The handbook has been used by Midwest Academy since 1973 in its organizing and activism seminars

• books

We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.

• Open knowledge

Pro bono legal assistance for NGOs or academic research assistance on legislative issues at no cost and worldwide

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.

• Google

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic teams at tech companies

The Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab is a program supporting early stage entrepreneurs in journalism.

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

Official Reddit account to help you Up The Vote. Learn how to get registered, understand voting options and deadlines, and make your voice count.

• Reddit
• US Election 2024

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Civic features

This is a non-partisan guide made to help new [UK] MPs & their staff establish and run their offices after the 2024 election.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

GovWell’s mission is to build modern software products to help government serve communities better.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Permitting

CTCL is thrilled to launch a nonpartisan grant program to help rural and nonmetro election jurisdictions ensure reliable and secure elections consistent with applicable law.

• rural

• Get funding
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Maximize your mission impact through technology. Let us help you harness its power.

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

Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for corporate civic responsibility."

• Microsoft

• Journalism
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

THE NYC public toilet Google map

• Civic data
• Civic maps

gotham-grabber is a set of scripts written to archive journalism published on a set of now-defunct news sites

• Journalism
• Archives

ADISI-Cameroun est une organisation de la société civile qui a pour cœur de métier l’information et la gouvernance de celle-ci.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Digital rights

Connecting Talent with Opportunity

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Actively supporting local government technology leaders and their teams through research & content, professional development, consulting services, learning and networking events, membership, workforce connections and recognition programs.

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

10x is the federal government’s very own venture studio

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Public sector innovation labs

Community Broadband Bits is a weekly audio show hosted by Community Broadband Networks Initiative Director Christopher Mitchell featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise involved with Internet policy.

• Podcasts
• Community wifi
• Internet governance

• Awards and prizes

By Alan R. Shark, with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI

• local
• books

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Books

Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic features

The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate's analysis of 31 digital participation platforms

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Agri Stack is the digital foundation being set up by the government to make it easier to bring various stakeholders together to improve agriculture in India and enable better outcomes and results for the farmers by using data and digital services.

• agriculture

• Govtech
• Tech for public challenges
• Economic development

The knowledge hub for digital development

• development

• Civic tech catalogs
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Swiss law requiring government agencies disclose their source code when possible.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Civic tech legislation and policy

EDGI’s Public Comments Initiative sheds light on public commenting and how to engage effectively with federal rulemaking.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Civic literacy

Project Oasis is a research effort to map independent digital media organizations, news creators and publishers-in-exile across 68 countries.

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs