This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The website allows you to view, filter and analyze government finance data in a variety of sections and levels, from the national level, which includes aggregated (total) government, municipal, social security and monetary fund data, to detailed institution-level data.

• Government transparency
• Open data publishing portals
• Budget explorers

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Open data publishing portals

Women at the Table breaks down barriers to systems change so that women and girls are able to fully and actively participate and influence the world’s social, political and economic spheres.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

Un consorcio de organizaciones de la sociedad civil conformado por Asuntos del Sur, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, Extituto de Política Abierta e Instituto Pro Comum quienes tienen como misión conjunta impulsar formas innovadoras de gobernanza y acción colectiva en Ciudades del Sur Global.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

We are the first donor fund dedicated to community organising. We will provided targeted long-term funding in key geographies across the UK.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• The craft of organizing

The Democracy Forum is a not-for-profit NGO which promotes ideals of democracy, pluralism and tolerance through public debate.

• Participatory democracy
• Debate

Americans Elect was a political organization in the United States known primarily for its efforts to stage a national online primary for the 2012 US Presidential Election

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Democratic Innovations

Building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning (for the Labour Party)

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evidence-driven campaigning

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

You can install Dangerzone on your Mac, Windows, or Linux computer, and then use it to open a variety of types of documents: PDFs, Microsoft Office or LibreOffice documents, or images

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Exygy's collaboration with the CROP Organization and their work aggregating reentry data across the state of California.

• recidivism

• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

JAAKLAC iniciativa promueve la educación digital crítica para desarrollar el conocimiento sobre cómo las tecnologías digitales afectan a sociedades, al medioambiente y para ampliar la partcipación colectiva hacia futuros más justos.

• podcasts

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Digital literacy

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

What is a “progressive data” job? Loosely defined as a job where the majority of the role, department, or organization is focused on data or analytics work in the progressive space. This work may include anything from data science and software engineering to sales and staff management.

• partisan

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.

• hate speech
• diaspora

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

Greenhost provides hosting for NGOs and businesses that take ethical issues and sustainability seriously.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Web hosting

Microsoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the political, elections, journalism, thinktank, human rights and nonprofit sectors.

• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Information website by Budapest municipality in order to help the population find the possibilities of solar energy

• Govtech
• Mapping tools
• Mapping platforms

Collaborative data collection map on informal payment in maternity care

• Civic maps

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

• Media
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

Monitor Macroscopic Internet Outages in Near Real-Time

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats. Most people are never targeted by attacks of this nature.

• Apple

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification

"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

"[A] nonpartisan source for news, resources, and commentary focused on state courts and state constitutional development. It’s the first and only website dedicated to covering state constitutional cases and trends in high courts across the 50 states."

• state

• Legal tech
• News and blogs
• Constitutions

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

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

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundation initiatives

PwO is a technical consultancy that specializes in 0->1 product development and technology enablement in complex stakeholder environments, frequently touching government or the built environment, and often related to innovation and/or user experience-first initiatives.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Building in the private sector

We help to launch high-quality products in the sphere of privacy and Internet freedom

• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech
• Civic apps outfits

IMS is the largest media development organisation in the Nordic region. We work in more than 30 countries across four continents promoting press freedom, good journalism and safety for journalists.

• free speech

• Media
• Journalism
• Funders & donors

The Center for International Media Assistance's donor profiles on major public and private funders of global media development work

• Media
• Get funding
• Journalism

A critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government AI strategies

Our global editorial team of almost 50 journalists and about 300 freelancers covers the world’s under-reported stories at the heart of aid, development, women’s and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, climate change and social innovation

• Media
• Journalism
• Story-based campaigns

The Journalists in Distress (JiD) Network is an informal forum for sharing information on journalists in distress and developing joint initiatives for emergency response.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solidarity networks

NoKunda was a pioneering civic tech initiative designed to catalyze a civic movement in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, enabling citizens to report instances of electricity theft to the relevant authorities.

• electricity

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."

• Civic teams at tech companies
• Social media

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

IFES’s Election Cyber Readiness Network (ECRN) is designed to bring together key technology partners, election commissions, and other stakeholders to form regional and national strategies to protect elections from digital threats and support long-term electoral integrity.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

A dynamic, open-source reference library for practitioners who are working through complexity to improve access to public benefits and services.

• Access social benefits

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Moja WiFi is a turnkey Solution for monetizing public WiFi networks

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Location-based personal safety app that integrates with Tinder, emergency services

• crime
• domestic violence
• apps

• Emergency services
• Location