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Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) AP is a specification for metadata records, enhancing semantic interoperability across European data portals.
The Conduit Foundation
LondonThe Conduit Foundation exists to catalyse collaborative solutions to the world’s most complex problems.
This practical book outlines the benefits of communities of practice, including accelerating professional development, breaking down organisational silos, enabling knowledge sharing, building better practices, helping to hire and retain staff, and making people happier.
Tacit
LiverpoolTacit is a UK based organisational consultancy founded in 2014, working with government, public sector, third sector and private organisations to create better-equipped leaders, connected learning organisations, and thriving people and teams.
Aikido Security
Belgium (België / Belgique / Belgien) 🇧🇪Pentesting, dependency scanning, and more for AI-coded apps
UNESCO Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms
UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, FranceGuidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms
Explore our library of connectors to automate your business without writing code
AAccountability
StockholmBuilding the world we want through holding leaders accountable for their promises
I4T Global Knowledge Network
UNESCO, Place de Fontenoy, Paris, FranceA group of more than 50 international think tanks and research centers in areas of digital and data policy. This Network serves as a trusted interface, offering independent research and observations on the implementation of the Guidelines, and ensuring a human-right respecting and multistakeholder approach on the governance of digital platforms.
Digitalisation of justice in the EU
European CommissionEuropean Commission resources on open justice and legal tech
Meta Community Notes
Facebook, Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CAMeta announced it was introducing a community notes program and ending its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S. The company indicated it would refine community notes before making it available for users outside the U.S.
Voxtral
France 🇫🇷"the first frontier-quality, open-weight text-to-speech model designed specifically for enterprise use." - VentureBeat
London Rental Price Drops
LondonPaste any Rightmove rental listing URL for instant deal intelligence — market position, negotiation advice, and drop predictions.
Build Up
San FranciscoAt the intersection of peacebuilding and technology, Build Up uses new tools for old problems, and old tools for new problems.
Modular Legislative Components to Help Spur Algorithmic Feeds that Put People First – Knight-Georgetown Institute
Washington, DCA new legislative toolkit from the Knight-Georgetown Institute equips lawmakers with modular components to support the development of legislation that encourages algorithmic feeds that put people first.
Techno-Democracy Coalition
Leuven, BelgiumA new multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to shaping a democratic, values-driven digital future for Europe.
The Democracy Narratives Alliance (DNA) is a global initiative bringing together 40+ organizations, research institutions, and funders to shift how we talk about democracy.
Mediascopio
SantiagoAn AI-powered media observatory that measures bias, framing, and transparency in the Chilean press
Birders: The Central Park Effect
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)A diverse group of full-of-attitude New Yorkers reveals how a hidden world of beautiful wild birds in the middle of Manhattan has upended and magically transformed their lives.
It maps the dominant narratives that shape how people understand democracy, explains how messaging interacts with deeper mental models, and identifies strategies that can help rebuild support, engagement, and participation.
Spending hours on TikTok? Here’s how the app keeps you swiping.
The Washington Post, K Street Northwest, Washington, DCAn interactive data project by The Washington Post that created an 800-person reader sample to monitor TikTok interaction data
This is the tool that helps you to make quicker and better informed tech choices in your media organisation.
Busara
NairobiThe Busara Lab is now the largest behavioral science lab in the world with a panel of more than 133,000 participants across sites in India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.
This systematic literature review examines how narratives about democracy shape democratic engagement and behavior.
Through The Night
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)THROUGH THE NIGHT is a cinema verité portrait of three working NY mothers whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs to support her family; and a woman who for over two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn.
European Citizens' Initiative Forum
BrusselsThe European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Forum is an online collaborative platform that offers support to citizens when organising a European citizens’ initiative.
Changing Lanes documentary
BrooklynPlanning and politics collide in the struggle to redesign Brooklyn’s notoriously dangerous McGuinness Blvd.
Ask an expert
BrusselsThe European Citizens´ Initiative Forum provide[s] tailor-made and independent advice to (potential) organisers of European citizens’ initiatives in any of the official EU languages within maximum eight working days, such as legal advice, advice on campaigning, on fundraising or on any other relevant topics.
Emergent City Documentary
BrooklynWhen a global developer purchases Industry City - a massive industrial complex on the waterfront - and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.
Voxit
11A Erkkilänkatu TampereVoxit is a [Pol.is fork and] open source polling platform that addresses challenges commonly found in online conversations and digital polls, like low engagement or highly polarising debates.
COSS (Open Source Finland)
Finland (Suomi) 🇫🇮COSS – the Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions is a non-profit association that promotes open source, open data, open standards and APIs. Internationally COSS is known as one of the oldest and most active centres for openness.
Data Docs: Open Data on Screen
New York City (NYC / New York, NY)Data Docs: Open Data on Screen is a day-long documentary screening program full of films exploring issues New Yorkers care about — street safety, housing, child care, and urban nature — are each paired with NYC Open Data datasets and followed by panel discussions with data experts, City staff, community practitioners, and, where possible, the filmmakers themselves.
VIGINUM
France 🇫🇷VIGINUM est le service technique et opérationnel de l’État chargé de la vigilance et de la protection contre les ingérences numériques étrangères.
In this funders’ briefing, the European AI & Society Fund sets out how civil society groups are rallying rapidly to respond to the EU’s deregulation push to ensure hard-won public safeguards are maintained – through campaigning, advocacy and allying across causes such as climate and labour, that also face sweeping cuts in protections.
European Repository for online political advertisements
European CommissionExpected April 2026, "The [European] Commission is...required to establish a European Repository for online political advertisements...a public repository for online political advertising and the relative transparency notices published in the EU or directed at EU citizens or residents.
As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection.
Continuous data about provably false narratives spreading online — built for false claim detection at scale.
Monithon
RomeWe develop methods and tools for a participatory evaluation of public policies by local communities and the final beneficiaries of the interventions
The Carpentries
OaklandThe Carpentries teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.
Movement Job Board
ChicagoCheck our Movement Job Board for movement/organizing jobs across the country!
NECE is a multi-stakeholder network for civic educators to connect, learn and grow.
Smart Cities Council Podcast
Washington, DCJoin us as the Smart Cities Council team and members from around the world talk to the people and places advancing the application of science, data, technology, and engineering aiming to create a safer, more beautiful, enabled, and resilient future for everyone.
Smart Cities Council
Washington, DCWelcome to the world's leading organization for Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Strategies, Policy, Research and Technologies.
WTF Podcast - What is the Future for Cities?
Washington, DCWhat is The Future for Cities? podcast is a platform to introduce and connect people who are actively and consciously working on the future of cities and to introduce research about the future of cities.
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