CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Building inside government

Careful Industries gives good advice to leaders navigating the intersections of social justice and technology.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

"Joining the Dots with PEPs" makes available to the public information on public officials’ Financial Declarations, government procurement and contracting, and contracts and tenders of companies in the extractive sector, with the aim of identifying possible conflicts of interest, corruption or misuse of public office.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Transformation to improve health and care for everyone

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Take advantage of world-class training and develop your skillset, join a like-minded community, and access member discounts when you join IAP2 Canada.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Fieldwide resources

The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organize the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

Select a country and language to get all the practical information on how, when and where you can register on the electoral roll, as well as voting possibilities in your country of residence.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Make a plan to vote

As a citizen-centric European civil society organisation, ECAS developed its First Aid Democracy toolkit aimed at equipping citizens and civil society organisations with knowledge and practical tips for maintaining a healthy democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

This research brief explores how public participation practitioners might encounter AI tools; examines the risks, opportunities and uncertainties these tools present; and offers ethical considerations to guide their use.

• Artificial Intelligence

Welcome to the first global community for stateless people and their allies. Together we empower stateless people.

• immigration
• migration
• refugees

• Meet the others
• Justice tech
• Solidarity networks

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award honours innovators within or associated with the public sector.

• Awards and prizes

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

Citizen assembly model

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition

Wir machen das Rundum-Paket für deinen sozialdemokratischen Verband!

• partisan

• Campaign tools
• Internal communication and coordination

Using social movement research to tackle the world's most pressing problems

• Advocacy tech
• Civil society research outfits
• The craft of organizing

Open source financial management software for organizations (Die Finanzverwaltungssoftware)

• Nonprofit tech
• Bureaucracy tech

Non-profit fiscal host promoting a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Nonprofit tech

Workshop series to provide "a hands-on way for government to learn about the opportunities and considerations of leveraging AI and implementing these systems responsibly."

• workshops

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

a collaborative project aimed at enabling protest groups and NGOs to evaluate their impact on public discourse.

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

Open source chat and collaborative software like Slack and Teams

• Internal communication and coordination
• General purpose open source tools
• Open source

[A] "team consisting of researchers and engineers that will...Implement a system for collecting and encoding public input on model behavior into our systems"

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic teams at tech companies

Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method

• Facebook

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

At deliberAIde, we use artificial intelligence to enable inclusive dialogues at scale

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our assisted [UK] voter registration programme Just Register supports people to get onto the electoral roll. It addresses the practical barriers that we know hinder people from getting registered in a timely way. After signing up on Just Register, everyone is signposted to the gov.uk form. From this point, they receive personalised support via peer-to-peer texting and calls to make sure they follow-through completing their registration with their council.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration

Bipartisan legislation that would require government agencies to share custom-developed source code with each other—thereby avoiding duplicative government contracts to build software.

• Open source
• Civic tech legislation and policy
• Policy

Alliance4Europe is operating an information sharing and analysis centre (ISAC), to identify and defend against disinformation threats and to enable scalable collaboration with those who want to defend democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Digitalisierung für Entwicklung

• Govtech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

CNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all those that technology has left behind.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as well as allow two-way sharing of information between the private and the public sector about root causes, incidents and threats, as well as sharing experience, knowledge and analysis. In many EU Member States, ISAC or similar initiatives exist.

• Adjacent Fields
• Cybersecurity
• Foundational layers

Unlocking Digital Success

• Govtech
• Conferences

The e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-profit foundation that assists public sector and civil society organisations in making digital transformation happen.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

The Open Government Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Challenges

We support groups of actors to come together to cooperate. Then we develop the effective digital tools for impact. Then, we roll out campaigns for impact with those communities.

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.

• cities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

Quem representa os portugueses na Casa da Democracia?

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

Our platform, fueled solely by public and certified documents, simplifies complex subjects with different levels of answers tailored to everyone.

• Artificial Intelligence

This grant programme aims to respond to the need for media organisations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

In plain language, tell Sidekick what you want to know and get answers straight from the mySidewalk data library.

• place-based

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning

A coworking space for all people working on tech related to the upcoming [UK] general election. Both partisan & non-partisan projects welcome!

• 2024 elections

• Meet the others
• Voting and elections
• Civic hacking meetups

A powerful visual testimonial of the costs of Russia's war on Ukrainian children, by UNICEF

• youth
• Ukraine
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Story-based campaigns

ConvertKit helps 600k+ creators like you work smarter – not harder – with email, automation, and monetization tools that work together to drive continuous growth.

• commercial

• Creators and Influencers

The Landscape of Election Denial in America

• corruption
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Voting and elections
• Data visualization
• Civic literacy

The Online to Offline Strategy Group (O2O) is a worker-self-directed nonprofit dedicated to winning structural change by building people-centered, digitally-empowered movements.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Award-winning video work by UNFPA

• videos
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

An award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels

• Climate action
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Digital transformation

Helpful Places is a mission-driven company that helps organizations, and the communities they serve, harness the power of technology in ways that are transparent, inclusive, participatory, and in alignment with the community's goals.

• Digital rights

ChildFund International campaign to remove online child abuse material

• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns

The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

• culture
• indigenous
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions