Projects - local

All of .nyc

New York City

Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.

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city

Tax Break Tracker

Washington, DC

Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.

Local Minutes

Vermont

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

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Ridiculously Hopeful Futures

California

Ridiculously Hopeful Future: a bold, slightly wild, and very optimistic project to transform how government social safety net programs are designed.

Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.

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OpenCouncil

Greece (Ellas, Ellada)

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Neighborhood Explorer

Tulsa, OK

Platform for tracking public data metrics for local governments and nonprofits.

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Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions

Participatory democracy

The Local Infrastructure Hub is a national program designed to connect cities and towns with the resources and expert advice they need to access federal infrastructure funding in order to drive local progress, improve communities, and deliver results for residents.

Civic Information Index

United States of America (the)

The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

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Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy (ICLD)

Sweden (Sverige)

We are convinced that the battle to eliminate poverty worldwide starts here at home – in our village, our town, or our municipality. Which is why, here at ICLD, we work with people who are changing the world by building local democracy.

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第三屆 Tainan City Council Observation Station

Tainan City

台南市議會觀測站

Tainan Sprout

Tainan City

West Ham and Beckton GPT

London

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.

Movement Voter Project (MVP)

United States of America (the)

Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.

Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.

UK Local Stats

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Enter your UK postcode and see how your local area has changed over the past 14 years

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Civic data

Artificial Intelligence - A Primer for State and Local Governments: Everything You Need to Know Since Yesterday

By Alan R. Shark, with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI

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books

Gen-AI for Local Governments

444 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USA

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

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CivicSearch

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

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We're Right Here

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

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Is your [UK] council fuelling the climate crisis?

London

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

Camden Talks Data: Machine learning

Camden Town, London

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

Innovate Project Project Use Cases

London

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

Smart Cities and sensors

Academy of the Near Future

Dublin, Ireland

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

youth
local

Cyber Secure The Hague

The Hague, Netherlands

A non-profit consortium will offer free cybersecurity support to almost 200 humanitarian NGOs in The Hague in the next 1.5 years.

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Kur Gyvenu

Lithuania (Lietuva)

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

Digital Service Network

Georgetown University, Washington, DC

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

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#CityHallSelfie Day

#CityHallSelfie Day is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions.

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Žinau, ką renku

Lithuania (Lietuva)

Žinau, ką renku“ – tai nešališkas politikos stebėsenos tinklas, kuriame dalyvauja jauni žmonės iš įvairių Lietuvos miestų ir miestelių.

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PoliFLW

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland)

Local politics is getting less attention in the media, due to budget cuts. Meanwhile Dutch municipalities are getting more responsibilities due to decentralisations. With PoliFLW journalists and other interested parties can quickly follow news from local political parties and politicians.

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Long Beach Co-Lab

Long Beach, CA

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

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city

Red Hook Initiative

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

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Community wifi

Red Hook Hub

Red Hook, Brooklyn, NY, USA

The Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.

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Neighborhood forums

ApplyWorks

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.

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SocietyWorks

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

"A complete suite of local authority services for highways, environment and the public realm", wholly owned subsidiary of mySociety

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FOIWorks

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Developed in collaboration with Hackney Council, FOIWorks is an open-source user-needs focused front-end solution for taking Freedom of Information requests from citizens.

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FixMyStreet Pro

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.

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LocalGov Drupal

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

LocalGov Drupal is a publicly owned asset that delivers a better digital experience for citizens, improves service outcomes, and saves money.

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Bedrock, USA Podcast

Our “Bedrock, USA” podcast explored the rise of far-right extremism in two local governments.

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towns

State Software Collaborative

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on

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InfoNile

United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania)

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.