The Local Infrastructure Hub is a national program designed to connect cities and towns with the resources and expert advice they need to access federal infrastructure funding in order to drive local progress, improve communities, and deliver results for residents.

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

• commercial

• Email campaign tools

New Democratic Initiatives in Authoritarian Twenty-First Century Latin America uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand the coincidence of emerging social movements, seeking more meaningful forms of democratic participation, on the one hand, and the rise of new authoritarian politics that in part rely on chaos and disorder as mechanisms of domination, on the other.

• books

• Books
• Democratic Innovations

This book, developed by Bússola Tech in partnership with the Organization of American States (OAS), the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association (CPA), and the Legislative Assembly of Rio Grande do Norte (Brazil),...guide[s] an exploration of how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can significantly enhance parliamentary services.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Books

• Asian and Pacific Islander

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The 2023 edition of the “IPIC – Portuguese Municipal Councils’ Online Presence Index” series of studies presents the results of the evaluation of Portuguese municipal councils’ websites.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Report cards and audits

Community-led AI Audits: Making AI Systems Fair & Accountable

• CTFG partners

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

The envisaged participants of this Capacity Building Programme are high-level officials from developing countries.

• United Nations
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

This project aims to conduct a comprehensive study of the relevant and available literature and present research findings that will assist the Digital Government Authority (DGA) in enhancing the online presence of key government entities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA).

• Govtech
• Civil society research outfits
• Digital transformation

Connect your cause to new donors through the world's biggest companies - only on Goodstack.

• LinkedIn

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age.

• Media
• Journalism

Your virtual facilitator.

• Newspeak

• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making
• Internal communication and coordination

Each year, we ask some of the smartest people in journalism and media what they think is coming in the next 12 months. At the end of a trying 2024, here’s what they had to say.

• Media
• Emerging tech
• Journalism

Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Reports

Les entreprises doivent vous donner accès à vos données et les corriger, voire les supprimer si nécessaire. En tant qu'association à but non lucratif, nous vous aidons à exercer ces droits - gratuitement et sans inscription, bien sûr.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

Building infrastructure for detecting and complaining about tracking and privacy violations in mobile apps on Android and iOS.

• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

Bringing Twilio to organizations advancing social good, from healthcare and education, to social services and humanitarian aid.

• Nonprofit tech

Open access book by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero

• books
• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Books

Localret és el consorci local format per les administracions locals de Catalunya per acompanyar els municipis en la seva transformació digital

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital transformation

A modern, open source spreadsheet that goes beyond the grid. (Open source Airtable)

• General purpose open source tools

Digital Woman Uganda empowers women and girls by promoting digital literacy, gender equality, and innovation through training, advocacy, and technological solutions.

GAMA is an easy-to-use open source modeling and simulation environment for creating spatially explicit agent-based simulations.

• mobility

• Mapping
• Mapping tools
• Urban planning

Rudi est une plateforme de partage de données à l’échelle locale qui vise à permettre aux acteurs du territoire de partager facilement leurs données tout en en gardant la maîtrise, d’accéder en un même point à de nombreuses données et de créer des services numériques basés sur une gestion responsable et éthique des données. CONSULTER LE CATALOGUE DE DONNÉES (300+)

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

PSP aims to support Parliament’s reform efforts towards strengthening its role of oversight over the executive branch, adopting higher quality laws and achieving greater openness, transparency and citizen participation in the work of Parliament.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

O Software Público Brasileiro é um tipo específico de software livre que atende às necessidades de modernização da administração pública de qualquer dos Poderes da União, dos Estados, do Distrito Federal e dos Municípios e é compartilhado sem ônus no Portal do Software Público Brasileiro.

• Brazil (federal government)

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Open source

Pacto pela Democracia é uma coalizão da sociedade civil que coordena os esforços de atores sociais em todo o espectro ideológico para aumentar a capacidade da sociedade civil de defender e revigorar a democracia no Brasil.

• Specific campaigns
• Partner networks and coalitions

Somos uma empresa de tecnologia para instituições de impacto social. Mais do que códigos e soluções prontas, trabalhamos com nossos clientes para promover empoderamento tecnológico, gerando aprendizado, independência em seus processos e saltos estratégicos.

• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies

A guidance system for collaborative problem solving.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The OASI Register compiles information about algorithms with the aim of increasing public awareness and providing the necessary knowledge for an informed public conversation, and of making possible for experts and the public to search and analyse the use and social impact of algorithmic systems across the world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Algorithmic transparency
• AI Auditing

Protest site compaing Direct.gov.uk and Google Search results

• Govtech
• Specific campaigns
• Games and gamification

Proposez vos idées de lois, votez sur celles des autres, et regardez comment vos suggestions évoluent au sein de la communauté.

[A]n ambitious programme launched in 2002 with an initial budget of some £6.2 billion. It attempted to implement a top-down digitization of healthcare in England's National Health Service (NHS)

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Digital transformation

How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters: Research paper by TechEquity Collaborative

• housing
• landlord
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Active Citizen is an open source library, API and UI using various AI technologies aimed at empowering citizens democratically.

• Your Priorities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

SSARE serves as an efficient and scalable resource for semantic search and article recommendations, catering primarily to political news data.

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

Atlas by Murmuration is seamlessly integrated into our tools, providing the data that community-focused organizations need to drive change.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

Every two years, the World Movement for Democracy’s Global Assembly brings together hundreds of democracy advocates from around the world to foster new networks for mutual solidarity and support across borders.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Starting in 2024, Albert will be tested at local public service counters — Maisons France services — to help users with their paperwork.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

DC Compass, launched in March, uses generative AI to answer user questions and create maps from open data sets, ranging from the district’s population to what different trees are planted in the city.

• city

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Caddy is an AI powered co-pilot for customer service functions everywhere.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

Organizer provides community-focused organizations with the data and tools they need to foster meaningful connections and activate communities, so they can change the systems that are failing us.

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

Policy Synth is an open-source TypeScript library developed by the Citizens Foundation to facilitate the creation of multi-scale AI agent logic flows, APIs, and real-time web applications.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

A custom-AI model GiusBERTo is used in Italy to automatically deidentify and anonymise court decisions without sacrificing any important information, a process previously done manually.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Judicial opinions

As an administrator for your organization, you’ll receive an alert if a user is detected as a possible victim of a government-backed attack.

• Google

• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

In Spring 2024, NCSL surveyed eight legislative staffing groups about their use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools for legislative work.

• state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

FINDHR aims to create new ways to ascertain discrimination risk, produce less biased outcomes, and meaningfully incorporate human expertise.

Tracking AI legislation across all 50 US states as of January 2024

• state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy

The Big Cases Bot follows the most important federal cases in the country

• Bots
• Legal tech
• Access to laws

For the benefit of researchers, practitioners, and the public we are proud to host a comprehensive and growing structured database of judges and their financial interests.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Big Cases bot follows the biggest cases in the country, but many people want updates for specific topics they follow.

• Legal tech
• Investigative journalism tech
• Justice tech