A source-anchored parsing tool for separating source text, meaning, missing information, and verification needs before downstream use.

• Artificial Intelligence
• General purpose open source tools
• Research tools

On May 6th: Upload every meeting you've been meaning to get to. Every single one. We'll turn them into formatted, speaker-tagged minutes in under 10 minutes.

• Tech for your meetings

Strategic Framework and Implementation Roadmap

• Fieldwide resources
• Civic tech legislation and policy

HeyGov helps municipalities collect credit card payments for High Volume transactions (like Utility Bills and Parks & Recs) as well as High Dollar Transactions (like Tax Bills)

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

• Digital twins (of the public)

A free congressional vote tracker where you can follow every House and Senate vote, read bill summaries, and ask questions directly about any legislation sourced from Congress.gov and multiple official U.S. government data sources.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Watchdogging government
• Legislation trackers

A public toolkit of templates, prompts, workflows, examples, and evaluation checks for municipal AI governance.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Monthly 1-on-1 conversations between professionals working on meaningful challenges.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

CommunityOne is a cloud-native local community data exchange platform designed to streamline secure data sharing and interoperability through an open system designed to promote engagement.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech
• Dashboards

Agora is a structured civic debate platform where AI coaches you privately to sharpen your argument before you publish it and where prestige is earned through quality of reasoning.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Vibecoded

A plain-language resource that puts all Medicaid information in one place. No login required.

• Civic literacy
• Access social benefits

The EuroStack initiative presents a bold vision for Europe’s digital future, aiming to establish the continent as a leader in digital sovereignty.

• Digital sovereignty

An open-source, real-time network observatory that monitors the resilience, latency, and routing health of Iceland's critical submarine internet cables.

• Data visualization
• Connectivity
• Foundational layers

Security excellence through radical transparency — and AI-powered political intelligence media disrupting parliamentary journalism across Europe.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Watchdogging government

CivicLoon, a civic-engagement app created by Lakeville-area developer Colin Lee, uses artificial intelligence to convert Minnesota legislative materials into plain language and translate them into more than 30 languages.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legislation trackers
• Vibecoded

European Parliament MCP Server Model Context Protocol Server for European Parliament Open Data Providing AI assistants with structured access to parliamentary datasets

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data

Playbook for America is a civic platform that makes it easy for people to report civic problems, crowdsource practical solutions, and turn the best ideas into implementation-ready Playbooks that drive positive civic outcomes.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

Monitors trends in campaign financing, sources of revenue, and expenditures of political parties.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government

W3C's standard for provenance information

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Data provenance

With Sitra’s funding, more citizens’ panels are now being organised in Finland than ever before.

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Specific instances of citizen assemblies

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) develops standards and guidelines to help everyone build a web based on the principles of accessibility, internationalization, privacy and security.

• Open internet
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Digital standards

A standard way to create an HTTPS endpoint for city MCPs

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Open government data

How tech companies, journalists, and policymakers can prevent AI decision-making from going wrong.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• AI Auditing

GroundVue is a local government data platform that helps public leaders analyze policy decisions, compare cities and counties, and track emerging issues.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Public meetings

Devenez sociétaire de notre coopérative et prenez part à la gouvernance de vos outils numériques.

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

An R package that provides a unified set of helper functions to access datasets from the NYC Open Data platform

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open civic data

We are an independent, nonprofit research startup devoted to the analysis and design of public policies that help make midsize cities work better for people.

• Research and policy centers
• Urban planning
• Budget explorers

ClerkMinutes helps local governments turn agendas and meeting recordings into accurate draft minutes faster.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Find where your vote matters.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Civic maps

A collection of over 65 AT Protocol apps beyond BlueSky, by Tynan Purdy

• Decentralization
• Civic tech catalogs
• Social media

Democracy 2076 provides strategies to inspire renewed faith in pro-democratic, pro-topian futures that moves people to action in service of a resilient democracy.

• Democracy organizations
• Civic imagination

If you can’t tell the difference between AGI and RAG, don’t worry! We’re here for you.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Glossaries

Raft Foundation is a US-based 501(c)(3) fiscal sponsor that brings communities together to support neighbors in need through:

• Digital security and privacy
• Get funding
• Decentralization

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), founded in 1986, is the premier standards development organization (SDO) for the Internet.

• Foundational layers
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Internet governance

Policy Bridge KE is a civic-tech platform built by young people, for young people, rooted in the belief that Kenya's youth hold real, practical solutions to the country's most persistent challenges.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

Community Commons is a robust online platform that supports change-makers working to advance equitable community health and well-being.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech
• Community-building resources

Open source, high-quality POI data to drive innovation across the entire geospatial community.

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic features

An AT Protocol community fund to support infrastructure, open source code development, and community initiatives like events and meetups.

• Get funding
• Decentralization
• Funders & donors

The ActivityPub protocol is a decentralized social networking protocol based upon the [ActivityStreams] 2.0 data format.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Open social

Framasoft is a not-for-profit popular educational organization, a group of friends convinced that an emancipatory digital world is possible, convinced that it will arise through actual actions on real world and online with and for you!

• Decentralization
• General purpose open source tools
• Open source

The Authenticated Transfer Protocol (ATP) working group will develop a set of Standards Track specifications that enable creation of decentralized global networks for publication of self-certifying data.

• Decentralization
• Data schemas and standards
• Identity

Discover apps for your favorite fediverse platforms

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Civic tech catalogs

The Kettering Foundation's research program exploring the relationship between democratic practices and community life.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

the global AT Protocol community conference

• Meet the others
• Decentralization
• In-person meetings

A French non-profit alternative to Big Tech's video platforms

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Social networks

At Spread The Vote, we work every day to ensure that people have what they need to vote.

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

A simple interface to help people navigate the Atmosphere - a new generation of apps & services on the web developed by an ever-growing number of startups, developers & organisations.

• Decentralization
• Social media
• Open social

Open source ActivityPub-based Instagram competitor

• Decentralization
• Open social

Social Science Works is a social enterprise driven by pregnant societal problems.

• Research and policy centers
• Democracy organizations
• Think tanks

Building tools and networks for collective sensemaking

• Artificial Intelligence
• Decentralization
• Open knowledge