The best open source [and non-profit] blog & newsletter platform

• General purpose open source tools
• Website builder
• Newsletter tech

Watch Duty, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, alerts you of nearby wildfires and firefighting efforts in real-time.

• apps
• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing

Publix is ​​a new home for everyone who does journalism, shapes public opinion and strengthens democracy.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Journalism

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

• Google

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

A guide to public service in the digital age

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

A community of care and practice building systems and tools for a regenerative future

• Meet the others
• Community-building resources

Improving how Meta treats people and communities around the world

• Meta

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

GovFresh is a media and innovation lab working at the intersection of design, technology and government.

• Govtech
• Design

Phantom is an innovative safety application developed by iftech, designed to enhance safety in factories and industrial areas.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• health

• Labor platforms

Accountability Lab Mexico is inspiring a national movement—led by civil society, on the ground, online and through the media—to celebrate, encourage and connect honest public servants.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The conference will bring together ACS data users and U.S. Census Bureau staff to share information about key ACS data issues and applications

• census

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Mission-minded people, powered by open, agile flow, joining together, learning from one another, building a better civic experience for the communities they serve.

• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

Fondation Botnar works with and for young people towards a world that fulfils their rights and supports their wellbeing.

• youth
• city
• mental health

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Media Forward Fund funds media diversity in Germany, Austria and Switzerland

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Journalism

Panama’s Accelerator Lab is working to understand how strengthening solid waste management practices in rural municipalities can help create pathways to optimize national recycling strategies and work towards a circular economy.

• waste
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Innovation teams and labs

A non-profit building technology enhancing the public sector operating at the birthplace of democracy

• Civic apps outfits

The Political Technologist is a multimedia publication that covers the latest developments and trends in the field of political technology, inviting the audience to collective sense-making with the editorial board as day-to-day events unfold in front of our eyes.

• Newspeak

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

• Meet the others
• Funders & donors
• In-person meetings

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Consul

• Engagement tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

FOSDEM is a free event for software developers to meet, share ideas and collaborate.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• Government transparency

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

In the Democratic AI series, Simon and Yung-Hsuan guide the audience to explore how various AI tools can foster healthy democratic deliberation and collective decision-making.

• Newspeak

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Telegram offers verification for public figures and organizations so that users can easily identify official sources.

• Telegram

• Fight disinformation
• Chat and messaging
• Trustmarks

Finding a job is harder than it should be. For some reason, I find out about lots of jobs, so I try to share them with others.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Telegram allows public figures and organizations to become verified, so users can quickly identify official sources of information. To further improve transparency on Telegram, official third-party services are now able to assign extra verification icons to user accounts and chats.

• Telegram

• Fight disinformation
• Chat and messaging
• Trustmarks

govset is a modern schema specification for standardizing government records and public sector data

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

• local
• city
• TikTok

• Engagement tech
• Meeting tech
• Podcasts

A non-profit civic platform designed to empower shared solutions.

• Games and gamification
• Democratic Innovations

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A network of neighborhood groups and network builders organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers.

• Peer networks
• Access social benefits

Platform for tracking public data metrics for local governments and nonprofits.

• local

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

• Telegram

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

• Telegram

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

Los centros de pensamiento son «asociaciones de investigadores, de áreas diversas del saber, que, mediante la investigación, el debate académico, la producción de documentos y la relación con sectores y problemas estratégicos de la realidad nacional, definen e inciden, a partir de su trabajo en red, en la evaluación y formulación de políticas públicas».

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Civil society research outfits

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy

Por segundo año consecutivo, y con el apoyo de la National Endowment For Democracy, culminamos exitosamente la Academia Táva Apo – Hacia el desarrollo local, programa de formación dirigido a líderes comunitarios y concejales electos.

• trainings

• Supporting public sector from outside government

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Digital peacebuilding

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy

in PLOS ONE