2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Governance of AI

Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.

• Participatory democracy

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Generative AI

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Foundation initiatives

A free climate job board with 10,000+ jobs from more than 800+ companies across industries and geographies!

TTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Citizen Engagement

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

• OpenStreetMap

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Translation and linguistic representation

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Legal tech

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• city

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online

• Wordpress

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

It’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.

• history
• racial equity
• apps

• Walking tours

Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.

• Ukraine
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Participatory memorials

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

CityBase technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. More than 100 government agencies, cities, counties, states, and utilities use the CityBase platform for hassle-free payments and digital services.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Located on the second floor of our headquarters at 1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., the Workplace Innovation Lab showcases the latest innovations in office design, furniture, and technology to meet the needs of today’s hybrid federal workers.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Remote government

Brave Conversations seeks to explore the inter-relationship betweens humans, society and technology - as we develop smart tecnologies we need to become smarter humans!

Search over 120'000 companies to see their controversies and hierarchies! Random Company

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

Join us weekly for government technology news, trends and interviews. Tune in live each Friday at 12:00 PM PT.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Newspeak House

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• State and regional government technology

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

Budget explorer for the Municipality of Zugló's 2019 budget built by K-Monitor

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Reports