizações da sociedade civil.

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Ceno is a free mobile browser that enables you to access and share web information, even when your internet access has been interrupted or cut off.

• apps
• free speech

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

Solving technological problems in the legislative process for House of Representatives Members, Committees, and staff.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Internal government tech capacity

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone.

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Bureaucracy tech

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Fellowships
• Accelerators

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Awards and prizes

#CityHallSelfie Day is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions.

• local

• Govtech
• Holidays

We build and maintain data systems designed for the specific data needs of progressive organizations.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Expanding the Democratic and progressive data ecosystem by facilitating a real time, blind exchange of voter contact data across the Left.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools
• Voter outreach

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

“Transparency Lab” (tlab) is a project that aims to map existing policy and legislation in relation to transparency, corruption and accountability in Iran; to assess their strengths and weaknesses and to introduce international standards, values and policy recommendations to the discussion about transparency, corruption and accountability in the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Australian Ad Observatory project is enabling independent research into the role that algorithmically targeted advertising plays in society.

• extensions

• Advertising
• Data donations

Over 3,500 jobs, internships, consultancies, and volunteer opportunities in disaster response and humanitarian relief

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Pro bono and volunteer

Humanitarian ID is an authentication service managed by the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (UNOCHA).

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity

A mobile app to help humanitarians find their ideal role. Search for jobs and filter via organisation, location, experience and career category. Save jobs to your library, share with others and apply directly through the app.

• apps

• Find a job or hire someone
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Job boards

Informing humanitarians worldwide

• United Nations

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• News and blogs

The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.

• Evaluate impact
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).

• Facebook

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Access social benefits

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Foxglove is a non-profit that fights to make tech fair for everyone.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Participatory democracy
• Public Private Partnerships

Nesta and Newspeak House announce the Civic AI Observatory (civicai.uk), an initiative to support civic organisations plan and adapt to the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI.

• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Co-design

The Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change the world around us and make sure that surveillance is curtailed.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Artistic interventions

All about information controls in Azerbaijan

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.

• Research and policy centers
• Legal tech
• Academia

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Communicating with the government

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) works in more than 100 countries to develop long-term relationships with civil society, governments, and the international community to strengthen civic space.

• Legal tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Games and gamification

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Watchdogging government

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย โดยเริ่มบันทึกข้อมูลตั้งแต่เดือนมกราคม 2563 และเปิดให้ทดลองใช้งานตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 สิงหาคม 2563

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Développez votre engagement civique grâce aux outils numériques

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Boonmee Lab is a design, data, and technology company who will bring meaningful innovation with excellence to the society.

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

We create Sustainable Social Impact with Technology

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits