We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Funders & donors
• Get funding

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

• supply chain

• Economic development
• Artificial Intelligence

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Funders & donors
• Get funding
• Artificial Intelligence

OpenAustralia.org helps you to keep track of what your politicians are doing and saying on your behalf in Parliament.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Research tools

Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts when something new is planned.

• place-based

• Urban planning
• Service alerts
• Communicating with the people

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Here we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.

• extensions

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Filter bubble poppers

自由微博 (FreeWeibo.com)，匿名和不受屏蔽的新浪微博搜索，于 2012 年 10 月 11 日由 GreatFire.org 建立。

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Circumvention tech

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.

• Justice tech
• Access to laws
• Pro bono and volunteer

The [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.

• Govtech
• Incubators
• Emerging tech

Alaveteli instance for Australia

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

• Freedom of Information

Parlameter je orodje, ki z analizo glasovanj in transkriptov nastopov lajša spremljanje dela v Državnem zboru.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

A la fois laboratoire d’innovation publique, équipe d’experts pluridisciplinaires, centre de ressource et de formation, réseau dédié à l’innovation - le Lieu de la Transformation Publique propose, depuis 2019, un accompagnement sur mesure aux porteurs de projets engagés dans une démarche de transformation.

• Govtech
• Hubs
• Meet the others

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Civic data
• Open government data

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Govtech
• Fieldwide resources
• Learn about civic tech

When founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.

• Media
• Evaluate impact
• Listening

CiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Artificial Intelligence

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

• Artificial Intelligence

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Un hub de datos para que tu organización sea la primera que hace uso de sus propios datos.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Build something

La herramienta para poner en marcha iniciativas de transparencia y rendición de cuentas.

• Govtech
• Budget explorers
• Government transparency

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach
• Advertising

Tools to improve public procurement processes for companies and public administration

• Govtech
• Procurement

Il assiste les utilisateurs dans leur parcours de vote : pour vérifier leur inscription sur les listes électorales, leur rappeler les dates limites pour s’inscrire, les dates des élections 2022 et la procédure pour faire une procuration.

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Voter assistance tech
• Voting and elections

El Explorador de Gobierto Contratación reune la información de la Plataforma de Contratación del Estado y de las principales plataformas autonómicas y te permite explotar los datos.

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Civic data

Consulta, analiza y compara los presupuestos municipales de España

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

We are looking for a diverse group of residents in the city of Detroit to participate in the testing of civic apps/websites! Sign up for the Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup) now and tell your friends!

• User research
• User research groups

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

The Future of Government Awards champions practitioners, teams and leaders who are transforming people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves.

• Amazon

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes

A hub of technologists dedicated to building technology for Reproductive Justice

• women's health

• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

• guides

• Tools for Funders
• Open philanthropy
• Watchdogging and transparency

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open philanthropy

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Civic hacking meetups

#ISOJ is the official research journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. It features articles based on original research, methodologies relevant to the study of journalism and innovative technologies (online, tablets, mobile platforms, etc.), critical syntheses of research and theoretical perspectives on journalism today.

• Peer-reviewed research
• Media
• Academia

The Statewide News Collective is a community for news organizations serving statewide audiences launched by The Lenfest Institute, RevLab at The Texas Tribune, and Spotlight PA.

• state

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

The Audience Community of Practice is a group providing support for audience development news professionals.

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

The Lenfest News Philanthropy Network is a community of practice designed to support and build capacity for fundraising and development professionals in journalism.

• Media
• Get funding
• Journalism

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Threat reporting
• Cybersecurity

Stop exposing your personal info on social. Reduce your risk of phishing, fraud, impersonation, harassment, and other online attacks.

• extensions

• Digital security and privacy

The standards explicitly define excellent U.S. election administration.

• Data schemas and standards
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Your one stop government solution shop

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence (TNGV) is a collaborative initiative which seeks to understand the impact of dominant narratives of gun violence on individuals, families, and communities most impacted, and aims to co-create interventions to change these narratives.

• gun safety

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Academic programs

Public Sector Network’s second Government Innovation California in-person event will bring together public sector leaders across all levels of government from across the State and region to share their innovative ideas and cutting-edge initiatives and projects.

• state

• Govtech
• Conferences

The Deliberative Democracy Digest publishes a roundup of recent developments in the theory and practice of deliberative democracy. It is the companion piece of the academic publication Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly Journal of Public Deliberation).

• Democratic Innovations
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech