GDDF 2023 builds on three years of successful global virtual forums that engage over 3,000 participants each time and feature keynote speakers from USAID, tech companies, and across the digital development ecosystem.

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

A free course to help journalists translate the language of vaccine science and the promise of vaccine access into compelling human stories.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

Representative for Massachusetts Jake Auchincloss used ChatGPT to help introduce legislation supporting AI research

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Code for Dallas is an official Code for America Brigade in Dallas, TX working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Emerging tech
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

GDS service for government users to notify constituents

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

A tech-centric portal for US government jobs

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

This project brings together leading innovators from the international criminal law community with pioneers in the Web3 ecosystem to develop secure and resilient solutions for accountability in Ukraine.

• Ukraine
• human rights
• humanitarian

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Archives

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Stellar Development Foundation currently holds 30 billion XLM to be used for promoting and enhancing Stellar.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Blockchain

Homeward is an identity management system and intelligent resettlement platform for displaced populations.

• refugees
• migration

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

We use emerging technologies - like blockchain, IoT devices and sensors, and artificial intelligence - to address some of the world’s most pressing issues, as defined by the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

• Partnerships for the Goals
• Sustainable Development Goals

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Smart Cities and sensors

Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world. 

• Good health and well-being
• MOOCs

• Digital transformation
• Open knowledge

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

Theseus is an enterprise logistics system to track, trace and optimize the global movement of food goods while reducing waste, fostering fair economic opportunities, and directly engaging consumers to learn more about the origins of their food.

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

• students
• Quality education
• Consul

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

• Consul
• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

• students
• trainings

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

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Archives

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise
• surveillance

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Justice tech

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Media
• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• city
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

One of the world's leading research and teaching institutions.

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

An article tracking the development of pro-social deepfakes, despite the vast majority consisting of pornographic images of women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine learning
• Deepfakes

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

"Reclaiming Participatory Governance offers empirical and theoretical perspectives on how the relationship between social movements and state institutions is emerging and developing through new modes of participatory governance."

• books

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Conectamos retos de comunidades con estudiantes universitarios para construir historias de co-creación.

• students

• Challenges

What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.

• WhatsApp

• Circumvention tech
• Civic features

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

• Get funding
• Investors

The Schwab Foundation’s 2023 Awards seeks to honour social change leaders, across a diversity of social innovation models in society in four different award categories

• Awards and prizes

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Awards and prizes

Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Digital transformation

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Donor Management and Fundraising Software for Nonprofits

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

US-based Government & Nonprofit Portfolio

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

Helping You Move Beyond Debt

• Decent work and economic growth

• Adjacent Fields
• Fintech for good