The project will establish a workshop to bring community-centered planning to the emerging technology of autonomous vehicles (AV)

• workshops
• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Urban planning
• Public Interest Tech

The official Biden-Harris administration Reddit account, launched to provide updates on Hurricanes Milton and Helene

• Reddit
• hurricanes

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Verified government accounts

To examine and analyze the downside risks associated with the ubiquitous advance of AI & Automation, to engage in risk mitigation and ensure the optimal outcome… ForHumanity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• AI Auditing

We’ve put this guide together to point you to some of the brilliant resources available for UK activists.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

An AI-powered tool designed to efficiently digitize handwritten petition sheets, transforming them into organized, upload-ready CSVs to streamline data management and optimize volunteer efforts.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

The US government's emergency response department has taken to the internet to fight an unprecedented amount of information about 2024 hurricanes.

• hurricanes
• United States (federal government)

• Fight disinformation
• Communicating with the people

Science Secretary launches new Regulatory Innovation Office to speed up public access to new technologies

• United Kingdom (government)

• Emerging tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

The most comprehensive, insightful, and accessible data platform for the U.S. nonprofit Democracy field.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs

A collective effort to save and maintain Juicebox EV Chargers

• Affordable and clean energy
• right to repair

• Hardware

We are on a mission to amplify Black* voices and ensure our complete engagement in the national debate about how to build a better Britain founded on accessible citizenship, judicial rights, climate and racial justice, equality, and fairness.

• racial equity

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Our goal is to identify, categorize, and quantify existing organizations, networks, and funders who work to promote and protect healthy democracy in America. We aim to create a compelling, interactive resource that educates and empowers users to engage in democracy.

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic literacy

Space X's Starlink unit was granted permission by the US FCC to activate a satellite connectivity option for Americans in hurricane zones

• hurricanes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity
• Satellites

Moved by these challenges, Nova SBE’s team, represented by the Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center, started mapping the social ecosystem by creating a public and easily accessible platform aimed at providing quality information in a simple, intuitive, complete, and fair way about all social and environmental impact organizations in Portugal.

• Civic data
• Nonprofit tech

30 ADS govtech applications in Washington state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Amber is a tool for blogs & websites to keep linked content accessible

• extensions

• Archives
• Open knowledge

Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…

• culture

• Archives
• Cameras

Enhancing the privacy and security of national digital identity systems

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Identity

A public-owned social network for public institutions (municipalities, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums, etc) to engage communities without using Big Tech, and instead using infrastructure based on public values

• Open social
• General purpose open source tools
• Social networks

Helping Others Help Others

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• Civic and social impact companies

3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

Connects Americans to public resources that help them lower their bills

• No poverty

• Access social benefits
• Economic development

The Fund is a shared space for philanthropists to leverage one another’s expertise, incubate investment strategies to advance visionary concepts, and catalyze big ideas that can transform the use of technology to serve the public interest.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Building a Digital Ecosystem for Refugees

• refugees

• Decentralization
• Access social benefits
• Economic development

We are a growing international network ​racing to save everything we love by using effective civil resistance across our 12 countries.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

A modern rewrite that hopes to make it a bit easier for federal product teams to adopt, adapt, and extend the USWDS.

• Govtech
• Build something
• Design

"A global coalition working to fight organized cybercrime in Southeast Asia" - New York Times

• Cybersecurity
• Fight cybercrime

A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.

• Climate action
• buildings
• Google

• Civic data
• Environmental data

Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.

• Internal communication and coordination

The NABIT (Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool) is a low-cost, hand-held, field-ready automated tool to validate the identity of a wildlife or food product, anywhere in the world, without specialized training, equipment, reagents, or even continuous power.

• animals

• Emerging tech
• Hardware

The Global DPI Summit, hosted in Cairo, Egypt, stands as a premier convening of stakeholders in the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) ecosystem, bringing together representatives from across the globe.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

This is a place to connect, share and discuss all things related to climate change & machine learning 🌏🔥 🤖💻

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Join a free web-based platform that supports media to compete more effectively for audiences and revenues by learning from the performance of peers globally and participating in a marketplace of ideas.

• Media
• Journalism

Digital Square is a PATH-led initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a consortium of other partners to transform digital health.

• Good health and well-being

• Foundation initiatives
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Daejeon Citizens' Coalition for Participatory Autonomy Budget Monitoring Project

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Budget explorers

A full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres

• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A powerful tool designed to train reinforcement learning agents to optimize energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions in buildings.

• buildings
• Google
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Environmental data

Conservation X Labs’ Sentinel transforms wildlife monitoring tools — like trail cameras and acoustic recorders — with revolutionary and intuitive AI technology, processing environmental data in real-time as it’s collected.

• animals

• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Get energy data with a few lines of code

• Affordable and clean energy

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Environmental data

Unlike traditional conservation efforts, Conservation X Labs focuses on leveraging the best technology, the newest innovation, interdisciplinary genius, and the power of the marketplace to boldly confront the biggest problems facing the planet.

• animals
• sustainability

• Artificial Intelligence

A global team of DPI builders helping countries co-design localised solutions that scale

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Insights about emerging technologies, digital democracy and public policy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Election SOS offers training & resources for journalists, connecting them to best practices, resources and support around election coverage.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Media
• Journalism
• Voting and elections

Rule of Law monitoring platform - Govwatch is a collective map of the state of the rule of law in Greece, made up of reports not just from the Govwatch team, but also from civil society organisations, journalists and academics, and citizens.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

Amplifying voices of migrants and refugees in European Media

• migration

• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Story-based campaigns

Evidence from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan shows that digital aid is a cost-effective, credible, and efficient way to reach vulnerable populations, in this case poor, tech-illiterate, female-headed households, in fragile states.

• Zero hunger

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Direct aid

New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works.

• Media
• Journalism
• Watchdogging and transparency

Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• courses

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses