Lighthouse Reports series reveals discrimination in welfare surveillance algorithms

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• AI Auditing

Reclaiming privacy. Defending freedom.

• surveillance

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

A report on the struggle to keep public-interest technology research alive—and the growing Coalition working to protect it. DOWNLOAD THE REPORT

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

Meet Democracy aims to democratise community participation by providing a trustworthy and secure platform for citizens to express themselves.

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Ideation

NosLois is an online platform that provides citizens with factual information on laws under preparation, enabling them to take a position and make their voices heard.

• Voting and elections

Cityvizor is a tool that enables transparent management of municipalities by providing detailed information on individual items of the budget and tracking their progress through ongoing implementation.

• Creators and Influencers

eSesja is a civic tech tool that facilitates electronic distribution of materials for councillors, providing instant access to agendas, meeting materials, and a complete meeting calendar.

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

Making social services more connected, empathetic and accessible

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Access social benefits

MainCross integrates content, community, workflows, and commerce within a personalised network site, allowing organisations to configure, customise, and moderate their networks.

• Ideation
• Petitions
• Surveys & polling

Eligo eVoting serves as a global online voting platform designed to digitise and expedite various elections for private and public organisations.

• Voting and elections
• Ideation
• Participatory budgeting

Cofonder is a civic tech product that offers various tools to promote transparency and citizen participation in local governance.

• Ideation
• Participatory budgeting

Imagina is an online citizen participation platform that enables municipalities and organisations to promote democratic engagement and gather feedback from their constituents.

• Ideation
• Participatory budgeting

Deferendum is a mobile app that facilitates transparent and inclusive decision-making for individuals, groups, and organizations.

• Voting and elections
• Ideation
• Petitions

Civicpower is a digital consultation solution that enables secure and confidential voting for all users.

• Voting and elections

Eolas specialises in building custom platforms for clients, which allows them to create personalised editorial content and participation mechanisms for their citizens, such as consultations and participatory budgets.

• Ideation
• Petitions
• Participatory budgeting

Crowdoscope is an online survey discussion tool that captures collective social intelligence.

• Voting and elections
• Surveys & polling
• E-voting and I-voting

Senf.app is a tool designed for digital participation in planning projects.

• Ideation
• Creators and Influencers

Citymag Mairie is a civic tech tool that enables citizens to easily access information about their municipality.

• Ideation
• Petitions
• Creators and Influencers

CAHOS has created dashboards that can process data from multiple sources and present the information in a visual format on a map.

• Creators and Influencers

Electric Vote is a decision-making platform that facilitates direct voting and delegation of votes.

• Voting and elections
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

Colidée is a comprehensive online platform that is designed to support collaboration and collective decision-making across organisations and communities.

• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

Choicla Web is an engagement platform that offers three main features: polls, challenges, and a dashboard.

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Surveys & polling

LegiScan is a service for tracking state and Congressional legislation in the US. Some notable features include bill tracking, searching and API access to legislative data.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Civic data APIs

Co-founder matching platform for civic & impact founders.

• Meet the others
• Build something
• Socialize online

Privacy Eyewear & Sunglasses: Anti Facial Recognition Glasses since 2015.

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Artistic interventions

Bellingcat’s Auto Archiver is a tool aimed at preserving online digital content before it can be modified, deleted or taken down.

• General purpose open source tools
• Research tools
• Archives

Multi-function AI assistant for police accountability, including real-time legal advice and crowdsourcing on policemen's behaviors

• policing
• police violence

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open justice

Grass-roots civic signaling for Neodemocracy

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Issue reporting
• Neighborhood forums

• Wikipedia

• Crowdsourcing
• Open knowledge
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Internet Archive Europe is a project by the Dutch non-profit research library Stichting Internet Archive. It is building collections and tools to bring them to life.

• culture

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open knowledge
• Archives

• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Hardware

We are a group of passionate donors, donor advisors, and foundations deeply concerned about the present and future of American democracy. We specifically focus on driving strategic investments towards durable rules reform.

• Democracy organizations
• Foundation initiatives

Algorithmic rent-price setting company

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame