Free online course at ITU Academy funded by the EU

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Open source transaction monitoring software

• fintech

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

• United Nations

The platform generates customized AI Art QR code images based on provided prompts

Moot court competitions about intellectual property in Venezuela

• students

• Legal tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

This map shows municipal networks across the United States.

• Civic maps
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

InOut.bot uses the official WhatsApp API from Meta to send and receive your messages to/from the most popular platforms. Works with IFTTT.

• WhatsApp
• commercial

• Group communication tools

Research and Technology Lab

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

The Bank launched GovTech Working Groups to provide thought leadership, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and support the development of sound GovTech solutions. Community building and impact-driven collaboration are the core objectives of this initiative.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Working groups

AI tool to train volunteers to knock doors for Labour in political campaigns

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Bots
• Manage volunteers

In this podcast, we (Hal and Saya) will explore civictech in Japan and across the world.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

GovTech Glossary contains definitions of key terms, concepts, and acronyms commonly found in the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) online survey.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

The World Bank's program to "support countries in adopting sound practices and solutions in GovTech, and to ensure a broad global partnership for effective exchange and transfer of knowledge and good practice."

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Foundation initiatives

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) was developed as part of the GovTech Initiative to introduce a measure of GovTech maturity in four focus areas — supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen engagement, and fostering GovTech enablers— and to assist practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects.

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Find information faster on the Electoral Commission website: Use our chatbot to do the searching for you

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Bots

A tool to help you run local campaigns with local data.

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Data activism

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Compiler is a nonprofit newsroom launching in 2024 to cover the people, institutions and global forces shaping our digital future.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• News and blogs
• Policy

Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Evidence-driven campaigning

This publication aims to provide practical, actionable insights and a deep understanding of CivicTech applications to support World Bank Group projects and government initiatives, enhancing transparency, enabling public feedback, and fostering collaboration.

• Learn about civic tech

Draft letters to sway voters and bolster support.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

東京大学内に設置された「デジタル空間社会連携研究機構」を中心に、市民や地域企業、行政、関連団体など多様なステークホルダーが関わり、地域やコミュニティのためのデータ・

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We are a research collective dedicated to providing public communication campaigns with rigorous, state-of-the-art tools for message development. Our methodology combines machine learning, crowdsourcing, and adaptive randomized controlled trials.

• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech
• Communicating with the people

Make your campaign wiser with data & AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

• fires

• Hardware
• Emerging Tech Report Projects
• Satellites

Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world

• air quality

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Environmental data

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

• fires

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Digital twins

An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Peer-reviewed research

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it

• books

• Govtech
• Books
• Public Private Partnerships

They will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives. 

• Project 2025
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Government transparency

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.

• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Justice tech

The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."

• recidivism
• reports
• criminal justice

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech
• AI Auditing

"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Generative AI

Through a comprehensive analysis of various ICT projects, this study examines the success and challenges of using technology to protect and restore land rights.

• land
• indigenous

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Story tech

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

YoMobi is a digital platform cooperative that empowers youth organisations by providing tools for skill development, learning, and community engagement to tackle youth unemployment and enhance socio-economic inclusion.

• youth
• apps
• Decent work and economic growth

• Nonprofit tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Citizen Engagement

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

London's Techno-Optimist Members Club

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

Now-defunct gov portal for US social benefits (folded into USA.gov)

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

Answer honestly the following questions, the results may or may not be published, in any case it will be anonymous and the data that make possible any form of tracking will not be shared or published in any way. For more information on how we treat the data please visit: https://clisi.org/privacidaddatos/ Participation in this study is understood to be free of charge and for academic purposes, by answering the questions you grant its use for these purposes.

A prototype project that aims to help understand how AI models and humans differ in their perception of risk.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

A qualitative research database featuring excerpts from 100+ hours of interviews with older adults talking about the issues most important to them.

• seniors
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Research tools
• Policy