This dashboard allows anyone to track how BEAD Eligible Entities are progressing through major program milestones.

• Connectivity
• Public project trackers

Our House is building a popular case for democratic reform through a new People's Charter [in the UK].

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

This map displays where Internet services are available across the United States, as reported by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to the FCC. The map will be updated continuously to improve its accuracy through a combination of FCC verification efforts, new data from Internet providers, updates to the location data, and—importantly—information from the public.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Civic maps

Game-changing program for newsrooms with the tools and knowledge to harness AI for smarter, more efficient journalism.

• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed Internet access by funding planning, infrastructure deployment and adoption programs.

• Govtech
• Connectivity

Renters that received an informational postcard were 52% more likely to request an application for rental assistance and 24% more likely to submit an application than renters that did not receive a postcard.

• housing

• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people
• Democratic Innovations

Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases

• Google
• guides
• Gemini

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

Sweaters, t-shirts, hoodies, and ball caps supporting following the money in American politics

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic tech gifts

An IREX Venture are identifying how we can support the development community to surface potential strategic partnerships or mergers that can strengthen resilience.

• Project 2025

• Fieldwide resources
• Nonprofit tech
• Resource matching and sharing

A powerful suite of nonprofit fundraising tools & features that works for your organization.

• Fundraising tools
• Nonprofit tech
• Merchandise

Coming soon

• Newspeak House

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

A personal digital wallet for EU citizens and residents

• Govtech
• Identity

Alert people privately through a system that protect their privacy - without texts, emails or phone calls.

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Connectivity

Paid job listserv. The Sujata Strategies Job List is one of the most well-read and respected job lists in the progressive community.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Producing cutting-edge research on the people of government and the communities they are called to serve.

• Communicating with the government
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Celebrating public service and public servants

• Funders & donors
• Open knowledge
• Open science

Mike Tahani's data viz gallery. It includes mapping, journalism, politics, outer space, and data visualization.

• Data visualization
• Mapping

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Article in Journal of Public Administration Research and Theory by Jessica Lasky-Fink and Elizabeth Linos

• Govtech
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Organizing Info About Congress

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

This report summarizes a December 2024 workshop on the specific issue of AI adoption within democracy movements and offers some key recommendations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

The American Governance Institute develops ideas and educates policymakers on innovative approaches to strengthening American democracy, state capacity, and federal governance.

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

• Govtech
• Research tools
• Open knowledge

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies

• Israel Palestine

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

DataCameroon est un site d’information généraliste, spécialisé dans le Data journalisme et le journalisme d’investigation.

• Civic data
• Media
• Journalism

DigiAdGood seeks to create new digital advertising principles and measurement frameworks that go beyond this and better align human and business goals.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact
• Advertising

Taught by Maria Massei-Rosato

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

Building a research community focused on what a good digital society should look like and how we get there.

• Reduced inequalities
• Sustainable cities and communities
• resilience

• Get funding
• Research and policy centers
• Funders & donors

The Digital Good Network will produce a Digital Good Index which can be used to evaluate digital innovations to ensure good societal outcomes.

• Evaluate impact

The Civic Service Design minor draws upon a practice and subfield of research and theory that connect to design, social theory, and public policy and management frameworks, methods, and tools to reformulate participation and decision making in the creation of public policies, programs, and services, with the goal of fostering more just and equitable cities and societies.

• Academia
• Design
• Service delivery

No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship

• guides

• Media
• Journalism
• Organizational policies on AI

The Access Info Impact Award was created to recognise and celebrate those who have effectively used their right to information to make significant contributions to advancing human rights, environmental protection, democracy, and anti-corruption efforts.

• Access to information
• Awards and prizes

Taught By Richard The

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

The Lenfest Institute is home to communities of practice serving various types of journalism professionals and organizations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

Award-winning independent investigative news agency in Ukraine

• Ukraine

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Building on expertise from across Tech & Society, the Fritz Family Fellowship aims to cultivate the next generation of leaders with expertise in the social impacts of technology, and build a network of public interest technologists who learn from and support each other’s work.

• Academia
• Fellowships

A core course for the Graduate Minor in Civic Service Design at Parsons School of Design at The New School, taught by Lara Penin

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

Taught By: Eduardo Staszowski

• Project 2025

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

NPR and PBS have teamed up to fight US Congress's elimination of $1.1 billion in already-approved funding for public media

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Public media

Norton and TechSoup offer knowledge and digital tools to protect survivors of domestic abuse, human trafficking, and sexual assault.

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech

Create a Freedom of Information request to the United States government

• United States (federal government)

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A public Google Drive folder with USAID photos, social media cards, interview transcripts, and reports

• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Story-based campaigns
• Narrative tech organizing

This document is for U.S. government employees who want to better know their rights inside and outside the workplace and to consider strategies for balancing their obligations as federal employees or civil servants and their professional or personal values.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Celebrating public service and public servants

An open-source, extensible knowledge base of AI failures

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame
• Red teaming

We are dedicated to shaping the future of technology through interdisciplinary research and collaboration. 

• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis
• Academia

Political edu on resistance. Stand w/ federal workers. Stop the authoritarian takeover. Organizing a positive vision for public good. Get on the bus 🚌

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Celebrating public service and public servants

This form is to help quickly identify what activities were terminated in the February 25 Armageddon at USAID.

• Project 2025

• Crowdsourcing
• Celebrating public service and public servants