We forge partnerships between neighbors who use technology to improve interactions with, and access to, public services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Oslo for AI aims to open up new possibilities for the governance of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

In the context of increasingly complex challenges and unprecedented opportunities offered by technology, the MENA – OECD Working Group II on Open and Innovative Government supports MENA countries through regional exchange and dialogue to build public sectors that innovate, engage citizens, open up their data and information and follow the principles of digital and user-centred policy and service design.

• Govtech
• Working groups

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

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

We build tools, open up data, and provide data training which supports an active citizenry and helps communities and governments work better, together.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Civic apps outfits

Community-led guides for data science and open research

• guides

• Books
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

rbutr tells you when the webpage you are viewing has been disputed, rebutted or contradicted elsewhere on the internet. Last used 2013.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Dialogue is a digital platform for building consensus via ideas, comments and ratings in a shared space. Manage closed conversations with defined groups of stakeholders, or open up a public debate.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

An open data standard for restaurant information

• food

• Data schemas and standards

The Open Data Charter is a collaboration between governments and organisations working to open up data based on a shared set of Principles.

• Civic data

Run your own Freedom of Information website

• Alaveteli

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

Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.

• books
• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Open Gov Hub is a dynamic meeting place that brings together many organizations, ideas, and resources to open up governments and empower citizens worldwide, with 45 international nonprofits and 300 people as our members.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Bureaucracy tech

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

A bipartisan group of prominent political strategists announced an Internet information venture designed to interact with America's opinion leaders and serve as an antidote to the right-left clash that typifies political discourse on the Web.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard