Research and resources for city leaders to expand their problem-solving capacity, build effective city hall organizations, and improve outcomes for residents around the world

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academic programs

Strengthening society’s connection to knowledge by advancing our access to and understanding of the data that shapes AI.

• libraries

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open knowledge

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers

Join the next GETTING-Plurality Research Workshop with Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, and Emillie de Keulenaar as they discuss their recent paper “Prosocial Media.”

Wiki Education engages students and academics to improve Wikipedia

• Wikipedia
• students

• Crowdsourcing
• Academia
• Open knowledge

A team of problem solvers passionately driven to lead Africa’s digital transformation and innovation.

Giving voters the option to vote NO in all elections can improve all democracies

• Voting and elections
• Democratic Innovations

The 74 is a nonprofit news organization covering America’s education system from early childhood through college and career.

• Quality education

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Prudence B2B's Grants Management Software streamlines the grant management process with real-time tracking, detailed reporting, and robust compliance features.

• Nonprofit tech
• Grant management

Agency For Urban Change

• youth
• city
• place-based

• Participatory democracy
• User experience

EDGI’s website monitoring team is monitoring thousands of federal government webpages to track changes under the Trump administration.

• Climate action
• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency

Connecting top public sector talent with essential local government jobs.

• Project 2025

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

Tulevaisuustalona tehtävämme on edistää Suomen hyvinvointia ja vauhdittaa talouden kasvua luonnon kantokyvyn rajoissa. Luotaamme tulevaa, tuotamme innovaatioita ja uudistamme yhteiskuntaa.

• Get funding
• Investors

Since 1995, we've coordinated the philanthropic endeavours founded by the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, continuing a tradition of social engagement stretching back as far as 1841.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

whatsmeow is a Go library for the WhatsApp web multidevice API.

• Matrix
• WhatsApp

• Group communication tools
• Chat and messaging

Gestisci la tua identità digitale e accedi velocemente ai servizi online con l’app CieID.

• apps

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official Digital Identity Systems

Your Trusted IT Partner for Community Health & Social Services

• Nonprofit tech
• Building in the private sector

Ever wonder, “How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?” If so, check out this new research from the Canadian Digital Service! It includes 5 case studies of partnerships between the Canadian government and civic tech groups, plus tools to assess if civic tech might be a good partner for a government initiative. Find it here: https://digital.canada.ca/2025/01/23/how-can-civic-tech-help-improve-government-service-delivery/

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.

• Stop AI theft

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Here, you'll find stories from real government employees: How we save you time and money, how we protect your personal information, and how DOGE's dangerous dismantling of government technology puts you at risk.

• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Build something
• Narrative tech

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

• General purpose open source tools

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

WikiTok is a website that appears to provide content related to various topics, including movies, quotes, and other information

The content warns about Project 2025, a detailed plan created by the Heritage Foundation and former Trump staffers to undermine democracy and enact a conservative agenda if Trump is re-elected

The content discusses the need to redefine and shift the production of AI systems away from the hegemonic capitalist model towards more disruptive, inclusive, and decentralized models that challenge the dominant logic of an 'AI arms race'

The Data Summit is a global event that brings together data and digital leaders from around the world to share insights on overcoming barriers and best practices for using data to power the government of the future

This website features AI podcasts that discuss the implications of the book 'Burnout From Humans' for the existence of AI

This content discusses the importance of data stewardship in the age of artificial intelligence (AI), exploring its diverse manifestations and emerging relevance

Aphantasia is a condition where individuals are unable to voluntarily generate mental images

LawtechUK is a Ministry of Justice-backed initiative dedicated to driving digital transformation in the UK legal sector

OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT, has undergone its first-ever rebrand, introducing a new typeface, wordmark, symbol, and color palette to unify the visual identity across its growing suite of products and services

This repository contains a simple JSON API for returning the Indices of Multiple Deprivation (IMD) for a given latitude and longitude

• criminal justice

• Justice tech

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

• surveillance
• youth
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Bonfire is an open-source toolkit for building and running federated digital spaces, designed to enable communities to take control over their features, data, and digital environment

The author is separating their work into two distinct projects - the Social Work Campfire, a 2-minute daily way for social workers to reconnect with their profession, and their work on showcasing use cases for AI in children's social care

The Surveillance Self-Defense guide from the Electronic Frontier Foundation provides expert tips, tools, and how-to's for safer online communications and protecting against online spying

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D human poses from 2D keypoints using a deep neural network

Graze

This report investigates the impact of platform design on online violence against women and girls (VAWG)

• United Kingdom (government)

Picto World is a platform that allows users to create and share visual content, such as infographics and data visualizations

[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

This event discusses the intersection of AI and access to justice, exploring the institutional, technical, and legal barriers to developing effective and trustworthy AI-based tools that can help close the justice gap

This paper proposes a model called Edisum that can generate useful edit summaries for Wikipedia edits at scale

The Mind Hacks, Electric Twin Hackathon challenges participants to apply machine learning to real-world problems across various industry tracks, including trafficking, food waste, education, and housing

Icebreaker One is a non-profit organization that works on data sharing and sustainability, with the mission of making data work harder to deliver net-zero

The report summarizes the significant progress made by Open Referral in 2024, including the adoption of their standards by the human service information-and-referral sector, the emergence of new business models based on open data infrastructure, and the challenges posed by the rise of radical fascist movements that target vulnerable populations

alphaXiv is an open-access platform that curates and publishes high-quality preprints and working papers across various academic disciplines

This content is a newsletter from February 2025 that appears to be related to Microsoft Sway, a web-based presentation and storytelling tool