Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

"[A] nonpartisan source for news, resources, and commentary focused on state courts and state constitutional development. It’s the first and only website dedicated to covering state constitutional cases and trends in high courts across the 50 states."

• state

• Legal tech
• News and blogs
• Constitutions

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundation initiatives

By making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Evaluate impact

A critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government AI strategies

The European Democracy Hub acts as a hub for expertise on European democracy support, bringing together analysts and policymakers. 

• Participatory democracy
• Foundation initiatives

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Reports

Six AI tools under active development by professional newsrooms

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A dynamic, open-source reference library for practitioners who are working through complexity to improve access to public benefits and services.

• Access social benefits

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

The Lab equips the US climate movement with the evidence-based insights, skills, and connections needed to build durable power and win equitable solutions.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

Editors: Hans Jochen Scholl, Eric E. Holdeman, F. Kees Boersma

• books

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Books

"[V]ictims of violence or bullying can quietly voice activate to record an incident as it is happening and, if necessary, command the app to call the cops." - GovTech Magazine

• domestic violence
• apps

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emergency services

The Center for News, Technology & Innovation will provide issue primers with research and legislative activity from around the world and host deliberative discussions among thought leaders in journalism, technology, and policy.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research and policy centers

JUST AI is an independent network of researchers and practitioners committed to understanding the social and ethical value of data and AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.

• Identity

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Fellowships
• Civic hackathons

Solving technological problems in the legislative process for House of Representatives Members, Committees, and staff.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

The CampaignTech Awards by Campaigns & Elections recognize the truly exceptional in the field of political campaign technology, digital strategy, tactics, and techniques.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Awards and prizes

Dive is not just an AI assistant; it's your partner in optimizing meetings for maximum efficiency.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Meeting tech

Expanding the Democratic and progressive data ecosystem by facilitating a real time, blind exchange of voter contact data across the Left.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools
• Voter outreach

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Creating knowledge and strategies for responsible, ethical and inclusive automated decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).

• Facebook

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

• Civic data
• Digital security and privacy
• Access social benefits

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

"a platform where citizen activists and other stakeholders, such as app developers and large non-profits, can actively engage on a range of social issues."

• Graveyard
• Civic forums

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Co-design

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Learn about civic tech

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.

• Digital security and privacy
• Civic apps outfits
• Digital rights

We create Sustainable Social Impact with Technology

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย โดยเริ่มบันทึกข้อมูลตั้งแต่เดือนมกราคม 2563 และเปิดให้ทดลองใช้งานตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 สิงหาคม 2563

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field.

• racial equity

• Meet the others
• Peer networks
• Merchandise

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Boonmee Lab is a design, data, and technology company who will bring meaningful innovation with excellence to the society.

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Build something

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design
• Co-design

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• United States (federal government)

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation