With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Im Zuge der Erstellung der Digitalen Agenda Wien kristallisierten sich neun Leitmotive für das Denken und Handeln aller Beteiligten heraus.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

You can think of Code for BTV as a pro-bono digital agency working for the public good. We pick meaningful projects and do the research, design, architecture, coding, launch, and communications work to help important organizations work more effectively.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• cities
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

• Gender Equality
• trainings
• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Digital literacy

Free 1Password accounts for people working on behalf of democracy

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Analyzes satellite imagery to detect on the ground conflict and/or human rights violations using remote sensing and digital forensics.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Better government software. Services that work, for people.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Access Guide is a friendly introduction to digital accessibility based on WCAG 2.1 (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines).

• Digital literacy
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Lutece is an open source platform developed by the City of Paris to help you develop digital solutions.

• Govtech
• CRM
• Issue reporting

Focuses on the topics of “digital transformation” and “innovation for democracy”

• Funders & donors

The Design System makes it easy for state digital teams to build accessible, consistent, and performant services and products to meet Californians’ needs.

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

• public space

• Engagement tech
• Ideation

Campaigners/activists, fundraisers, media experts, creatives, digital specialists, freelancers, and more all come together on the Campaigning Forum (ECF) community discussion list.

• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

• cities

• Design

Drive climate action and earn rewards with a carbon-backed, algorithmic digital currency.

• Climate action

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.

• Communicating with the government
• Campaign tools
• Open asks

A DAO investing in Earth's Ecosystems.

• Climate action

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

12-24 month startup accelerator at Cornell Tech

• Accelerators
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

A video series promoting public literacy of tech in public spaces

• public space

• Digital literacy
• Shows and films

Start using Engage today and be part of the discussion! Vote and comment on proposals from your local government.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

The EMPATIA platform has developed and integrated a number of digital and non digital tools that can support the design, implementation and evaluation of complex participatory systems.

• Ideation
• Participatory budgeting

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore is a research hub led by Dr. Weiyu Zhang. We are a team of social scientists, computer scientists, and digital cultural analysts.

• Research and policy centers

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map until November 2009, when young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. We

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

• Digital fabrication

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.✊

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Internet governance

We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era.

• Civic hacking meetups

As an office within the General Services Administration, we know how to work with government. Partner with 18F to deliver projects that fulfill federal rules, stay within budget, and provide excellent value to the public.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Service delivery

Through art, research, investigation and actions, the lab explores new ways of making issues around propaganda in the digital age better known. Persuasion Lab is a project by Manuel Beltrán and Nayantara Ranganathan.

• Artistic interventions
• Advertising

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

• Digital literacy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Tech talent

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

Design and deliver a digital government with and for the American public.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Audrey will shares stories of the dramatic transformations underway to upgrade democracy in Taiwan: How they engaged thousands of citizens in bottom-up policy development to solve the Uber problem; A digital media channel where young people are engaging directly with politicians; And how virtual reality is shaping public policy.

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

• LINE

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

We were founded in the 1960s to deliver books between libraries. We still deliver books, and we also host digital collections, give out technology grants, house a digital media studio, and more. METRO is committed to supporting libraries, in whatever form that takes.

• cities

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Playbooks and design principles

AI literacy effort for government and other sectors in Cameroon

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

• YouTube

• Civic fiction
• Shows and films