AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A network of neighborhood groups and network builders organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers.

• Access social benefits
• Peer networks

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

• Telegram

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

• city
• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Prometheus provides technology and data services to nonprofit organizations by connecting them with student and professional volunteers.

• Resource matching and sharing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

New Democratic Initiatives in Authoritarian Twenty-First Century Latin America uses a multidisciplinary approach to understand the coincidence of emerging social movements, seeking more meaningful forms of democratic participation, on the one hand, and the rise of new authoritarian politics that in part rely on chaos and disorder as mechanisms of domination, on the other.

• books

• Books
• Democratic Innovations

At Intersec, we leverage artificial intelligence to empower critical decision-making in civil protection, homeland security, corporate safety, and telecommunications. Our cloud-based applications provide real-time location and alerting for one billion people and devices worldwide.

The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

• local

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Evaluate impact

The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age.

• Media
• Journalism

We provide independent, accurate & accessible information about HIV.

• Good health and well-being
• LGBTQI
• AIDS

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

A collaborative and global capacity development project designed to help address the unique needs of HRDs living in exile.

• diaspora

• Advocacy tech
• Get funding
• Cybersecurity

AI Digital Public Goods for Justice in India

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Building infrastructure for detecting and complaining about tracking and privacy violations in mobile apps on Android and iOS.

• Prototype Fund

• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earliest possible step.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Open access book by Xabier E. Barandiaran, Antonio Calleja-López, Arnau Monterde, and Carol Romero

• books
• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Books

GAMA is an easy-to-use open source modeling and simulation environment for creating spatially explicit agent-based simulations.

• mobility

• Mapping
• Urban planning
• Mapping tools

The Chief Digital Office (CDO) was created in 2019 to enable, accelerate and promote digital transformation within UNDP and throughout its programmatic work.

• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations

• Digital transformation

Developing an API and localized version of Pol.is for the Netherlands. De provincie Zuid-Holland, de provincie Brabant, de provincie Groningen en het Overlegorgaan Fysieke Leefomgeving (onderdeel van Ministerie van I&W) willen bij dragen aan de totstandkoming van een Nederlandse versie van de applicatie Polis

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic data APIs

Designing tools, methods and systems that connect rather than divide us to create a healthier society.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Civic apps outfits

Paper by Joy Aceron, 2019. This paper explains why and how a reform program that opened up spaces for participatory budgeting was ultimately unable to result in pro-citizen power shifts that transformed governance.

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Participatory budgeting
• Reports

歐噴這名字，取自於 Open 這個單字，公司創辦人 Ronny 過去參與許多開放政府（Open Goverement）運動，長期推動開放資料（Open Data），並且使用及貢獻開放原始碼（Open Source）

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic apps outfits

[A]n ambitious programme launched in 2002 with an initial budget of some £6.2 billion. It attempted to implement a top-down digitization of healthcare in England's National Health Service (NHS)

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Digital transformation

Google's mapping platform

• commercial
• Google

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Mapping platforms

Starting in 2024, Albert will be tested at local public service counters — Maisons France services — to help users with their paperwork.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

Un outil basé sur le retour d’expérience de sociologues et spécialistes de la concertation publique territoriale

• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

Organizer provides community-focused organizations with the data and tools they need to foster meaningful connections and activate communities, so they can change the systems that are failing us.

• apps

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Policy Synth is an open-source TypeScript library developed by the Citizens Foundation to facilitate the creation of multi-scale AI agent logic flows, APIs, and real-time web applications.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

DC Compass, launched in March, uses generative AI to answer user questions and create maps from open data sets, ranging from the district’s population to what different trees are planted in the city.

• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Bots

This tool facilitated vote swapping to maximise Harris votes in swing states by encouraging potential (but undecided) left-leaning Harris voters in swing states to pledge to vote for Harris in exchange for people in uncompetitive states pledging to vote for a protest candidate or write-in (e.g., "ceasefire").

• partisan
• US Election 2024

• Voting and elections
• Tactical voting

A European Positive Sum Approach towards AI tools in support of Law Enforcement and safeguarding privacy and fundamental rights

Apply for a 15% discount for non-profits.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

As an administrator for your organization, you’ll receive an alert if a user is detected as a possible victim of a government-backed attack.

• Google

• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

For the benefit of researchers, practitioners, and the public we are proud to host a comprehensive and growing structured database of judges and their financial interests.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A platform for women to be able to share their stories and knowledge related to water and river governance.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Peer networks
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Story-based campaigns

The SAGA Smart Machinaka Project is a demonstration project that aims to improve the convenience of the city center of Saga City through the use of technologies such as AI and IoT, and to create a city that is easy to live in.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Gender Avenger highlighted gender imbalance and advocates for equal representation of women in the public realm through three proprietary channels: The GA Tally App, GA Action Alerts, and GA Stamp of Approval

• Gender Equality

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Certifications

Celebrate (or shame) event organizers for their program's gender (im)balance.

• apps
• Gender Equality
• women

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

The Breakout Program is a $250,000 seed funding initiative launched by eQualitie to support innovations in digital communication that can withstand network shutdowns and censorship of global connectivity.

• free speech

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Connectivity

A new OpenStreetMap style by the US chapter

• OpenStreetMap

• Mapping
• Mapping tools
• Design

Common Good AI is a new non-profit organization that leverages human abilities to innovate and find solutions by integrating AI to empower groups of any size to collaboratively ideate, debate diverse ideas, identify shared goals, and find a path forward together.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

The open source CRM for community energy groups.

• Affordable and clean energy

• CRM
• General purpose open source tools

Talon Marks is a public forum and the voice of the Cerritos College community, accurately portraying the happenings in and around the world, country, state and/or district that affect the everyday lives of its readers. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Find 10 friends who don't vote and we win.

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

SwipeBlue is a relational organizing app that matches your phone contacts to the voter file and shows you their party and districts. Just swipe blue (left) like Tinder to text them to register, donate, attend an event, or vote!

• partisan
• apps
• US Election 2024

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

The Real WV is a nonprofit multimedia organization that reaches beyond the headlines to touch the heart of Appalachian identity. By celebrating good news and honestly facing bad news, it tells real stories about real West Virginians and the experiences that shape them.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Alamosa Citizen is a member-supported, nonpartisan daily online newspaper that works to provide information and build civic involvement in the San Luis Valley. It reports on daily news events and happenings and develops issue-oriented enterprise journalism, community-supported daily podcasts and live-stream broadcasts, and live-event programming.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Recorder is a weekly newspaper determined to help maintain an informed, active citizenry in its area of Appalachia. It provides timely, accurate information; preserves the area’s rich history; and supports and defends the hard-working, independent people who live in the Allegheny Highlands. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Project Optimist engages residents of greater Minnesota to help them collaborate across common divides, tackle seemingly intractable problems, and grow more optimistic about the future of their communities, region, and world by tapping Minnesota’s creative and independent talent to produce solution-focused stories and local art to inform and inspire. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Guided by the motto “Local People, Local News,” the Burlington Beacon provides the community of Burlington, Iowa, and the surrounding area with reliable and timely news that truly reflects the lives and concerns of its readers. Each story is written by a local resident who has a deep understanding of and appreciation for the community and the editorial policies are driven by this knowledge rather than by corporate interests. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news