A design toolkit for USAID staff on how to design inclusive digital technology interventions, written for work on global hunger but applicable in many other contexts.

• Zero hunger

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design
• Toolkits

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to  counter disinformation.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Factchecking

ElectoFacts is a resource that Canadian electors can use to easily check whether information they come across about Canada's federal electoral process is true or not.

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

SeeSay2020.com was an online tool that allowed voters to report instances of misinformation, voting machine issues, polling place wait times, and more, with the goal to attract media and legal attention to verified, ongoing issues in real time.

• US Election 2020

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing

El chatbot de la Ciudad Buenos Aires

• cities
• WhatsApp

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

An AI Assistant by Gooey.AI and Digital Green to make vetted farmer knowledge accessible.

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

SocorroBot is an interactive guide designed to assist individuals in the process of reporting a missing person in Mexico.

• WhatsApp
• missing people

• Crowdsourcing
• Legal tech
• Bots

NYC's Business Services Chatbot which "uses Microsoft's Azure AI services to provide information in response to questions you have about starting or operating your business" in ten+ languages

• cities
• Decent work and economic growth

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

South Korean fact-checking organization, supported by government during the pandemic but now shut down

• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard
• Factchecking

The Deliberative Democracy Lab (formerly the Center for Deliberative Democracy), housed within the Center on Democracy, Development and the Rule of Law at Stanford University, is devoted to research about democracy and public opinion obtained through Deliberative Polling®.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Surveys & polling

The initiative seeks to be a centralized repository for information about government commitments and the progress it has made toward achieving them.

• Promise trackers

Chat de Whatsaap diseñado para generar un proceso interactivo de rendición de cuentas basado en información pública y análisis de calidad sobre las principales reformas y las posturas de los actores políticos que las votaron.

• Engagement tech
• Bots

Parte del programa Justicia Abierta, este es un proyecto integral de apertura institucional, que comprende un software web que permite a las fiscalías sistematizar las solicitudes de acceso a la información condensando datos procesales, de uso

• Civic data
• Justice tech

Rootcause is a not-for-profit consultancy helping forward thinking organisations win in modern digital information ecosystems.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

“Lokalni Index Otvorenosti” je kompozitni indikator koji mjeri stepen otvorenosti lokalnih samouprava prema građanima u Bosni i Hercegovini.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits

Platforma omogućava dvosmjernu komunikaciju i interaktivnu razmjenu informacija između građana i njihove lokalne zajednice.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Communicating with the government

Javna rasprava Lokal je web platforma koja je pokrenuta kao alat za poboljšanja dvosmjerne komunikacije između građana/ki i donosioca/teljki odluka na lokalnom nivou.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Algorithmic tool by the Italian government to fight tax evasion by cross-checking self-reported income with assets and other databases in a privacy-protecting approach

• taxes

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Decelerator is a free support service for civil society organisations. We offer information, tools and hands-on support for better endings.

• Fieldwide resources

The aim of this study is to quantify and qualify content production and consumption for articles about politicians, with a specific focus on UK Members of Parliament (MPs).

• Wikipedia

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

The information assembled here is for any campaign in any party. It was designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our democracy.

• Organize campaigns
• Cybersecurity

This guide aims to provide helpful tools and techniques for identifying LinkedIn profiles and for extracting information that will then allow you to pivot to other social media profiles belonging to the target.

• LinkedIn

• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

All UK councillors 2016-2023 + by-election info

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Emerging Citizen Technology program, part of the Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, launched an open-sourced pilot to guide dozens of federal programs to make public service information available to consumer Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) for the home and office, such as Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, and Facebook Messenger.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic features

Evidence House is a Downing Street-led initiative, working with collaborators including ONS Data Science Campus, Evaluation Task Force, Modernisation and Reform Unit, Go Science and National Situation Centre.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Economic development

Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall channel rating.

• YouTube

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Factchecking

The Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency (RLTL) is an initiative for linking, communication and collaboration between civil society organizations that promote the opening of congresses in the region, seeking to raise the standards of transparency, access to information, citizen participation, accountability and responsibility in the legislative powers.

Diffusion et Partage de l'Information Politique

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

OffenesParlament.de sammelt Informationen über die Arbeit des Bundestages. Last updates 2017.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

ONSHOR est une association créée en 2019. ONSHOR a pour objectif de stimuler la diffusion de l’information publique.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Open civic data

We incubate projects that bring together data and transparency to expand and improve the civic space in Asia.

• Justice tech
• Freedom of Information

An Alaveteli instance for Norway. Project is on pause but the platform still operates

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency

Alaveteli instance for Australia

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Ejerce tu derecho a saber. Para obtener información de las entidades públicas

Chaque citoyen a le droit d'accéder aux informations détenues par les autorités publiques. Légalement, ils doivent répondre.

• Freedom of Information

Now-defunct Alaveteli instance for Rwanda

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency