• city
• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Citizen Engagement

我們於台北等地辦舉辦台南人聚會，一起聊聊他鄉甘苦，也關心台南最近發生的事。

• diaspora

• The People
• Meet the others

台南市議會觀測站

• city
• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Chat and messaging

Unanimous AI develops Swarm® & Swarm AI® technology that amplifies human intelligence, empowering groups to optimize their collective knowledge, wisdom, and intuition by forming real-time AI systems [plus Thinkscape and Mindmix]

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing

Digital Ticketing made simple for railways.

• mobility
• rail

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

• People Powered

Plataforma de Presupuesto Participativo desarrollada por el Programa Raíz de la Secretaría de Extensión de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

SMART: Local Government AI Transformation Programme empowers councils to leverage cutting-edge generative AI to achieve significant savings, boost efficiency, and elevate service delivery.​​

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Swarm is an AI-powered collaboration platform that uses the biological principle of Swarm Intelligence to amplify the wisdom of any online team or group, quickly enabling more accurate forecasts, estimations, insights and evaluations

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Data Against Feminicide is a collaboration between Catherine D’Ignazio (Data + Feminism Lab @ MIT), Silvana Fumega (ILDA) and Helena Suárez Val (Feminicidio Uruguay), who came together through a shared interest in feminicide data.

A European Positive Sum Approach towards AI tools in support of Law Enforcement and safeguarding privacy and fundamental rights

The US federal government is rapidly hiring talent to build and govern AI to fulfill the priorities set forth by the Biden-Harris Administration.

• United States (federal government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Tech talent

A newsletter issue with a great summary of back-office efficiencies for social good organisations using AI

• guides
• Newspeak

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

A paper published in SSRN by Erica Chenoweth, Zoe Marks

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI. This first stable version of the OSAID is the result of multiple years of research and collaboration, an international roadshow of workshops, and a year-long co-design process led by the Open Source Initiative (OSI), globally recognized by individuals, companies and public institutions as the authority that defines Open Source.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Open source AI

Post outlining OpenAI's partnerships with DARPA, US AID, and US National Laboratories

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Public Private Partnerships

OpenAI and the Lenfest Institute program

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Fellowships

Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

VoteRaisers empower your supporters to reach out directly to their Democratic friends—encouraging them to register, volunteer, and VOTE for Democrats!

• partisan
• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Organize campaigns
• Organize events
• Peer to peer SMS

The High Plains Reader is the only independent newspaper in North Dakota. Its community-focused journalism is always free and available to all, and it has been a trusted source of independent news, arts, entertainment, and cultural coverage for over 30 years. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Daily Catch was founded on the premise that every community deserves the benefits of incisive, accurate, and sensitive journalism. As such, the Catch is dedicated to reporting on the news, personalities, and activities of people, schools, merchants, farms, and government in and around New York’s Hudson Valley towns of Red Hook and Rhinebeck. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Ouray County Plaindealer is the only trusted source of local news in a rural Colorado mountain community of roughly 5,000 residents. The Plaindealer’s journalists seek truth and report it, with the goal of informing the community with fact-based, nonpartisan articles. While maintaining high standards for accuracy and fairness, the Plaindealer produces quality journalism for the community, which would be a news desert without it.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Montclair Local Nonprofit News is an independent local news organization founded in 2017 with the mission to spark dialogue, objectively inform, and build community in Montclair through independent, in-depth, factual reporting on local issues and events such as schools, elected officials, institutions, businesses, restaurants, and culture.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Hmong Daily News delivers news and information to its community in Sacramento that inspires, moves, and motivates readers. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Haitian Times was founded in 1999 to be a leading voice in the community’s evolution and to bridge the generational and geographical gaps among Haitians. To gather and share this nuanced narrative, it actively engages with its audiences in the ongoing journey toward real solutions for Haitians’ thorniest issues. It prioritizes people and humanizes policy decisions with coverage that brings a deeper understanding of Haitian and American culture and politics.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

New Mainstream Press empowers and uplifts the Asian American communities in the Greater Philadelphia area through diverse, high-quality media platforms, including print publications—Metro Chinese Weekly, Metro Viet News, and PhillyGuide—and a dynamic WeChat channel with over 50,000 subscribers.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Supercharge your ground game. Fast. Preferred GOP Vendor and Trump campaign as a client.

• partisan
• US Election 2024
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

KVNF engages its communities by providing access to diverse music, news, and voices, envisioning listeners who are participating, inspired, active, and well-informed with a local and global perspective that emphasizes journalistic integrity.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Maine Monitor delivers fearless, independent, citizen-supported, nonpartisan journalism that informs Mainers about the issues impacting their state and inspires them to take action. Through investigative and in-depth stories, it engages readers to participate and connect to create a better Maine.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Gamification features on the Parti Campaigns platform

• Advocacy tech
• Games and gamification

A pilot program to pay maintainers of critical open source technologies.

• Get funding
• Fellowships
• Open source supply chain

This is a collective of dedicated individuals and organizations committed to fostering ethical AI practices, encouraging research, and addressing the societal implications of AI across Africa and largely the Global South.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

The AI Governance Fellowship is a pioneering program dedicated to advancing the fairness and integrity of AI technologies in the Global South, with a focus on African nations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

3 essays by Beth Kerley, Carl Miller, and Fernanda Campagnucci outline possible paths toward a prodemocratic vision for AI

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

A modern rewrite that hopes to make it a bit easier for federal product teams to adopt, adapt, and extend the USWDS.

• Govtech
• Build something
• Design

This is a place to connect, share and discuss all things related to climate change & machine learning 🌏🔥 🤖💻

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• courses

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Evidence from Taliban-controlled Afghanistan shows that digital aid is a cost-effective, credible, and efficient way to reach vulnerable populations, in this case poor, tech-illiterate, female-headed households, in fragile states.

• Zero hunger

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Direct aid