Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge
• Open internet

Track your policy impact

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

Open candidate information for UK elections covering all 2,015 areas

• 2024 elections

• Crowdsourcing
• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

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

• local

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Working groups

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms
• Citizen Engagement

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Civic maps
• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• city
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

Voter information portal for the 2021 Ethiopian election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Social and financial connections

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

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Books

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research groups
• User research

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

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.

• local

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Meeting tech

This free app includes information on 100 Senators, 50 State Attorney Generals, 50 Governors, 426 Congressional reps by state. And 1,964 State Senators and 5,443 State House Reps.

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

• Open knowledge

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators
• Democratic Innovations

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

The National Civic League's Quarterly Journal, "One of the Nation’s Oldest and Most Respected Journals of Civic Affairs"

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

As part of the 2024 Web Science Conference Brave Conversations again brings together technology, society and politics to explore humanity in the 21st Century

Developed for Occupy Wall Street in 2011, the first mobile panic button app.

• apps
• Occupy

• Advocacy tech
• Justice tech
• Legal tech

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• United States (federal government)

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Get funding

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• United Nations

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Satellites

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Satellites
• Civic features

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.

• reports
• United Nations

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

14 renowned European research and computing centers have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The initiative will be contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact
• Meeting tech

AI for the Public Good, for Singapore and the World

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech or Digital Policy

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

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.

• WhatsApp
• missing people

• Crowdsourcing
• Bots
• Participatory aid

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

• city
• WhatsApp
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Democratic Innovations

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs

This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Indicators

Parla has access to more than 11,000 publicly available documents that have been published on the parliamentary documentation system PARDOK in the current legislative period.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Tussell & techUK are thrilled to share the 3rd annual Tech200 awards - our list of the 200 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK public sector, from FY 2021/22 to FY 2022/23.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Awards and prizes

Develops a suite of AI tools for automated inspection systems for railways and mass transit optimization

• mass transit

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech vendors

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring