This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

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
• Civic literacy
• Courses

Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Deliberation
• Academia

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Custom GPT tool to help journalists in the Philippines to parse long government audit reports for anomalies

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Watchdogging and transparency

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities
• People Powered

• Artistic interventions

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Archives

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.

• People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

• Decidim
• People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

Unlock the power of AI waste analytics

• waste

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

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

State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure.

• Digital security and privacy
• Chat and messaging

The most powerful platform for behavioral research and experiments

• Surveys & polling
• Open science

FixMyBlock aims to cut through the jargon and empower residents. Find out everything your landlords should be doing to keep tower blocks safe — and what to do if they aren’t.

• housing
• landlord

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance
• landlord

• Civic maps
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing

A marketing page collection of Google's "tools to empower journalists to do their work more efficiently, creatively, and securely"

• Google
• commercial

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Network-centric resources are people-powered and participatory resources that aim to maximise usage and engagement. They are developed through sharing ownership, enabling contribution and supporting collaboration.

• Group decision making

This calculator measures how much value a responsible business team, which has real power over the future of your products, can generate from a financial perspective.

• Graveyard
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

• People Powered

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

• People Powered

The Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency (RLTL) is an initiative for linking, communication and collaboration between civil society organizations that promote the opening of congresses in the region, seeking to raise the standards of transparency, access to information, citizen participation, accountability and responsibility in the legislative powers.

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Direct aid

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

The [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Emerging tech

An iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

[W]hich aspires to establish a global democracy, solving the hard problem of representing every human in the world – including those who won’t participate – without the help of government.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Blockchain

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

Fast group decision-making.

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Crowdmatching for Public Goods

• coop

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Supporting democracy activists from all over the world, organizing knowledge-sharing events and campaigning across countries...

• People Powered

Summer open data training and materials piloted in 2023

• trainings

• Civic data