We campaign for communities to have a powerful say in decisions about data and AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Data governance

We help forward-thinking leaders to embed evidence, expertise, and lived experiences into the heart of decision-making.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Civil society research outfits

By Aviv Ovadya

• Artificial Intelligence
• Democratic Innovations
• Peer-reviewed research

Canada’s platform for bold policies and better leaders.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Cet appel à projet vise à créer et à rendre accessible les communs numériques sur l’ensemble de la chaine de l’intelligence artificielle générative afin d’assurer le développement de produits ou services innovants.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Building inside government

A key question is:  who gets a say in the direction AI and other frontier technologies go?

• framework

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• User research

Have you noticed that news stories and marketing material about Artificial Intelligence are typically illustrated with clichéd and misleading images ?

• Artificial Intelligence
• Narrative tech
• Artistic interventions

To Community is a set of strategies for bonding companies to communities. It’s also an open research program on how to transition society to new forms of community ownership and governance.

• coop

• Build something
• Data governance
• Building in the private sector

How can we ensure that democratic capacity can keep pace with AI advances? What are achievable positive visions for a world being transformed by technology? By Aviv Ovadya

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

We partnered with Stanford’s Deliberative Democracy Lab and the Behavioral Insights Team on a Community Forum to discuss the principles that can be reflected in generative AI chatbots – and today, we’re releasing the results.

• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• User research

In this paper, building on insights from the theory and practice of deliberative democracy, we provide a "Democracy Levels" framework for evaluating the degree to which decisions in a given domain are made democratically.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Peer-reviewed research

Course designed and taught by Soizic Pénicaud at Sciences Po Paris’ Graduate School of Public Affairs in September-December 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Courses

Our cutting-edge AI algorithms provide public-affairs professionals with predictive analytics to anticipate policy outcomes and identify advocacy opportunities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Europe’s first Political Tech Summit—where politics meets technology.

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Using our AI-assisted research methodologies we examined more than 30,000 videos relating to mainstream political discourse in the UK

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

We believe in strengthening and protecting people’s voices via proven quality technology and operational expertise – including election monitoring, voting systems, and data-driven outreach.

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting
• Election observation

Report by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Campaign Lab's handbook is for any campaigners working across the progressive ecosystem who are interested in using new AI Tools.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Small donor campaign to help protect Kyiv from aerial bombing

• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Specific campaigns
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

AI-powered community management solution with human-level accuracy

• hate speech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Community-building resources

People, organizations, and communities across the country are joining together to ensure our civil servants have resources if they are targeted or attacked.

• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Civic Innovation Fund (CIF) is a unique European pooled fund of THE CIVICS Innovation Hub. It pioneers new ideas in civil society, enhances their visibility, and integrates them into NECE, a growing pan-European network of civic educators.

• teachers & educators

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Civic literacy

THE CIVICS supports both citizens and civic educators to deal with the challenges of our time, such as threats to democracy, causes and effects of climate change, growing polarisation, and divides. Our goal is to strengthen the democratic competences, self-efficacy, and resilience of citizens across Europe.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civic literacy

Our Mapping Civic Education in Europe programme is a dynamic initiative continuously evolving by adding new countries to the first-ever pan-European virtual map of civic educators.

• Civic maps
• Civic literacy

Artificial Intelligence: support teachers and schools in using AI responsibly and effectively

• teachers & educators

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

Eticas audited the algorithmic system that predicts homelessness risk in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, USA.

• homelessness

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

What is the impact of social media on the representation and voice of migrants and refugees in Europe? What are the challenges and opportunities to avoid their invisibilization and promote a fair representation?

• TikTok

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• AI Auditing

Since 2016, the Laura Robot has analyzed more than 8.6 million visits in 40 clinical and hospital centers in several Brazilian states.

• Good health and well-being

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

In Spain, the level of risk to which a victim of gender violence is subjected is determined by an algorithm. The system to which it belongs is VioGén which, with more than 3 million risk evaluations, is the risk assessment system with the most registered cases in the world.

• Gender-Based Violence (GBV)

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

The success of Koa Health and Eticas serves as a beacon for the broader industry, emphasizing the importance of ethical considerations when developing mental health solutions.

• mental health

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

The report explores Uber, Cabify and Bolt’s compliance with competition, labor and consumer protection laws in Spain.

• mobility
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

An In-Depth Audit of Biases in Facial Recognition Technology Impacting Individuals with Disabilities

• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

With the collaboration of Universidad Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), Eticas carried out an audit of the natural language processing (NLP) system from the Social Services area from the Barcelona City Council.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing
• Access social benefits

For MASA AL2, the lab will test the public version of the app (available in the Play Store) and provide assessment feedback directly to developers, including remediation steps for any flagged issues.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Data schemas and standards

O Acessibilidade Digital Challenge visa capacitar as equipas técnicas dos municípios portugueses a obterem a Declaração de Acessibilidade para os seus sítios web

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Challenges

Centro para a Inovação no Setor Público

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

News, Information, & Discussion for Federal Employees

• labor
• Reddit
• Project 2025

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Supporting public sector from outside government

This new badge is designed to highlight apps that prioritize user privacy and safety, help users make more informed choices about the VPN apps they use, and build confidence in the apps they ultimately download.

• apps
• Google

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic features

A Agência para a Modernização Administrativa, I.P. (AMA) é o instituto público responsável pela promoção e desenvolvimento da modernização administrativa em Portugal.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

ChatGPT Gov is designed to streamline government agencies’ access to OpenAI’s frontier models.

• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

"Pluralisme.fr is a revolutionary solution in the sense that it will help strengthen Democracy and monitor alternative facts"

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

FactStream AI utilizes advanced artificial intelligence to simplify access to essential legal information for newcomers and new community members across Europe.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Data science for social good

An AI project uses natural language processing to identify and neutralize hate speech on community radios in eastern DRC, enhancing social cohesion and stability in conflict-affected areas by providing reliable information through adapted radio content.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• hate speech
• peace

• Media and social media analysis
• Natural Language Processing
• Speech recognition

Coders Beyond Borders: Empowering newcomers with essential tech skills for seamless integration and success in Europe’s tech landscape.

• refugees
• No poverty
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Data science for social good
• Economic development
• Upskilling

Shaping Education for Fairer AI

• Reduced inequalities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

Our vision is to build a world where AI technologies are secure, decentralized, and transparent, enabling users to harness the full potential of AI while maintaining complete control and privacy over their data.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Natural Language Processing
• Blockchain
• Decentralization

The Spinoza project initially aims to create a tool for journalists based on generative artificial intelligence (AI) to enhance media coverage of climate change and ecological transition, all while relying on reliable sources.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• resources

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Factchecking

Africa Tech Workers Rising, Kenya is a project to organize and empower front line content moderators and data enrichment workers in the AI data supply chain to improve conditions of pay, workload, health and safety, whistleblower protections, voice and respect.

• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Peer networks
• Labor platforms
• Whistleblowing

Dalil is a web platform enabling faster access to accurate information through AI-powered media monitoring and analysis tools.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking