The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Counting trucks for environmental justice

• air quality
• Reduced inequalities
• cities

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Cameras

by Micah Sifry

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Launched by a collaborative effort between DataKind, Save the Children, and Microsoft, the Humanitarian Data Insights Project (HDIP) harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline data from multiple sources, making it accessible and interpretable for humanitarian workers at all levels of data maturity.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A new kind of media literacy game specifically tailored for an Indonesian audience.

• WhatsApp

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

An OECD global assessment of countries' implementation of its 2017 Recommendation on Open Government

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources

This project is using geospatial technology to solve the climate mobility data gap and inform required food security and planning interventions.

• migration
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

Increasing shared understanding of our world through community-led initiatives that make data easier to access and use.

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

The African Union Civic Tech Fund supports initiatives, particularly those led by or relevant to youth, that strengthen citizen engagement through the innovative use of data and digital technologies, or, in other words, that can support targeted civic technology solutions.

• Get funding

From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election.

• US Election 2024

• Media
• Organize campaigns
• Creators and Influencers

SmartRR is a virtual one stop shop for Gender Based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health. We are committed to creating a safer, more supportive world for survivors and adolescent girls.

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

• Crowdsourcing

Using GPS mapping technology, Nidoroualmewaafe identifies areas that do not have access to safe drinking water and shares this information with local authorities and communities to inform decision-making.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

AdvoKC is a dynamic, youth-led civic technology organization established with a steadfast commitment to fostering transparency, accountability, and positive change in governance.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Promise trackers

Citizens have a critical role to play in advancing transparency, accountability and effectiveness in the delivery of municipal services.

• cities

• Digital participation platforms
• Issue reporting

Digital Woman Uganda provides digital literacy skills to women and girls while advocating for gender-sensitive policies and digital rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Digital literacy
• Interactive Voice Response

Arkam gathers, analyzes and presents relevant data on public policies in Africa to promote transparent and effective governance.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Access to laws

We seek to empower the poor to know their rights so they can receive justice and avoid exploitation and corruption in many areas of life.

• apps

• Legal tech
• Access to laws

Clay is a nonprofit team on a mission to make Earth observation as useful and ubiquitous as a Google search. We believe in using open, responsible AI to make Earth observation a force for positive change.

• mining
• forests
• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

CitizenChat is an AI-powered chatbot designed to empower citizens by providing access to key government information and facilitating interactive communication. The platform enables citizens to engage with government services, access valuable information, and report queries or concerns in real-time.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Civic Tech in Africa with Nathi Mcetywa is a podcast by the Civic Tech Innovation Network. The podcast focuses on the profiling of civic tech initiatives, civic innovators, activists, researchers, social entrepreneurs and others working in the civic tech and other related fields in Africa.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

This map...illustrates a [Congress] in a state of dysfunction, with growing dissatisfaction on the part of the public, waning trust in its ability perform, and -- most significantly -- large-scale disengagement from the system by the public.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Our best-performing model can potentially help TSU find 59% more buildings where tenants face landlord harassment than the current outreach method using the same resources.

• housing

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people

Imali Yethu is a coalition of civil society organisations working with the South African National Treasury to make budget information more accessible, user-friendly and empowering.

• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Budget explorers

The Africa Innovation Mradi is a pan-Mozillian program that aims to leverage Mozilla’s role as stewards of the open web to promote models of innovation that are grounded in the unique needs of users in the African continent.

• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

The Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) aims to collaboratively build people's participation in and understanding of South Africa's budget and planning processes.

• Participatory democracy
• Budget explorers

The Action for Accountability (A4A) project aims to support communities to organize and lead cooperation between our communities and local leaders.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

We’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.

• trees

• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Our mission is to provide accessible information and tools to help citizens make informed decisions and participate in the democratic process.

• Voter assistance tech
• Matching views to votes

Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.

• Civic literacy
• Matching views to votes
• Find your representatives

PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research and policy centers
• Government transparency

The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.

• Good health and well-being

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Access social benefits

As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police force works.

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

The EU’s Digital Services Act mandates greater researcher data access from platforms; Mozilla and the National Conference on Citizenship investigated 19 platforms’ responses

• reports

• Media and social media analysis
• Report cards and audits
• Research tools

How Member-Led Upgrades Are Optimizing Legislative Branch Capacity and Resilience

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Digital transformation

BudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.

• students
• libraries

• Open knowledge
• General purpose open source tools

GCA builds communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale.

• Foundational layers
• Cybersecurity

Free and effective tools you can use today to take immediate action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of our elections.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundational layers

Somos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produção e difusão do conhecimento e da promoção de uma cultura de transparência e dados abertos.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Modern day and technology-rich environments require a reconceptualization of how the nature of technology influences urban areas

• books
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The New Companion to Urban Design continues the assemblage of rich and critical ideas about urban form and design that began with the Companion to Urban Design (Routledge, 2011)

• books
• cities

• Urban planning

We are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

Presented at the 1st International Conference on Urban Growth and the Circular Economy that was held in Alicante, Spain the papers included in this book focus on the continuing and rapid growth of cities and their regions of influence and how that has led to the need to find new solutions which allow for promoting their sustainable development

• books
• cities

• Economic development

Empowering the New Mobility Workforce: Educating, Training, and Inspiring Future Transportation Professionals enlists a multidisciplinary roster of subject matter specialists who identify the priorities and strategies for cultivating a skilled workforce for the rapidly changing transportation landscape

• books

This open access book is about public open spaces, about people, and about the relationship between them and the role of technology in this relationship

• books

Globally, Smart Cities initiatives are pursued which reproduce the interests of capital and neoliberal government, rather than wider public good. This book explores smart urbanism and 'the right to the city', examining citizenship, social justice, commoning, civic participation, and co-creation to imagine a different kind of Smart City.

• books
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Encompassing community development, organizing, planning, and social change, as well as globalisation, this book is grounded in participatory and empowerment practice

• books

Creating space to build a democracy for all

• students
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic literacy

We are an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.

• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives
• Investors