Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Evidence-driven campaigning

Draft letters to sway voters and bolster support.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

This publication aims to provide practical, actionable insights and a deep understanding of CivicTech applications to support World Bank Group projects and government initiatives, enhancing transparency, enabling public feedback, and fostering collaboration.

• Learn about civic tech

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

The Bank launched GovTech Working Groups to provide thought leadership, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and support the development of sound GovTech solutions. Community building and impact-driven collaboration are the core objectives of this initiative.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Working groups

Research and Technology Lab

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

AI tool to train volunteers to knock doors for Labour in political campaigns

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Bots
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

We are a research collective dedicated to providing public communication campaigns with rigorous, state-of-the-art tools for message development. Our methodology combines machine learning, crowdsourcing, and adaptive randomized controlled trials.

• Fight disinformation
• Communicating with the people
• Narrative tech

GovTech Glossary contains definitions of key terms, concepts, and acronyms commonly found in the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) online survey.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

The World Bank's program to "support countries in adopting sound practices and solutions in GovTech, and to ensure a broad global partnership for effective exchange and transfer of knowledge and good practice."

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Foundation initiatives

In this podcast, we (Hal and Saya) will explore civictech in Japan and across the world.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Compiler is a nonprofit newsroom launching in 2024 to cover the people, institutions and global forces shaping our digital future.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Policy
• News and blogs

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

• fires

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Digital twins

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

• fires

• Hardware
• Emerging Tech Report Projects
• Satellites

Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world

• air quality

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Environmental data

An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

"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)

Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."

• recidivism
• reports
• criminal justice

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech
• AI Auditing

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

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

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

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

• 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

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

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

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

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.

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
• Policy
• Research tools

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

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Website builder

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

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

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

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

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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
• Courses

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