• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others

Helping European workers benefit from AI’s potential

• Artificial Intelligence
• Funders & donors

We support groups of actors to come together to cooperate. Then we develop the effective digital tools for impact. Then, we roll out campaigns for impact with those communities.

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.

• Journalism
• Get funding
• Solutions journalism

The OSCE stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. With 57 States from Europe, Central Asia and North America, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization.

• Govtech

Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Interoperable Europe is the initiative of the European Commission for a reinforced public sector interoperability policy. The Interoperable Europe Act proposes a strategic interoperability cooperation mechanism across the European Union.

• Govtech
• Government Interoperability

Digital Europe for All (DE4A) effectively puts forward a new Member State-driven large-scale pilot aimed at compliance with Single Digital Gateway and aligned with EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, Tallinn Declaration and EIF Implementation Strategy.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

Philea (Philanthropy Europe Association) is the leading organisation for foundations, philanthropic organisations and networks working for the common good in Europe. It aims to create connections and knowledge sharing between its members.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

Data reveals a patchwork of approaches to digital identities across the continent with varying levels of success.

• Govtech
• Identity

European Institute for Participative Democracy

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

NEF is an association of leading European foundations dedicated to strengthening philanthropic cooperation.

• Funders & donors

Goal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administration.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Annett Heft, Curd Knüpfer, Susanne Reinhardt, Eva Mayerhöffer, 2020

• Media and social media analysis

• Engagement tech

To explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Representing Civic Tech at the European scale.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Awards and prizes

Fondée en 2002, l'ADULLACT a pour objectifs de soutenir et coordonner l'action des Administrations et Collectivités territoriales dans le but de promouvoir, développer et maintenir un patrimoine de logiciels libres utiles aux missions de service public.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

State of the art and policy recommendations on how to design, implement and evaluate algorithm registers, by Soizic Pénicaud with IA Ciudadana

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Registers of government AI

Timeline of key EU legislation affecting digital democracy in Europe

• Policy
• Regulation
• Policy explainers

2022 Compilation report by European Democracy Hub and European Partnership for Democracy, funded by Carnegie Europe

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports

The app seeks to ensure that migrants in Europe can access trusted services and accurate information in the palm of their hand - wherever they are.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

An app developed by a team of activists from Hungary to help refugees arriving in Europe to seek urgent assistance through up-to-date information in the app.

• apps
• migration
• refugees

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

Refugee Info is a European information service for refugees, migrants, and asylum-seekers.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resettlement

Watch The Med is an online mapping platform to monitor the deaths and violations of migrants’ rights at the maritime borders of the EU. The WatchTheMed project was initiated as part of the 2012 Boats4People campaign in the Central Mediterranean. Today the project further involves a wide network of organisations, activists and researchers. Through the transnational cooperation with migrants’ rights organisations, activists, researchers, migrants, seafarers active in, around and beyond the Mediterranean and the use of new mapping technologies, WatchTheMed aims to document the deaths and violations that are the structural product of the militarized Southern European border regime. The online map allows to spatialise incidents across the complex legal and political geography of the Mediterranean Sea. Through the accounts of survivors and witnesses, but also the analysis of ocean currents, winds, mobile phone data and satellite imagery, it is possible to determine in which Search and Rescue zone, jurisdictions and operational areas an incident occurred – as well as showing other boats who were in the vicinity of those in distress. Spatialising such information is essential to determine responsibility for violations at sea. Apart from reconstructing past events, the participatory nature of the platform allows many different actors to to indicate ongoing situations of distress. The documentation generated by WatchTheMed seeks to support the work of organisations that defend migrants’ rights, inform migrants of their rights and security at sea, pressure authorities into respecting their obligations at sea, support the ongoing campaigns by the relatives of the dead and disappeared at sea, and support legal proceedings against those who violated the rights of migrants.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Mutual aid

The CultureLabs platform aims to systematise and spread knowledge about participatory projects in the field of cultural heritage and beyond. Through its functionalities and the variety of content it provides, it aspires to become a single point of reference for those who wish to organize participatory projects by taking advantage of digital technologies through a human rights lens. Among others, it addresses refugees in Europe through its various initiatives.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs
• Democratic Innovations

Creative project design for social good champions through appropriate technology that strengthens human systems.

• human rights
• humanitarian
• coaching

• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies
• Design

The Business Software Allianc is the global trade association of the enterprise software industry, representing companies that are leaders in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, cloud computing, and other cutting-edge technologies. We work in over 20 markets in the US, Europe, and Asia, advocating for policies that build trust in technology so that every industry sector and the public can benefit from innovation.

• commercial

• Build something
• Trade groups

Re-imagining Democracy with Europe’s Diverse Communities

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Citizen Engagement

Where citizens converge to exchange and debate ideas. Let’s turn our differences into progress, rather than conflict.

• Rarimo
• European Union
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making
• Surveys & polling

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

The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) is a programme aimed at safeguarding inclusive democracy and human rights in the digital age.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundation initiatives

A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.

• bias
• European Union
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Design
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

PLURALL is a boutique consultancy firm transforming complex policy challenges into opportunities for sustainable, community-driven digital infrastructures.

• Building in the private sector

The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmental protection, democracy, and anti-corruption efforts.

• Freedom of Information
• Awards and prizes

Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom are self-organized, anti-authoritarian, and volunteer-run communal spaces that differ from traditional community centres

Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Open source AI

Amnesty International's Algorithmic Accountability Lab conducted a two-year investigation into the use of algorithms and AI by Denmark's welfare agency, Udbetaling Danmark (UDK), revealing troubling patterns of discriminatory practices that target vulnerable groups such as people with disabilities, marginalized racial groups, migrants, and refugees seeking benefits

Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

• teachers & educators

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic literacy

THE CIVICS supports both citizens and civic educators to deal with the challenges of our time, such as threats to democracy, causes and effects of climate change, growing polarisation, and divides. Our goal is to strengthen the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civic literacy