A one-stop-shop for accessible local political knowledge and discussion (for small towns in the NJ-NY-PA area).

• local

• Mapping tools
• Budget explorers
• Neighborhood forums

{B/qKC} is a decentralized community archival project challenging institutional practices within the framework and study of midwestern Black queer history.

Mark-a-Spot is a modular platform for digital citizen engagement and municipal case management. Citizens can easily report issues such as infrastructure damage, waste, or environmental concerns via smartphone, enriched with photos and geodata.

• city

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Through the Mobility Independence Foundation’s (MIF) Academic Partnership Program, students will apply their skills to assist mobility disabled individuals.

We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks. Launched during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, this call has broad support from prominent leaders in policy, academia, and industry.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns
• Governance of AI

Transform complex content into accessible diagrams

• students
• teachers & educators

• Data visualization

We help organisations unlock the full potential of their people through tailored development, strategic guidance, and lasting cultural change.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Service delivery

En RIJA promovemos reformas de justicia abierta y centradas en las personas para mejorar la confianza ciudadana en las instituciones judiciales y la protección de derechos fundamentales.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Open justice

Wine and Wotsits is a regular meetup of campaigners and social activists organised by Alison Goldsworthy and Kate Norgrove.

• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others
• Organize campaigns

For impact funders, from VCs to foundations, Mútua combines AI and systems thinking to support mission-aligned decisions that address global challenges.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tools for Funders

The 2024 King's Speech announced 40 key policies designed to put Britain back on track. The changes aren't clear yet. What's happening to the Labour reforms? We track the bills announced in the King's Speech.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers
• Political parties

Union reps can be more confident in starting organising conversations after practicing their approach on an AI actor using our tool.

• labor
• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• The craft of organizing

At CodeYourFuture, they turn barriers into tech talent. Disadvantage into diverse workforce.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Digital literacy

The Conservative Party has accepted more than £27 million in donations since the 2019 elections, according to the Electoral Commission. Find out how much each industry has donated and what companies are making the donations.

• partisan

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Social and financial connections

Connect with a cause that needs you!

• Newspeak House

• Find a job or hire someone
• Nonprofit tech
• Job boards

The "Map of Polish Trees" is a nationwide, social project aimed at creating an inventory of trees growing across Poland.

• trees

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing
• Environmental data

The Congressional Technology & Policy Fellowship is a six-week professional development program designed specifically for key Congressional staff who want to ensure that their policies achieve real-world impact.

• Govtech
• The People
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Terms and Definitions you should know when localizing a product

• Learn about civic tech
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Glossaries

Lokalise is your strategic localization partner for delivering high-quality quality native-sounding digital experiences for your global users, intuitively and accurately.

Launched at Christmas 2003 to help Dean supporters understand grassroots outreach and to encourage them to participate in pre-caucus campaigning in Iowa or in their local area. Commissioned by Dean for America, the game was the first ever official U.S. Presidential Election game.

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification
• Predecessors & Pioneers

• handbooks

• Community-building resources

LoopTroop Foundation is a nonprofit building a rideshare and wellness support platform that provides transportation for prison visits, parole meetings, and court appearances, while offering mental health check-ins and reentry resources to underserved families.

• prisoners

• Open justice

The State of Play and Way Forward in Core Government Functions

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Reports

A new social media platform in civic tech

• corruption

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Book by Rajesh Veeraraghavan

• books

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

As the local media landscape in communities surrounding Washington, D.C., continues to shrink, The Banner has hired a team to bring its brand of trusted, independent journalism to the most populous county in the state.

• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

• Airbnb

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

This document sets out key policies and guidance for how digital projects and programmes are assessed, procured and delivered.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Playbooks and design principles

The European Institute of Innovation and Technology (EIT) has opened a new Community Hub in Slovakia, connecting local innovators, entrepreneurs and partners to Europe’s largest innovation network. The hub will act as a one-stop shop for local talent to access EIT opportunities, strengthening links between business, education and research.

• Hubs

Union is a civic co-pilot for New Yorkers that helps you find every representative for your address and contact them effectively on the issues that matter to you.

• Communicating with the government
• Find your representatives

The mission of this research area is to make today’s collective intelligence tools more open, modular, and interoperable, laying the groundwork for a capture-resistant ecosystem of deliberative tooling in which process innovation thrives and local creativity blossoms.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

POPVOX Foundation, the Niskanen Center, Civil Service Strong, the Partnership for Public Service and the Foundation for American Innovation invite departing federal employees to share your insights to help inform future Congressional action to strengthen federal programs.

• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Narrative tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Coalition for a Global Citizens’ Assembly brings together organisations committed to co-creating informed, collective solutions.

• Climate action

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Iswe Foundation is an independent democracy innovation centre. Our mission is to make governance systems work for people and planet.

• Democracy organizations

Bringing citizens to the heart of climate negotiations

• Climate action

• Inactive Projects Archive
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies