The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

[W]hich aspires to establish a global democracy, solving the hard problem of representing every human in the world – including those who won’t participate – without the help of government.

• Participatory democracy
• Blockchain
• Democratic Innovations

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

Next-generation engagement tools for 21st century democracy.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Rocking the vote in France

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Voter outreach

Crowdmatching for Public Goods

• coop

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

L'application Agora permet aux Français de s'exprimer sur des sujets à forts enjeux en participant à des consultations et en posant des questions au Gouvernement.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government

The leading global knowledge platform on parliamentary development.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

This publication showcases how governments and civic tech communities around the world can work together to build digital services and projects.

• reports

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

Speakeasy AI is a SaaS company building end-to-end tools for better conversations.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Our Elections Integrity Program collects the expertise of our community of integrity professionals to help understand the impact the social media platforms have on elections and protect democratic elections around the world.

• Voting and elections

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, DC seeking to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Polish law institutionalizing the "Village Fund" form of participatory budgeting, first in rural areas and later required for the 66 largest cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Petitions

A platform for the public sector to directly consult with the citizens.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Women at the Table breaks down barriers to systems change so that women and girls are able to fully and actively participate and influence the world’s social, political and economic spheres.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

MyCandidate is a platform that empowers voters with easy-to-understand electoral information that anyone can access ahead of an election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Americans Elect was a political organization in the United States known primarily for its efforts to stage a national online primary for the 2012 US Presidential Election. Although it was successful in obtaining signatures to get on the ballot in a majority of states, the process set up by the organization did not select a candidate.

• Voting and elections
• Graveyard
• Democratic Innovations

FairVote is a nonpartisan organization advocating for ranked-choice voting in the US.

• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns
• Ranked Choice Voting

Microsoft AccountGuard is a cybersecurity service that adds an extra layer of protection to the high-risk, highly-targeted organizations that underpin a healthy democracy, including those in the political, elections, journalism, thinktank, human rights and nonprofit sectors.

• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Future Perfect is a live, choose-your-own-adventure game where players join an imagined society called Tomorrowland.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification

"The Center for AI and Digital Policy aims to promote a better society, more fair, more just — a world where technology promotes broad social inclusion based on fundamental rights, democratic institutions, and the rule of law."

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

The Brennan Center is a nonpartisan law and policy institute, striving to uphold the values of democracy.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections
• Justice tech

Free Machine awakens civic participation where emerging technology, public policy, and culture meet.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Narrative tech

Building on years of work and investments, a growing group of national, regional, and local funders have come forward to invest in local news and information.

• Media
• Journalism
• Foundation initiatives

A critical review of the accuracy of countries' submissions to the OECD's AI Policy Observatory site, tracking national government AI programs

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government AI strategies

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Messaging app analysis

Bringing African voices, values and experiences to global debates on AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Escola de Ativismo é um coletivo independente constituído em 2011 com a missão de fortalecer grupos ativistas por meio de processos de aprendizagem em estratégias e técnicas de ações não-violentas e criativas, campanhas, comunicação, mobilização e segurança e proteção integral, voltadas para a defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

POPVOX Foundation is working with Demand Progress and the Foundation for American Innovation (formerly the Lincoln Network) to facilitate information-sharing and best practices for the testing, deployment and oversight of automated technologies including Large Language Models (LLMs) in the legislative branch.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Civitates provides funding for civil society actors to come together, revitalise public discourse, and ensure that all voices are heard. Because we need a strong civil society to shape vibrant and open European democracies that work for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Trustmarks
• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

A powerful & impactful software that helps manage volunteers and their impact. Signup for a Demo

• Manage volunteers

Comprometidos con los asuntos públicos, trabajamos en el Desarrollo y Aplicación de herramientas para sociedades más democráticas, participativas e inclusivas.

• rural

• Citizen Engagement

We are Bingwa Civic Tech Lab, a youth-led initiative based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting technically the community and civil society organisations through co-creative and collaborative processes to implement digital solutions informing decision makers and different stakeholders to improve social services

• trainings
• Gender Equality

• Hubs

An interactive data visualization project demonstrating the gender imbalance of street names in Porto

• cities
• Gender Equality

• Data visualization
• Civic maps

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities

• Playbooks and design principles