Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Narrative tech

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

GoodParty.org empowers Independent candidates to run for office, win their elections, and serve their communities.

• Civic tech communities and platforms
• third party
• campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Organize campaigns

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundation initiatives

An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.

• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Bots

PwO is a technical consultancy that specializes in 0->1 product development and technology enablement in complex stakeholder environments, frequently touching government or the built environment, and often related to innovation and/or user experience-first initiatives.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Building in the private sector

By making it easy for impact funders and fundees to define, measure, analyze, report and manage their impact projects, we help purpose-driven organizations such as social enterprises and nonprofits get trust-based, continuous funding.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Evaluate impact

We help to launch high-quality products in the sphere of privacy and Internet freedom

• Digital security and privacy
• Legal tech
• Accelerators

The Center for International Media Assistance's donor profiles on major public and private funders of global media development work

• Media
• Get funding
• Journalism

Our global editorial team of almost 50 journalists and about 300 freelancers covers the world’s under-reported stories at the heart of aid, development, women’s and LGBT+ rights, human trafficking, property rights, climate change and social innovation

• Media
• Journalism
• Story-based campaigns

The most popular entertaining gag site in Bangladesh

• Media
• Journalism
• Artistic interventions

A critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Government AI strategies

The Journalists in Distress (JiD) Network is an informal forum for sharing information on journalists in distress and developing joint initiatives for emergency response.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solidarity networks

IJNet delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and emerging journalists worldwide.

• guides
• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• News and blogs

A participatory memorial honoring those who died protesting the government of Nicolás Maduro

• Participatory memorials

IMS is the largest media development organisation in the Nordic region. We work in more than 30 countries across four continents promoting press freedom, good journalism and safety for journalists.

• free speech

• Media
• Journalism
• Funders & donors

The European Democracy Hub acts as a hub for expertise on European democracy support, bringing together analysts and policymakers. 

• Participatory democracy
• Foundation initiatives

NoKunda was a pioneering civic tech initiative designed to catalyze a civic movement in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, enabling citizens to report instances of electricity theft to the relevant authorities.

• electricity

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Os dados referem-se a eleições realizadas no Brasil entre 1945 e 2006 para os mais diversos âmbitos de governo. Incluem a competição eleitoral para a Presidência da República, para governos de estado, para a Câmara dos Deputados e para o Senado Federal.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Acervo de dados do Congresso Nacional coletados e organizados pelo NECON.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

O Núcleo de Estudos sobre o Congresso tem por objetivo contribuir para o avanço desta área de estudos através da constituição de um laboratório de pesquisas dedicado à investigação de diversas questões ligadas ao Congresso Nacional e Assembléias Legislativas...

• Research and policy centers
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Dispositif visant à réduire les violences sexuelles et sexistes sur les plages de la ville de Marseille.

• anti-harassment
• apps
• public space

• Issue reporting

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Six AI tools under active development by professional newsrooms

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Reports

We are an initiative that serves as a crucial building block in strengthening the Kenyan media ecosystem, working to rebuild trust amongst the key players in the ecosystem and the public, and putting in place resources that will help address challenges being faced in terms of business models.

• Media
• Journalism
• Newsroom partnership networks

The Chanzo Initiative exists at the interface between advocacy and journalism. It is founded to uplift the voices of the underreported, vulnerable, and marginalized communities in Tanzania with the goal to make Tanzania the best place to live for everyone regardless of class, creed, sexual orientation and nationality.

• Media
• Journalism
• Engagement journalism

The C² Challenge provides an open-ended innovation process for government procurement that removes the need to meet specific requirements and provides an open door to business and academic innovators to propose new ways of solving a problem.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Challenges

"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."

• Civic teams at tech companies
• Social media

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

• Decidim
• Brazil (federal government)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

IFES’s Election Cyber Readiness Network (ECRN) is designed to bring together key technology partners, election commissions, and other stakeholders to form regional and national strategies to protect elections from digital threats and support long-term electoral integrity.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Brasil: Investigação transnacional revela empresas de marketing político ligadas à extrema direita

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsroom partnership networks

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• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Freedom Online Coalition is a partnership of 38 governments, working to advance Internet freedom.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights

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• extensions
• free speech

• Circumvention tech

A dynamic, open-source reference library for practitioners who are working through complexity to improve access to public benefits and services.

• Access social benefits

Moja WiFi is a turnkey Solution for monetizing public WiFi networks

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

One of multiple studies in the US using artificial intelligence to analyze the tone and word choice police officers use, to determine whether it leads to unnecessarily escalations with the public.

• police violence
• policing
• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Justice tech

Location-based personal safety app that integrates with Tinder, emergency services

• crime
• domestic violence
• apps

• Emergency services
• Location

Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities. Watch Videoplay_arrow

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.

• anti-harassment
• labor
• Gender Equality

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

The Lab equips the US climate movement with the evidence-based insights, skills, and connections needed to build durable power and win equitable solutions.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Civic maps

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

The Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI