We argue that the use of LLMs as proxies for participants enacts the surrogate effect, raising ethical and epistemological concerns that extend beyond the technical limitations of current models to the core of whether LLMs fit within qualitative ways of knowing.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Digital twins (of the public)

Take control of your rent increase by starting a challenge - for free.

• Legal tech
• Consumer watchdogging

The link you share when someone asks what you do.

• Social networks
• Open social
• Identity

How would you explain "civic media" to someone who's never heard the term?

• Media
• Journalism
• Playbooks and design principles

Haiket offers eligible users across Europe the option to message people on WhatsApp directly as part of the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA).

• Speech recognition
• Chat and messaging

Connect with your professional network and stay focused.

• Chat and messaging

Elections, candidates, and representatives — all in one place.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Turn your knowledge into an interactive profile people can talk to.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital twins (of the public)

We bring together the university’s world-class, interdisciplinary, socio-technical expertise in web science, data science and artificial intelligence to leverage the unique role of online technologies in tackling global challenges.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Civic tech and urban safety project that uses participatory research and co-design with women and LGBTQ+ communities to map safe/unsafe spaces and build community-driven tools— including a safe space certification, anti-harassment interventions, and a digital platform for trusted mobility, peer support, and collective care.

• Digital security and privacy
• Civic maps
• Diversity & Inclusion

iLEAD AFRICA has launched iMonitor, a citizen-driven digital accountability platform aimed at promoting transparency, strengthening public service monitoring, and deepening participation in governance ahead of the 2027 general election.

• Government transparency
• Issue reporting
• Crowdsourcing

Semantic code search over 24,500+ UK government repositories.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

Independent documentation of relief contributions for families affected by the Wang Fuk Court incident.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

PublicSpaces is een netwerk van publieke organisaties die samen strijden voor een internet gebaseerd op publieke waarden.

• Conferences
• Meet the others
• Open internet

A bill for an act relating to education; providing for a civic seal designation for high school students; proposing coding for new law in Minnesota Statutes, chapter 120B.

• Civic literacy
• Civics education

The system has been extensively utilized by disaster management authorities, enabling the dissemination of over 134 billion SMS alerts, till date, in more than 19 Indian languages during natural disasters, weather warnings, and cyclonic events.

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Service alerts

The cms_NGO system has been designed as a comprehensive tool supporting the daily operations of non-governmental organizations — from communication and content management to activity analysis and audience interaction — and is compliant with WCAG.

• Content Management Systems (CMS)
• Nonprofit tech

SILT Core is a spec-first framework for modelling authority, consent, delegation, and revocation in digital systems, drawing on long-standing private-law concepts such as agency, mandate, and reliance.

• Blockchain
• Digital standards
• Data governance

With its 3rd edition in 2026, this high-level forum gathers international government leaders who are actively driving transformation within their institutions.

• Conferences
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Policy intelligence tool for advocates, nonprofits, and everyday people

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Find your representatives

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, artists, tech workers, academics, lawyers, and more to rally together and strategize our next power-building moves.

• Decentralization
• Conferences
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The NYC Open Data Lab is a public-facing initiative that equips students to access, analyze, and publish civic data through reproducible workflows and open-source tools.

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital literacy

A global learning platform for inquiry, leadership, and civic imagination, powered by award-winning short documentaries from around the world.

• Media
• Civic literacy
• Narrative tech

A suite of open source AI-powered tools that help caseworkers at every step of their journey connecting families with the social safety net

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Bureaucracy tech

In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council has delved into enshittification and how to resist it.

• Decentralization
• Consumer watchdogging
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Serve your community. Protect their privacy.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

Community Technology Based on Data Sovereignty

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Access social benefits

Dutch open source code platform, an alternative to Github. Het codeplatform voor de Nederlandse overheid

• Govtech
• Open source
• Digital sovereignty

The DPA Activity Tracker provides our latest information on developments in legislatures, judiciaries and the executive branches of G20, EU member states and Switzerland.

• Civic data
• Policy
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Japanese government has open sourced portions of its generative AI suite.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Government AI strategies

Civic Tech Tools for Kentucky

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

CommonLingua is a 2.35 million-parameters language identification model trained on 2,482,568 paragraphs from Structured Wikipedia and Common Corpus trained by Pleias in partnership with the GSMA's "AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa" initiative.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning
• Translation and linguistic representation

Turn public voice into actionable proof, AI-powered synthesis transforms raw feedback into auditable reports and structured policy recommendations.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

New Profit is a venture philanthropy organization that backs breakthrough social entrepreneurs who are advancing equity and opportunity in America.

• Funders & donors
• Get funding
• Democracy organizations

The Internet Identity Workshop has been finding, probing and solving identity issues twice every year since 2005.

• Meet the others
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• In-person meetings

O Índice de Transparência dos Portais Legislativos é um mecanismo de avaliação da transparência dos portais do Poder Legislativo.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Evaluate impact
• Government transparency

[W]e decided to create a field guide to share what we’ve learned about what really sustains a project: its governance.

• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles
• Fieldwide resources

App to find events, socialize with volunteers, and track impact.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Empowering design leaders , educators , and practitioners with thoughtful and strategic guidance on trauma-informed design, research, and practice.

• Social impact design firms
• Design

RAIA is Kenya's Civic Intelligence Engine that translates dense state records into instant, verified answers via WhatsApp chat.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bureaucracy tech

Veja como deputados e senadores estão atuando, compare suas notas e descubra quem realmente trabalha pelo Brasil.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

punecivicai is an independent initiative working to make civic complaints easier and smarter using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

O data_labe é uma organização que emerge das favelas e periferias com o propósito de descomplicar a cultura dos dados e os direitos digitais.

• Civic data
• Digital literacy
• Data activism

Representatives in the palm of your hand

• Find your representatives

An independent, non-partisan voter information tool for West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

An independent, non-partisan voter information tool for West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026.

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Dal 2001 accompagniamo enti, comunità e organizzazioni nella progettazione condivisa di politiche, iniziative e azioni concrete.

• Participatory democracy
• Participation consultants

O Farol da Cidadania é uma plataforma social sem fins lucrativos e suprapartidária que busca promover a cultura de transparência nas atividades legislativas de Florianópolis e incentivar o controle social do poder legislativo.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency
• Civic literacy

This paper explores how civic technology (civic tech) – that is, the use of digital technology to strengthen democracy by informing people, enabling participation and improving government accountability – can enhance citizen participation in Europe at a time of declining trust, polarization, and increasingly AI- and platform-shaped political communication.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Why hasn’t technology fixed our civic participation problem?

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Fieldwide resources