Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. We put people at the heart of policy-making to create bold ideas and a more collaborative democracy.

• Research and policy centers

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artistic interventions

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Social media
• Citizen Engagement

Platformable's Data Governance training products, resources and tools can help your organisation to build a comprehensive, automated, high quality data governance system.

• Online courses
• Data governance

Mit ihren Projekten, Studien und Veranstaltungen regt die Bertelsmann Stiftung Debatten an und gibt Impulse für gesellschaftliche Veränderungen. Gemeinnützige Arbeit und nachhaltige Wirkung sind die Grundlagen ihres Handelns. Die Initiativen der Stiftung zeigen nicht nur Lösungen auf, sondern schaffen empirisch gestützte Orientierung in einer breiten Öffentlichkeit.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media
• Decentralization

Your weekly insight into GovTech collaboration and innovation in Europe and Asia

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

We are a partnership bringing together 20 specialist organisations to support democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Manifestos

A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.

• reports
• United Nations

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Led by Harold F

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Factchecking

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Creating and supporting independent news entrepreneurs

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

14 renowned European research and computing centers have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The initiative will be contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Exploring the fun and frustrations of nonprofit work

• News and blogs
• Nonprofit tech
• Artistic interventions

Monitoring digital rights violations and online violations in Serbia.

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

We exist to protect democracy and human rights from digital threats.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Creators and Influencers
• Public Relations and amplification

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data visualization

We help nonprofits, impact organizations & issue focused organizations collaborate with creators to reach audiences more effectively.

• Media
• Creators and Influencers

My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Journalism

ElectoFacts is a resource that Canadian electors can use to easily check whether information they come across about Canada's federal electoral process is true or not.

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Citizen Engagement
• Research tools

Oslo for AI aims to open up new possibilities for the governance of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Mapeo de rutas para futuras ciudades sostenibles

• mobility

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic hackathons

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact
• Meeting tech

SeeSay2020.com was an online tool that allowed voters to report instances of misinformation, voting machine issues, polling place wait times, and more, with the goal to attract media and legal attention to verified, ongoing issues in real time.

• US Election 2020

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

• cities

• Digital rights
• Data governance

IDB Lab is the innovation and venture capital arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Innovation teams and labs
• Investors

Somos un estudio de innovación govtech con proyectos en Europa y América Latina

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Open SaaS & hosting service for Decidim

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

• cities
• WhatsApp

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Smart Districts (Dublin) are strategically selected locations where innovation projects are fast-tracked.

• neighborhoods
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Innovation teams and labs

A global community for cities to learn about generative AI together, faster.

• cities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.

• WhatsApp
• missing people

• Crowdsourcing
• Legal tech
• Bots

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Open government data

NYC's Business Services Chatbot which "uses Microsoft's Azure AI services to provide information in response to questions you have about starting or operating your business" in ten+ languages

• cities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

An AI Assistant by Gooey.AI and Digital Green to make vetted farmer knowledge accessible.

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Bots

Pulitzer Center: Working with journalists and newsrooms that represent the diversity of the communities affected by AI technologies, the Network seeks to address the knowledge imbalance on artificial intelligence that exists in the journalism industry and to create a multidisciplinary and collaborative ecosystem that enables journalists to report on this fast-evolving topic with skill, nuance, and impact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Fellowships

This Transport for London project looks to introduce new ways to reduce adverse impacts of roadworks in London, by working with innovative companies to shape these in a way that responds to the problems London faces.

• mobility

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Procurement

This 3-month hybrid, tuition-free and highly participatory program invites journalists to explore generative AI through theory and practice, and add meaningfully to the conversation.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism