The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

A World Bank project forking the Your Priorities platform to meaningfully engage residents in Kyrgyzstan around a major development project

• development

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Korean app to match young people to politicians in their area and discussing their issues

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Storytelling AND advocacy campaigns for movements.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

An open network for secure, decentralised communication

• Matrix

• Internal communication and coordination
• Decentralization
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram? Authenticate your preferred one with one click!

• commercial
• Discord

• Internal communication and coordination
• Chat and messaging

We are the ProPublica union. We are reporters, editors, designers and business and communications staff across the entire workplace who are dedicated to investigative reporting in the public interest.

• labor

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech unions

"Just three days after the war started, Sudanese market intelligence firm DataQ launched a platform called Nidaa (meaning “call for help” in Arabic). It allows people in distress to post their requirements — from money and groceries to medical services and a ride to safety — so volunteers can reach out to them."

• Resource matching and sharing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

The Largest AI Tools Directory

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Chat and messaging

RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

The Merit Data Platform connects organizations and people on a flexible HIPAA and SOC2 compliant knowledge graph.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Network visualizations

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

A global collection of AI projects and proposals that impacts UN Sustainable Development Goals, both positively and negatively.

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

We provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

Fantapolitica! è una piattaforma di supporto per candidat* di sinistra che abbiano meno di trent’anni

• partisan

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Brand New Bundestag (BNB) ist eine unabhängige und überparteiliche Graswurzel-Organisation, die sich für eine progressive, zukunftsorientierte Politik einsetzt. Wir unterstützen Menschen, die mit progressiven Ideen frischen Wind in die Parlamente bringen, bei ihrem Weg in politische Ämter.

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic data
• Journalism

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, inclusiva y sólida.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Fieldwide resources

The Media Ownership Monitor is a global research and advocacy initiative that creates transparency on “who owns the media?” - and ultimately answers the question “who controls the media?” through contextualization and analysis.

• Media
• Media monitoring

A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America.

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

• Build something
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.

• WhatsApp

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping tools
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Todos los ciudadanos tienen el derecho a acceder a la información que tiene los organismos y autoridades públicas. Por ley, deben responder. (Alaveteli instance for Colombia)

• Alaveteli

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Participatory democracy
• Freedom of Information

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

• Civic data
• Data governance

Interconexión.lat es una plataforma que impulsa el intercambio y co-producción de datos entre organizaciones de sociedad civil en América Latina para hacer frente a retos transfronterizos y hacer eficientes los esfuerzos de la región.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Data governance

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

• Digital security and privacy
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

Red Hook WiFi, a project of Red Hook Initiative (RHI), is a community-led effort to close the digital divide.

• Hardware
• Community wifi
• Connectivity

Easy to use and privacy-friendly Google Analytics alternative

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Artificial Intelligence

The Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.

• local

• Neighborhood forums

Urban Ocean Lab cultivates rigorous, creative, equitable, and practical climate and ocean policy for the future of coastal cities.

• Life below water
• cities
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

A Rede de Autarquias Participativas pretende ser uma estrutura colaborativa que congrega todas as autarquias portuguesas comprometidas com o desenvolvimento de mecanismos de democracia participativa a nível local.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

We help changemakers use video to create more impact by enhancing their knowledge, strategies, technology, networks, and storytelling skills.

• Media
• Story tech
• Narrative tech

Secure Online Voting & nominations

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

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

A mission-driven organization determined to improve people’s lives through human-centered strategies and transformative technologies. We deliver on this promise by partnering with leading federal agencies to conceive and create powerful data-driven customer experiences.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

We defend and advance digital rights in the Asia-Pacific, holding governments and corporations to account, and foster civil society collaboration and campaigns.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights