A mailing list for the UK democracy space

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

We are raising €10 million to buy 112 rescue vehicles for Ukraine.

• Ukraine

• Crowdsourcing
• Emergency services

The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

UkraineTakeShelter.com is an independent platform helping to connect Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts and housing.

• housing
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing

The lives of Ukrainian children with cancer depend on specialized treatment. This is where they find critical help for them in Romania.

• Ukraine
• Good health and well-being

• Resource matching and sharing

Civic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine

• Ukraine
• refugees
• racial equity

• Support civic projects with tech

Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Meeting tech

Open Google Doc resources

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

This tool will help you to compare official statistics on homelessness and rough sleeping across the UK, with information provided on each of the four countries.

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic tech catalogs
• Socialize online

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

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

• Engagement tech
• Govtech

A directory of more than 90 UK-based companies which provide technology or solutions which facilitate safer online experiences, and protect users from harmful content, contact or conduct.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

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

Now-defunct Alaveteli instance for Rwanda

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Technology Consultancy and Meetups for Right-Leaning Organisations and Politicians

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic hacking meetups

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Co-design

We are a coordinating alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies. Our goal is to create an ecosystem of interlocking solutions for the needs of people on the run.

• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Use this design system to make government services consistent with GOV.UK. Learn from the research and experience of other service teams and avoid repeating work that’s already been done.

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."

• guides

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Freedom of Information

GDS service for government users to notify constituents

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

This is a dataset that uses multiple metrics of deprivation to rank all small neighbourhood sized chunks of the UK from most to least deprived.

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• Advocacy tech

TI-UK is the UK chapter of Transparency International, committed to increasing the integrity of national institutions, minimising the effect of British corruption abroad and combatting corruption within the UK.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

We help social change organisations use data science

• Data science for social good

Dogruluk Payi is a Turkish fact checking website

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The USAID-funded Media Program in Ukraine will empower local media to expand Ukrainian citizens’ access to high-quality news and information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

NGO "Ukraine-2050" is a working to counter disinformation through a media monitoring program.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media monitoring

While COVID-19 has put a temporary stop to our classroom-based training, we have created a library of online training courses to support local authority staff to learn and develop their digital skills.

• Govtech
• Professional associations

This 7 point framework will help government departments with the safe, sustainable and ethical use of automated or algorithmic decision-making systems.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government AI strategies

The International Journalism Festival and members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development call for increased support of independent media and journalists in Ukraine.

• Ukraine

• Media
• Solidarity networks

We are a collective that helps designers impacted by the conflict in Ukraine reach safety and find new work opportunities.

• Ukraine

• Design

In January 2022, CIR launched the Eyes on Russia project to collect and verify videos, photos, satellite imagery, or other media related to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. The goal of the project is simple: to provide the world with timely and reliable information concerning the impact of Russia's invasion on Ukraine and its people.

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A compendium of ways to help, in English, Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian language

• Ukraine
• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Participatory aid

Official Polish government website connecting those who need help with those who can provide it

• Ukraine
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing
• Participatory aid