Indigenius Keyboard is a smart, multilingual keyboard supporting inclusive digital communication in 180+ Languages.

• Hardware
• Translation and linguistic representation

A Escola de Ativismo é um coletivo independente constituído em 2011 com a missão de fortalecer grupos ativistas por meio de processos de aprendizagem em estratégias e técnicas de ações não-violentas e criativas, campanhas, comunicação, mobilização e segurança e proteção integral, voltadas para a defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

#CityHallSelfie Day is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions.

• local

• Govtech
• Holidays

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).

• Facebook

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Interactive Voice Response

Velocidad was an accelerator program for Latin American digital media which took place between 2019 and 2021.

• Media
• Accelerators

The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• Govtech
• Co-design
• Innovation teams and labs

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) works in more than 100 countries to develop long-term relationships with civil society, governments, and the international community to strengthen civic space.

• Legal tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• cities

• Fellowships

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• cities

• Govtech
• Co-design
• Service delivery

The Purpose Platform is a global open source project committed to building multilingual campaigning and organizing tools for social good. Last updated 2015.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

De projectpartners zijn de gemeente Amsterdam, gemeente Groningen, Stichting Netwerk Democratie en DiA. In 2020-2021 gaan zij Polis testen en samen met andere gemeenten onderzoeken wat nodig is om op te schalen naar de rest van het land.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

Its over-arching goal is to reinforce trust in public institutions and to unleash multiple measurable positive impacts in terms of efficiency gains and reduction of current administrative burden and costs, rooted on a Toolkit for extended semantic interoperability and on secure, privacy-preserving and trustworthy realisation of fundamental once-only, relevant-only and digital by default principles, through state-of-the-art, usable and high-quality fully online procedures accessible through the Single Digital Gateway (SDG).

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

150+ members pooling email audience information to drive list growth, donor growth, reactivation, and advocacy

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Email campaign tools

Book by Paolo Gerbaudo (2019)

• books

• Books
• Political parties

ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Open science

We are raising €10 million to buy 112 rescue vehicles for Ukraine.

• Ukraine

• Crowdsourcing
• Emergency services

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps
• Archives

Een stembureau bij jou in de buurt, zo gevonden

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place

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

Nepalese government mobile app for citizens

• apps

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bureaucracy tech

IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.

• cities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

WSA (World Summit Awards) is a unique awards system, selecting and promoting local digital innovation to improve society.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Defunct platform offering info about parliament and matching users views to parties

• Graveyard
• Matching views to votes
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Conferences
• Meet the others

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

To highlight the global knowledge base of behavioural insights work in public policy, and bring the achievements of institutions to the fore, the OECD launched the Behavioural Insights Knowledge Hub and map in 2021.

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

2021 book edited by Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

• books

• Books
• Political parties
• Group decision making

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Governance of AI

Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

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

Our Massively Multilingual Speech AI research models can identify more than 4,000 spoken languages, 40 times more than any known previous technology. These models expand text-to-speech and speech-to-text technology from around 100 languages to more than 1,100.

• Facebook

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

The Alliance of Democracies Foundation is a non-profit organization founded in 2017 by Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the former NATO Secretary General and former Prime Minister of Denmark.

• Participatory democracy

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Bloomberg Philanthropies City Data Alliance is identifying 100 mayors that are the most sophisticated, ambitious, and advanced at harnessing data and help them set a new standard for local governments committed to using data to power better results for residents.

• cities

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Foundation initiatives