An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• city

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• diaspora

• Peer networks

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

• Participatory democracy
• Polarization

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Democratic Innovations
• Policy simulators

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science...

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

Democracy Only Works When We Do

• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Citizens' referendum platform for Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 60,000 registered voters; signatures

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Voting and elections

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

• Surveys & polling
• Polarization

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• United Nations

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Satellites

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

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

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Citizen Engagement
• Research tools

Advancing civic engagement to create equitable, thriving communities

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Digital rights
• Data governance

Octree is a startup studio to build today's digital commons: viable, open & fair.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

56 countries working together for prosperity, democracy and peace

• human rights

• Peer networks

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

We fund new technologies to cultivate internet freedom.

• Get funding
• Decentralization

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs
• Hubs

Parla has access to more than 11,000 publicly available documents that have been published on the parliamentary documentation system PARDOK in the current legislative period.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency

“Lokalni Index Otvorenosti” je kompozitni indikator koji mjeri stepen otvorenosti lokalnih samouprava prema građanima u Bosni i Hercegovini.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits

E-peticija je zahtjev za određenu promjenu u tvojoj lokalnoj zajednici koji upućuješ donosiocima odluka, a koja se realizuje nakon što tvoja peticija skupi dovoljan broj potpisa.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Petitions

Platforma omogućava dvosmjernu komunikaciju i interaktivnu razmjenu informacija između građana i njihove lokalne zajednice.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Communicating with the government

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

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

Real-time Quadratic Voting dashboard to encourage mathematically optimal voting in democratic communities.

• Voting and elections
• Quadratic voting

Over 60 people were interviewed to help understand the user needs of digital consultations.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A policy note to make it easier for more people to engage with the UK government's National Data Strategy.

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy