A new AI Energy Score tool allows users to compare the energy efficiency and environmental impact of different AI models, helping companies and developers make more informed decisions about the sustainability of the AI tools they use

The Astral Codex Ten Prediction Contest is back with an expanded $10,000 prize pool, allowing forecasters to test their skills across geopolitics, technology, economics, and more

Code4Compassion is a 24-hour hackathon that brings together AI developers and animal advocates to build practical tech solutions for animal protection

The Data for Policy 2025 Europe conference will explore the transformative power of data and AI in driving sustainability and inclusion, focusing on the 'twin transition' of digital and green transformations

This report by the Low Pay Commission examines the latest evidence on underpayment and enforcement of the National Minimum Wage in 2024

• United Kingdom (government)

People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

• trees

• Data visualization

The article discusses the concept of holographic consensus, which aims to resolve the tension between the scalability and resilience of decentralized governance systems

Network School is founding a new academic community on an island near Singapore, starting with a 90-day popup on September 23

by Rahul Bhargava

• books

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The article discusses the history and ethos of the 'digital garden' - a newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web that differs from the traditional personal blog format

The report examines the political bias within popular AI-powered Large Language Models (LLMs), finding left-leaning bias in their policy recommendations and sentiment towards political parties and ideologies

This article discusses websites that are designed to facilitate people-based change, such as social movements and community organizing

The Impact Accelerator Program is a 6-week course that helps experienced professionals design an impact path aligned with their interests, aptitudes, and values

Farmer

All Day TA is an AI-powered teaching assistant that provides 24/7 access to accurate, professor-approved answers for students

The Orbit Model is a framework for building and growing online communities

The content appears to be a WhatsApp group invite for a group called 'Project D

The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) is a UK organization that promotes and supports the advice sector, including through the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) certification program

The proposed changes aim to improve road safety in the Shoreditch area, particularly for pedestrians and cyclists

• United Kingdom (government)

The content provides an overview of the AI safety landscape, including organizations, programs, projects, communities, funders, and resources related to AI safety research and development

Anthropic has open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources like content repositories, business tools, and development environments

The AI Governance Map is an interactive visualization that provides an overview of the AI governance landscape, including key organizations, initiatives, and resources related to the responsible development and deployment of AI systems

Google DeepMind is exploring the use of AI to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, with the goal of ushering in a new golden age of discovery

This video discusses the intersection of art, artificial intelligence, and collective intelligence, exploring how these elements can contribute to collective governance and decision-making processes

Notwestminster 2025 is a free event that brings together people interested in improving local democracy in the UK

This is a casual wine and chat event hosted by Daniel Burka at the Luma office in London

The 2025 Public Sector Frameworks Report provides a comprehensive overview of how framework agreements are being used across the UK public sector, covering central government, local government, NHS, and education

Liberating Structures is a website that provides a menu of 33 microstructures and design elements to help organizations and teams engage everyone, foster innovation, and address complex challenges

The article explores the idea of using large language models (LLMs) to iteratively improve code, similar to how users would ask an LLM to make an image 'more X'

• Govtech vendors

Rocket

The content appears to be a peer-reviewed paper discussing network contagion and related topics

This event at the London School of Economics and Political Science will bring together a panel of LSE researchers to discuss the key outcomes and implications of the many elections that took place around the world in the past year

The blog post discusses the evolution of DataMade, a civic technology company in Chicago, over the past 12 years

Conversational Game Theory (CGT) is a formal game of messaging, replies, and tagging between human or AI agents that addresses qualitative, reasoning-intensive challenges while synthesizing multiple perspectives through high stakes conflict resolution and consensus building

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

• local

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

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

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

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

• Government transparency