Former president Bolsonaro claimed 600,000 attended a rally for him, but researchers used the tool to prove it was less than a third of that.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Drones

Primer by Wanheng Hu and Ranjit Singh

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Governance of AI

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the…

• guides
• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Direct action

POPVOX Foundation is working with legislative offices, support institutions, civil society, academics, and tech innovators to explore the future landscape of two-way engagement between representatives and constituents.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

Humans of the House has received national media coverage and has been the #1 show in the Government category for several weeks on Apple Podcasts where it has also been featured as a New & Noteworthy Special Series.

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Podcasts

Our SAMbot project measures abusive content that candidates and political parties receive online during Canadian elections.

• anti-harassment

• Bots
• Supporting public sector from outside government

CivTech is a Scottish Government programme that brings the public, private and third sectors together to build things that make people’s lives better

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Building inside government

Careful Industries gives good advice to leaders navigating the intersections of social justice and technology.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

"Joining the Dots with PEPs" makes available to the public information on public officials’ Financial Declarations, government procurement and contracting, and contracts and tenders of companies in the extractive sector, with the aim of identifying possible conflicts of interest, corruption or misuse of public office.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Transformation to improve health and care for everyone

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

A now defunct digital transformation unit for England's health and social care institution

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Digital transformation

The IAAA is a community of practice that aims to advance and organise the algorithmic auditing profession, promote AI auditing standards, certify best practices and contribute to the emergence of Responsible AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks

Take advantage of world-class training and develop your skillset, join a like-minded community, and access member discounts when you join IAP2 Canada.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Fieldwide resources

Communiti Labs’ AI-powered data analytics allow project teams to collate insights across all channels and convert them into actionable strategies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This research brief explores how public participation practitioners might encounter AI tools; examines the risks, opportunities and uncertainties these tools present; and offers ethical considerations to guide their use.

• research
• resources
• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

Welcome to the first global community for stateless people and their allies. Together we empower stateless people.

• immigration
• migration
• refugees

• Meet the others
• Justice tech
• Solidarity networks

Select a country and language to get all the practical information on how, when and where you can register on the electoral roll, as well as voting possibilities in your country of residence.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Make a plan to vote

As a citizen-centric European civil society organisation, ECAS developed its First Aid Democracy toolkit aimed at equipping citizens and civil society organisations with knowledge and practical tips for maintaining a healthy democracy.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival Award honours innovators within or associated with the public sector.

• Awards and prizes

Open source financial management software for organizations (Die Finanzverwaltungssoftware)

• students
• Prototype Fund

• Bureaucracy tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Community-building resources

Wir machen das Rundum-Paket für deinen sozialdemokratischen Verband!

• partisan

• Campaign tools
• Internal communication and coordination

Using social movement research to tackle the world's most pressing problems

• Advocacy tech
• Civil society research outfits
• The craft of organizing

Citizen assembly model

• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation
• Democratic Innovations

• Social media

Open source chat and collaborative software like Slack and Teams

• Open source
• General purpose open source tools
• Internal communication and coordination

Give directly to worthy causes and get a video update showing the difference you make.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Non-profit fiscal host promoting a healthy and sustainable open source ecosystem.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools

a collaborative project aimed at enabling protest groups and NGOs to evaluate their impact on public discourse.

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

Workshop series to provide "a hands-on way for government to learn about the opportunities and considerations of leveraging AI and implementing these systems responsibly."

• workshops

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

Augmenting participation, co-creation, trust and transparency in Deliberative Democracy at all scales

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

[A] "team consisting of researchers and engineers that will...Implement a system for collecting and encoding public input on model behavior into our systems"

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic teams at tech companies

Meta's "Community Forums bring people together to discuss tough issues, consider hard choices and share recommendations for improving people’s experiences across our apps" using Stanford's deliberative polling method

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Deliberation

Boston's NPR affiliate

• Public media

Advising, Educating, Investing and Partnering in solutions that promote ecosystems we can trust…through information integrity, quality, and transparency (IQT)

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This is a joint initiative run by Citizens UK, Migrant Democracy Project and Just Register. Together we are helping migrants in the UK to get registered to vote.

• 2024 elections
• immigration

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter outreach

Our assisted [UK] voter registration programme Just Register supports people to get onto the electoral roll. It addresses the practical barriers that we know hinder people from getting registered in a timely way. After signing up on Just Register, everyone is signposted to the gov.uk form. From this point, they receive personalised support via peer-to-peer texting and calls to make sure they follow-through completing their registration with their council.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration

CNTR’s mission is to redefine computer science education, research, and technology to center the needs, problems, and aspirations of all those that technology has left behind.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Information Sharing and Analysis Centers (ISACs) are non-profit organizations that provide a central resource for gathering information on cyber threats (in many cases to critical infrastructure) as well as allow two-way sharing of information between the private and the public sector about root causes, incidents and threats, as well as sharing experience, knowledge and analysis. In many EU Member States, ISAC or similar initiatives exist.

• Adjacent Fields
• Cybersecurity
• Foundational layers

Guidance for Policymakers, Civil Society, and Development Cooperation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

The e-Governance Academy (eGA) is a non-profit foundation that assists public sector and civil society organisations in making digital transformation happen.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation