Canada's cities and smaller communities are facing a looming crisis in deferred maintenance and construction of critical infrastructure, both physical and social.

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Reports

A Agência para a Reforma Tecnológica do Estado, I.P. (ARTE) é o instituto público responsável pela direção, coordenação e execução da transformação tecnológica e da digitalização da Administração Pública em Portugal, encontrando-se sob superintendência e tutela do Ministério da Reforma do Estado.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Open source legal AI document assistant with cryptographic guardrail verification.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open source

DoorashoKaab is a civic tech platform that empowers Somali citizens with accessible civic education, trusted voter information, and safe digital tools to learn, participate, and report during elections.

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Issue reporting

Nonpartisan, AI-powered plain-language summaries of U.S. federal and state legislation with conflict-of-interest scoring, campaign finance data, and party defection tracking.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legislation trackers
• Vibecoded

Bonsai is a research system that replaces "black-box" engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.

• Research tools
• Recommender feeds

Where tech meets activism. Pitch, hack, ship, repeat - until the world catches up.

• Meet the others
• Build something
• Socialize online

Limelight Foundation is Europe's leading journalism fund, strengthening the continent's information infrastructure.

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Funders & donors

aCURE.info is a deterministic search platform that can run hundreds of integrated, weighted-context queries simultaneously.

• Research tools
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Access to laws

Nigeria has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot designed to help citizens access government information and services, in one of the country's biggest public sector AI projects so far.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Service delivery

Civic Governance Platform

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Network visualizations

AI-powered municipal intelligence platform that turns city council meetings, agendas, and public records into searchable intelligence for Dallas and Fort Worth.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech vendors

An MCP server for the NYS Open Legislation API, maintained by the New York State Senate.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Civic data APIs
• Open civic data

This is an MCP server for the Relational Tech Project that gives AI tools access to the Studio library, network updates, builder guides, and pattern-matching resources.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Seattle instance of CouncilMatic with AI-powered bill summaries, councilmember profiles, and meeting summaries updated nightly

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Legislation trackers

This report examines the impact of five popular chatbots and text-based AI services on the UK's information supply chain and democracy in real time.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

A free tool for neighborhoods to share supplies, tools, and more.

• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

A shared workbench for building relational technology together.

• Build something
• Civic tech catalogs
• Community-building resources

In the US and Brazil, Claude sends users asking about elections to trusted civic sources

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

With Neighbors supports a national wave of local microgrant programs.

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Community-building resources
• Mutual aid

Free public-source outbreak timeline and information tracker for the 2026 MV Hondius / Andes virus outbreak.

• Media

Every tap is a choice — a digital citizenship game for African citizens.

• Games and gamification
• Digital literacy
• Civics education

The first open platform for collective capital knowledge in the Lusophone world — where CPLP entrepreneurs share real experiences with European and multilateral fund applications

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Open philanthropy

Data Morgana ontrafelt hoe Big Tech en data onze wereld vormgeven.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films
• Externalities of tech

Digital Citizenship Quiz for adult African citizens

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification
• Digital literacy

Researchers developed a value-based method for prompting LLMs that uses culturally grounded survey-derived value profiles instead of demographic proxies, significantly improving the models’ ability to predict and reproduce diverse population opinions across countries, especially in underrepresented cultures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Afrocentric Media Literacy

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification
• Media literacy

Next Gen News 2 sharpens our understanding of next generation news consumers' behavior and how publishers can best meet those evolving needs.

• Media
• Journalism
• Surveys & polling

Prism is a nonpartisan platform that helps voters understand the issues and define where they stand, then matches them to candidates and shows each candidate's verified record - what they've said, what they've done, and who funds them.

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Course designed and taught by Maria Milosh at Bard College and Kronika in January - May 2026.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

PulsivaHub is an African civic AI companion that answers questions about democratic rights and helps people verify potentially manipulated or AI-generated media.

• Engagement tech
• Fight disinformation
• Civic literacy

Hawaiʻi civic hazard intelligence platform aggregating real-time wildfire, air quality, weather, and volcanic data from NASA, NOAA, NWS, EPA, and PacIOOS.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Dashboards
• Vibecoded

Three new solutions — Ground Intelligence, Waste Intelligence, and Ridership Management — give government agencies the tools to help protect communities, reduce costs, and deliver services with greater accountability

• Govtech
• Issue reporting
• Govtech vendors

Together, we will run a series of assemblies across Europe to understand our current digital infrastructure & governance, and reimagine, showcase & demand a Democratic Digital Commons.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Vibecoded

Explore this interactive Flipbook page about democracy.

• Civic literacy
• Vibecoded
• Civics education

In ancient Greece, a pinakion was a small bronze or wooden plate used as a form of citizen's token.

• Hardware
• Identity
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Open Source Intelligence ( OSINT ) is the collection and analysis of data gathered from open sources to produce actionable intelligence.

• Cybersecurity
• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

LaneHelp is a real-time civic information platform for Lane County that connects people to shelters, food, housing, transportation, alerts, and local services through a live, searchable public system built to reduce the “goose chase” of finding help.

• Access social benefits
• Mutual aid

A kleroterion was a randomization device used by the Athenian polis during the period of democracy to select citizens to the boule, to most state offices, to the nomothetai, and to court juries.

• Hardware
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

A new online document submission tool developed by county IT and social services staff lets residents securely apply and provide documentation for a range of programs including Medicaid and food services.

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery

The magazine for election administrators.

• Learn about civic tech
• Voting and elections
• News and blogs

This is your central hub to connect with alumni, build skills that matter, share jobs and resources, and realign with purpose.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The Digital Justice Fund works towards nurturing an ecosystem where groups resisting violent technological harms and imagining more nourishing relationships with technologies have the resources they need to dream, organise, build and thrive towards liberatory digital presents and futures.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This paper argues that accounts of deliberative mini-publics misdiagnose the crisis by framing it primarily as a procedural deficit, neglecting a deeper dimension that populism exploits: the erosion of collective political agency.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

World's largest Internet Domain Database

• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Take Action on what's happening at Toronto City Council

• Civic literacy
• Watchdogging government
• Communicating with the government

Nous fournissons aux journalistes et activistes des services d'urgence permettant de faire face aux menaces et à la surveillance numérique : hotline, formations, outils de contournement de la censure, analyse de périphériques.

• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech
• Media literacy

The portal provides residents with a secure, accessible way to report concerns related to federal enforcement activity occurring within Phoenix city limits, including potential civil rights violations or actions that may fall outside lawful authority.

• Govtech
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

Aucklanders can now use an AI-powered virtual assistant to safely report problems, including graffiti, roaming dogs and party noise.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Issue reporting
• AI Constituent Service

The Global Fellows program has a single objective: to get ordinary citizens and stakeholders involved in decision-making.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships