Founded in 2019, Kamara is a social enterprise that supports social justice actors to strengthen their holistic security, risk-informed decision making and overall organisational resilience.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

To have each participant see the global warming issue as a personal concern and engage in discussions to share awareness of the issue, and to connect the outcomes of the meetings to the revision of the city's basic environment plan (global warming countermeasures action plan) and to concrete measures

• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Specific instances of citizen assemblies

Your AI-powered legislative companion. Stay informed about bills and policies in Congress with real-time updates, intelligent insights, and comprehensive tracking.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legislation trackers

Stanford's Deliberative Democracy Lab projects from 2009 - 2020

• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

The permanent Citizens’ Dialogue (“Ostbelgien – Model”) is a participation project oft the Parliament of the German Speaking Community of Belgium. It counts 2 bodies: The Citizens’ Assemblies and the permanent Citizens’ Council.

• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Specific instances of citizen assemblies
• Citizen Councils

KOSO NIPPON's take on citizen assemblies

• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

The Climate Citizens’ Assembly Kawasaki (CCAK) was implemented in mid-2021 to produce recommendations for the local government to incorporate into its basic climate plan.

• Peer-reviewed research
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Specific instances of citizen assemblies

by KOSO NIPPON

• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Specific instances of citizen assemblies

In the Fall of 2024, thirty every-day residents of Deschutes County came together to help find solutions in the region’s first-ever Civic Assembly.

• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Specific instances of citizen assemblies

‘Climate Assembly Sapporo 2020’ in which participants were selected at random. The assembly was held online due to the pandemic.

• Specific instances of citizen assemblies

Monitoring pro-Russian propaganda in Georgia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Working closely with the Anthropic Policy and Safeguards teams, Societal Impacts is a technical research team that explores how AI is used in the real world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

Report on the company's and its users' election-related usage of Claude in the 2024 election year

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

Hoodies, totes, and pillows

• Civic tech gifts

We provide a space to meet for people who care about making government work better, whether they're inside or outside the public sector.

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

We provide explanations and background information on elections, voting rights and digital democracy ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Glossaries

Die zentrale & modulare Infrastruktur für Datenprojekte. Für eine digitale Verwaltung, die wirkt.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

designed to help local news organizations develop and test strategies that lead to sustainable business outcomes through collaborative partnerships

• Get funding
• Investigative journalism tech
• Creators and Influencers

Accelerating financial inclusion in Africa

• Govtech
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Payments

Taking court to the people

• Legal tech
• Digital transformation

Messaging app owned by the Indian state, which is attempting to force mobile platforms to pre-install

• Govtech
• Chat and messaging
• Digital sovereignty

The OneTeamGov Canada Pattern Library is a curated set of design, service and policy patterns and tools to help government teams across Canada deliver services.

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design
• User research

We preserve the work of independent journalists in Russia – their reporting over the past twenty years and the stories they continue to tell today.

• Media
• Journalism
• Archives

Russian state-mandated apps for mobiles and TVs

• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• State-mandated apps

Burgerparticipatie bij de Gemeente Amsterdam

• Machine vision

The Philadelphia Media Founders Exchange is a community-grounded accelerator program supporting BIPOC media entrepreneurs through training, one-on-one coaching, and grantmaking.

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

The Community Councillor Collective is a network of councillors committed to putting citizens at the heart of local decision-making and building the power of their communities.

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks

PUCAR is a non-profit public mission to transform the dispute resolution experience of every person.

• Legal tech

Creation of a centralized system for processing freedom of information law requests.

• Access to information
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Ask the right questions to gather data on assemblies and protests organised and/or held online, offline or a combination thereof.

• Advocacy tech
• Research tools
• Protest movements

We are experts on civil society law and policy.

• Legal tech
• Nonprofit tech

We commit to moving 50% of our assets into the hands of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled-led organizations every year.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Anti-Trafficking Response website, managed by the International Rescue Committee, is a global hub that raises awareness about human trafficking and provides educational resources and practical tools for practitioners to strengthen prevention, protection, and response efforts.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The goal: to support administrative staff in their daily work with smart AI features and to make routine tasks more efficient.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Distilling safety research into a complete learning ecosystem

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity

We offer you both: a powerful open-source platform that you can customize yourself, and a fully managed service that takes care of everything.

• General purpose open source tools
• CRM

A practical resource for responding to major cyber incidents.

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity

For the benefit of the cybersecurity community and network defenders—and to help every organization better manage vulnerabilities and keep pace with threat activity—CISA maintains the authoritative source of vulnerabilities that have been exploited in the wild.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

New Pluralists is a funder collaborative investing in a growing ecosystem of people, organizations, and ideas working to bring pluralism to life in communities across the U.S.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

The report highlights key trends, challenges, and opportunities to shape digital payments, with a focus on inclusion and the role of IPS in advancing digital public infrastructure (DPI).

• Govtech
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Payments

The updated FME 2.0 offers very practical suggestions on how to engage civil society and affected communities in AI development to support platforms and AI developers in creating rights-based products.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Build something

GDS Local strengthens collaboration between central and local government to deliver better, more joined-up digital public services.

• Govtech
• State and regional government technology

The 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards celebrate excellence in digital government modernization.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Celebrating public service and public servants

New_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Neighborhood forums

The Outlook is a digital global magazine for and by democracy champions.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs