Open-core Airtable alternative

• Civic data
• General purpose open source tools

Our House is building a popular case for democratic reform through a new People's Charter [in the UK].

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

This dashboard allows anyone to track how BEAD Eligible Entities are progressing through major program milestones.

• Connectivity
• Public project trackers

PLURALL is a boutique consultancy firm transforming complex policy challenges into opportunities for sustainable, community-driven digital infrastructures.

• Building in the private sector

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed Internet access by funding planning, infrastructure deployment and adoption programs.

• Govtech
• Connectivity

Renters that received an informational postcard were 52% more likely to request an application for rental assistance and 24% more likely to submit an application than renters that did not receive a postcard.

• housing

• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people
• Behavioral economics programs

• X (Twitter)

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

This map displays where Internet services are available across the United States, as reported by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to the FCC. The map will be updated continuously to improve its accuracy through a combination of FCC verification efforts, new data from Internet providers, updates to the location data, and—importantly—information from the public.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Civic maps

Game-changing program for newsrooms with the tools and knowledge to harness AI for smarter, more efficient journalism.

• trainings

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

The Political Party Database Project is a cross-national initiative to establish and update an online public database as a source for key information about political party organizations. Last updated 2022.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Political parties

Sweaters, t-shirts, hoodies, and ball caps supporting following the money in American politics

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic tech gifts

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• Newspeak

A powerful suite of nonprofit fundraising tools & features that works for your organization.

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Merchandise

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

An IREX Venture are identifying how we can support the development community to surface potential strategic partnerships or mergers that can strengthen resilience.

• Project 2025

• Nonprofit tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Resource matching and sharing

Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases

• Google
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

Alert people privately through a system that protect their privacy - without texts, emails or phone calls.

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Connectivity

A personal digital wallet for EU citizens and residents

• Govtech
• Identity

Mike Tahani's data viz gallery. It includes mapping, journalism, politics, outer space, and data visualization.

• Data visualization
• Mapping

• Funders & donors
• Open knowledge
• Open science

Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos

• Govtech
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech

Producing cutting-edge research on the people of government and the communities they are called to serve.

• Communicating with the government
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Celebrating public service and public servants

Organizing Info About Congress

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Paid job listserv. The Sujata Strategies Job List is one of the most well-read and respected job lists in the progressive community.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

• Govtech
• Research tools
• Open knowledge

The American Governance Institute develops ideas and educates policymakers on innovative approaches to strengthening American democracy, state capacity, and federal governance.

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies

• Israel Palestine

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

DataCameroon est un site d’information généraliste, spécialisé dans le Data journalisme et le journalisme d’investigation.

• Media
• Civic data
• Journalism

DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact
• Advertising

Campaign to urge Congress: Protect Public Media Funding

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Public media

Norton and TechSoup offer knowledge and digital tools to protect survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexual assault.

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech

The Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to reformulate participation and decision making in the creation of public policies, programs, and services, with the goal of fostering more just and equitable cities and societies.

• Academia
• Design
• Academic programs

No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship

• guides

• Media
• Journalism
• Organizational policies on AI

Building on expertise from across Tech & Society, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.

• Academia
• Fellowships

Award-winning independent investigative news agency in Ukraine

• Ukraine

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Taught By: Eduardo Staszowski

• Project 2025

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

The Lenfest Institute is home to communities of practice serving various types of journalism professionals and organizations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

A core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

The Digital Good Network will produce a Digital Good Index which can be used to evaluate digital innovations to ensure good societal outcomes.

• Evaluate impact

The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmental protection, democracy, and anti-corruption efforts.

• Freedom of Information
• Awards and prizes

Taught By Richard The

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities
• resilience

• Get funding
• Research and policy centers
• Funders & donors

The Outrage is a hub for activism. We’re leveraging the power of community + fashion to mobilize our growing network of activists to shift the political landscape of our country and change the world we live in.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech gifts

Explore charities that match your passions, view their ratings, and support them with your donation.

• Civic data
• Nonprofit tech
• Help out

Benefits organizations supporting USAID’s global workforce that have lost their jobs including Democracy Forward, which fights in court for people and democracy.

• Civic tech gifts