The goals are to oversee the congress, eliminate inadequate legislators and improve congress culture.

• LINE

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Partner networks and coalitions

Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

• free speech

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

• supply chain

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development

Mehr Freiheit und mehr Demokratie waren die großen Versprechen des Internets.

• books

• Books
• Decentralization

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Reports

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

• Govtech
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

The African affiliate of the global Open Science Hardware community, plus its global summit

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Citizen science

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• United States (federal government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Consumer watchdogging
• Service alerts

The Centre for Democracy was founded in January 2021 to develop the ecosystem of organisations working towards a better democracy in the UK

• Participatory democracy

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Service delivery

What is a “progressive data” job? Loosely defined as a job where the majority of the role, department, or organization is focused on data or analytics work in the progressive space. This work may include anything from data science and software engineering to sales and staff management.

• partisan

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Service delivery

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Carbon calculators

The use of algorithms in public administration can make our public affairs more convenient, accurate and faster, but it is important to be aware of the limitations of these technologies. Report 2.0

Polimorphic is the first Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software specifically built for local governments.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

• Media
• Evaluate impact
• Peer-reviewed research

"[A] nonpartisan source for news, resources, and commentary focused on state courts and state constitutional development. It’s the first and only website dedicated to covering state constitutional cases and trends in high courts across the 50 states."

• state

• Legal tech
• News and blogs
• Constitutions

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

• Decidim
• Brazil (federal government)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

IFES’s Election Cyber Readiness Network (ECRN) is designed to bring together key technology partners, election commissions, and other stakeholders to form regional and national strategies to protect elections from digital threats and support long-term electoral integrity.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Indigenius Keyboard is a smart, multilingual keyboard supporting inclusive digital communication in 180+ Languages.

• Hardware
• Translation and linguistic representation

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Fellowships
• Accelerators

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Trustmarks

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American Consumers

• United States (federal government)

• Hardware
• Trustmarks
• Regulation

A powerful & impactful software that helps manage volunteers and their impact. Signup for a Demo

• Manage volunteers

A state-of-the-art, white-labeled, job marketplace solution for governments and nonprofits. Visit Commons.Jobs

• Job board software

Digital Europe for All (DE4A) effectively puts forward a new Member State-driven large-scale pilot aimed at compliance with Single Digital Gateway and aligned with EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, Tallinn Declaration and EIF Implementation Strategy.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

You want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

An award-winning, minority-owned strategic consulting firm FOR campaign strategy, direct mail, & digital programs

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Open science

Help us identify and recognize the next 25 game-changers shaping the future of the internet to be more ethical, responsible and inclusive.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Awards and prizes

Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?

• guides
• partisan
• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Donation software built by progressives for progressives. We empower progressive causes because we believe that positive change happens when we work together!

• partisan

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• city
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

"Just three days after the war started, Sudanese market intelligence firm DataQ launched a platform called Nidaa (meaning “call for help” in Arabic). It allows people in distress to post their requirements — from money and groceries to medical services and a ride to safety — so volunteers can reach out to them."

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid