This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech

• Funders & donors
• Open knowledge
• Open science

Mike Tahani's data viz gallery. It includes mapping, journalism, politics, outer space, and data visualization.

• Data visualization
• Mapping

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos

• Govtech
• Academia
• Access social benefits

Producing cutting-edge research on the people of government and the communities they are called to serve.

• Communicating with the government
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Celebrating public service and public servants

Organizing Info About Congress

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

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

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies

• Israel Palestine

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

DataCameroon est un site d’information généraliste, spécialisé dans le Data journalisme et le journalisme d’investigation.

• Media
• Civic data
• Journalism

DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact
• Advertising

Taught By Richard The

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities
• resilience

• Get funding
• Research and policy centers
• Funders & donors

Building on expertise from across Tech & Society, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.

• Academia
• Fellowships

Award-winning independent investigative news agency in Ukraine

• Ukraine

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

A core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

The Lenfest Institute is home to communities of practice serving various types of journalism professionals and organizations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to reformulate participation and decision making in the creation of public policies, programs, and services, with the goal of fostering more just and equitable cities and societies.

• Academia
• Design
• Service delivery

No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship

• guides

• Media
• Journalism
• Organizational policies on AI

The Digital Good Network will produce a Digital Good Index which can be used to evaluate digital innovations to ensure good societal outcomes.

• Evaluate impact

Campaign to urge Congress: Protect Public Media Funding

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Public media

Norton and TechSoup offer knowledge and digital tools to protect survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexual assault.

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Nonprofit tech
• Cybersecurity

Taught By: Eduardo Staszowski

• Project 2025

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

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

These are the results of a survey measuring the impact on organizations across the world affected by the US Government aid freeze.

• Project 2025

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Backed by a group of civil society organisations supporting human rights defenders in Asia-Pacific, the DRAPAC VPN Project is designed to resist blocking by internet censors.

• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization
• Circumvention tech

Charity Navigator's list of 3- and 4-star organizations whose programs may be affected by the Trump Administration's funding freeze.

• Project 2025

• Get funding
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Nonprofit tech

This form is to help quickly identify what activities were terminated in the February 25 Armageddon at USAID.

• Project 2025

• Crowdsourcing
• Celebrating public service and public servants

As ARVA, our mission is to empower communities to recognize, diagnose, and manage vulnerabilities in AI that affects them.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Red teaming

We convene and train public servants, community leaders and educators to use participatory methods of engagement and tools, with a focus on citizens’ assemblies.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tracking. Informing.

• Project 2025
• Decent work and economic growth
• labor

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

We are American Civictech public workers. United in advocating our values, showcasing our impact and exercising our rights. Coming soon.

• Project 2025

• Celebrating public service and public servants

We’ll be ensuring the federal government works for working people and isn’t destroyed by billionaires like Elon Musk. We’ll report on the facts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts and what you can do to fight back.

• labor
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

Organizing effort to fight for the life of USAID, including an instagram account with over 50,000 followers

• Project 2025
• labor

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Narrative tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

We make America work. Federal workers working for you.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Govtech
• Story-based campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

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

Standing with federal workers against a corporate-backed coup led by DOGE.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

The mission of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.

• United States (federal government)

NGOs in the democracy, rights, and governance space are facing unprecedented cuts to their funding. This blog explores new revenue streams to help them continue their critical work.

• Project 2025
• guides

• Get funding

Focusing exclusively on democracy, the Journal monitors and analyzes democratic regimes and movements around the world.

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Democratic Innovations

Partnership for Public Service's resource for you to answer the questions we are frequently asked about how various proposals may affect federal employees, to create a safe space for information sharing and community building, and most of all, to respond to what you need in this moment and in the months to come.

• labor
• guides

• Celebrating public service and public servants

Ranking Digital Rights's inaugural Telco Giants Scorecard reveals that telecom companies, despite being gatekeepers of the internet for most of the world, are less transparent overall and more susceptible to government demands than their Big Tech peers.

• reports

• Digital rights
• Connectivity
• Evaluate impact