Mapping debris cleanup following Hurricane Beryl 2024

• hurricanes

• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Facilitate accelerated deployment of collaboration, communication, and task management capabilities for emergency response operations through our open-source app template in Microsoft Teams. Get solution

• Microsoft
• extensions

• Govtech
• Emergency services

Somos una asociación civil peruana sin fines de lucro dedicada a investigar, facilitar el entendimiento público y promover el respeto de los derechos y libertades en entornos digitales.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic apps outfits
• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights

We want to develop a standard approach to collecting data about disability from constituents and City employees to improve accessibility and inclusion in Boston.

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

This is a free and collaborative resource on the United States federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).

• wikis

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic literacy
• Government transparency

The Atlas contains measurements of nine indicators for cities all around the world.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• city
• mass transit

• Civic maps
• Mapping

To support fact-checking on WhatsApp, the International Fact-Checking Network is offering a new round of its Spread the Facts grant program in partnership with Meta to combat AI-generated misinformation.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Factchecking

The FRIDA Program site is the platform that collects the types of funds to which you can apply and the projects financed since 2004.

• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

Do you need help launching or enhancing a participatory program? Apply for expert mentoring support provided by the Nets4Dem network in Horizon Europe Area!

• The People
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Drop notes and questions outdoors with augmented reality, and create 2D and 3D maps. Interact with citizens outdoors and let the city speak.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Mapping

The Green Metrics Tool is a holistic framework to measure the energy / CO2 of your application.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Report cards and audits
• Carbon calculators

The MLCommons AI Safety working group is composed of a global consortium of industry leaders, practitioners, researchers, and civil society experts committed to building a harmonized approach to AI safety.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Benchmarks

We-Gital Heros in Digital Peacebuilding is a Search for Common Ground Sri Lanka project to establish a digital learning, networking, mentorship, and professional development platform for youth (ages 18-29) interested in addressing online dangerous hate speech.

• hate speech
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Digital participation platforms
• Digital literacy
• Media literacy

A training program for digital community stewards (online group moderators and admins) focused on building social cohesion in online communities, and creating inclusive, engaging, and safe digital experiences within their online groups.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech
• peace

• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy
• Community-building resources

Meet BridgeBot, a new chatbot which helps social media users bridge differences and build trust and understanding online.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Fight disinformation
• Digital peacebuilding

Project AISLE is a hate speech monitoring tool in Tamil and Sinhala developed using Artificial Intelligence.

• hate speech

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

Hypha is an open source submission management platform to receive and manage applications for funding.

• Tools for Funders

IAP2 carries out its mission to advance and extend the practice of public participation by organizing and conducting professional development activities to serve the learning needs of members.

• trainings

• Participatory democracy

Helping organizations build transformative AI-enabled Chat Solutions to improve Education, Health, and Economic Mobility.

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Accelerators

Paper by ROBERT WOLFE and TANUSHREE MITRA, University of Washington, United States

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

To help build a better future for refugees, UNHCR’s chat services suit their preferences, meet their needs, and safeguard their data

• refugees
• WhatsApp
• United Nations

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

An open source starter app that comes with user accounts that include: data access, do not sell, data deletion, undo sign up, and other features.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Your AI based Itinerary planner for the City of lights.

• mobility
• mass transit

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools

Voices of Venezuela fue creado para construir un puente de entendimiento entre culturas, para combatir la xenofobia y mostrarle al mundo que los venezolanos contribuyen a sus comunidades de acogida, permitiendo que todos prosperen. Website is down but social media is active.

• immigration
• migration
• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Story tech

WhatsApp community hosted by turn.io

• WhatsApp

• Meet the others
• Bots
• Socialize online

[A] multi-stakeholder co-design project – including a citizen panel – is an integral part of the process in which the service is designed and realized

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Humans of the House has received national media coverage and has been the #1 show in the Government category for several weeks on Apple Podcasts where it has also been featured as a New & Noteworthy Special Series.

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Podcasts

As a citizen-centric European civil society organisation, ECAS developed its First Aid Democracy toolkit aimed at equipping citizens and civil society organisations with knowledge and practical tips for maintaining a healthy democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

The e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-profit foundation that assists public sector and civil society organisations in making digital transformation happen.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

This grant programme aims to respond to the need for media organisations across Europe to pursue different approaches to increase reader trust, audience share, and revenue by creating a cross-European solutions journalism knowledge hub and encouraging systemic cooperation between professional news media organisations.

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

The "Governor Barbie" campaign, launched by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, was more than just an innovative approach to brand building, but a significant step toward redefining and challenging stereotypes associated with female politicians.

• women
• Gender Equality
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns

Look to Speak is an Android app from Google which enables you to use your eyes to select a menu of phrases and pictures and have them spoken aloud.

• apps
• Android

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User experience

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

• racial equity

• Crowdsourcing

Lookout uses computer vision to assist people with low vision or blindness get things done faster and more easily.

• apps
• Android
• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Machine vision

Eye on Corruption App is a mobile application which allows people to report/submit a corruption related complaint to the Advocacy and Legal Advice Centre (ALAC).

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Government transparency

A way for the public to gain the very basic (and essential) knowledge about their elected representatives.

• Communicating with the government
• Social networks
• Find your representatives

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

This guidance outlines the expectation for how civil servants should approach the use of Large Language Models.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Organizational policies on AI

The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis

• 2024 elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

• local

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Working groups

In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State, IE University is leading Tech4Democracy, a powerful initiative to identify entrepreneurs dedicated to developing technology that will promote and protect democracy worldwide.

• Build something
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.

• guides

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs
• Data science for social good

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Civic maps
• Voting and elections
• Election oversight