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• Open science

Build A platform for creating research, Recruit anyone around the world, Create your own panel of participants.

• Open science

Easily find vetted research participants and AI taskers at scale

• commercial

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Labor platforms

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

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

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

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

• Economic development
• Reports

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research tools

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

Postcode lookup search engine to "Have your say about local issues. Councils carry out consultations on the way they plan, manage and deliver services."

• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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

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

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

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Governance of AI

CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

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

Search over 2000 reports of AI harms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Consumer watchdogging
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

A free/libre book about UX research with qualitative methods on user motivations, activities, and problems, by Jan Dittrich

• books

• User research

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

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

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

Take the hassle out of web scraping

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Research tools

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Insurrection Index is a searchable database of records on individuals and organizations in positions of public trust who were involved in the deadly attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Advocacy tech
• Archives
• Specific campaigns

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

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Thailand's Members of Parliament Monitoring Website

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms
• Peer-reviewed research

This list of civil society experts on AI contains profiles and contact information of policy experts, researchers and lawyers who can speak to the media and other stakeholders on issues such as AI regulation, facial recognition, racial justice, AI in health, border surveillance, algorithmic welfare distribution, conditions for workers training Chat-GPT and other key issues of our time.

• Artificial Intelligence

Relevant section: Politics: Regulation of AI, its economic implications and the evolving geopolitics of AI.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Reports

O COLAB é um centro de pesquisa que atua também no desenvolvimento de software e na formação de pessoas.

• Research and policy centers
• Civic apps outfits
• Academia

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

We are looking for a diverse group of residents in the city of Detroit to participate in the testing of civic apps/websites! Sign up for the Civic User Testing Group (CUTGroup) now and tell your friends!

• User research
• User research groups

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

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

CUTgroup is a civic engagement program that includes residents throughout the technology design process.

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

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

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

When the platform is launched, it will allow journalists to report their news and current events. It will also enable them to share their stories, interviews and research.

• Media
• Journalism
• Social networks

This tool was intended to help you and your organization understand and track your email newsletter metrics

• Media
• Graveyard
• Journalism

#ISOJ is the official research journal of the International Symposium on Online Journalism. It features articles based on original research, methodologies relevant to the study of journalism and innovative technologies (online, tablets, mobile platforms, etc.), critical syntheses of research and theoretical perspectives on journalism today.

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer-reviewed research

Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.

• informal settlements
• housing

• Peer-reviewed research
• Smartphones

We pilot, build, and test solutions for compliance, mass adjudication, policy making, and government services

• Legal tech
• Research and policy centers
• Regulation

A privacy-respecting system for aggregate statistics

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

Transforming Narratives for Environmental Justice (TNEJ) seeks to advance environmental and climate justice through collaborative storytelling, design, and research.

• Climate action

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Academic programs

EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, DC seeking to protect privacy, freedom of expression, and democratic values in the information age.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.

• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

OpenArchive helps history's first responders safely store, verify, and share critical evidence. We conduct co-research, build tools, and create guides that advance human rights every day.

• Media
• Archives
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

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.

• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns
• Democratic Innovations

Technology Consultancy and Meetups for Right-Leaning Organisations and Politicians

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• In-person meetings

Building the case for an evidence-based approach to campaigning (for the Labour Party)

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evidence-driven campaigning