Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Social and financial connections

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• Peer networks

Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

• Participatory democracy
• Polarization

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• CRM

The Climate Data JLN will surface key data governance innovations that will enable climate-relevant data to be more accessible and useful for frontline governments and communities.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Partner networks
• Data governance

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project (https://climateintelligence.eu/) is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation, and attribution of Extreme Events (EEs), namely tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, droughts, floods, compound and concurrent events.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Specific campaigns
• Civic maps

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Campaign organizations

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic apps outfits
• Civic and social impact companies

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

We are on a mission to help the social sector organizations to scale their impact, increase their outreach and work smarter using artificial intelligence and chatbots, and smart automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech
• Bots

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

• Climate action

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Academia

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• cities
• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

"Suggestions bag" for the Portuguese Assembly. It's actively used but it's not clear where citizen suggestions go once posted.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

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
• Build something

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

• STEM

• Govtech
• Economic development

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
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

PeaceRep – a consortium of research institutions, non-governmental organisations, and local research teams led by the University of Edinburgh Law School – has recently launched a mobile app provides insights and strategies to support women’s inclusion in peacemaking.

• apps
• peace
• Gender Equality

• Engagement tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Our mission is to connect and spark policy action among those crucial to making our interconnected world accessible, safe, and inclusive — both online and off.

• Research and policy centers

The Aspen Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time.

• Research and policy centers

Okthanks is an independent organization providing research and product design services for open source technology. We unite with a mission to leverage technology for social good.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Social impact design firms

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Civic features
• Satellites

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Social media
• Citizen Engagement

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artistic interventions

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Surveys & polling
• Research tools

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Manifestos

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to  counter disinformation.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Factchecking

A marketplace of vendors who can help implement, host, train, and develop custom solutions for groups using CiviCRM, Drupal, Wordpress, and more

• Civic tech catalogs
• CRM
• Civic and social impact companies

Research & Data Investigation Lab - Where indie data punk, meets media theory pop to investigate digital rights blues

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data visualization

We help nonprofits, impact organizations & issue focused organizations collaborate with creators to reach audiences more effectively.

• Media
• Creators and Influencers

Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact
• Meeting tech

We make technology work for the public good

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Evaluate impact

SeeSay2020.com was an online tool that allowed voters to report instances of misinformation, voting machine issues, polling place wait times, and more, with the goal to attract media and legal attention to verified, ongoing issues in real time.

• US Election 2020

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing

IDB Lab is the innovation and venture capital arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Innovation teams and labs
• Investors

Somos un estudio de innovación govtech con proyectos en Europa y América Latina

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

AI for the Public Good, for Singapore and the World

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech or Digital Policy

SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.

• WhatsApp
• missing people

• Legal tech
• Bots
• Crowdsourcing