I design seriously cooperative games

• Games and gamification
• Civic and social impact companies

The largest dataset of deep seafloor imagery ever assembled, showing "we have visually observed less than 0.001%"

• Life below water

• Crowdsourcing
• Environmental data

Citizen Paris is a movement committed to an innovative, ecological, and inclusive city. A collective of grassroots actors who work daily to foster Paris's dynamism and deliver concrete solutions for the capital's future.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Specific campaigns

Human-Centred Principles for the Design and Implementation of Deliberative Technologies

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

Unlocking a new generation of social apps, where users stay private without losing historical actions and identities

• Rarimo

• Blockchain
• Decentralization
• Identity

Sensemaker, an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, helps make sense of large-scale online conversations, leveraging LLMs to categorize statements, and summarize statements and voting patterns to surface actionable insights.

• Google
• Sensemaker

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital participation platforms

Innovation Engine is a strategy firm that helps organizations across sectors unlock new value, often by doing something they’ve never done before, or through a model they haven’t used before.

• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

We are a collaborative and open-source project to develop software that tests for coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) in datasets of online activity.

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

Pissing off Elon Musk one small action at a time.

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action
• Advertising

My Voice Counts is a civic-tech platform that empowers people to safely and anonymously participate in verified issue-based voting and protest support

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Direct action

Apathy is Boring is a non-partisan, charitable organization that supports and educates youth to be active and contributing citizens in Canada’s democracy. Learn more

• youth

• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

The DSI Community Democracy at the University of Zurich focuses on research related to the impact of digitalisation on the political system, on democracy, and on related topics.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Register for the Pilot Pitchfest in New York City on May 22nd—and apply for up to $80K to support high-impact projects.

• city

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Miami Affordability Project (MAP) is an interactive online map providing data on the distribution of affordable housing, housing needs, demographic profiles, and environmental resiliency in greater Miami.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Civic maps

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

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

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

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 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

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

• gun safety

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Artistic interventions

A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

*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

The new model includes the development of the largest national legislative database, which integrates not only federal and local legislation but also judicial rulings, government processes, services, and field-level systems.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Find information about registered charities in England and Wales

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Nonprofit tech

Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition.

• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities
• supply chain

• Govtech
• Policy
• Economic development

A purpose-driven startup, building a global movement for better, nicer places.

An independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons or commutations for criminal charges related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

UKGrantmaking seeks to provide an overview and insight into grantmaking in the UK across different funding sectors.

• Get funding
• Research tools
• Nonprofit tech

TLC is the first trans-led specialist gender identity legal practice in Britain, providing free and accessible legal help to transgender and non-binary people in need.

• trans rights
• LGBTQI

• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Council on Tech and Social Cohesion is catalyzing the field of technology for social cohesion.

• Engagement tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

A coalition of community and news organizations providing in-depth journalism and catalyzing civic action

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Newsroom partnership networks

Rapid and simple project-level environmental screening for humanitarian operations

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

How do we ensure that community data from Papua New Guinea’s protected areas is reported and heard?

• biodiversity
• animals
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Evaluate impact
• Environmental data

Working with external partners, Thomson Reuters Labs™ are active members of regional innovation ecosystems, delivering world-class solutions for customers.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Innovation teams and labs

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

The report serves as an entry point to this ‘forecasting’ stream of work that organizations working in the digital rights ecosystem often overlook, especially when resources are scarce, and they are focused on current challenges and ongoing projects.

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

ParticipationAI explores the intersection of public participation and Artificial Intelligence (AI),focusing on integrating diverse civil society perspectives into the public procurement process.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Civil society research outfits

The Open Gov Challenge Awards recognize the best initiatives submitted to the Open Gov Challenge, a global call to action aimed to encourage ambition in ten areas of open government critical to strengthening our democracies.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes

A platform to make legislation and representative activity easier to track, understand, and act on.

• Grok

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Cybersecurity

Soon Ranking Digital Rights will release the Generative AI Accountability Scorecard, evaluating major consumer-facing generative AI services’ respect for the human rights to privacy, non-discrimination, freedom of expression, and freedom of information.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

We are building conversational AI assistants that can streamline access to public information, deliver empathetic support around-the-clock, and strengthen bonds between governments and people.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible data and AI practices.

• development

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Policy

Diseñado para resolver tus dudas sobre contratación pública en Ecuador

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Media and social media analysis
• Digital peacebuilding
• Big listening

Yodi is a social project that fights the digital divide with AI communication tools that allow for new types of services and interactions in local languages in Togo and West Africa.

• Decent work and economic growth
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation

GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.

• crisis
• humanitarian
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bots

A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.

• bias
• European Union
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Design
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech