Votes in the UK’s Parliaments determine the laws that we all live by, and we want the information about who voted for what to be as accurate, easy to use and easy to understand as possible.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

Re-imagining Democracy with Europe’s Diverse Communities

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Citizen Engagement

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

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

The International Conference of Information Commissioners (ICIC) is a worldwide annual forum that connects Information Commissioners, Ombudspersons and other bodies in charge of overseeing the implementation of Access to Public Information legislation.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Government transparency

Rarimo has employed zero-knowledge cryptography to address these challenges and built Freedom Tool, a decentralized, transparent, and privacy-preserving online voting tool on blockchain.

• Rarimo

• Voting and elections
• Blockchain
• E-voting and I-voting

The application allows you to be involved in the democratic process, vote anonymously, receive government services online, and also become a co-owner of important projects.

• apps
• Rarimo

• Voting and elections
• Games and gamification
• Service delivery

Engagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky

• Google
• Sensemaker
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations. Sensemaker empowers users to categorize, summarize, and identify areas of agreement and disagreement in any discussion – turning conversation into clear, actionable insights, quickly.

• Google
• Sensemaker
• toolkits

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Imagining the Bowling Green and Warren County of the Future

• Participatory democracy
• Specific digital participation instances

From Taiwan’s g0v Community to the World: The Collaborative Wisdom of Digital Citizens

• reports
• g0v

• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others
• Digital literacy

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

Abordaje conceptual y metodológico para la incorporación de las preferencias de la ciudadanía en políticas públicas

• Argentina (federal government)
• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

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 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

CityCamp is an unconference with a focus on democracy, civil society, neighbors, government operations, and the intersection between them all.

• city

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

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
• Specific campaigns
• Justice tech

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

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

​​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

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

A machine learning model trains on geo-located survey data to predict state presence.

• surveillance

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Civic data

We break information barriers and strengthen African democracies through research and media innovation

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic apps outfits

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The company previously worked with 3rd party fact-checking organizations to fight disinformation on their platforms. They killed the program at the beginning of the 2025 Trump administration. It's still operating outside of the USA (for now).

• Facebook
• Meta

• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard
• Factchecking

Record, reflect, report: At lightspeed

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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
• Procurement

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

We build software solutions for Democratic campaigns and organizations, focused on compliance and data management.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Different voting systems have a variety of different features, ranging from how proportional they are (whether seats in parliament reflect votes cast), the connection between MPs and their communities and the extent to which voters can choose between different candidates.

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Democratic Innovations

Here you will find in-depth articles (deep dives), interviews and other content related to our lines of activity (Future Culture, Democratic Innovation, Citizen Empowerment, Social Economy and cooperativism).

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Make Votes Matter is the [UK] national movement for Proportional Representation

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Metagov is host to a community of research and practice.

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) is a globally accessible, living knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques against Al-enabled systems based on real-world attack observations and realistic demonstrations from Al red teams and security groups.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

Renters that received an informational postcard were 52% more likely to request an application for rental assistance and 24% more likely to submit an application than renters that did not receive a postcard.

• housing

• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people
• Democratic Innovations

Our House is building a popular case for democratic reform through a new People's Charter [in the UK].

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

The American Governance Institute develops ideas and educates policymakers on innovative approaches to strengthening American democracy, state capacity, and federal governance.

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmental protection, democracy, and anti-corruption efforts.

• Freedom of Information
• Awards and prizes

Article in Nature by Christopher Yeh, Anthony Perez, Anne Driscoll, George Azzari, Zhongyi Tang, David Lobell, Stefano Ermon & Marshall Burke

• No poverty

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Benefits organizations supporting USAID’s global workforce that have lost their jobs including Democracy Forward, which fights in court for people and democracy.

• Civic tech gifts

Just Security is an editorially independent, non-partisan, daily digital law and policy journal that elevates the discourse on national security, democracy and the rule of law, and rights.

• Journalism
• Research and policy centers
• Legal tech

The Journal of Sortition is dedicated to the exploration of all aspects of sortition, particularly (but not necessarily) as a contribution to democratic reform. 

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Journals

The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

• city

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Citizen Engagement

The first edition of PAIRS took place as an independent side-event of the Paris AI Action Summit (10th - 11th Feb 2025) providing a space to present research and case studies on the state of the art in participatory development and governance of AI, and to build stronger connections across the field.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others

The Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers

Giving voters the option to vote NO in all elections can improve all democracies

• Voting and elections
• Democratic Innovations

Agency For Urban Change

• youth
• city
• place-based

• Participatory democracy
• User experience

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D human models from a single input image

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D models from 2D images using a deep learning-based method

Kwaai is a non-profit organization focused on developing an open-source Personal AI Operating System (pAIOS) to empower users to retain and own their personal data and knowledge models, countering the trend of AI monopolization and misappropriation of personal data