• Polarization

• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

AI editorial tool for arts organizations — helps produce program notes, grant narratives, and donor communications

Values-based AI built for nonprofits, unions & campaigns

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

POLIHIVE helps Gen Z Nigerians verify information, detect misinformation, and make informed civic decisions — all through play.

• Voting and elections
• Factchecking
• Games and gamification

A new (closed beta) AI-powered feature to help political campaigns and committees identify potential issues in campaign finance disclosures before submission.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The platform for authentic online political discussions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people
• Citizen Engagement

Read and publish on the Atmosphere

• Decentralization
• Open social
• Social networks

The Legal Design Lab team researches, designs, and develops new interventions to ensure access to justice for all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Explore and compare Tamil Nadu 2026 election manifestos.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Generative AI

A platform to support environmental defenders in Latin America

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action
• Solidarity networks

Follow your peers' research trails.

• Research tools
• Decentralization
• Open knowledge

An interactive map of UK Government structure — departments, ministers, agencies, and public bodies, with budget and staffing data.

• Govtech
• Data visualization
• Watchdogging government

The next-generation social coding platform.

• Build something
• Open source
• Decentralization

50 specific tasks where AI can improve how people get legal help and how providers serve them — organized by workflow stage across all problem types and geographies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Taxonomies

Flashes is a photo/video-sharing app designed for the Bluesky social network.

• Decentralization
• Open social
• Social networks

Shared infrastructure for the access to justice sector — so legal aid organizations, courts, and technology partners can build better AI together, instead of reinventing the wheel alone.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Civic tech catalogs

An open-source project released under the Microsoft organization and MIT license that brings runtime security governance to autonomous AI agents.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Making laws transparent, trackable, and accessible to everyone.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms
• Access to laws

Building a verifiable baseline for all cities and counties in the U.S., including official websites and contact info.

• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Open civic data

The ICRC, together with The Engine Room and Block Party, produced this report on the uses of messaging apps in humanitarian situations.

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Reports

The Social Media Lab is an interdisciplinary research laboratory at Toronto Metropolitan University that studies how social media is changing the way people communicate, disseminate information, conduct business, and form communities.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Ireland is running a public consultation and testing phase for a government-built digital wallet that lets citizens store official documents on their phones.

Free, open-source platform that gives homeless outreach workers real-time shelter bed availability and lets them hold a bed in three taps.

• Digital security and privacy
• Access social benefits
• Resource matching and sharing

Free ZIP-level home safety data.

A free online place for municipal leaders to share expertise and support the next generation of municipal leaders.

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Social networks

Vietnam's Ministry of Justice has launched a nationwide digital platform to manage civil enforcement proceedings, centralizing case tracking, enforcement orders, and compliance monitoring across the country.

Nepal's Ministry of Home Affairs has integrated its citizenship and national ID systems into a unified platform, reducing redundant paperwork for residents accessing government services.

The Kansas City Fed has released interactive data tools that let users monitor economic conditions in low-to-moderate income (LMI) communities, pulling together indicators relevant to community development and reinvestment. For civic tech practitioners working on economic equity, housing, or community finance, this provides a ready-made data layer that would otherwise require significant aggregation work.

MOSIP and OpenCRVS have built a proof-of-concept that links civil registration records with digital identity systems to verify age at the point of marriage registration, directly targeting child marriage prevention. For civic tech practitioners, it demonstrates how interoperable open-source identity infrastructure can be deployed for concrete rights protection outcomes.

Nigeria's National Orientation Agency has launched CLHEEAN, a citizen engagement platform featuring an AI-powered assistant designed to connect Nigerians with government information and services. For civic tech practitioners, it represents a government-led experiment in using conversational AI to scale civic communication in a large, multilingual African democracy.

The Deportation Data Project has released a cleaned, simplified open-source dataset of U.S. immigration court removal cases from the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), making previously opaque deportation proceedings more accessible to researchers, journalists, and advocates. For civic tech practitioners, this lowers the barrier to analyzing federal immigration enforcement patterns without wrestling with raw government data.

Westminster City Council has rebuilt its resident-facing street issue reporting service with AI image recognition to speed up submission and routing of reports on problems like potholes, graffiti, and fly-tipping. It's a practical example of a local government using AI to reduce friction in a high-volume civic service that directly affects everyday quality of life.

OpenEPA is a free AI-powered platform that makes EPA emissions data queryable in plain language, letting researchers, journalists, and advocates dig into industrial pollution records without needing data science skills.

Forerunner has added an AI assistant to its geospatial platform that helps government field inspectors manage workflows during built environment inspections — think permitting, code enforcement, and infrastructure checks. For civic tech practitioners, it signals growing AI integration into the day-to-day operational tools government workers actually use in the field, not just back-office systems.

Chicago's Regionwide Community Information Exchange (CIE) connects health and social service providers across the region into a unified system, enabling real-time referrals and coordinated care for residents navigating fragmented services. For civic tech practitioners, it's a live example of cross-sector data infrastructure built to close the gap between health systems, community organizations, and social services at scale.