The Miami Affordability Project (MAP) is an interactive online map providing data on the distribution of affordable housing, housing needs, demographic profiles, and environmental resiliency in greater Miami.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Come and join the Open Plans community on Thursday, May 1st for a festive celebration of the people behind our city’s defining public spaces.

• place-based
• city

• Urban planning
• Awards and prizes

We match New York City agencies to local researchers and technical assistance from civic society

• city

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

• Stop AI theft
• Adobe

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Serviços e Informações do Brasil

• Brazil (federal government)

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Reporting by Sarah Scire for Nieman Journalism Lab

• Media
• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation

Find out how the Trump administration’s DOGE cuts to grants and federal real estate are affecting your community.

• Project 2025

• Civic maps

covering the Supreme Court of the United States

• Legal tech
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• News and blogs

On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Russian-based professional association for participatory budgeting consultants

• Graveyard
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

• Adobe

This playbook is designed specifically for civil servants, offering practical guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to help them perform their work more effectively and efficiently.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

Fighting fraud is a noble cause. Using Artificial Intelligence to fight fraud is a smart strategy.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable, and secure database that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

• Hong Kong protests
• police violence

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Archives

A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Checks and Balances Now is a legal and civic education initiative created by a group of lawyers who closely followed the work of the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy

• Legal tech
• Open justice

O OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos públicos sejam investidos em seus municípios.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Chat and messaging

This bot offers an interface for requesting and accessing VPN support via Telegram and WhatsApp.

• WhatsApp
• Telegram

• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech
• Chat and messaging

Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.

• local
• city

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Open Infrastructure Map is an open-source map of the world's infrastructure using data from OpenStreetMap.

• Civic data
• Civic maps

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

Over a nine month period, these participants will work with the CIVICUS team, technical experts, and each other to develop a fully funded project which will be delivered in their local setting.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) is a programme aimed at safeguarding inclusive democracy and human rights in the digital age.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundation initiatives

Een stad die klaar is voor de toekomst. Hier werken we aan, samen met bewoners, bezoekers, bedrijven en overheid. Verschillende specialisten onderzoeken de invloed van technologie op Amsterdam.

• city

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

A comprehensive analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem across six regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.

• reports

• Participatory democracy

“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

• immigration

• Media
• Bureaucracy tech
• Games and gamification

WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

• surveillance
• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

The official US government website about COVID-19 pandemic information, now a Lab Leak argument

• COVID-19
• Project 2025

• Graveyard
• COVID
• COVID Government Projects

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

• gun safety

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Artistic interventions

​​The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.

• Project 2025
• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

The overall purpose of the COLDIGIT project is to generate new knowledge on innovative digital tools and approaches, in order to understand how they can support governance of complex societal processes in the Nordic region.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

GIJN is an international association that supports the work of investigative journalists worldwide.

• Media
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

Discover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers

• Amazon

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Better evidence for a world without homelessness

• homelessness

*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Access to information

A glossary for the repository of Collective Intelligence Tools and Case studies

• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

contains more than 70 tools and 50 cases exemplifying the use of tools

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.

• local
• taxes
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Consumer watchdogging

AI Policy Bulletin publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Policy

Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech