The Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information - this is not just the Federal Commissioner himself - it is above all a modern data protection supervisory authority. 

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

Rarimo has employed zero-knowledge cryptography to address these challenges and built Freedom Tool, a decentralized, transparent, and privacy-preserving online voting tool on blockchain.

• Rarimo

• Voting and elections
• Blockchain
• E-voting and I-voting

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

We’re on a mission to mobilise a global network of engineers for good.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Build something
• Pro bono and volunteer

Unlocking a new generation of social apps, where users stay private without losing historical actions and identities

• Rarimo

• Blockchain
• Decentralization
• Identity

Verkehrszeichen sind wertvolle Daten in OpenStreetMap.

• OpenStreetMap
• streetscape
• Prototype Fund

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations. Sensemaker empowers users to categorize, summarize, and identify areas of agreement and disagreement in any discussion – turning conversation into clear, actionable insights, quickly.

• Google
• Sensemaker
• toolkits

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Engagement project with the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky

• Google
• Sensemaker
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

Imagining the Bowling Green and Warren County of the Future

• Participatory democracy
• Specific digital participation instances

The Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the national independent authority responsible for upholding the fundamental right of individuals in the EU to have their personal data protected.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy

We are a collaborative and open-source project to develop software that tests for coordinated inauthentic behavior (CIB) in datasets of online activity.

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

10 prizes honor best in U.S. journalism, including accountability journalism and innovation in journalism

• Media
• Journalism
• Awards and prizes

Our country is in crisis. Services and the rights we care about are under attack as those in power move closer to a dangerous authoritarian rule. The All of US Directory offers you the opportunity to respond.

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

My Voice Counts is a civic-tech platform that empowers people to safely and anonymously participate in verified issue-based voting and protest support

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Direct action

We are a fictional service provider proposing five speculative data support services.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

Data Justice Lab Directors Arne Hintz (Cardiff University) and Joanna Redden (Western Ontario) have received funding from the Global Wales Partnership Fund to explore strategies for a more accountable use of data and AI in public services, and to enhance civic participation in governmental decision-making on data and AI deployment in Wales and Ontario.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Service delivery

Come and join the Open Plans community on Thursday, May 1st for a festive celebration of the people behind our city’s defining public spaces.

• place-based
• city

• Urban planning
• Awards and prizes

Register for the Pilot Pitchfest in New York City on May 22nd—and apply for up to $80K to support high-impact projects.

• city

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

An open-source Python library designed to assist developers in calculating fairness metrics and assessing bias in machine learning models.

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

Fighting fraud is a noble cause. Using Artificial Intelligence to fight fraud is a smart strategy.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Reports

Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.

• local
• city

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

This bot offers an interface for requesting and accessing VPN support via Telegram and WhatsApp.

• WhatsApp
• Telegram

• Cybersecurity
• Chat and messaging
• Circumvention tech

At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Chat and messaging

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

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

Een stad die klaar is voor de toekomst. Hier werken we aan, samen met bewoners, bezoekers, bedrijven en overheid. Verschillende specialisten onderzoeken de invloed van technologie op Amsterdam.

• city

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

Enabling and amplifying action for civic space and inclusive democracy

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Needs assessment

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

• gun safety

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Artistic interventions

WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

• surveillance
• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.

• local
• taxes
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Supporting public sector from outside government

*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

• immigration

• Blockchain
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

A machine learning model trains on geo-located survey data to predict state presence.

• surveillance

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Find information about registered charities in England and Wales

• Civic data
• Nonprofit tech
• Open government data

Glaze is a defensive tool that individual artists can use to protect themselves against style mimicry attacks,

• Stop AI theft

Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

• Microsoft

• Digital security and privacy

Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition.

• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities
• supply chain

• Govtech
• Policy
• Economic development

A purpose-driven startup, building a global movement for better, nicer places.

Public Service Recognition Week is celebrated the first week of May since 1985 (beginning on the first Sunday of the month) to honor the people who serve our nation as federal, state, county, local and tribal government employees.

• Holidays
• Celebrating public service and public servants

The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities.

• Civic data
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Celebrating public service and public servants

We empower visionary, high-leverage science and technology projects with the capacity to create transformative progress for human civilization.

• Emerging tech
• Open science

Google Cloud now offers Geospatial Analytics, Generative AI on Street View imagery, and more environmental data as part of the broader Google Maps Platform

• Google
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Generative AI

From advanced stakeholder mapping and relationship health tracking to sentiment and qualitative analysis, each feature works together to help your organization get more from your stakeholder relationships.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Nonprofit tech
• CRM

ARX is a comprehensive open source software for anonymizing sensitive personal data.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• General purpose open source tools

Charity capacity-building trainings

• trainings

• Nonprofit tech