The Mind Hacks, Electric Twin Hackathon challenges participants to apply machine learning to real-world problems across various industry tracks, including trafficking, food waste, education, and housing

• criminal justice

• Open justice

OpenAI, the tech company behind ChatGPT, has undergone its first-ever rebrand, introducing a new typeface, wordmark, symbol, and color palette to unify the visual identity across its growing suite of products and services

Common Knowledge is a platform that enables users to create and share knowledge resources

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

• surveillance
• youth
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.

• Quality education
• surveillance
• CTFG partners

• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights
• Campaign organizations

Chore Wheel is a software platform designed to simplify the management of shared living spaces, such as coliving communities, casual roommates, and cohabitating partners

People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

• trees

• Data visualization

Liberating Structures is a website that provides a menu of 33 microstructures and design elements to help organizations and teams engage everyone, foster innovation, and address complex challenges

The Data for Policy 2025 Europe conference will explore the transformative power of data and AI in driving sustainability and inclusion, focusing on the 'twin transition' of digital and green transformations

Pickle is an AI-powered digital double that can be used in video calls to create a consistent and polished appearance

TextBankr is a web application that requires JavaScript to function

Granola is an AI-powered notepad that transcribes and enhances meeting notes, allowing users to easily share and collaborate on meeting content

Low-tech Magazine is a solar-powered website that explores low-tech solutions to high-tech problems

Shuffled is a weekly newsletter that provides updates on political comings and goings around the world

Bonfire is an open-source toolkit for building and running federated digital spaces, designed to enable communities to take control over their features, data, and digital environment

The author is separating their work into two distinct projects - the Social Work Campfire, a 2-minute daily way for social workers to reconnect with their profession, and their work on showcasing use cases for AI in children's social care

Icebreaker One is a non-profit organization that works on data sharing and sustainability, with the mission of making data work harder to deliver net-zero

The 2025 Public Sector Frameworks Report provides a comprehensive overview of how framework agreements are being used across the UK public sector, covering central government, local government, NHS, and education

Operating as a public safety technology company delivering AI‑ and data‑driven platform solutions for law enforcement and civic leadership

• Govtech vendors

Rocket

The report examines the political bias within popular AI-powered Large Language Models (LLMs), finding left-leaning bias in their policy recommendations and sentiment towards political parties and ideologies

The Impact Accelerator Program is a 6-week course that helps experienced professionals design an impact path aligned with their interests, aptitudes, and values

Conversational Game Theory (CGT) is a formal game of messaging, replies, and tagging between human or AI agents that addresses qualitative, reasoning-intensive challenges while synthesizing multiple perspectives through high stakes conflict resolution and consensus building

by Rahul Bhargava

• books

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

The Astral Codex Ten Prediction Contest is back with an expanded $10,000 prize pool, allowing forecasters to test their skills across geopolitics, technology, economics, and more

Code4Compassion is a 24-hour hackathon that brings together AI developers and animal advocates to build practical tech solutions for animal protection

Google DeepMind is exploring the use of AI to accelerate scientific discovery and innovation, with the goal of ushering in a new golden age of discovery

The content provides an overview of the AI safety landscape, including organizations, programs, projects, communities, funders, and resources related to AI safety research and development

The AI Governance Map is an interactive visualization that provides an overview of the AI governance landscape, including key organizations, initiatives, and resources related to the responsible development and deployment of AI systems

Farmer

The Orbit Model is a framework for building and growing online communities

The Advice Services Alliance (ASA) is a UK organization that promotes and supports the advice sector, including through the Advice Quality Standard (AQS) certification program

The proposed changes aim to improve road safety in the Shoreditch area, particularly for pedestrians and cyclists

• United Kingdom (government)

A new AI Energy Score tool allows users to compare the energy efficiency and environmental impact of different AI models, helping companies and developers make more informed decisions about the sustainability of the AI tools they use

Tapestry is a free app that combines posts from various social media services, RSS feeds, podcasts, and YouTube channels into a unified and chronological timeline, allowing users to customize their content experience and avoid spoilers

European Alternatives is a platform that helps users find European alternatives for various digital services and products, such as cloud computing, web analytics, and email providers

• Digital sovereignty

The Legal AI Handbook from Ironclad provides an overview of how legal professionals can responsibly deploy AI for legal work, including the basics of AI, data security and risk mitigation, evaluating AI software, and real-world legal AI success stories

The Center for Educational Progress (CEP) is a think tank focused on promoting a culture of excellence in education

• Think tanks

The IGPP is hosting the GovTech Show and Exhibitor event in 2025, which will showcase the latest technologies and innovations in the public sector

The UK government is demanding that Apple create an encryption backdoor to allow the government access to end-to-end encrypted data in iCloud, which would undermine the privacy and security of all users

Global Dialogues is a collective intelligence project that aims to convene thousands of people from around the world to set a vision and concrete goals for the future of artificial intelligence

Critical Infrastructure Studies (CIstudies

The Digital Centre is an event series that aims to foster collaboration across government departments and local communities to address the UK's most pressing challenges

Ambsheets is a research project exploring new types of spreadsheets that can handle multiple scenarios and possibilities at once, allowing users to easily compare different options and make better decisions

UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a public body that invests £8 billion of taxpayers' money each year into research and innovation across a wide range of fields

s is an open-source JavaScript library that enables developers to estimate the carbon emissions related to the use of their apps, websites, and software. It aims to empower developers to create more efficient, lower-carbon digital products by providing them with the tools to measure and track the environmental impact of their digital services.

Pinboard is a fast, private, and ad-free social bookmarking service founded in 2009

Metaforecast is a platform that provides forecasts and predictions on various topics, including political events, technological developments, and scientific questions

The Telegram Index is a comprehensive platform that allows users to easily discover and join Telegram groups, channels, and bots across a wide range of categories