Citizen Connect is a non-partisan platform dedicated to helping Americans right, left and center find ways to heal our divides and strengthen this great nation.

• Polarization

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science...

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

The Climate Data JLN will surface key data governance innovations that will enable climate-relevant data to be more accessible and useful for frontline governments and communities.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Data governance

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations
• Artistic interventions

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Civil society research outfits

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

• Economic development
• Digital transformation

The Social Practice is an ideologically-driven consultancy based in the US and Europe. We help those working for big change to strategize, communicate, and organize at scale.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Building inside government
• Public Private Partnerships

The first virtual DEI assessment for the workplace with an emphasis on mutual accountability.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Democracy Only Works When We Do

• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Civil society research outfits

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic and social impact companies
• Civic apps outfits

A family of interrelated justice-seeking organizations that both independently and collectively work to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundational layers

We are on a mission to help the social sector organizations to scale their impact, increase their outreach and work smarter using artificial intelligence and chatbots, and smart automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic and social impact companies
• Nonprofit tech

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• Academia
• In-person meetings

Podlove is a group of Wordpress plugins and allows you to self-host your podcast.

• Wordpress

• Decentralization
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

HURREVAC is the decision support tool of the [US] National Hurricane Program, administered by FEMA, the USACE, and the NOAA National Hurricane Center.

• hurricanes

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Meet the others

This initiative aims to empower individuals, informal groups, and entities to effectively counter digital rights threats and violations online.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Digital rights

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• cities
• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

"Suggestions bag" for the Portuguese Assembly. It's actively used but it's not clear where citizen suggestions go once posted.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

The official citizen participation hub of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic

During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Voting and elections

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

• Surveys & polling
• Polarization

A texting hotline promoting education for peace

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Israel Palestine

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Peer to peer SMS

Whether it’s hate speech in our social media or bringing together diverse groups for online training, digital tools can harm and help our peacebuilding initiatives.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Civic tech catalogs

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Hack The Press is a movement. We're not satisfied by the current situation of owned media, and we've taken Michael Jackson's song "Man In The Mirror" to heart.

• Media
• Meet the others
• Journalism

We are training the next generation of cyber leaders and safeguarding community organizations.

• Academia
• Cybersecurity
• Partner networks and coalitions

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity
• Open knowledge

Custom GPT tool to help journalists in the Philippines to parse long government audit reports for anomalies

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Scrutinizing what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally

• reports
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Satellites
• Civic features

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

• Media
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

NYC's legislative body