Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.

• 2024 elections

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academic programs

This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.

• guides

• Cybersecurity
• Foundational layers

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.

• guides

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs
• Data science for social good

We regulate financial services firms and financial markets in the UK

• fintech

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A service of the Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), here to help Illinois tenants facing housing issues

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Legal tech

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Co-design

Nonprofit newsroom covering the state of California

• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research groups
• User research

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research groups
• User research

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Civic maps
• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports
• United States (federal government)

• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

Let's build an open, free and community-owned IoT data network for New York!

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• city
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• city
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Data visualization

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

• mobility
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

This report delves specifically into the limited publication of written decisions by criminal court judges.

• Justice tech
• Access to laws
• Judicial opinions

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Open government data

We are a non-profit that partners with state criminal justice agencies to advance their use of data and reduce incarceration.

• recidivism

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization

We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Government transparency

We offer family reunification services, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots for people experiencing homelessness

• homelessness
• social isolation

• Resource matching and sharing
• Access social benefits
• Solidarity networks

Data for Judicial Transparency

• Civic data
• Justice tech

Developed out of NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, Building Diagnostic Robotics (BDR) created robotics tools and AI analytics to aid in assessing building envelope efficiency.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities
• buildings

• Emerging tech
• Drones

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• diaspora

• Peer networks

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Government transparency

Voter information portal for the 2021 Ethiopian election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Providing Tools To Build Resilient Democracies.

• Participatory democracy

Find Out Who You Can Vote For

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

We are a civic tech organization fostering courtroom openness, social justice and citizen engagement in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

CheckIT is a flexible, event-based mobile inspection tool designed by VPUU to improve the delivery of essential services in Cape Town’s informal settlements.

• informal settlements

• Issue reporting

Villageois 2.0 est une association qui a pour objectif de sensibiliser les citoyens des différentes localités de la Guinée sur les avantages et risques des TIC.

• Citizen Engagement

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Learn about civic tech
• Courses
• Academia

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

• informal settlements
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

Hacking Social Justice Issues

• Civic hackathons