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

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

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

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

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Artificial Intelligence

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

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 congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

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.

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

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

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

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

• Civic data
• Open knowledge
• Open internet

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

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

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Phone banking tools

Find out where to vote, and absentee voting, and more, in Slovenia's 2024 EU elections

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Make a plan to vote
• Find your polling place

Open candidate information for UK elections covering all 2,015 areas

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Ballot information

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

• local

• Govtech
• Working groups
• Artificial Intelligence

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

Throughout 2024, Rest of World is tracking the most noteworthy incidents of AI-generated election content globally.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms
• E-voting and I-voting

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research
• User research groups

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Urban planning
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine vision

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

"JamiiForums is a Tanzania-based social networking website in East Africa founded in 2006. The online network is notable as the most popular social media website in Tanzania, according to AllAfrica" -Wikipedia

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Whistleblowing

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

Voter information portal for the 2021 Ethiopian election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Wholly embeddable voter registration, polling place lookup, reminders, absentee, and election date tools for your organization.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Make a plan to vote

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

This free app includes information on 100 Senators, 50 State Attorney Generals, 50 Governors, 426 Congressional reps by state. And 1,964 State Senators and 5,443 State House Reps.

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

• Open knowledge

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Specific campaigns
• Civic maps

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Digital security and privacy
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

An 2024 election info hub and civic caravan for Romanian citizens

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

Official channel for citizens initiatives in Portugal, with a minimum threshold of 20,000 registered voters

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Developed for Occupy Wall Street in 2011, the first mobile panic button app.

• apps
• Occupy

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Advocacy tech

As part of the 2024 Web Science Conference Brave Conversations again brings together technology, society and politics to explore humanity in the 21st Century

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

During our four-week MOOC, you will learn about and explore the fascinating and ever-evolving world of technology and democracy, in particular the impact of artificial intelligence on freedom of expression in elections.

• 2024 elections

• Learn about civic tech
• Voting and elections
• Artificial Intelligence

Resources and data to understand and halt the growth of partisan animosity

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Polarization

Scrutinizing what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally

• reports
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• Voting and elections
• Emerging tech
• Election administration

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers
• Artificial Intelligence