The IfG Academy provides practical training and support to those working in government, as well as those outside government who want to understand and engage with it

This content discusses the rise of Reform UK, a far-right party in the UK, and how the progressive movement can respond to this threat

This book examines the practice of participatory grantmaking, where stakeholders and grantees participate in making decisions about grant dollars that were previously reserved for professional foundation staff

Conversational Game Theory (CGT) is a formal game of messaging, replies, and tagging between human or AI agents that addresses qualitative, reasoning-intensive challenges while synthesizing multiple perspectives through high stakes conflict resolution and consensus building

Farmer

The article discusses the political economy of coliving, exploring the different models of shared housing such as cooperatives, grassroots coliving, and professional coliving

This workshop aims to celebrate Wikimedia's contributions to the natural language processing (NLP) community and explore approaches to ensuring the sustainability of this relationship

Metaforecast is a platform that provides forecasts and predictions on various topics, including political events, technological developments, and scientific questions

ShotSpotter creates thousands of unfounded police deployments, fuels unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, and can lead to false arrests.

• surveillance
• crime
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns

The website provides educational resources and tools to help individuals deal with workplace bullying, which has become a prevalent issue in recent years

Omnipedia is a system that automates the process of evaluating articles against style guides using advanced language models

This article discusses the limitations of traditional platforms and the need for a more collaborative and decentralized approach, introducing PLANET as an open network built on protocols that enables seamless sharing of data and resources across different applications and tools, fostering greater collaboration and collective impact

Chorus AI is a platform that helps non-profit organizations streamline their content creation, data analysis, and knowledge management processes

The Civic Space Support Guide provides strategies and resources for civil society actors and their allies to remain safe and defend civic space when it comes under attack

The content describes the bulk tools feature in GPT for Sheets, which allows users to run various AI-powered operations on entire spreadsheet columns at once, including translation, classification, extraction, reformatting, web search, and image analysis

by Rahul Bhargava

• books

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The article discusses the history and ethos of the 'digital garden' - a newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web that differs from the traditional personal blog format

The report examines the political bias within popular AI-powered Large Language Models (LLMs), finding left-leaning bias in their policy recommendations and sentiment towards political parties and ideologies

This event at the London School of Economics and Political Science will bring together a panel of LSE researchers to discuss the key outcomes and implications of the many elections that took place around the world in the past year

CO2

The article discusses the role of unions in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)

Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We provide democratic tools and methods for communities of all shapes and sizes.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

A report by the Royal Society on the impact of the internet on our information environment, and on misinformation relating to scientific issues

• reports

• Fight disinformation

Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• AI Auditing

Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to the Ostbelgien Permanent Citizens' Council.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

G1000 is a Belgian platform for democratic innovation. We develop, support and promote new forms of deliberation that reinforce democracy from the local to the national level. We believe democracy should give more space to regular citizens.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Let's simplify together!

Our team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

Provides a comprehensive overview of all enforcement authorities and the cases they have taken against online platforms under the Digital Services Act

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

DoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.

• Govtech
• Democratic Innovations
• Communicating with the people

Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.

• housing
• city
• social isolation

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Urban planning

The collaborative venture AURA.I. AUgmented Reality utilizing Artificial. Intelligence. aims to improve user interactions in Augmented Reality (AR) technology through the creation of an AI toolkit.

How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Peer-reviewed research

We partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.

• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• User research

Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

An AI chatbot developed for to engage party members at the Labour Party Conference

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Bots

Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Verifiable online voting system.

The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

• teachers & educators

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic literacy

What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?

• TikTok

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

Centro para a Inovação no Setor Público

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

This report analyses nearly 800 case studies from 83 countries and identifies five critical trends in government innovation that are reshaping public services.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation

“Pluralisme.fr is a revolutionary solution in the sense that it will help strengthen Democracy and monitor alternative facts

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Factchecking

Shaping Education for Fairer AI

• Reduced inequalities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)