• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

• Stop AI theft
• Adobe

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Checks and Balances Now is a legal and civic education initiative created by a group of lawyers who closely followed the work of the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

• Adobe

A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Reports

A new project has been launched, details can be found through the provided link.

Fighting fraud is a noble cause. Using Artificial Intelligence to fight fraud is a smart strategy.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

This playbook is designed specifically for civil servants, offering practical guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to help them perform their work more effectively and efficiently.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Generative AI

Reporting by Sarah Scire for Nieman Journalism Lab

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

Find out how the Trump administration’s DOGE cuts to grants and federal real estate are affecting your community.

• Project 2025

• Civic maps

On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

covering the Supreme Court of the United States

• Legal tech
• News and blogs
• Predecessors

Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable, and secure database that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

• Hong Kong protests
• police violence

• Advocacy tech
• Archives
• Specific campaigns

Russian-based professional association for participatory budgeting consultants

• Meet the others
• Peer networks
• Participatory budgeting

O OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos públicos sejam investidos em seus municípios.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

• apps

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Serviços e Informações do Brasil

• Brazil (federal government)

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Open Infrastructure Map is an open-source map of the world's infrastructure using data from OpenStreetMap.

• Civic data
• Civic maps

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

• local
• city

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

This bot offers an interface for requesting and accessing VPN support via Telegram and WhatsApp.

• WhatsApp
• Telegram

• Cybersecurity
• Chat and messaging
• Circumvention tech

At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Chat and messaging

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

Enabling and amplifying action for civic space and inclusive democracy

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Needs assessment

Een stad die klaar is voor de toekomst. Hier werken we aan, samen met bewoners, bezoekers, bedrijven en overheid. Verschillende specialisten onderzoeken de invloed van technologie op Amsterdam.

• city

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

Over a nine month period, these participants will work with the CIVICUS team, technical experts, and each other to develop a fully funded project which will be delivered in their local setting.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

a comprehensive analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem across six regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.

• reports

• Participatory democracy

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

• immigration

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Bureaucracy tech

The official US government website about COVID-19 pandemic information, now a Lab Leak argument

• COVID-19
• Project 2025

• Graveyard
• COVID
• COVID Government Projects

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

• gun safety

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Artistic interventions

​​The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.

• Project 2025
• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

• surveillance
• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.

• local
• taxes
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Better evidence for a world without homelessness

• homelessness

*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Freedom of Information

Discover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers

• Amazon

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

The overall purpose of the COLDIGIT project is to generate new knowledge on innovative digital tools and approaches, in order to understand how they can support governance of complex societal processes in the Nordic region.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Violation Tracker Global is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

A glossary for the repository of Collective Intelligence Tools and Case studies

• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

contains more than 70 tools and 50 cases exemplifying the use of tools

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

AI Policy Bulletin publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Policy

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

GIJN is an international association that supports the work of investigative journalists worldwide.

• Media
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

• immigration

• Blockchain
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

"The Landing might have begun as one of the best-funded nonprofit newsrooms in the country. It now appears to be a cautionary tale about the risks of relying on a few big funders and of disagreements about mission and strategy undermining a newsroom." - Sophie Culpepper, NiemanLab

• Media
• Journalism
• Graveyard