Exploring the intersections of democracy, youth, and technology.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This report assesses the impact of the foreign aid cuts on the global democracy ecosystem.

• Get funding
• Evaluate impact
• Reports

Each regional forum will bring diverse perspectives to the global conversation on democracy, ensuring that local insights inform international efforts. The discussions will contribute to policy recommendations, advocacy strategies, and cross-regional partnerships, feeding into the GDC’s broader global initiatives.

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

The Global Democracy Coalition is a multi-stakeholder alliance of over 160 democracy organizations worldwide, working together to advance and protect democracy globally.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democracy organizations
• Foundation initiatives

Through a positive narrative, the campaign raises awareness of the benefits of democratic systems across the world, spurring engagement and highlighting our responsibility to preserve them. #ThankYouDemocracy

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

Luke Igel and Riley Walz have launched a Gmail-like interface where you can browse Epstein's emails (some of which were released by Congress).

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Artistic interventions
• Social and financial connections

The Open Data Board Game is a board game built around the creation of tools using data.

• Civic data
• Games and gamification
• Board games

This portal provides information and reports about the work done by UNESCO.

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Based on two years of research—including more than 40 interviews, pilots in Boston, New York City, and San José, and a scan of national policy trends—we propose an alternative framework for public AI adoption: Adapt, Listen, and Trust (ALT).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Big listening

The PSAi is a new campaign by Columbia Journalism Review to use viral AI-generated images to teach people what to look for to ascertain real photos from fake. And it launched with a music video.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Foundational layers

Arena’s 2025-26 Cycle Political Tech and Consultant Catalogue is the go-to resource for senior campaign staff, candidates, and other decision makers deciding who to hire and what technology and services to deploy.

• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

Ethical Shopping & Secure VPN Services

• Advocacy tech
• Boycott or buycott
• VPN

We are a social enterprise in China applying open principles to shaping and governing the digital future

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Digital rights

A Community Roadmap for Technologies to Support Practitioners

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

Spain's pro-democracy campaign, leveraging digital, influencers, and gaming, to remind the country of its post-Franco freedoms 50 years later.

• Specific campaigns
• Games and gamification
• Narrative tech

We are a new division under the Department of Technology

• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Service delivery

John S. Knight Journalism Fellowships offer journalists an opportunity to step back from demands of daily work and spend an academic year at Stanford University reimagining the future of journalism.

• Journalism
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Privacy-First Open Source Workplace

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• General purpose open source tools
• Digital sovereignty

RDP scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

The complete workspace solution that puts you in control of your data.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• General purpose open source tools
• Digital sovereignty

The Cybersecurity Assessment Tool (CAT) is designed to measure the maturity, resiliency, and strength of an organization’s cybersecurity efforts.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech

The Social Media You Want, Built in Canada

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media
• Open social

Folk Tech is a movement among a community of developers and people who want to develop apps for their community without depending on big tech companies.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• Local-first tech

A pitch event connecting Middle Tennessee university researchers and Nashville Metro Department leaders to explore technology-driven approaches to civic challenges.

A Memphis-based nonprofit providing affordable, targeted IT training and professional development to facilitate IT business growth in the city.

• Upskilling
• Economic development

Urbit is designed to be run by its users. Self-hosting is the way to get the most complete Urbit experience, giving you full control over your personal server.

• Decentralization
• Web hosting

Conference and work sprint for the CiviCRM community

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

A Framework for Accessing High-Influence Public Platform Data

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis

Mini apps based on your taste, habits, and context.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

BERTopic is a topic modeling technique that leverages 🤗 transformers and c-TF-IDF to create dense clusters allowing for easily interpretable topics whilst keeping important words in the topic descriptions. [It's used in several projects to classify participatory conversations]

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Build an app right from WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something

Free of ads. Free of surveillance. Free of noise. With Kagi, you are the customer, not the product.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Your collective defense against AI-generated spam and content farms in Kagi Search

• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing

a high-performance WebGL library for visualizing network graphs and machine learning embeddings.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• General purpose open source tools

Researchers from the University of Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk (CSER) have released a mod for Civilization V that introduces superintelligent AI into the popular video game.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Games and gamification
• Governance of AI

The Society for Technological Advancement (SoTA) is a new venture designed to cultivate optimism about technoscientific development and build capacity for it to happen, forming a cross-disciplinary community around this mission.

• Research and policy centers
• Specific campaigns
• Civil society research outfits

World Day Against Cyber Censorship is an online event held each year on March 12 to draw attention to the ways that governments around the world are deterring and censoring free speech online.

• Circumvention tech
• Holidays

Aware is the first AI-powered technology to give you full, personalized insight into how government actions affect your life, while tracking every politician’s promises, kept and broken, on a live scorecard.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Legislation trackers

South Tyrol’s growing innovation district.

• Economic development

Let’s replace the House of Lords with a House of Citizens

• Specific campaigns
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Te Hiku Media is a charitable media organisation, collectively belonging to the Far North iwi of Ngāti Kuri, Te Aupouri, Ngai Takoto, Te Rārawa and Ngāti Kahu.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

EquiLabs is a digital rights laboratory driving a future where data and AI serve people and the planet, putting human rights, fairness, and accountability first.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance
• Civil society research outfits

Petty Propolis cultivates visionary resistance through poetry, literary workshops, anti-racism facilitation, and social justice initiatives.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Fighting against Google’s 2025 developer verification mandate

• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization