dedicated to deconstructing representative or audience democracy and building a liquid and participatory democracy through interactive communication tools, political articulation and co-creation methodologies.

• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

State-of-the-art end-to-end encryption (powered by the open source Signal Protocol) keeps your conversations secure.

• Digital security and privacy
• Messaging

The Decelerator is a free support service for civil society organisations. We offer information, tools and hands-on support for better endings.

• Fieldwide resources

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

• Open knowledge
• Open science

ORCID provides a persistent digital identifier (an ORCID iD) that you own and control, and that distinguishes you from every other researcher.

• Identity
• Open science

Campaign website explaining landlord / proptech surveillance and what tenants can do to fight back

• housing
• surveillance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

soweego is a pipeline that connects Wikidata to large-scale third-party catalogs.

• Wikipedia

• Civic data
• Data integration

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Focused on promoting conversation and action when it comes to the ending of organisations in civil society.

• Fieldwide resources

A free downloadable resource from Digital Charity Lab and ODV Digital, to help you ensure that your organisation doesn’t get locked out of its social media or other digital accounts.

• Nonprofit tech
• Social media

Nym protects communication patterns, IP addresses and metadata for end-users, enterprise and infrastructure operators

• Digital security and privacy

Platform Land was a project at digitalHKS examining how digital platforms will change government and society.

• guides

• Govtech
• Service delivery

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

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Meant to provide a high-level view of the Self Sovereign Decentralized Identity landscape.

• Decentralization
• Identity

This is an online resource guide for civil society groups looking to better deal with the problem of disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic tech catalogs

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping 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

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.

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

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Bots

Italy's government agency for connectivity, govtech transformation, cloud, ultra wide band, digital upskilling, and more

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

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

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Factchecking

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

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

The Latin American Network for Legislative Transparency (RLTL) is an initiative for linking, communication and collaboration between civil society organizations that promote the opening of congresses in the region, seeking to raise the standards of transparency, access to information, citizen participation, accountability and responsibility in the legislative powers.

Civic Impulse, LLC is Joshua Tauberer’s liability wrapper around GovTrack.us.

[T]he largest repository of parliamentary open data in the Central and Eastern Europe. We survey, scrape, open, republish and use voting results, speeches and other types of parliamentary data!

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

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.  

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sortition

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.

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

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Bahn-Vorhersage ist ein Rankingsystem für Zugverbindungen. Es kann für alle Zugverbindung innerhalb von Deutschland einen sogenannten Verbindungsscore ermitteln.

• mass transit
• mobility

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

AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity
• Direct aid

Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge. It is saving costs of distributing aid, reducing delivery times, and bringing more transparency and accountability in the process. It offers an opportunity to improve how aid is delivered without compromising the dignity of beneficiaries.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Direct aid

The AI Supply Chain Observatory (AISCO) works to improve our shared ability to respond to supply chain disruptions by identifying early warning indicators and root causes of harmful and catastrophic disruption.

• supply chain

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development

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
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

#KnowYourRightsHK is here to help you understand and exercise your legal rights.

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

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

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

The [UK] Government is establishing an elite team of highly empowered technical experts at the heart of government. Their mission is to help departments harness the potential of AI to improve lives and the delivery of public services.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

"The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) is a California state government agency created by the California Privacy Rights Act of 2020 (CPRA). As the first dedicated privacy regulator in the United States, the agency implements and enforces the CPRA and the California Consumer Privacy Act." - Wikipedia

• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

An iLab Liberia project, in conjunction with mySociety, powered by Alaveteli

• Alaveteli

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

The Declaration on Parliamentary Openness is a call to national parliaments, and sub-national and transnational legislative bodies, by civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations (PMOs) for an increased commitment to openness and to citizen engagement in parliamentary work.

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

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

When founding The Oaklandside in 2020, we launched Mission Metrics, an innovative pilot program for reader feedback.

• Media
• Journalism
• Evaluate impact

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
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

[W]hich aspires to establish a global democracy, solving the hard problem of representing every human in the world – including those who won’t participate – without the help of government.

• Participatory democracy
• Blockchain
• Democratic Innovations