The AI Security Institute is the largest team in a government dedicated to understanding AI capabilities and risks in the world.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Trust & Safety

Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform

• Google
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools
• Mapping

"Developed by Romanian researchers, Ion’s main task will be to scan social networks to inform the government “in real time of Romanians’ proposals and wishes” - The Guardian quoting the press release

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

All positions below are part-time and unpaid unless noted otherwise.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

The First Branch LLM (Large Language Model) concept map below imagines the critical infrastructure needed at the enterprise level to create an accessible, accountable, and permanent information system for both the public and lawmakers.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Working with external partners, Thomson Reuters Labs™ are active members of regional innovation ecosystems, delivering world-class solutions for customers.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Innovation teams and labs

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.

• surveillance
• place-based
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware
• Legal tech

A questionnaire for AI vendors hoping to serve Lynwood, CA's school system

• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Procurement oversight

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

A chatbot AI that has access to millions of pages of municipal documents from small towns throughout Vermont.

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Generative AI

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Procurement

ControlAI is a non-profit organisation that works to reduce the risks to humanity from artificial intelligence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Alignment

[A] collection of works related with AI in public Administration, in a very broad sense.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Reading lists

As Lynwood Unified moves forward with integrating artificial intelligence technologies into the classroom, the district is assembling an AI Taskforce to help guide this process. Download Resources

• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement
• Procurement oversight

parlament.fyi ist Österreichs erste KI-basierte Plattform über Politik. Künstliche Intelligenz fasst Beschlüsse und Reden aus dem Nationalrat einfach zusammen und liefert kompakte Analysen zu Sprachmustern und Argumenten der Parteien. Ergebnisse aus der Politik werden damit für alle leichter zugänglich und transparent.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.

• bias
• European Union
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Design
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data science for social good

We are building conversational AI assistants that can streamline access to public information, deliver empathetic support around-the-clock, and strengthen bonds between governments and people.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible data and AI practices.

• development

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Policy

GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.

• crisis
• humanitarian
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bots

ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) is a globally accessible, living knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques against Al-enabled systems based on real-world attack observations and realistic demonstrations from Al red teams and security groups.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

The Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems.

• indigenous

• Artificial Intelligence
• Working groups
• Governance of AI

Game-changing program for newsrooms with the tools and knowledge to harness AI for smarter, more efficient journalism.

• trainings

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases

• Google
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech

Article in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke

• No poverty

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Empowering the Human Workforce Behind AI

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

As ARVA, our mission is to empower communities to recognize, diagnose, and manage vulnerabilities in AI that affects them.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Red teaming

An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• Red teaming

O assistente de pesquisa inteligente do Diário da República - AI interaction features with Portugal's national legislative gazette

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Access to laws

Article in Human Service Organizations by Lauri Goldkind, Joy Ming, and Alex Fink

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Nonprofit tech

Human Computer Interaction article by Andrew Konya, Luke Thorburn, Wasim Almasri, Oded Adomi Leshem, Ariel D. Procaccia, Lisa Schirch, Michiel A. Bakker

• Israel Palestine
• peace

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

The World's First Non-Profit AI Lab for Immigrant Justice

• immigration

• Artificial Intelligence
• Innovation teams and labs

By Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein

• guides

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something

Built with precision and purpose by Mobile Pathways, Pathfinder is a secure analytics and insights platform uniquely designed for and tested with immigration attorneys, paralegals, and accredited representatives.

• immigration

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech

The first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others
• Participatory democracy

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers

The Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers

Strengthening society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.

• libraries

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Open knowledge

The UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Open source AI

Advancing AI in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Public Interest Tech

Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• AI Auditing

The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Generative AI

Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.

• commercial
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

Our team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy