Want to join the global digital rights and internet freedom community? We providing events, services, job board, community spaces, and more!

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The conference brings together trust and safety researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, civil society, and government.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Digital security and privacy

The Aspen Cyber Summit connects the dots between the cybersecurity challenges of today and the topics that matter to you.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The annual Democracy R&D conference is the leading international event for people who fund, run, commission, study and advocate for Citizens’ Assemblies.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Mapping

We help people who nurture relationships that drive change prove that their work has impact.

• Advocacy tech
• Evaluate impact
• The craft of organizing

Friends of the Earth is the UK's biggest grassroots network dedicated to protecting people and planet.

• Climate action

• Campaign organizations

Delete Nothing aims to document technology-related gender-based violence in Sri Lanka, particularly but not limited to the experiences of girls, women, and queer and trans people in Sri Lanka.

• anti-harassment
• anti-trafficking
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital security and privacy
• Tech for public challenges
• Digital rights

A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech
• peace

• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy
• Community-building resources

Hashtag Generation is a non profit organization and movement led and run by a group of young tech-savvy, socially conscious Sri Lankans advocating for the meaningful civic and political participation of youth, especially young women and young people from minority groups

• Issue
• hate speech
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Campaign tools

Meet BridgeBot, a new chatbot which helps social media users bridge differences and build trust and understanding online.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Fight disinformation
• Digital peacebuilding

Prathya is an online ecosystem of support for persons affected by OGBV in Sri Lanka developed by the organizations Hashtag Generation and Delete Nothing and was launched in October 2022.

• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)
• domestic violence
• anti-harassment

• The Tech
• Case management

IAP2 carries out its mission to advance and extend the practice of public participation by organizing and conducting professional development activities to serve the learning needs of members.

• trainings

• Participatory democracy

This project [by Jessica Dai], in collaboration with Deb Raji, explores designing a framework for the general public to report and contest large-scale harms from algorithmic decision making systems (ADS).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

IAP2 USA is a nationwide organization that leads, advances and advocates for best practices in public participation. It is a home and community for people who believe good decisions can be made together.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Fieldwide resources

POPVOX Foundation is working with legislative offices, support institutions, civil society, academics, and tech innovators to explore the future landscape of two-way engagement between representatives and constituents.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Building inside government

Welcome to the first global community for stateless people and their allies. Together we empower stateless people.

• immigration
• migration
• refugees

• Meet the others
• Justice tech
• Solidarity networks

Citizen assembly model

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Deliberation

Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

Our assisted [UK] voter registration programme Just Register supports people to get onto the electoral roll. It addresses the practical barriers that we know hinder people from getting registered in a timely way. After signing up on Just Register, everyone is signposted to the gov.uk form. From this point, they receive personalised support via peer-to-peer texting and calls to make sure they follow-through completing their registration with their council.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration

Our platform, fueled solely by public and certified documents, simplifies complex subjects with different levels of answers tailored to everyone.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people
• Access to laws

A coworking space for all people working on tech related to the upcoming [UK] general election. Both partisan & non-partisan projects welcome!

• 2024 elections

• Meet the others
• Voting and elections
• Civic hacking meetups

The Online to Offline Strategy Group (O2O) is a worker-self-directed nonprofit dedicated to winning structural change by building people-centered, digitally-empowered movements.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Crowdsourcing

Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.

• apps
• Android
• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Machine vision

A way for the public to gain the very basic (and essential) knowledge about their elected representatives.

• Communicating with the government
• Find your representatives
• Social networks

A comprehensive platform designed to enhance public safety and community engagement by revolutionizing civic communication and emergency notification systems, empowering individuals and government agencies to interact seamlessly and effectively.

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware
• Connectivity

The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

A world in which political leaders are one of the most respected roles in society.

• Help more people run for office

The only global launch pad for non-partisan political leadership incubators.

• Civic literacy
• Accelerators

The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

Political monitoring. Set apart by heritage, personal touch and breadth of coverage.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Predecessors

People and organizations working on, contributing to, and advocating for public AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

This update allows you to create professional-grade press releases in a matter of minutes with minimal effort and editing.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools

"Find Local Help is a tool from CMS, which runs HealthCare.gov, that connects people to in-person, one-on-one help signing up for health insurance. Users can enter their location and get a list of local experts who can help them complete the process for free." - Ad Hoc

• Good health and well-being
• United States (federal government)

• Access social benefits

Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.

• Build something
• User research
• User research groups

Recognizing organizations that support politicians to empower citizens and develop better policies for people and the planet.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Fieldwide resources

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Co-design

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research
• User research groups

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

We offer family reunification services, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots for people experiencing homelessness

• homelessness
• social isolation

• Resource matching and sharing
• Access social benefits
• Solidarity networks

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa.

• books

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books