"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Generative AI

Through a comprehensive analysis of various ICT projects, this study examines the success and challenges of using technology to protect and restore land rights.

• land
• indigenous

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it

• books

• Govtech
• Books
• Public Private Partnerships

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.

• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Justice tech

The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

They will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives. 

• Project 2025
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Government transparency

YoMobi is a digital platform cooperative that empowers youth organisations by providing tools for skill development, learning, and community engagement to tackle youth unemployment and enhance socio-economic inclusion.

• youth
• apps
• Decent work and economic growth

• Nonprofit tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Citizen Engagement

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Story tech

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

London's Techno-Optimist Members Club

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

A prototype project that aims to help understand how AI models and humans differ in their perception of risk.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

Answer honestly the following questions, the results may or may not be published, in any case it will be anonymous and the data that make possible any form of tracking will not be shared or published in any way. For more information on how we treat the data please visit: https://clisi.org/privacidaddatos/ Participation in this study is understood to be free of charge and for academic purposes, by answering the questions you grant its use for these purposes.

Now-defunct gov portal for US social benefits (folded into USA.gov)

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.

• seniors
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Research tools
• Policy

Google Research is applying AI to satellite and aerial imagery to build a Heat Resilience tool, helping cities understand how to reduce surface temperatures through planting trees or using highly-reflective surfaces, like cool roofs.

• city
• heat
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

• Google
• free speech

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.

• city
• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tech upskilling platform including Máquina de Identificação de Talento (MIT), "para avaliar o potencial de requalificação dos trabalhadores e, assim, agilizar a seleção de candidatos para formação"

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development
• Upskilling

Civic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

Includes both cloud APIs and special purpose tools to make your text articles more accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Website builder

This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.

• Academia
• Deliberation
• Design

Stump is a non-partisan tool for empowering voters to participate in democracy in a real-time, social, and impactful way.

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Freedom of Information

Civil society organization that strengthens democracy through digital listening tools and participatory processes.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Big listening

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

• Telegram
• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Text platform for grassroots fundraising and organizing

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools

To...help governments hire more effectively, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) has actively engaged government organizations at the state, county, and city levels to optimize their talent practices and build digital capacity — and we’ve learned some things.

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Tech talent

We estimate that UK central government conducts approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions per year in the provision of around 400 services, of which approximately 143 million are complex repetitive transactions. We estimate that 84% of these complex transactions are highly automatable.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

Convening internet measurement groups with an established practice of working in the open to collaborate and converge on best practices, methodologies, and complementary approaches for the collecting of data around internet censorship.

• free speech

• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech
• Roundtables

Message provides email, text, and CRM solutions designed for large-scale digital programs run by top practitioners.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

Democratizing artificial intelligence for improving permitting outcomes and efficiency

• Affordable and clean energy

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Permitting

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Terner Labs scales critical housing innovations at the intersection of equity, affordability, and sustainability.

• housing

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

• Meet the others
• Fight disinformation
• Conferences

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• In-person meetings

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The River Thames Water Quality Testing Group is operated by volunteers who enjoy wild swimming, paddle-boarding and boating, and are concerned about the water quality in the River Thames and the lack of up-to-date information.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Citizen science

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

We initially designed it as a decision support tool for humanitarian mappers. Now it has grown in functionality and use cases. Whether you work in disaster management, build a smart city, or perform research on climate change, Disaster Ninja can help you in a number of ways (see more info on website).

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

This app finds missing map data in your vicinity and displays it on a map as quests. Solve each quest by visiting the location on-site and answering a simple question to update the map.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Games and gamification

Cali Cómo Vamos es un programa de seguimiento y evaluación de la calidad de vida en la ciudad, tiene como referencia el Programa “Bogotá Cómo Vamos”, adelantado desde 1998 por iniciativa de la Casa Editorial El Tiempo, la Cámara de Comercio de Bogotá y la Fundación Corona.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Evaluate impact

Healthsites.io establishes this data and the tools necessary to upload, manage and make the data easily accessible.

• Civic maps

Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world. Once you print it, you can take it outside, into the field, to record notes and observations about the area you're looking at, or use it as your own personal tour guide in a new city.

• Mapping tools

MapRoulette has dozens of mapping Challenges that are created by experienced mappers. Each Challenge is about improving OSM in one very specific way

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Games and gamification

Funded by the European Commission Directorate-General for Structural Reform Support (DG REFORM) and implemented by UNESCO, this project supports the Flemish government in implementing reforms by contributing to the improved AI-readiness and increased adoption of AI across the Flemish public administrations in a safe and ethical manner.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Government AI strategies