OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence. We conduct co-research, build tools, and create guides that advance human rights every day.

• Media
• Archives
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Powerbase is a free guide to networks of power, lobbying, public relations and the communications activities of governments and other interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

IJNet delivers the latest on global media innovation, news apps and tools, training opportunities and expert advice for professional and emerging journalists worldwide.

• guides
• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• News and blogs

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

The Civic AI Handbook is for digital leads of civic organisations who want to develop generative AI strategies for their organisations / departments / teams.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

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

La iniciativa tiene como principal objetivo difundir conceptos clave y buenas prácticas de la accesibilidad digital en el Estado, la sociedad civil, la academia y los sectores privado y técnico, actores críticos a la hora de alcanzar entornos digitales accesibles.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Al Accountability Fellowships seek to support journalists working on in-depth AI accountability stories that examine governments' and corporations’ uses of predictive and surveillance technologies to guide decisions in policing, medicine, social welfare, the criminal justice system, hiring, and more.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

JournalismAI Discovery is an interactive self-guided course that will help you understand what AI technologies can do to improve your journalism.

• trainings

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards
• Pinterest

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• Digital standards

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

A guide to comparing data

• guides

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Manage volunteers

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

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

The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials. This will include pursuing data model recommendations that will demonstrate alignment with the VC model, usage guidelines, and best practices.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Data schemas and standards
• Open knowledge

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Co-design

An iconography and lexicon for communicating which technologies are in use in public places

• place-based

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Trustmarks

Now under development, the Academy will offer online and in-person courses to millions of health workers and others around the world. 

• Good health and well-being
• MOOCs

• Open knowledge
• Digital transformation

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Voter outreach
• Phone banking tools

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

A candid and practical handbook for designers. by Sheri Byrne-Haber

• handbooks

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

USAID report

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Your guide to collect better data on public sector innovation.

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations. Selected participants will have a chance to develop their ideas with guidance from policy advisors, meet with veteran policymakers to learn more about the nuances of policy implementation, hone their ability to craft actionable policy on the federal level, and build a community with their fellow cohort. 

• Accelerators
• Tech or Digital Policy

A guide for civil society organizations looking to get started on a cybersecurity plan

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The task force is creating multi-faceted policy and practice tools to inform, guide, and facilitate responsible data governance by cities and counties

• cities

• Govtech
• Working groups
• Data governance

The Wildcard Workbook: A Practical Guide for Jokering Forum Theatre is a resource for facilitators of all kinds looking for new ways to bring fun, creativity, and critical thinking into their work!

• books

• Books
• Artistic interventions

In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

The Analysis and Response Toolkit for Trust or ARTT is focused on helping people engage in trust-building ways when discussing vaccine efficacy and other topics online.

• Fight disinformation
• Evaluate impact
• COVID Engagement Projects

Uma cartilha em que trazemos ferramentas para que profissionais da área de marketing e publicidade possam navegar melhor e com mais confiança frente às complexidades da relação entre publicidade e desinformação.

• guides
• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Building in the private sector

Short case studies and guides to using free tools to create campaign videos

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

A guide

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Targeting

A short case study using ESRI to focus your campaign on the areas with the most potential supporters.

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Targeting

NDI's Google Sheet of guides, trainings, and reports on digital disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Digital transformation

A guide by InterAction written for civil society organizations

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation