AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity
• Direct aid

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Tech or Digital Policy

Pratimo tačnost i dosljednost izjava i ispunjavanje obećanja, mjerimo otvorenost institucija, upoznajemo javnost s političkim procesima i političkim programima, zagovaramo otvorenost i odgovornost!

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Взаимопомощь и защита своих прав — это неотъемлемые составляющие гражданского общества

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Mutual aid

A free/libre book about UX research with qualitative methods on user motivations, activities, and problems, by Jan Dittrich

• books

• Build something
• User research

A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico

• criminal justice

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Fintech for good

Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Direct aid

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Polychat ermöglicht flüssige Crossplattform Kommunikation – niedrigschwellig und out-of-the-box: Statt einer gewöhnlichen Chat-Gruppe eröffnet ihr eine Polychat-Gruppe.

• Chat and messaging
• Group communication tools

Project that sought to "create and establish a national digital identification system using distributed ledger technology (DLT)."

• Graveyard
• Blockchain
• Fintech for good

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Archives

We are Binance Charity, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a future where Web3 technology is used as a force for good.

• Blockchain

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

ONSHOR est une association créée en 2019. ONSHOR a pour objectif de stimuler la diffusion de l’information publique.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Mehr Freiheit und mehr Demokratie waren die großen Versprechen des Internets.

• books

• Books
• Decentralization

A new $5+ million partnership aims to explore ways the development of artificial intelligence (AI) can support a thriving, innovative local news field, and ensure local news organizations shape the future of this emerging technology.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, 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.

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Open civic data

We are a venture philanthropy investing in and building digital nonprofit newsrooms that are governed by, are sustained by, and look like the public they serve.

• Media
• Journalism
• Get funding

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Get funding

OpenITP improves and increases the distribution of open source anti-surveillance and anti-censorship tools by providing the communities behind these tools with many kinds of support.

• free speech

• Graveyard
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

自由微博 (FreeWeibo.com)，匿名和不受屏蔽的新浪微博搜索，于 2012 年 10 月 11 日由 GreatFire.org 建立。

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Circumvention tech

OpenAustralia.org helps you to keep track of what your politicians are doing and saying on your behalf in Parliament.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Here we introduce StraightLines, a proof-of-concept tool developed by AOI’s Lucid Lens team, that automatically rewrites news headlines to reflect the content of articles in a more accurate, less sensational way.

• extensions

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

• supply chain

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Find out for free what is being built and knocked down in your area and receive email alerts when something new is planned.

• place-based

• Urban planning
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Crowdsourced campaign leaflet reporting

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Organize campaigns

#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Justice tech
• Freedom of Information

Insurrection Index is a searchable database of records on individuals and organizations in positions of public trust who were involved in the deadly attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA)

• state

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Thailand's Members of Parliament Monitoring Website

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

هل تريد الحصول على معلومةلا تتردّد وقدّم مطلبك. Now-defunct Alaveteli instance for Tunisia

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

Now-defunct Alaveteli instance for Rwanda

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

An iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech