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• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources
• Democratic Innovations

The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organise the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

Welcome to the first global community for stateless people and their allies. Together we empower stateless people.

• immigration
• migration
• refugees

• Meet the others
• Justice tech
• Solidarity networks

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

As a citizen-centric European civil society organisation, ECAS developed its First Aid Democracy toolkit aimed at equipping citizens and civil society organisations with knowledge and practical tips for maintaining a healthy democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Using social movement research to tackle the world's most pressing problems

• Advocacy tech
• Civil society research outfits
• Protest movements

Open source financial management software for organizations (Die Finanzverwaltungssoftware)

• students
• Prototype Fund

• Bureaucracy tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Community-building resources

Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Open Government Challenge is a call to action for all members of OGP to raise ambition in ten areas of open government to help strengthen our democracies.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Challenges

Alliance4Europe is operating an information sharing and analysis centre (ISAC), to identify and defend against disinformation threats and to enable scalable collaboration with those who want to defend democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as well as allow two-way sharing of information between the private and the public sector about root causes, incidents and threats, as well as sharing experience, knowledge and analysis. In many EU Member States, ISAC or similar initiatives exist.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Cybersecurity

Guidance for Policymakers, Civil Society, and Development Cooperation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

The e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-profit foundation that assists public sector and civil society organisations in making digital transformation happen.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

The Brooklyn Navy Yard is the center of urban manufacturing and innovation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

Our platform, fueled solely by public and certified documents, simplifies complex subjects with different levels of answers tailored to everyone.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people
• Access to laws

The "Governor Barbie" campaign, launched by Governor Gretchen Whitmer, was more than just an innovative approach to brand building, but a significant step toward redefining and challenging stereotypes associated with female politicians.

• women
• Gender Equality
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns

The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

• culture
• indigenous
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions

Webby-award winning social video by the US Holocaust Museum

• racial equity
• videos

• Social media

Founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams following the 2016 presidential election, HARNESS is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment and media industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world.

• culture

• Narrative tech
• Artistic interventions

Helpful Places is a mission-driven company that helps organizations, and the communities they serve, harness the power of technology in ways that are transparent, inclusive, participatory, and in alignment with the community's goals.

• Digital rights

The WWF Climate Realism Exhibition combines latest local data from climate research with custom-built AI pipelines to send famous landscape paintings from art history into their possible climate futures.

• Climate action
• culture
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Webby-award winning social video promoting women's ability to choose

• videos
• women's health
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Social media

A global, participatory memorial to biodiversity loss on our planet

• sustainability
• 2024 Webby Awards
• Life on land

• Artistic interventions
• Participatory memorials

National Digital Inclusion Alliance advances digital equity by supporting community programs and equipping policymakers to act.

• Foundational layers
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Connectivity

The AAPI Nonprofit Database is an interactive resource to find and connect with AAPI organizations

• racial equity
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

• racial equity

• Crowdsourcing

A way for the public to gain the very basic (and essential) knowledge about their elected representatives.

• Communicating with the government
• Social networks
• Find your representatives

We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. 

• Reduced inequalities
• electricity
• housing

The Open Home Foundation fights for the fundamental principles of privacy, choice, and sustainability for smart homes.

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

Created by NetFreedom Pioneers, the NKITI is designed to lower the entry barriers for technical individuals and organizations seeking to develop new information access solutions for the DPRK, and to serve as a launchpad for a new wave of technology-driven and DPRK-focused organizations.

• Connectivity
• Incubators
• Circumvention tech

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware
• Connectivity

A world in which political leaders are one of the most respected roles in society.

• Help more people run for office

The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

An easy tool to host a quadratic vote.

• Democratic Innovations
• E-voting and I-voting
• Quadratic voting

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

• city
• OpenStreetMap
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

• city
• public space
• mental health

• Design

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Digital Public Infrastructure

[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Amplifying underrepresented voices

• Freedom of Information
• Campaign organizations
• Diversity & Inclusion

The consortium will leverage a $275 million state investment to create and launch a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center on the University at Buffalo’s campus.

• state

Civitech’s campaign management platform, RunningMate, is the affordable solution for campaigns of all sizes and budgets.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

• local

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Working groups