Cybersecurity for Cities and Nonprofits

• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Brooklyn-based creative agency behind Zohran Mamdani's campaign socials

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Advertising

OSPO++ was a network and a community of collaborative open source program offices in universities, governments, and civic institutions.

• Graveyard
• Open source
• Open source developer networks

Building public understanding of AI capabilities and dangers

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-led multi-stakeholder initiative on Open-Source Generative AI for Public Services aims to develop an end-to-end, open-source implementation framework that enables public sector stakeholders to easily build and deploy their own GenAI solutions using modular, open-source software blueprints.

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Open source

ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for digital technologies (ICTs). 

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Honolulu Civil Beat is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt news organization dedicated to cultivating an informed body of citizens, all striving to make Hawaiʻi a better place to live.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Transparentes es una invitación a tomar el mando y construir un espacio donde la transparencia y la ciudadanía sean parte de cada jugada de la sociedad civil.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Google Sheet aggregating attendance estimates at hundreds of No Kings Day protests in the US and beyond in 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

Web- and WhatsApp-based virtual agent chatbot for residents of Bogotá

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open government data
• Communicating with the government

Makers of Chatíco and other customer service chatbots

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• AI Constituent Service

PollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregation of public opinion polls.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Voting and elections

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Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.

• guides

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increase benefit to society

• guides

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

How can technology foster trust, social cohesion, and collaboration instead of fueling polarization, division, and violence?

View parliamentary debates formatted like your favourite chat app.

• WhatsApp
• Newspeak House

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency

Public opinion infrastructure for cities

• Sustainable cities and communities
• place-based
• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Operation Vulindlela is a joint initiative of the [South African] Presidency and National Treasury to accelerate the implementation of structural reforms and support economic recovery.

• Affordable and clean energy
• Clean water and sanitation
• mobility

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• TICTeC 25
• Polis

Geo Pol.is about land use and conservation in the San Juan Islands

• land
• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Specific digital participation instances

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

The automatic classifiers for peace group is an open-source community of researchers, organisations and individuals that are interested in aiding social media analysis through the automatic classification of social media discourse.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research the design and functions of technology and its intersection with peacebuilding and democracy.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital peacebuilding

We build bespoke state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems that deliver value you can measure.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Insight, strategy, and coaching for mission-driven leaders & organizations

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Civic and social impact companies