Onstipe is a social media aggregator tool that allows users to collect, curate, and display social media posts from multiple platforms on websites, digital screens, and events

This content discusses the rise of Reform UK, a far-right party in the UK, and how the progressive movement can respond to this threat

This book examines the practice of participatory grantmaking, where stakeholders and grantees participate in making decisions about grant dollars that were previously reserved for professional foundation staff

Everwall is a leading provider of social walls for events, offering customizable and real-time solutions to collect, curate, and display social media content across various platforms and devices

Global Dialogues is a collective intelligence project that aims to convene thousands of people from around the world to set a vision and concrete goals for the future of artificial intelligence

The Cyber Assessment Framework (CAF) for local government is a tool developed by the UK Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) to help councils assess and improve their cyber resilience

• United Kingdom (government)

The NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.

• youth
• surveillance
• criminal justice

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

Metaforecast is a platform that provides forecasts and predictions on various topics, including political events, technological developments, and scientific questions

Resolution Ventures is an initiative of the Resolution Foundation that invests in and supports innovative startups seeking to improve the prospects, power, and choices of workers, particularly those in low-to-middle income Britain

This report examines how future societal changes could impact the UK's pathway to net zero emissions by 2050

• United Kingdom (government)

The article discusses the role of unions in the age of artificial intelligence (AI)

This consultation seeks to address the challenges presented by the widespread use of copyright material for training AI models, aiming to balance the needs of the UK's creative industries and AI sector

• United Kingdom (government)

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is running a private beta of GOV

• United Kingdom (government)

The article discusses the challenges of building governable online communities, highlighting how many online groups and mutual aid projects have fallen apart due to internal conflicts

The Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI) is launching a fund to support civil society engagement on digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, with a focus on governance, human rights protection, and rule of law

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

The article discusses the political economy of coliving, exploring the different models of shared housing such as cooperatives, grassroots coliving, and professional coliving

Stand With Crypto UK is a movement that aims to rally web3 builders and crypto advocates across the UK to champion emerging use cases, support innovative businesses, and promote a flourishing blockchain ecosystem that drives growth across the UK economy

Icebreaker One is a non-profit organization that works on data sharing and sustainability, with the mission of making data work harder to deliver net-zero

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

• trees

• Data visualization

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

• surveillance
• youth
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.

• Quality education
• surveillance
• CTFG partners

• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights
• Campaign organizations

The author is separating their work into two distinct projects - the Social Work Campfire, a 2-minute daily way for social workers to reconnect with their profession, and their work on showcasing use cases for AI in children's social care

Bonfire is an open-source toolkit for building and running federated digital spaces, designed to enable communities to take control over their features, data, and digital environment

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

The UK government is launching a £100 million Innovation Fund to deploy 'crack' teams of problem solvers across the country to apply a 'test and learn' mindset to improving public services and delivering the government's Plan for Change

• United Kingdom (government)

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

Maya Richman is the co-lead of the Green Screen Coalition, a collaborative that works with funders and practitioners to build networks across climate justice and tech justice spaces

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

The Civic Space Support Guide provides strategies and resources for civil society actors and their allies to remain safe and defend civic space when it comes under attack

ShotSpotter creates thousands of unfounded police deployments, fuels unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, and can lead to false arrests.

• surveillance
• crime
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns

This paper discusses the concept of 'algocratic governance', which refers to the increasing use of algorithms and automated decision-making systems in governance and public policy

The State of Open Conference (SOOCon) is the UK's premier open technology conference, covering topics such as open source software, open hardware, open data, open standards, and AI openness

Self-managed social centres in the United Kingdom are self-organized, anti-authoritarian, and volunteer-run communal spaces that differ from traditional community centres

The DPI Map is a comprehensive initiative that aims to provide a global view of the state of digital public infrastructure (DPI), including deployments of digital ID, real-time payment, and data exchange systems across the world

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

The CampaignEvent Extension is a tool designed to enhance the management and visibility of events within Wikimedia

The HM Treasury Hackathon aims to find novel ways of exploiting new data and technology to improve the Treasury's capability to respond quickly and with more insight to fiscal challenges

This paper presents a novel approach for generating high-quality 3D models from 2D images using a deep learning-based method

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Inquisitive is a quarterly periodical published by Heterodox Academy that explores issues related to open inquiry, viewpoint diversity, and constructive disagreement in colleges and universities

The Data Observation Toolkit (DOT) is a software tool that can be used to monitor data as it is collected and entered into a database, helping to identify issues with data integrity, quality, protocols, and outliers that may need attention

This report presents findings from a qualitative study on the experiences of victims of cyber crime and fraud in England and Wales

• United Kingdom (government)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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