An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Specific campaigns
• Media and social media analysis

MDS standardizes communication and data-sharing between cities and private mobility providers, such as e-scooter and bike-share companies.

• mobility
• cities

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

• Climate action

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

The official citizen participation hub of the Portuguese Assembly of the Republic

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Build something

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

• Surveys & polling
• Polarization

Scrutinizing what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally

• reports
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections

Brooks School of Public Policy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Citizen Clinic is a public-interest cybersecurity clinic at UC Berkeley.

• Academia
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Cybersecurity

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Satellites

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Citizen Engagement
• Social media

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Manifestos

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Archives

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

Led by Harold F. Linder Professor Alondra Nelson, the Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab explores emerging scientific and technological phenomena (including genomics, artificial intelligence, space exploration, and public health) and their intersections with the fulfillment of civil, political, and social citizenship

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The program pays topic experts to create relevant content on social media for NGI

• Public Relations and amplification
• Creators and Influencers

One-Stop Shop for All Public Services in Zambia

• apps

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Your starting point for data about local MPs, constituencies, public opinion and the climate and nature movement.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

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

Mapeo de rutas para futuras ciudades sostenibles

• mobility

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic hackathons

We make technology work for the public good

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Evaluate impact

Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

digitalhelpdeskforcities.org is a platform for public officials, specialists, collaborators, and organisations globally who want to promote an inclusive and democratic development of new technologies in their cities.

• cities

• Digital rights
• Data governance

Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure

• cycling
• cities
• Google

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Public Private Partnerships

AI for the Public Good, for Singapore and the World

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech or Digital Policy

This Transport for London project looks to introduce new ways to reduce adverse impacts of roadworks in London, by working with innovative companies to shape these in a way that responds to the problems London faces.

• mobility

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Procurement

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

• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation
• 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

Our expansive 1.5 km2 industrial area, frequented by over 10,000 daily users, functions as a vibrant physical testing space of smart city environments – now also offering a real-world platform with a digital twin for urban innovation at a 1:1 scale.

• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hubs
• Innovation teams and labs

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

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

Tussell & techUK are thrilled to share the 3rd annual Tech200 awards - our list of the 200 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK public sector, from FY 2021/22 to FY 2022/23.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Govtech vendors

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

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

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

• Open science

The most powerful platform for behavioral research and experiments

• Surveys & polling
• Open science

whopostedwhat.com is a non public Facebook keyword search for people who work in the public interest. It allows you to search keywords on specific dates. You are granted access because of your work. We do urge you to donate a small amount of money to keep the server running.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A collaborative, investigative network revealing stories that matter to communities across the UK

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

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

• Big listening

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

Manages Italy's public services app and electronic payments platform. PagoPA S.p.A. è una società pubblica ad alto livello specialistico, che ha la mission di diffondere i servizi pubblici digitali attraverso lo sviluppo di progetti innovativi e la gestione di infrastrutture tecnologiche strategiche per accompagnare la modernizzazione della Pubblica Amministrazione e del Paese.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs

We design and advance solutions to the world's toughest emerging security threats

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

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
• Tech or Digital Policy

The Computational Democracy Project designs, engineers and maintains Polis, an open source, real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

We are a venture philanthropy investing in and building digital nonprofit newsrooms that are governed by, are sustained by, and look like the public they serve.

• Media
• Get funding
• Journalism

The AI Objectives Institute (AOI) is a non-profit research lab working to ensure that both AI and future economic systems are built and deployed with genuine human objectives at their core, enabled by broad public input and scalable cooperation.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy