This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Report cards and audits

Chat de Whatsaap diseñado para generar un proceso interactivo de rendición de cuentas basado en información pública y análisis de calidad sobre las principales reformas y las posturas de los actores políticos que las votaron.

• Engagement tech
• Bots

The Changemaker Award, which celebrates and recognises the best role model and leader from within the EIT Community's education programmes, and whose activities and achievements have the potential to generate a significant social impact.

• Awards and prizes

dedicated to deconstructing representative or audience democracy and building a liquid and participatory democracy through interactive communication tools, political articulation and co-creation methodologies.

• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Free tool that takes a Wikipedia URL and extracts data to CSV

• Wikipedia

• Civic data
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

The most powerful platform for behavioral research and experiments

• Surveys & polling
• Open science

Unlock the $13 trillion global procurement market through the world's leading tender, contract, spend and grant data.

• Govtech
• Procurement

Inactive economic market predictions platform

A directory of more than 90 UK-based companies which provide technology or solutions which facilitate safer online experiences, and protect users from harmful content, contact or conduct.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Focused on promoting conversation and action when it comes to the ending of organisations in civil society.

• Fieldwide resources

A Window into Culture and Politics on YouTube

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Learn about different possible open data interventions, based on level of feasibility and impact

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Maturity Assessment

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Now-defunct social action aggregator portal

• Graveyard
• Activism aggregators

This guide aims to provide helpful tools and techniques for identifying LinkedIn profiles and for extracting information that will then allow you to pivot to other social media profiles belonging to the target.

• LinkedIn

• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

The information assembled here is for any campaign in any party. It was designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our democracy.

• Organize campaigns
• Cybersecurity

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Digital Benin brings together all objects, historical photographs and rich documentation material from collections worldwide to provide a long-requested overview of the royal artefacts from Benin Kingdom looted in the late nineteenth century.

• culture
• decolonization

Institución de Educación Superior sujeta a control y vigilancia por el Ministerio de Educación Nacional”. Decreto 1075 de 2015 / Resolución 12220 de 2016

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

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

A Practical Guide for Operationalising Access to Information Laws

• Freedom of Information

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

Innovatiana is an Impact Tech startup specialized in Data Labeling for AI.

• commercial

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

• housing

• Civic maps
• Justice tech

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

The Right To Know (R2K), Nigeria is a dynamic organisation established in 2007 to champion the right to access officially held information at all levels of government public institutions and establishing legal standards for these rights in Nigeria.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Digital Society of Africa (DSA) works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond to digital threats and attacks.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

• supply chain

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Justice tech
• Freedom of Information

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA)

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Everyone has the right under the Hong Kong Code of Access to Information to ask for and receive access to information held by government departments and agencies.

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Romanian Alaveteli instance

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Todos los ciudadanos tenemos derecho a acceder a la información que tienen los organismos del Estado o las empresas que administran recursos y servicios públicos.

• Alaveteli

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wurde kundgemacht

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Somos el siguiente nivel en acceso a la información pública

• extensions
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Communicating with the government

هل تريد الحصول على معلومةلا تتردّد وقدّم مطلبك. Now-defunct Alaveteli instance for Tunisia

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency