Exygy's collaboration with the CROP Organization and their work aggregating reentry data across the state of California.

• recidivism

• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

A Digital Servant's Guide to U.S. Federal Information Technology Law and Policy

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Building inside government

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Transparency International Hungary's project, based solely on public data, will show the companies that win public money, their procurement activities, results, ownership and public relations, to provide an online tool to detect and prevent political corruption.

• Government transparency

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

• Climate action
• cities

• Courses
• Applied Learning

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

• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Bots

We're not a political party – we're building a movement and free tech to end America's two-party political dysfunction Learn how you can plug in to inspiring independent campaigns or get access to our free tools for people-powered candidates

• third party

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voting and elections

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

• Media
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government AI strategies

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

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)

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

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The 2004 project that used comedy and live theatrical performances to protest against former President George W Bush

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Predecessors

Solving technological problems in the legislative process for House of Representatives Members, Committees, and staff.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

Dive is not just an AI assistant; it's your partner in optimizing meetings for maximum efficiency.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meeting tech
• Generative AI

Informing humanitarians worldwide

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• News and blogs

The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Trustmarks

UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC). It's main objective is to provide senior level inter-agency peer support to Humanitarian Coordinators (HCs) and Humanitarian Country Teams (HCTs) to strengthen the delivery of collective humanitarian assistance and protection in country operations.

• Peer networks
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Radically open political party in Madrid with over 500,000 members making decisions on its online platform

• Advocacy tech
• Group decision making
• Political parties

Digitized the city's services, including e-petition tool, and "adapted them to conditions under martial law"

• Ukraine
• apps

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bureaucracy tech

Citizens' movement to practice democracy by sortition. Notable twist includes winning a seat in Brussels Parliament, where their elected representative must act on behalf of 50 residents chosen by lot.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Political parties

Code for Canada's job board

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

Gather user-generated content for powerful testimonial campaigns. Volunteers can share a personal video (or photo) about why they support your cause, laying the foundation for engaging digital content pushes or lobbying efforts.

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story tech

Matching views to voting options in Slovakia's 2020 election

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective

• reports

• Bots
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Reports

A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims

• civic features

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Help us identify and recognize the next 25 game-changers shaping the future of the internet to be more ethical, responsible and inclusive.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Awards and prizes

We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.

• Fight disinformation
• Awards and prizes

It's a tool that brings attention and understanding to how color contrast can affect different people with visual impairments.

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

ConsiliumBots uses technology and data to help people make important decisions by turning complex and underutilized information into virtual assistance and personalized recommendations across education, housing, and other areas of government programs. Research has shown that providing relevant information at the right time can make a significant difference in students' trajectory by reducing school dropouts and introducing education options with better job prospects. They have so far created 36 digital solutions to address information asymmetries, supporting 3.9 million parents, students, and teachers from over 7 countries in the region. Some of these digital solutions have now been adopted as national public policies.

• Access social benefits
• Behavioral economics programs

We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Learn AI's role in addressing big challenges. Build skills combining human and machine intelligence for positive real-world impact using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Online courses

an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients

• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022. Additionally, a dedicated factsheet for the EU which focuses on all the matters related to digital public administration and interoperability at the European Union level is also available."

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Google Analytics alternative that protects your data and your customers' privacy

• Digital security and privacy
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

• Hong Kong protests

• Graveyard
• Connectivity
• Messaging

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Georgia's freedom of information platform (Alavateli instance)

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

Our democracy tech entrepreneurs fellows are selected from Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, and Armenia, which all live in the menacing shadow of Russia.

• Participatory democracy
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Adobe's creative generative AI engine

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

Google Cloud's public sector division

• Google

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Civic teams at tech companies

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms