The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Meet the others
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• In-person meetings

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

We’re reimagining the supply chain of social care for the new era.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Bots

This free app includes information on 100 Senators, 50 State Attorney Generals, 50 Governors, 426 Congressional reps by state. And 1,964 State Senators and 5,443 State House Reps.

The Program for Public Consultation was established to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and to conduct public consultations.

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

• Participatory democracy
• Polarization

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

• Open knowledge

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project (https://climateintelligence.eu/) is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation, and attribution of Extreme Events (EEs), namely tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, droughts, floods, compound and concurrent events.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Public Private Partnerships
• Building inside government

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Mapping tools

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Digital transformation
• Peer networks
• Data governance

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations
• Artistic interventions

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

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

• Digital transformation
• Economic development

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Civil society research outfits
• Diversity & Inclusion

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

City, State, Federal & Public Sector Jobs

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Civic X Syllabus is a roadmap to learning about civic research, civic data, civic tech, and civic design.

• Reading lists

The Climate Data JLN will surface key data governance innovations that will enable climate-relevant data to be more accessible and useful for frontline governments and communities.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Partner networks
• Data governance

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

Where Chicago's historically underrepresented tech founders find the funding, knowledge, and networks to help your business thrive.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

The Social Practice is an ideologically-driven consultancy based in the US and Europe. We help those working for big change to strategize, communicate, and organize at scale.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

The first virtual DEI assessment for the workplace with an emphasis on mutual accountability.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

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

Democracy Only Works When We Do

• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

Project Liberty is advancing responsible development of the internet, designed and governed for the common good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

The National Civic League's Quarterly Journal, "One of the Nation’s Oldest and Most Respected Journals of Civic Affairs"

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

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

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic apps outfits
• Civic and social impact companies

A family of interrelated justice-seeking organizations that both independently and collectively work to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundational layers

An 2024 election info hub and civic caravan for Romanian citizens

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter outreach

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Podlove is a group of Wordpress plugins and allows you to self-host your podcast.

• Wordpress

• General purpose open source tools
• Decentralization

We have collected over 40 chatbot projects by nonprofits and social businesses around the world that help build a more just, equal and sustainable future.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Bots

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

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Academia

Your toolbox for self-hosted chat services

• Bots

We are on a mission to help the social sector organizations to scale their impact, increase their outreach and work smarter using artificial intelligence and chatbots, and smart automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Nonprofit tech

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech