The mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.

• Democratic Innovations
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We make technology work for the public good

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Evaluate impact

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

• WhatsApp

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

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Digital literacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Open government data

This self assessment tool is designed to help policymakers in government understand how prepared their government is to use AI in a trustworthy way in the public sector.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Indicators

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

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

Our WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.

• WhatsApp

• Media and social media analysis
• Messaging app analysis

OSF is a free, open platform to support your research and enable collaboration. Get started

• Open science

Metaculus offers trustworthy forecasting and modeling infrastructure for forecasters, decision makers, and the public.

• Big listening

The Data and Public Services Toolkit aims to help public authorities make better use of data. It addresses challenges such as: how to make a business case for data use; how to use data ethically and fairly; and how to identify and utilise relevant datasets.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

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

A policy note to make it easier for more people to engage with the UK government's National Data Strategy.

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

"The Government Says" make news releases from Government departments easy to find and easy to scan through quickly.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Archives

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Data schemas and standards

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

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

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

• Crowdsourcing
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Citizen Engagement
• Civic literacy

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

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Talk to the City is an open-source LLM interface for improving collective deliberation and decision-making by analyzing detailed, qualitative data. It aggregates responses and arranges similar arguments into clusters.

• Emerging tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

We believe digital technology can and should have a positive impact on society.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Participatory democracy

NYC Street Map is an ongoing effort to digitize official street records, bring them together with other street information, and make them easily accessible to the public.

• cities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Open government data

CiviClick is changing the way people interact with lawmakers through AI.

• Organize campaigns
• Communicating with the government
• Artificial Intelligence

Your Matchmaker Between GitHub Projects And Talented Contributors

• Build something
• Open source developer networks
• Pro bono and volunteer

Fast group decision-making.

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

• Govtech
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

Successful public-facing technologies rely upon direct resident engagement and community-focused design.

• User research
• User research groups
• Graveyard

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• cities
• mobility

• Urban planning

WINGS is a community of thought leaders and changemakers who are committed to ensuring philanthropy will reach its fullest potential as a catalyst for social progress.

• Tools for Funders

Includes funding from Ford, Hewlett, Luminate, MacArthur, OpenSocietyFoundation, and Chandler foundations totaling over half a billion dollars

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The standards explicitly define excellent U.S. election administration.

• Data schemas and standards
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

presents the OECD Framework on the Governance of Digital Government and offers a toolkit for policymakers aiming to enhance digital government maturity

• handbooks

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

MANO BALSAS LT is a rational voting system on the internet. On this website, people are invited to take a short test and find out which politicians or parties align closest to their views.

• Matching views to votes
• Voting and elections

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• cities

• Civic data
• Data governance
• Open government data

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• cities

• Urban planning

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Open government data

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

• Ballot information
• Voting and elections

The Centre for Democracy was founded in January 2021 to develop the ecosystem of organisations working towards a better democracy in the UK

• Participatory democracy

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

• Specific campaigns
• Democratic Innovations
• Ranked Choice Voting

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Conferences
• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

Exygy's collaboration with the CROP Organization and their work aggregating reentry data across the state of California.

• recidivism

• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

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

• Climate action

• Carbon calculators