Crowdsourced reporting on Illegal Factories on Farmland in Taiwan

• Sustainable cities and communities
• g0v

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing
• Environmental data

SOMO’s global helpdesk for environmental and social justice activists challenging corporate power

• Advocacy tech
• Consumer watchdogging
• Research tools

Since our establishment in 1973, we have been dedicated to reshaping the economic framework by restraining corporate power and championing social equity.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Since 2023, Omidyar Network’s Reporters in Residence program has empowered freelance journalists to pursue rigorous reporting that drives national conversations and informs policy debates.

• Journalism
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Gigbox aims to help workers collect + pool data about their experience to help them build power, help researchers understand the gig economy more fully, and help advocates more effectively plan for the future of work.

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing
• AI Auditing

A tool to watermark and identify content generated through AI

• Google

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

Empowering officers with Pair Chat: higher quality work, faster decisions, and better citizen experiences.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

Empowering Singapore's public officers with AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Frankly™ is an open source online video-based discourse platform designed to facilitate constructive dialogue and collaborative decision-making across and within diverse groups.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

AI-powered takedowns. We weaponize LLMs against digital exploitation

• Gender Equality
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Sensemaker is an evolving toolkit developed by Jigsaw, designed to demonstrate how Google AI can help make sense of large-scale conversations. Sensemaker empowers users to categorize, summarize, and identify areas of agreement and disagreement in any discussion – turning conversation into clear, actionable insights, quickly.

• Google
• Sensemaker
• toolkits

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Our country is in crisis. Services and the rights we care about are under attack as those in power move closer to a dangerous authoritarian rule. The All of US Directory offers you the opportunity to respond.

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

This paper offers a comprehensive examination of the role emerging digital technologies can play in improving citizen participation.

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

This live data platform has been built to combine data from a range of sources (see below) to start to build a picture about social care provision across England.

My Voice Counts is a civic-tech platform that empowers people to safely and anonymously participate in verified issue-based voting and protest support

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Direct action

AI-powered chatbot facilitating access to health and social care information

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Access social benefits

How to Create Equitable Partnerships between Technical and Community Experts

• guides

• Meet the others
• Playbooks and design principles
• Community-building resources

On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

We empower visionary, high-leverage science and technology projects with the capacity to create transformative progress for human civilization.

• Emerging tech
• Open science

We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.

• crisis
• humanitarian
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bots

Here you will find in-depth articles (deep dives), interviews and other content related to our lines of activity (Future Culture, Democratic Innovation, Citizen Empowerment, Social Economy and cooperativism).

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

This brings critical, time-sensitive information directly to people's For You feeds to raise awareness of missing children and leverage the power of the US TikTok community to help reunite them with their families.

• TikTok

• Civic features

PLURALL is a boutique consultancy firm transforming complex policy challenges into opportunities for sustainable, community-driven digital infrastructures.

• Building in the private sector

Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action. Last updated 2011.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

A powerful suite of nonprofit fundraising tools & features that works for your organization.

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Merchandise

Producing cutting-edge research on the people of government and the communities they are called to serve.

• Communicating with the government
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Celebrating public service and public servants

A core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

This website is hosted across a network of solar powered servers and is sent to you from whichever server is in the most sunshine.

• Affordable and clean energy

• Emerging tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data visualization

[A] vision for red-teaming in the public interest: a process that goes beyond system-centric testing of already built systems to consider the full range of ways the public can be involved in evaluating genAI harms

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Red teaming

As ARVA, our mission is to empower communities to recognize, diagnose, and manage vulnerabilities in AI that affects them.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Red teaming

Empowering the Human Workforce Behind AI

• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

The Outrage is a hub for activism. We’re leveraging the power of community + fashion to mobilize our growing network of activists to shift the political landscape of our country and change the world we live in.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech gifts

Project 2025 Tracker began as a humble spreadsheet created by /u/rusticgorilla, combined with /u/mollynaquafina's vision for making this information accessible to everyone through a dedicated website. What started as a passion project by two Redditors has grown into a community-driven resource, powered by people like you who believe in the importance of transparent, detailed analysis.

• Project 2025
• Reddit

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Promise trackers

Harnessing the power of technology and collaboration to support immigrants and their allies.

• immigration

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Asylum Navigator is a groundbreaking data insights platform designed to empower immigration attorneys and human rights defenders.

• immigration
• refugees

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Dashboards

We propose an alternative platform model that the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. By E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, Audrey Tang

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

The Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation aims to reinforce democracy through strengthening institutions, building interpersonal and informational trust, and reducing hyper-partisan affective polarization with research and field-building.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Your Trusted IT Partner for Community Health & Social Services

• Nonprofit tech
• Building in the private sector

Critical Infrastructure Studies (CIstudies

Fileverse is a decentralized, privacy-focused file sharing and collaboration platform that enables onchain communities and individuals to work together securely and transparently

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

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

This video discusses the concept of 'The Rules for Rulers', which examines the incentives and constraints that shape the behavior of political leaders and rulers

The content describes the bulk tools feature in GPT for Sheets, which allows users to run various AI-powered operations on entire spreadsheet columns at once, including translation, classification, extraction, reformatting, web search, and image analysis

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

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

The article discusses the importance of civic tech and how it can be used to improve government transparency and accountability