The Artificial Intelligence (AI) Action Summit is a high-level event hosted by France in February 2025, bringing together global leaders to discuss the public interest, future of work, innovation and culture, trust in AI, and global AI governance

Take Back The Tech is a campaign that calls on everyone, especially women and girls, to take control of technology to end violence against women

The Government Tracker is a project by Full Fact that monitors the delivery of the UK government's manifesto pledges, allowing the public to judge the government's progress

semanticClimate is a project that aims to leverage semantic web technologies to improve climate data and knowledge sharing

Digital Defense is a comprehensive resource that provides checklists and guides to help individuals secure their digital lives and protect their privacy across various aspects such as authentication, web browsing, email, messaging, social media, and more

Illuminate tech is a mission-driven research and advisory firm that aims to help organizations design their products safely, meet regulatory obligations, and implement technology responsibly to create a safer and more trusted internet

This event is an Edge City Dinner, a gathering where builders, scientists, researchers, and creators will come together to explore ideas for an upcoming month-long popup village near London called Edge City UK

Boardy is an AI assistant that helps users connect with relevant people, such as introducing a CEO to a CTO or a founder to an investor

Omnipedia is a system that automates the process of evaluating articles against style guides using advanced language models

Panoptic is an open-source tool developed by researchers and designers at CERES to help explore and annotate large image datasets

SXSW London 2025 is a new European edition of the iconic SXSW festival, bringing together creativity, technology, culture, and business across conferences, music, and film events

NovaSystem is an open-source project that provides an implementation of the Nova Process, a pioneering problem-solving method developed by AIECO

Combinations is a magazine that covers a variety of topics related to technology, society, and politics

This article discusses the limitations of traditional platforms and the need for a more collaborative and decentralized approach, introducing PLANET as an open network built on protocols that enables seamless sharing of data and resources across different applications and tools, fostering greater collaboration and collective impact

Let's Encrypt is a nonprofit Certificate Authority that provides free, automated, and open TLS certificates to over 550 million websites

Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• AI Auditing

The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Generative AI

A report by the Royal Society on the impact of the internet on our information environment, and on misinformation relating to scientific issues

• reports

• Fight disinformation

Advancing AI in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundation initiatives

We are a new social enterprise developing tools to strengthen place-based awareness and engagement. ​

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We provide democratic tools and methods for communities of all shapes and sizes.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

Solidarity Tech is an all-in-one CRM for organizers

G1000 is a Belgian platform for democratic innovation. We develop, support and promote new forms of deliberation that reinforce democracy from the local to the national level. We believe democracy should give more space to regular citizens.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.

• commercial
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to the Ostbelgien Permanent Citizens' Council.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

K-Monitor database is a searchable library of articles from the online media dealing with corruption, procurements, public spending and in general with the transparency of the public sphere.

• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

The aim of this Municipal Budget Visualisation Tool is to make the management of local governments transparent to the local population and the wider society.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

Bienvenue sur la plateforme officielle dédiée à la simplification administrative participative au Luxembourg.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Specific digital participation instances

is an app where you can subscribe to alerts to be notified immediately of updates to monitored administrative and government databases.

• Government transparency

A Figyusz egy alkalmazás, amelyben értesítésekre iratkozhatsz fel, hogy azonnal értesülj a figyelt közigazgatási és állami adatbázisok frissülése esetén.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Service alerts

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

• extensions
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Mapping tools

Japanese think tank running residents councils across the country

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

The first sustained, detailed philosophical defense of using lotteries, rather than elections, to select political representatives

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

Provides a comprehensive overview of all enforcement authorities and the cases they have taken against online platforms under the Digital Services Act

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Our team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Meeting tech

The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.

• fires

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

• commercial

Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.

• housing
• city
• social isolation

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Urban planning

• Project 2025

Newsweek has added a "Is this article trustworthy?" poll below its articles

• Media
• Polarization

DoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia