The Social Media Election Policy Tracker is a tool created to broadly chronicle a timeline of selected social media companies’ evolving policies which have impacted the information environment related to U.S. elections and campaigns from 2016 – the present.

• Voting and elections
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy

• Academia
• Academic programs
• Cybersecurity

Waymo partnered with dashcam company Nexar to analyze 500 million miles of driving, including 335 crashes, to create the 'largest ever’ dataset of pedestrian and cyclist injuries

• city
• cycling
• mobility

• Peer-reviewed research
• Data science for social good
• Cameras

The Code for America Innovator Awards honor groups or individuals that are shaping the path forward in the government and civic tech community.

• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

Faster, market-informed hiring for govs

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone

Landlord database & interactive map to promote property ownership transparency in rental markets

• landlord
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data science for social good

A newsletter issue with a great summary of back-office efficiencies for social good organisations using AI

• guides
• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

New Naratif is a movement democratising democracy in Southeast Asia.

• manifestos

• Participatory democracy

Project Multatuli is a collective initiative dedicated to carrying out the ideals of public journalism by serving the underreported and holding power accountable.

• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

A platform for women to be able to share their stories and knowledge related to water and river governance.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Peer networks
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Story-based campaigns

The Knowledge for Development (K4D) Foundation empowers communities and enables social inclusion through capacity building programs to advance data and digital literacy for data-driven innovations and culture.

• indigenous
• Gender Equality
• women

• Data rights

An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language models. Release repo for Vicuna and Chatbot Arena.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Making Generative AI Models Accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

• commercial
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Now ReGrid

• Graveyard

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Open source AI

Capacitate Social Solutions is a social enterprise that was established in 2015 to support stakeholders across the social and green economy and drive innovation for impact.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

Comprehensive database tracking the use of AI systems in the Slovenian public sector.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A civic feature that helps Americans find out to vote right from within Google Search, in partnership with VIP and Democracy Works

• Google

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Find your polling place

AI-generated election information hub

• US Election 2024
• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

Post outlining OpenAI's partnerships with DARPA, US AID, and US National Laboratories

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Public Private Partnerships

Open handbook about g0v and how to form a civic tech community group

• g0v

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Community-building resources

CivicTechZenChiba is an alliance of civic tech action members in Chiba to support each other.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups
• Partner networks and coalitions

The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

Empowering the people of Myanmar to engage in informed dialogue with their parliamentary representatives.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

A a mid-century live subway map on Kickstarter

• mass transit

• Civic data
• Hardware
• Dashboards

"BigScience Large Open-science Open-access Multilingual Language Model is a 176-billion-parameter transformer-based autoregressive large language model. The model, as well as the code base and the data used to train it, are distributed under free licences." - Wikipedia

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

Trans Kids Deserve Better is a UK action network and resource hub advocating for the rights, healthcare, and support of transgender youth.

• Campaign organizations

Gender Avenger highlighted gender imbalance and advocates for equal representation of women in the public realm through three proprietary channels: The GA Tally App, GA Action Alerts, and GA Stamp of Approval

• Gender Equality

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Certifications

Celebrate (or shame) event organizers for their program's gender (im)balance.

• apps
• Gender Equality
• women

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

The mission is to create an open-source data science and AI toolkit to analyse, summarise, and visualise political information.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis