We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society

• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Adobe's creative generative AI engine

• Adobe

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Georgia's freedom of information platform (Alavateli instance)

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Access to information

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

The Fellowship program is essentially a 5-month incubator program to support democracy tech entrepreneurs.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Copenhagen Democracy Summit is an annual conference bringing together political and business leaders, including current and former heads of government, from the world’s democracies.

• Conferences

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Tech or Digital Policy

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
• Partner networks and coalitions

Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work that’s already been done.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Design
• Playbooks and design principles

Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

• Games and gamification
• Media literacy

Budget and financial transparency visualization tool for NGOs.

• Budget explorers
• Internal budgeting tools

In cooperation with the Organization for a Participatory Society and PIC - Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs, we prepared a survey on the transparency of Slovenian municipalities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

Promise Made = Debt Unpaid. First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Promise trackers

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

PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.

• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.

• supply chain

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government

We partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.

• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies
• Govtech vendors

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

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."

• guides

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Access to information

Developed in collaboration with Hackney Council, FOIWorks is an open-source user-needs focused front-end solution for taking Freedom of Information requests from citizens.

• local

• Govtech
• Access to information

Google Cloud's public sector division

• Google

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Civic teams at tech companies

We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.

• local

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.

• Academia
• Digital literacy
• Public Interest Tech

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

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

PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Data science for social good

"A complete suite of local authority services for highways, environment and the public realm", wholly owned subsidiary of mySociety

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Partner networks and coalitions

Text to video, translation

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Intelligent agents

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Text to video

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Text to video, Text to speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Text to speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Multi-prompt chat automator

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Knowledgebases

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Text to video Text to speech Generate text

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Explore data

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Generate text, code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Media monitoring

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Generative AI

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

A group for peer-to-peer learning for engagement professionals who want to deepen their understanding about technologies for community and stakeholder engagement.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Generate text, Code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Compose social media posts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Code assistant

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Generative AI

Upscale images

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI