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

• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns
• Ranked Choice Voting

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Information website by Budapest municipality in order to help the population find the possibilities of solar energy

• Govtech
• Mapping tools
• Mapping 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

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

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Dive is not just an AI assistant; it's your partner in optimizing meetings for maximum efficiency.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Meeting tech
• Generative AI

Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI) established to hold its key purpose to support civil society organizations that use or intend to use technology and media platforms to empower citizens in their respective countries to hold their public institutions transparent and accountable

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Foundation initiatives

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Participatory democracy
• Public Private Partnerships

Peer 2 Peer fundraiser for individuals, teams & supporters

• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Netwerk Democratie’s mission rests on two pillars: Digital democracy and the democratisation of technology.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

Democracy Festivals are the platforms for constructive political dialogue across opinions, age, gender, and hierarchy, where people come together each summer to discuss how to improve their countries.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences

civic crowdfunding platform based in Korea

• Get funding
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Help us identify and recognize the next 25 game-changers shaping the future of the internet to be more ethical, responsible and inclusive.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Awards and prizes

Our mission is to create content that tells the story of humans in public service, share stories that reflect the diversity in America in an effort to humanize public servants, and create a more positive perception of government.

• Govtech
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

We provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making. Our Services

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

2021 book edited by Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

• books

• Group decision making
• Books
• Political parties

A series of projects to figure out how major platforms track users, including through data donations

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Data donations

AI Forensics is a European non-profit that investigates influential and opaque algorithms. We hold major technology platforms accountable by conducting independent and high-profile technical investigations to uncover and expose the harms caused by their algorithms.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

Georgetown has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to invest $30 million in a nonpartisan institute that helps policymakers and tech industry leaders address pressing issues related to technology, policy and ethics and make informed decisions on how technology is used to shape, produce and share information across platforms.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Tech or Digital Policy

Legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy

Text to video, translation

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities
• Generative AI

TTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

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

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

US White House order including addressing AI generated public comments

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

• reports

• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions
• Algorithmic transparency

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The main objective of this action is to develop a European network of actors focusing on the development of collaborative economy models and platforms and on social and technological implications of the collaborative economy through a practice focused approach.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people
• Access social benefits

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

Hearken's consulting and engagement platforms help newsrooms, companies, and organizations engage their audience or community.

• Media
• Engagement journalism

Ahbap crowdfunding page with over 57,000 donations

• earthquakes

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

The project "Platform://Democracy: Platform Councils as Tools to Democratize Hybrid Online Orders" examines how the rules of discourse on platforms can be aligned with public values. It focuses on the following question: Can "platform councils" or other institutions ensure that public interests and democratic values are taken into account in the rule-making processes of platforms?

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

Enabling public safety, law enforcement and government services to communicate in any language over text, video, and voice.

• Govtech
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities
• Emergency services

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Trusted Voices is a platform focused on increasing transparency in news media. Using blockchain technology, Trusted Voices tracks source material to create a chain of custody from the device used to capture content to its usage on various media platforms.

• Media
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

• CONSUL
• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech