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

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

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

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Public Interest Tech

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

Advancing AI in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Generative AI

We are a new social enterprise developing tools to strengthen place-based awareness and engagement. ​

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.

• local

• Peer networks
• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

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
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Democratic Innovations

Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.

• commercial
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

Solidarity Tech is an all-in-one CRM for organizers

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.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences
• Meet the others

The aim of this Municipal Budget Visualisation Tool is to make the management of local governments transparent to the local population and the wider society.

• Budget explorers
• Government transparency
• Govtech

is an app where you can subscribe to alerts to be notified immediately of updates to monitored administrative and government databases.

• Government transparency

Let's simplify together!

K-Monitor database is a searchable library of articles from the online media dealing with corruption, procurements, public spending and in general with the transparency of the public sphere.

• Media monitoring
• Media and social media analysis

A Figyusz egy alkalmazás, amelyben értesítésekre iratkozhatsz fel, hogy azonnal értesülj a figyelt közigazgatási és állami adatbázisok frissülése esetén.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Service alerts
• Government transparency

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

• extensions
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Artistic interventions

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

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

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Govtech
• Find your representatives

Japanese think tank running residents councils across the country

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

The first sustained, detailed philosophical defense of using lotteries, rather than elections, to select political representatives

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

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

• Project 2025

The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.

• fires

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

• commercial

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.

• Communicating with the people
• Govtech
• Democratic Innovations

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

Newsweek has added a "Is this article trustworthy?" poll below its articles

• Media
• Polarization

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

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

• Urban planning
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

BuzzFeed Unveils Plan to Take Back the Internet We Love; Company Aims to Disrupt Social Media With a New AI-Driven Platform Built for Creativity and Joy, Not Manipulation or Addiction

• commercial

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

Agence de communication et relations publics, Datack est spécialisée dans les stratégies de mobilisation et d’engagement des publics

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Legal tech

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.

Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Trust & Safety

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 the context of rising concerns regarding GenAI use, a two-day deliberative process was organized and hosted at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute. A total of 17 students from 6 disciplines, gathered and deliberated on the question “How can we reimagine teaching, learning, and research methods to align with the advancements in AI and ethics?”.

• students
• Decidim

• Specific digital participation instances
• Generative AI

We help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Civil society research outfits

By Aviv Ovadya

• Artificial Intelligence
• Democratic Innovations
• Peer-reviewed research

Have you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions
• Narrative tech

To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It’s also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.

• coop

• Data governance
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Canada’s platform for bold policies and better leaders.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

CARE is a major international humanitarian agency delivering emergency relief and long-term international development projects. Founded in 1945, CARE is nonsectarian, impartial, and non-governmental. It is one of the largest and oldest humanitarian aid organizations focused on fighting global poverty.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A key question is:  who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?

• framework

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• User research