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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Think volunteer fire brigade for the 21st Century. We are a volunteer citizen brigade. We use technology and advocacy as a tool for open government, open data and civic engagement.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Project Management tool

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.

• local
• taxes
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Supporting public sector from outside government

AI Policy Bulletin publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy
• Governance of AI

*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

Violation Tracker Global is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world.

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Citizens Network Watchdog Poland is an independent, apolitical and non-profit organization in the form of a watchdog and think-do-tank organization for the public benefit.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

Better evidence for a world without homelessness

• homelessness

Discover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers

• Amazon

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

GIJN is an international association that supports the work of investigative journalists worldwide.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

• census
• reports

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits
• Indicators

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

• immigration

• Blockchain
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

A machine learning model trains on geo-located survey data to predict state presence.

• surveillance

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

Glaze is a defensive tool that individual artists can use to protect themselves against style mimicry attacks,

• Stop AI theft

We empower visionary, high-leverage science and technology projects with the capacity to create transformative progress for human civilization.

• Emerging tech
• Open science

"Developed by Romanian researchers, Ion’s main task will be to scan social networks to inform the government “in real time of Romanians’ proposals and wishes” - The Guardian quoting the press release

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

Slack community

• Listservs, forums, and Slacks
• Slacks, Discords, Teams

• TikTok

This map displays where Internet services are available across the United States, as reported by Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to the FCC. The map will be updated continuously to improve its accuracy through a combination of FCC verification efforts, new data from Internet providers, updates to the location data, and—importantly—information from the public.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Civic maps

Coming soon

• Newspeak

• labor

This document is for U.S. government employees who want to better know their rights inside and outside the workplace and to consider strategies for balancing their obligations as federal employees or civil servants and their professional or personal values.

• Project 2025
• labor

• Celebrating public service and public servants

Partnership for Public Service's resource for you to answer the questions we are frequently asked about how various proposals may affect federal employees, to create a safe space for information sharing and community building, and most of all, to respond to what you need in this moment and in the months to come.

• labor
• guides

• Celebrating public service and public servants

The mission of the Department of Justice is to uphold the rule of law, to keep our country safe, and to protect civil rights.

• United States (federal government)

Article in Human Service Organizations by Lauri Goldkind, Joy Ming, and Alex Fink

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Newsletter by Rebecca Williams

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

The first sustained, detailed philosophical defense of using lotteries, rather than elections, to select political representatives

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Democratic Innovations
• Books

• commercial

• Project 2025