A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• cities

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Meeting tech

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Peer-reviewed research
• Communicating with the government
• Meeting tech

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

• Peer-reviewed research
• Communicating with the people
• Academia

A useful comparison of videochat solutions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• COVID

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Citizen Engagement
• E-voting and I-voting
• Voting and elections

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Design

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• In-person meetings
• Civic data
• Meet the others

Hack The Press is a movement. We're not satisfied by the current situation of owned media, and we've taken Michael Jackson's song "Man In The Mirror" to heart.

• Media
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

It's a quick tool for the public to rate: 1) Official public meetings (such as city council meetings, board/commission meetings, school board meetings) that you have attended. 2) How connected your community (people, organizations and institutions) is.

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact
• Meeting tech

Interaktywna przestrzeń do wynajęcia, w której dzięki technologii, sztuka łączy się z mediami

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Hubs

Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data

• guides

• In-person meetings
• Civic data
• Meet the others

a hackathon (now in its second edition) in which teams work collaboratively from different Latin American countries to find creative solutions to problems posed by civil society in the first phase of the event. More than 20 areas of knowledge dialogued collaboratively to solve challenges in Science and Education during #CoAfina.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Civic hackathons

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.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

A la fois laboratoire d’innovation publique, équipe d’experts pluridisciplinaires, centre de ressource et de formation, réseau dédié à l’innovation - le Lieu de la Transformation Publique propose, depuis 2019, un accompagnement sur mesure aux porteurs de projets engagés dans une démarche de transformation.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Govtech

We partner with technologists & civic hackers practitioners on a number of open source projects:

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Graveyard

Technology Consultancy and Meetups for Right-Leaning Organisations and Politicians

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• In-person meetings
• Organize campaigns

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

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Meeting tech

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

PIDLit’s Data in the ATL and Data Empowered Events series features local and global professionals and social justice advocates who use data analysis & visualization in their daily work and careers.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Data science for social good

The Government of Uganda, through Ministry of ICT and National Guidance constructed the National ICT Innovation Hub primarily to establish an environment for ICT innovators facing challenges of workspace and internet connectivity.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Hubs

The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Roundtables

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Participatory democracy
• Archives
• Communicating with the people

We foster and nurture communities throughout the world working on digital rights

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

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 applications allow users to view how a bill would change current law and differences between proposed legislation." URL will only work for US Capitol Hill IP addresses

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Diversity & Inclusion

Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of people who seek to inspire and inform each other to build the future of media.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Hurford Youth Fellowship Program seeks to build the leadership skills and harness the potential of young democracy activists from around the world.

• youth

• Fellowships

We believe that it's never been easier to use digital technology to tackle some of the world's toughest social and environmental challenges.

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

Rooted in Trust is a pandemic information response plan countering the unprecedented scale and speed of the spread of rumors and misinformation about COVID-19. Operating in ten countries.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• COVID Media Projects

EU DisinfoLab is an independent non-profit organisation focused on tackling sophisticated disinformation campaigns targeting the EU, its member states, core institutions, and core values.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Meeting tech

A Google Sheet comparing popular meeting livestreaming solutions with government meetings in mind

• Meeting tech

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Socialize online
• Reading lists

The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more. Wiseman's documentaries do not have a standard narrative arc, narration, or interviews, but are based on observation of day-to-day organizational life, in this case the activities of Boston's city government in fall 2018 and winter 2019. Much of the film follows Mayor Marty Walsh in activities such as meetings with aides, addressing business leaders about the impact of climate change on the Harbor, listening to veterans at Faneuil Hall on November 11, observing Thanksgiving Day at Goodwill Industries, and giving his state of the city address at Symphony Hall. A second major theme of the film is public servants helping people in need: the eviction prevention task force, another task force on economic advancement for Latina women, and an economic development adviser working with an ethnically-focused grocery store.[2]

• Govtech
• Shows and films

The e-LIberate / openDCN tool supports synchronous online deliberation with the goal of making decisions. It can be seen as an advanced chat where the times and modes of interaction are governed by Robert’s Rules of Order, a set of meeting rules that were designed to support equitable decision-making. This tool is intended to support groups of people who work together synchronously on specific issues or bound domains. 2003 e-Liberate is an online software application that facilitates online meetings utilizing standardized rules of discourse.

• Meeting tech
• Predecessors

Helping to increase digital literacy and use of open data in Nepal HELP NEPAL FIGHT COVID-19

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We are a network of people and projects, rooted in Detroit and connected to hundreds of other places across the globe. Together, we grow and exchange ways of using media to create the world we need.

• The People
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

1776 is the largest network of incubators that cultivates and empowers startup ecosystems in the Northeast Corridor.

• The People
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuit​y. As a result, we will in the near future see large parts of our lives influenced by AI.

• The People
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

Co-working Space, Events, Education, Programming, Incubators, Accelerators and a community of Entrepreneurs focusing on Innovation.

• The People
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others