CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

Founded in 2018, Cooperative Impact Lab is a space to experiment with approaches and strategies to build progressive power.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

Creative technology companies, fully owned and controlled by the people who do the work.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

Crowdmatching for Public Goods

• coop

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

We provide online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure.

• coop

• Meeting tech
• General purpose open source tools

The Digital Cooperation Organization (DCO), is the world’s first standalone international organization focusing on the digital economy.

• Reduced inequalities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We are a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative in New York City.

• mobility
• gig economy

• Platform coops

The Brick House Cooperative is a publishing platform designed, owned and operated by journalists—ad-free, expandable and subscription-based.

• Media
• Platform coops

FedScoop is the leading tech media brand in the federal government market. Built on a foundation of award winning journalism, we’ve grown to become this community’s platform for education and collaboration with our website, newsletter and events. FedScoop gathers top leaders from the White House, federal agencies, academia and the tech industry to discuss ways technology can improve government and identify ways to achieve common goals.

Parent company of the Loomio tool

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

StateScoop reports on news and events impacting technology decisions in state and local government. With our website, daily newsletter and events, we bring together IT leaders and innovators from across government, academia and industry to exchange best practices and identify ways to improve state and local government.

• state

• News and blogs

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

• resources

• Artistic interventions

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

• coop
• partisan

• The People
• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

COLLABORATIVE TECHNOLOGY FOR THE COOPERATIVE ECONOMY

• The People
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Working groups
• Platform coops

Supporting platform co-ops.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Civic apps outfits

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Public Private Partnerships
• Building inside government

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Creators and Influencers
• Public Relations and amplification

Online platform for civic participation

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Metro Detroit's Community Data Hub

• coop

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Civic apps outfits

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

A continent-wide map of AI policy, laws, and tools in Africa

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps

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

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

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

Hundreds of campaigns ⁠— from city council races to Bernie 2020 ⁠— rely on Rewired technology and expertise to build political power from the bottom up.

• partisan
• coop

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Interoperable Europe is the initiative of the European Commission for a reinforced public sector interoperability policy. The Interoperable Europe Act proposes a strategic interoperability cooperation mechanism across the European Union.

• Govtech
• Government Interoperability

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

Een stembureau bij jou in de buurt, zo gevonden

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

"Bringing nonprofit professionals together to ensure great nonprofits thrive" - Includes Action Network, Sum of Us, The Movement Cooperative, and other workforces

• labor

• Fieldwide resources
• Civic tech unions

In cooperation with the Organization for a Participatory Society and PIC - Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs, we prepared a survey on the transparency of Slovenian municipalities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Communicating with the government

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Fight disinformation
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Loconomics Cooperative was an app for booking local services owned by local service professionals.

• labor
• apps

• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields
• Platform coops

A project map of Public Interest AI and related research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Public Interest Tech

It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.

• Awards and prizes

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Regulation

NEF is an association of leading European foundations dedicated to strengthening philanthropic cooperation.

• Funders & donors

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

We are a worker-owned cooperative that designs and builds technology for justice and joy, working with NGOs, academics, artists, and beyond.

• coop

• Social impact design firms

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

We help people publish and use open data

• coop

• Civic data
• Civic and social impact companies

WeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.

• Civic data
• Data visualization

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs