Civic Impulse, LLC is Joshua Tauberer’s liability wrapper around GovTrack.us.

[T]he largest repository of parliamentary open data in the Central and Eastern Europe. We survey, scrape, open, republish and use voting results, speeches and other types of parliamentary data!

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Parliamentary monitoring and democracy watchdog organisation using civic tech to promote transparency, accountability and citizen engagement.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

The Right To Know (R2K), Nigeria is a dynamic organisation established in 2007 to champion the right to access officially held information at all levels of government public institutions and establishing legal standards for these rights in Nigeria.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

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

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Direct aid

AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity
• Direct aid

Bahn-Vorhersage ist ein Rankingsystem für Zugverbindungen. Es kann für alle Zugverbindung innerhalb von Deutschland einen sogenannten Verbindungsscore ermitteln.

• mass transit
• mobility

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

A free/libre book about UX research with qualitative methods on user motivations, activities, and problems, by Jan Dittrich

• books

• Build something
• User research

Mehr Freiheit und mehr Demokratie waren die großen Versprechen des Internets.

• books

• Books
• Decentralization

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

• supply chain

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Freedom of Information
• Justice tech

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping

The [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA)

• state

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz wurde kundgemacht

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Everyone has the right under the Hong Kong Code of Access to Information to ask for and receive access to information held by government departments and agencies.

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Romanian Alaveteli instance

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

Somos el siguiente nivel en acceso a la información pública

• extensions
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Communicating with the government

هل تريد الحصول على معلومةلا تتردّد وقدّم مطلبك. Now-defunct Alaveteli instance for Tunisia

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

An iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

[W]hich aspires to establish a global democracy, solving the hard problem of representing every human in the world – including those who won’t participate – without the help of government.

• Participatory democracy
• Blockchain
• Democratic Innovations

When founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.

• Media
• Journalism
• Evaluate impact

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

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

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Системы распознавания лиц являются технологиями двойного назначения и могут использоваться для давления на общество

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy

Общество защиты интернета (ОЗИ) проводит мониторинг связности в Сети. Индекс связности обновляется ежедневно и чем он больше — тем лучше.

• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech

Мониторинг всех реестров запрещённых сайтов, которые ведутся в России, а также реестров блогеров и организаторов распространения информации

• free speech

• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

Ресурс-инструкция, помогающий пользователям получать доступ к заблокированным сайтам. Он рассказывает о трёх законных способах открыть заблокированный сайт: через расширения для браузера, VPN и более сложные системы обхода, такие как Tor, Psiphon, Lantern.

• free speech
• extensions

• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech
• VPN

Юристы проекта защищают тех, кого преследуют власти за свободное выражение мнения в Интернете

• Telegram
• free speech

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Legal tech
• Solidarity networks

Эксперты проекта Digital Rating исследовали политики и практики популярных веб-сервисов Рунета по раскрытию данных взаимодействия с госорганами, а также соблюдения прав граждан на свободу информации и приватность.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Кампания по сбору заявлений в суд против сервиса «Яндекс.Еда» от граждан, чьи данные были обнаружены в утечке. Заявки для участия собираются в онлайн, далее работают адвокаты в судах.

• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Ежегодная конференция на русском языке, приуроченная к Международному дню защиты персональных данных

• Digital security and privacy
• Holidays