30 ADS govtech applications in Washington state

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

Amber is a tool for blogs & websites to keep linked content accessible

• extensions

• Archives
• Open knowledge

A public-owned social network for public institutions (municipalities, schools, libraries, hospitals, museums, etc) to engage communities without using Big Tech, and instead using infrastructure based on public values

• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Social networks

Enhancing the privacy and security of national digital identity systems

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Identity

Imagine if we could place ourselves 100 years from now and still have access to photos shared by millions of people on Flickr…

• culture

• Archives
• Cameras

3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

Connects Americans to public resources that help them lower their bills

• No poverty

• Access social benefits
• Economic development

Helping Others Help Others

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• Civic and social impact companies

The Fund is a shared space for philanthropists to leverage one another’s expertise, incubate investment strategies to advance visionary concepts, and catalyze big ideas that can transform the use of technology to serve the public interest.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

Building a Digital Ecosystem for Refugees

• refugees

• Access social benefits
• Decentralization
• Economic development

We are a growing international network ​racing to save everything we love by using effective civil resistance across our 12 countries.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

A modern rewrite that hopes to make it a bit easier for federal product teams to adopt, adapt, and extend the USWDS.

• Govtech
• Build something
• Design

See for yourself how accurately you can identify AI-generated images

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Deepfakes

"A global coalition working to fight organized cybercrime in Southeast Asia" - New York Times

• Cybersecurity
• Fight cybercrime

Insights about emerging technologies, digital democracy and public policy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Build a home for your community, events, and courses — all under your own brand.

• Internal communication and coordination

A global team of DPI builders helping countries co-design localised solutions that scale

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Unlike traditional conservation efforts, Conservation X Labs focuses on leveraging the best technology, the newest innovation, interdisciplinary genius, and the power of the marketplace to boldly confront the biggest problems facing the planet.

• animals
• sustainability

• Artificial Intelligence

The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Election SOS offers training & resources for journalists, connecting them to best practices, resources and support around election coverage.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Media
• Journalism
• Voting and elections

This is a place to connect, share and discuss all things related to climate change & machine learning 🌏🔥 🤖💻

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres

• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping

Daejeon Citizens' Coalition for Participatory Autonomy Budget Monitoring Project

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

The NABIT (Nucleic Acid Barcode Identification Tool) is a low-cost, hand-held, field-ready automated tool to validate the identity of a wildlife or food product, anywhere in the world, without specialized training, equipment, reagents, or even continuous power.

• animals

• Emerging tech
• Hardware

A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.

• Climate action
• buildings
• Google

• Civic data
• Environmental data

The Global DPI Summit, hosted in Cairo, Egypt, stands as a premier convening of stakeholders in the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) ecosystem, bringing together representatives from across the globe.

• Govtech
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Conservation X Labs’ Sentinel transforms wildlife monitoring tools — like trail cameras and acoustic recorders — with revolutionary and intuitive AI technology, processing environmental data in real-time as it’s collected.

• animals

• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Get energy data with a few lines of code

• Affordable and clean energy

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental data

A powerful tool designed to train reinforcement learning agents to optimize energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions in buildings.

• buildings
• Google
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Environmental data

Join a free web-based platform that supports media to compete more effectively for audiences and revenues by learning from the performance of peers globally and participating in a marketplace of ideas.

• Media
• Journalism

Digital Square is a PATH-led initiative funded by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and a consortium of other partners to transform digital health.

• Good health and well-being

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Foundation initiatives

Amplifying voices of migrants and refugees in European Media

• migration

• Media
• Story-based campaigns
• Translation and linguistic representation

Evidence from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan shows that digital aid is a cost-effective, credible, and efficient way to reach vulnerable populations, in this case poor, tech-illiterate, female-headed households, in fragile states.

• Zero hunger

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Direct aid

Rule of Law monitoring platform - Govwatch is a collective map of the state of the rule of law in Greece, made up of reports not just from the Govwatch team, but also from civil society organisations, journalists and academics, and citizens.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Indicators

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

• Reduced inequalities
• No poverty

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Dashboards

Κάθε πολίτης έχει το δικαίωμα να αποκτήσει πληροφορίες από δημόσιους οργανισμούς. Σύμφωνα με τον νόμο, οφείλουν να απαντήσουν.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

A global accelerator for AI innovators and nonprofits working to solve the world’s pressing challenges.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being
• Quality education

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• courses

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

The Midwest Newsroom is a partnership among Iowa Public Radio, KCUR in Kansas City, Nebraska Public Media News, St. Louis Public Radio and NPR.

• Media
• Journalism
• Newsroom partnership networks

The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions.

• United Nations
• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• Civic data
• Dashboards
• Open civic data

Civic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

New York Focus is a nonprofit, nonpartisan newsroom covering state and local politics in the Empire State. We aim to make government more transparent by publishing in-depth journalism that explains how the state really works.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.

• local
• 2024 elections
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

We empower communities to actively engage with their governments in decision-making through technology, design, communication, and research, driving better public services and enhancing citizen participation in governance.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Build something
• Freedom of Information

Vote map and data dashboard showing support for elected representatives in Cali, Colombia

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Government transparency

Jarbas, a public panel of [Brasilian] parliamentary reimbursements, where suspicious purchases are easily accessible for public scrutiny.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Cada pessoa embaixadora de inovação cívica atua na organização de eventos locais, bate-papos, documentação de processos e, claro, na integração com os demais participantes da rede.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Sustainability Jobs is a job board related to Environmental and Renewable Energy Jobs.

an independent charity dedicated to using, producing and communicating the best available evidence to improve policing

• Justice tech