With support from the NetGain Partnership, researchers J. Nathan Matias and Sarah Gilbert from CAT Lab and Jo Lukito from the Center for Media Engagement at University of Texas Austin produced two reports that detail the challenges faced by independent researchers who conduct platform research, and provide recommendations for how to overcome them.

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

Artificial intelligence-driven transcription tool

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Find A Legal Aid Adviser is an online tool through which users can find a legal aid adviser or a family mediator.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Platform for facilitating trade between smallholder farmers and consumers or buyers

Alojamento para profissionais de saúde

• housing

• COVID
• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID Engagement Projects

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

由開放文化基金會於2017年編寫，回顧並檢視了台灣 2014-2016 「開放政府」的發展狀況，內容分為四大章節，分別為：法律制度、開放資料、公民參與、公民科技。

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Learn about civic tech

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Public Data for Public Use

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A tool to help election officials (and election officials only) report problems with election mail

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Statewide, cross-agency, including birth certificates

• state

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Specific campaigns

Blockchain technology offers solutions to many of the toughest challenges facing countries around the world.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Join us at CampaignCon 2017, a Global technology and activism skillshare near Johannesburg on 7-9 November 2017

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Emerging tech

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Google Group

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Since you know yourself better than anyone, but don't know the candidates, answer a few questions about yourself and we'll match the right candidates to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

fundraisers who are dedicated to INSPIRE your donors, your potential donors and your team.

• Nonprofit tech

As the biggest single buyer of palm oil in the world, Unilever has a special responsibility to help clean up the industry that's behind so much forest destruction

• Life on land

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

Tech for Campaigns (TFC) is a community where world class tech talent meets progressive and centrist political campaigns in need of skilled volunteer talent. The promise is not only different political outcomes but the sustained engagement of people concerned with the direction America is going.

• partisan

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Pro bono and volunteer

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

The Partnership on AI was established to study and formulate best practices on AI technologies, to advance the public’s understanding of AI, and to serve as an open platform for discussion and engagement about AI and its influences on people and society.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

By answering just a few questions, this tool can provide a list of benefits from Veterans Affairs Canada that are the most relevant to you.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Learn to design creative, people-powered advocacy campaigns that transform systems

• trainings
• coaching

• Organize campaigns

Kaiser Permanente | Our News and ViewsNews and views from one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

• Stop AI theft
• Adobe

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

• apps

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A new project has been launched, details can be found through the provided link.

O OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos públicos sejam investidos em seus municípios.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable, and secure database that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

• Hong Kong protests
• police violence

• Advocacy tech
• Archives
• Specific campaigns

A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Reports

Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.

• local
• city

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

a comprehensive analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem across six regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.

• reports

• Participatory democracy

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

Enabling and amplifying action for civic space and inclusive democracy

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Needs assessment

“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

• immigration

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Bureaucracy tech