• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Policy

The Tromsø Convention is the first binding international legal instrument to recognize a general right of access to official documents held by public authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Tracking AI legislation across all 50 US states as of January 2024

• state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy

As well as the broad range of information that the regular AI uses, this modified version has been exposed to a specific set of policies and information to help unlock the power of AI for the new constituency of West Ham and Beckton.

• local
• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Social Media Election Policy Tracker is a tool created to broadly chronicle a timeline of selected social media companies’ evolving policies which have impacted the information environment related to U.S. elections and campaigns from 2016 – the present.

• Voting and elections
• Social media
• Policy

Tech Policy Press is tracking laws and regulations, along with government investigations and litigation, that will shape the rules and accountability for tech companies.

• Policy
• Tech or Digital Policy

A nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms
• Policy

Compiler is a nonprofit newsroom launching in 2024 to cover the people, institutions and global forces shaping our digital future.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• News and blogs
• Policy

A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.

• seniors
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Policy
• Narrative tech
• Research tools

S.4495 - A bill to enable safe, responsible, and agile procurement, development, and use of artificial intelligence by the Federal Government, and for other purposes.

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Civic tech legislation and policy

The AI Policy Hub is an interdisciplinary initiative that trains researchers to develop effective governance and policy frameworks to guide artificial intelligence, with a goal to help policymakers and other AI decision-makers act with foresight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy

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

• Civic tech legislation and policy
• Policy
• Open source

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Policy

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities
• United Nations

• Playbooks and design principles
• Policy

A global map ranking countries by their Freedom of Information laws

• free speech

• Freedom of Information
• Civic maps
• Report cards and audits