This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies

• Israel Palestine

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Academia

The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmental protection, democracy, and anti-corruption efforts.

• Freedom of Information
• Awards and prizes

Campaign to urge Congress: Protect Public Media Funding

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Public media

States, federal employee unions, various advocacy groups and several individuals have filed over 100 lawsuits challenging the Trump administration's implementation of executive orders and other initiatives. Law360 has created a database of those lawsuits, separated into categories based on their subject matter.

• Project 2025

• Legal tech
• Litigation trackers

This public resource tracks legal challenges to Trump administration actions.

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech
• Litigation trackers

Political edu on resistance. Stand w/ federal workers. Stop the authoritarian takeover. Organizing a positive vision for public good. Get on the bus 🚌

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

We are American Civictech public workers. United in advocating our values, showcasing our impact and exercising our rights. Coming soon.

• Project 2025

• Celebrating public service and public servants

Standing with federal workers against a corporate-backed coup led by DOGE.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

We’re dedicated to the American public. And we’re not done yet.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Govtech
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

A centralized resource hub/database designed to support nonprofit and development professionals, organizations, and advocates navigating the impacts of the USAID shutdown—and beyond.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Celebrating public service and public servants

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

We’ll be ensuring the federal government works for working people and isn’t destroyed by billionaires like Elon Musk. We’ll report on the facts of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) cuts and what you can do to fight back.

• labor
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

By Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Build something

The Liverpool City Region Civic Data Cooperative (LCR CDC) is a data governance project funded by the Liverpool City Region Combined Authority (LCRCA) and hosted by the Faculty of Health and Life Sciences at the University of Liverpool.

• city

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Citizen Engagement

The Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings you the latest research, insights, and ideas on how nonviolent action can — or sometimes fails — to transform injustice.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Podcasts

The AI and Democracy Movements Project explores the impacts of AI on the strategy, operations, and outcomes of pro-democratic social movements.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers

The Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers

The UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.

• Stop AI theft

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

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
• Campaign organizations
• Digital rights

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

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

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

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

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

• extensions
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Artistic interventions

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Agence de communication et relations publics, Datack est spécialisée dans les stratégies de mobilisation et d’engagement des publics

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

Campaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

An AI chatbot developed for to engage party members at the Labour Party Conference

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Bots

Report by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

KICTANet is a multi-stakeholder think tank in Kenya that serves as a catalyst for ICT sector reforms through policy advocacy, capacity building, research, and stakeholder engagement.

Shaping Education for Fairer AI

• Reduced inequalities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

Africa Tech Workers Rising, Kenya is a project to organize and empower front line content moderators and data enrichment workers in the AI data supply chain to improve conditions of pay, workload, health and safety, whistleblower protections, voice and respect.

• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Peer networks
• Whistleblowing
• Labor platforms

"Given the global significance of the DSA, a coalition of civil society and research organizations is setting up a “Global Majority House” in Brussels to ensure the implementation of the landmark legislation, as well as other digital regulations, is equitable and inclusive." - Tech Policy Press

• Reduced inequalities

• Hubs
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Myanmar Internet Project was established in 2022 by a collective of researchers, practitioners and advocates with years of experience tracking developments in the Myanmar digital space.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital rights
• Connectivity

Employing a broad definition of AI, this report represents the first known effort to comprehensively explain and quantify the reach of AI-based decision-making among low-income people in the United States.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities
• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Access social benefits

The largest Persian e-petition platform in Iran

• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

Acerca y conecta a los mejores ciudadanos líderes con una política responsable, que actúan con compromiso y vocación por el bien común del Paraguay.

• youth
• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

La Escuela Política y de Liderazgo Público está conformada por Academias que buscan brindar herramientas personales, teóricas y prácticas a personas con vocación de servicio público interesadas en transformar su contexto.

• trainings

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Incubators

A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Access social benefits

• Asian and Pacific Islander

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

As a forward-thinking policy-oriented entity, we lead innovation, actively exploring and advocating emerging technologies to transform public service delivery on a worldwide scale.

• United Nations

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Civil society research outfits

A collaborative and global capacity development project designed to help address the unique needs of HRDs living in exile.

• diaspora

• Advocacy tech
• Get funding
• Cybersecurity

We provide independent, accurate & accessible information about HIV.

• Good health and well-being
• LGBTQI
• AIDS

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

Join the Engage platform to share your thoughts on Dublin City Council projects, policies and plans. A Go Vocal instance.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Specific digital participation instances

Digital Woman Uganda empowers women and girls by promoting digital literacy, gender equality, and innovation through training, advocacy, and technological solutions.

The Chief Digital Office (CDO) was created in 2019 to enable, accelerate and promote digital transformation within UNDP and throughout its programmatic work.

• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations

• Digital transformation