A fun illustrated map charting AI Safety efforts across blogs, podcasts, training, support, governance, research, and so on.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Created by NetFreedom Pioneers, the NKITI is designed to lower the entry barriers for technical individuals and organizations seeking to develop new information access solutions for the DPRK, and to serve as a launchpad for a new wave of technology-driven and DPRK-focused organizations.

• Connectivity
• Circumvention tech
• Incubators

The Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) Sustainability Fund is Open Technology Fund’s newest mechanism to support the long-term maintenance of established FOSS projects and the communities that sustain them.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, advocates, academics, and workers who are looking for a space to deepen the connections and strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware
• Connectivity

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Government transparency

A world in which political leaders are one of the most respected roles in society.

• Help more people run for office

sourcebase.ai is an AI platform designed for journalists, researchers, and professionals who need to make sense of massive amounts of source material.

• corruption

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Government transparency

The only global launch pad for non-partisan political leadership incubators.

• Civic literacy
• Accelerators

The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Government transparency

The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Government transparency

A Próxima Geração, uma associação sem fins lucrativos, tem como objetivo revitalizar a democracia portuguesa. A Próxima Geração representa a primeira Academia apartidária com contexto global em Portugal.

• Civic literacy
• Online courses

RadicalxChange Foundation is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to democratic innovation and institutional design through operational partnerships and experimental projects between academia, government, art, technology, and beyond.

• Democratic Innovations
• Quadratic voting

The Global Impact Award recognizes media or organizations that have profoundly changed the world for the better.

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Narrative tech

Our report, “A Fourth Wave of Open Data? Exploring the Spectrum of Scenarios for Open Data and Generative AI,” (May 2024) provides a new framework and recommendations to support open data providers and other interested parties in making open data “ready” for generative AI.

• reports

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Open civic data

Online education platform: "Learn new ways of working at the intersection of innovation, business, and geopolitics, and discover the role you or your organization can play in a future where technology advances freedom."

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses
• Diplomacy

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Crowdsourcing

An easy tool to host a quadratic vote.

• E-voting and I-voting
• Democratic Innovations
• Quadratic voting

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

• cities
• public space
• mental health

• Design

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Urban planning

Join a small, curated group of researchers, builders, entrepreneurs, politicians, and artists for a 7-day unconference focused on the political economy of AI. We will build new infrastructure, business models, and institutions for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The only solution that combines an AI grant-writer, a case management system, a CRM, a booking platform and impact reporting — so you can get more funding, keep costs low, and keep all your information in one place.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools

DeHavilland’s political intelligence combines the most powerful technology and AI tools with in-house knowledge, expertise and analysis.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Political monitoring. Set apart by heritage, personal touch and breadth of coverage.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Predecessors

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

MyCandidate South Africa presents electoral candidate data in an accessible and reliable way so that you can make an informed decision at the polls. You can play an active role in South Africa's democracy!

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Adopting AI Responsibly: Guidelines for Procurement of AI Solutions by the Private Sector

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

By Code Hope Labs. The policy is intended to be used within cause-based organizations which wish to encourage the experimental use of ChatGPT or other LLMs within their organizations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organizational policies on AI

The Research Funders Policy Group, of which Wellcome is a member, sets out expectations around the use of generative AI tools in funding applications.

• Get funding
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organizational policies on AI

This update allows you to create professional-grade press releases in a matter of minutes with minimal effort and editing.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people

In order to help election practitioners and stakeholders to better understand the use of ICTs in elections, International IDEA has conducted a global comparative study to learn how ICTs are being used in several stages of electoral process.

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The consortium will leverage a $275 million state investment to create and launch a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center on the University at Buffalo’s campus.

Transition Online est une plateforme visant à renforcer la participation citoyenne au Tchad en facilitant et optimisant l’accès aux informations relatives à la transition.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers
• Peaceful transition of power

By connecting nonprofits and funders in one place, Impala equips you with the data, insights and relationships you need to succeed.

• Civic data
• Resource matching and sharing

Coming Soon: Your virtual philanthropy assistant to maximize the impact of your giving in line with your goals.

• Get funding
• Tools for Funders

Your virtual fundraising assistant for institutional philanthropy.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

eine übersichtliche, zentrale Datenbank von der Kommune bis zum Bund – zu Wahlkreisen und Mandatstragenden. 
Mit einer digitalen Landkarte wollen wir Bürgerinnen und Bürgern den Weg durch das Wirrwarr der Zuständigkeiten weisen.

• Communicating with the government
• Find your representatives

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voter outreach

TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Civitech’s campaign management platform, RunningMate, is the affordable solution for campaigns of all sizes and budgets.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis. The primary source are shapefiles publicly distributed by INE (formerly IFE, Mexico's national election board, page here). Data in this repo is prepared for mapping and statistical analysis.

• 2024 elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Civitech’s proprietary data set features nearly 30 million records of unregistered potential voters.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Voter outreach
• Voter registration

Common Crawl maintains a free, open repository of web crawl data that can be used by anyone.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge
• Research tools

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors