Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Specific campaigns
• Civic maps

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science...

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Civil society research outfits

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic apps outfits
• Civic and social impact companies

We are on a mission to help the social sector organizations to scale their impact, increase their outreach and work smarter using artificial intelligence and chatbots, and smart automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Nonprofit tech

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

• Climate action
• Prototype Fund

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Academia

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

"Suggestions bag" for the Portuguese Assembly. It's actively used but it's not clear where citizen suggestions go once posted.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Voting and elections

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

• STEM
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Economic development

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Our mission is to connect and spark policy action among those crucial to making our interconnected world accessible, safe, and inclusive — both online and off.

• Research and policy centers

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

The Aspen Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time.

• Research and policy centers

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Citizen Engagement
• Social media

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities
• People Powered

• Artistic interventions

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Civic features
• Satellites

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Manifestos

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Surveys & polling
• Research tools

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Factchecking

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

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

A marketplace of vendors who can help implement, host, train, and develop custom solutions for groups using CiviCRM, Drupal, Wordpress, and more

• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic and social impact companies
• CRM

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data visualization

We help nonprofits, impact organizations & issue focused organizations collaborate with creators to reach audiences more effectively.

• Media
• Creators and Influencers

Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact
• Meeting tech

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

We make technology work for the public good

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Govtech vendors

Somos un estudio de innovación govtech con proyectos en Europa y América Latina

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

IDB Lab is the innovation and venture capital arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Innovation teams and labs
• Investors

SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.

• WhatsApp
• missing people

• Legal tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Bots

Pulitzer Center: Working with journalists and newsrooms that represent the diversity of the communities affected by AI technologies, the Network seeks to address the knowledge imbalance on artificial intelligence that exists in the journalism industry and to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem that enables journalists to report on this fast-evolving topic with skill, nuance, and impact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Fellowships

This Transport for London project looks to introduce new ways to reduce adverse impacts of roadworks in London, by working with innovative companies to shape these in a way that responds to the problems London faces.

• mobility
• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Procurement

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

AI for the Public Good, for Singapore and the World

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech or Digital Policy

This 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Report cards and audits

Chat de Whatsaap diseñado para generar un proceso interactivo de rendición de cuentas basado en información pública y análisis de calidad sobre las principales reformas y las posturas de los actores políticos que las votaron.

• Engagement tech
• Bots

The Changemaker Award, which celebrates and recognises the best role model and leader from within the EIT Community's education programmes, and whose activities and achievements have the potential to generate a significant social impact.

• Awards and prizes

dedicated to deconstructing representative or audience democracy and building a liquid and participatory democracy through interactive communication tools, political articulation and co-creation methodologies.

• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Free tool that takes a Wikipedia URL and extracts data to CSV

• Wikipedia

• Civic data
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

The most powerful platform for behavioral research and experiments

• Surveys & polling
• Open science