My promise with Better (Political) Leadership is simple: reflections that are practical, timely, evidence-based, inspiring, and human. For all leaders—but especially for those in politics, where every decision is magnified and every mistake can feel existential.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

A minimal, open, stewarded feed format for sharing local events, assets, dreams, plans, and notices across neighborhood websites, tools, and communities.

• neighborhoods

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Community-building resources

Science-based journalism for democracy

• Journalism

Tool that shows your IP address and its association with torrent records

• Digital security and privacy

A resource sharing system where neighbors can lend and borrow party supplies and event materials within their community.

• neighborhoods

• Resource matching and sharing
• Community-building resources

Comparing traditionally structured survey questions vs. the benefits of open-ended survey questions combined with text analysis to allow a wider range of responses.

• Peer-reviewed research
• Surveys & polling

A hyperlocal neighbor hub that brings care, resources, and connection to a specific neighborhood or block.

• neighborhoods

• Media
• Community-building resources
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Working Together Across Borders

This is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search auto-generated transcripts of Council meetings for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

By Chris Miles with Brandon Silverman and Anna Lenhart

• reports

• Civic data
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A platform for collecting and sharing personal stories from community members to build connection and understanding among neighbors.

• neighborhoods

• Community-building resources
• Story tech

A dashboard or directory showcasing community-built digital tools and resources created by and for local residents.

• neighborhoods

• Dashboards
• Community-building resources

Airtable of 250+ Social Media Monitoring Tools (Sept 2025)

• Civic tech catalogs
• Media and social media analysis

A how-to-series on the command line and Bellingcat research tools. Created with the beginner researcher in mind.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital literacy
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

A local events and community calendar system to keep neighbors informed about what's happening in their area.

• neighborhoods

• Media
• Community-building resources
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

This course ​explores​ the theory and practice of legislative scrutiny and explores the potential role of technology​ to augment these efforts​. The course will take place online and in Berlin from 8–22 January 2026.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Courses

Case studies of 3 concrete examples of Civic Tech interoperability

• TICTeC 25

• Engagement tech
• Civic platform interoperability

A digital platform for neighborhood associations to manage activities, communications, and member engagement online.

• neighborhoods

• Community-building resources
• Internal communication and coordination

Tools and resources for organizing neighborhood block parties, including planning templates, coordination features, and community engagement.

• neighborhoods

• Community-building resources
• Tech for your meetings

Digital security lab researching and publishing forensic tools, threat intelligence, offensive security experiments and guides to defend social movements and rights-focused communities

Fund Your Mission, Cause or Idea. One Block at a Time.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Bitpart is a one-to-many messaging tool that plugs into Signal. It was designed with rights defenders, activists and journalists operating in risky or repressive environments, and is intended for anyone needing to communicate with a large network safely over Signal.

• Digital security and privacy
• Chat and messaging

A campaign by The Points Guy to rally consumers to fight for their credit card points (at the expense of businesses paying exchange fees)

• User lobbying

Protomaps is a free, customizable map of the world, deployable as a single static file on cloud storage.

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic data APIs

The Under the Surface project, coordinated by Arena for Journalism in Europe and initiated by Datadista, delved into official data from European countries to reveal, for the first time, the extent of the danger we face.

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic maps

ADES is the national groundwater data access portal for metropolitan France and overseas departments. It gathers quantitative and qualitative data on groundwater on a public website.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open data publishing portals

The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Private Members' Club in London. The Conduit is a community of people committed to creating a just, prosperous and sustainable future.

University initiative fostering research, education, and innovation in democracy and civic engagement.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Directory of direct links to delete your account from Persian web services.

• Digital security and privacy

Library Freedom Project is a network of values-driven librarians working together to build information democracy.

• libraries
• trainings

• Digital security and privacy
• Peer networks

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings