Our mission is to provide accessible information and tools to help citizens make informed decisions and participate in the democratic process.

• Voter assistance tech
• Matching views to votes

We’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.

• trees

• Mapping
• Mapping tools

• WhatsApp

The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.

• Good health and well-being

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Access social benefits
• Consumer watchdogging

As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police force works.

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Research and policy centers

Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.

• Civic literacy
• Matching views to votes
• Find your representatives

An Instagram filter that reminds you not to get too close to wild animals as you take your photo

• animals
• Instagram

• Cameras

How Member-Led Upgrades Are Optimizing Legislative Branch Capacity and Resilience

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Digital transformation

Free and effective tools you can use right now to take action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of your newsroom.

• Media
• Journalism
• Cybersecurity

BudLib is an open-source Library Management System, built and designed from ground up, primarily for smaller and independent schools.

• students
• libraries

• Open knowledge
• General purpose open source tools

GCA builds communities to deploy tools, services, and programs that provide cybersecurity at global scale.

• Cybersecurity
• Foundational layers

Report an issue to a company, find out about your rights with France's Fraud Control.

• Govtech
• Consumer watchdogging

One Project collaborates with people to build tools, systems and support for the futures ahead.

• Civil society research outfits

Free and effective tools you can use today to take immediate action to improve the cybersecurity and integrity of our elections.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

Cutting-edge map tools for historical research. Search, explore, and discover the history of your surroundings through historical maps.

• history

• Civic maps
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A board game to energize participatory sessions in primary school classrooms, practically exploring various dimensions of citizen participation. Wander down the road of this game and improve your territory!

• youth
• students

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification
• Board games

Curated definitions of key terms relevant to collective intelligence, democracy and governance.

• Learn about civic tech
• Democratic Innovations
• Glossaries

Creating space to build a democracy for all

• students
• youth

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic literacy

We are an impact investment firm that offers financial and non-financial tools to everyone committed to delivering positive social and environmental outcomes.

• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives
• Investors

Somos uma organização não-governamental sem fins lucrativos e open source que atua para universalizar o acesso a dados de qualidade. Fazemos isso através da criação de ferramentas inovadoras, da produção e difusão do conhecimento e da promoção de uma cultura de transparência e dados abertos.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

We are developing an end-to-end platform for in-person, online and hybrid deliberative participation processes, starting with: AI-assistance for defining the process; anonymously transcribing and documenting deliberations; summarization and in-depth analysis; and final reporting.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Digital Democracy considers how technological developments might combine with underlying social, economic and political conditions to produce new vehicles for democratic practice. The growth of new Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) such as the Internet, alongside growing concerns about the failure of advanced societies to live up to the democratic idea, has produced much interest in the prospects for a digital democracy. This book will provide invaluable reading for those studying social policy, politics and sociology as well as for policy analysts, social scientists and computer scientists.

• books

• Participatory democracy

With Democracy Fitness Training we exercise our democracy muscles and keep them toned to engage in our democracy!

• trainings

• Artistic interventions
• Civic literacy

we’re a highly experienced team of facilitators and community engagement practitioners specialising in high influence and deliberative engagement

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies

We are an international network of organizations, associations, and individuals that develop, implement, and promote ways to improve democracy, from the local to the global level.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democratic Innovations

newDemocracy is an independent, non-partisan research and development organisation. We aim to discover, develop, demonstrate, and promote complementary alternatives which will restore trust in public decision making.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Democratic Innovations

We have led more than 50 Reference Panels and Citizens’ Assemblies contributing approximately 71,000 volunteer hours to policy-making in Canada — making MASS internationally recognized for its work in public deliberation.

• People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies

This Library Note provides an overview of developments around citizens’ political engagement and participation through the internet.

• books

• Participatory democracy

We created a search engine for public domain works that can be adapted to work in each country as the legislation changes according to the nationality of the author of the work.

• Open knowledge

Pro bono legal assistance for NGOs or academic research assistance on legislative issues at no cost and worldwide

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

GovWell’s mission is to build modern software products to help government serve communities better.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Permitting

The Google News Initiative works with publishers and journalists to fight misinformation, share resources and build a diverse and innovative news ecosystem.

• Google

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic teams at tech companies

Maximize your mission impact through technology. Let us help you harness its power.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• Civic and social impact companies

Microsoft's program to "preserve, protect, and advance the fundamentals of democracy by safeguarding open and secure democratic processes, promoting a healthy information ecosystem, and advocating for corporate civic responsibility."

• Microsoft

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Journalism

Official Reddit account to help you Up The Vote. Learn how to get registered, understand voting options and deadlines, and make your voice count.

• Reddit
• US Election 2024

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Voter registration

This is a non-partisan guide made to help new [UK] MPs & their staff establish and run their offices after the 2024 election.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

CTCL is thrilled to launch a nonpartisan grant program to help rural and nonmetro election jurisdictions ensure reliable and secure elections consistent with applicable law.

• rural

• Get funding
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The Google News Initiative Pre-launch Lab is a program supporting early stage entrepreneurs in journalism.

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

gotham-grabber is a set of scripts written to archive journalism published on a set of now-defunct news sites

• Journalism
• Archives

• Awards and prizes

China's first independent fact-checker, verifying international news

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

By Alan R. Shark, with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI

• local
• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Books

Like X and YouTube, China's Weibo platform instituted community notes annotations to fight disinformation on the platform.

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic features

THE NYC public toilet Google map

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Actively supporting local government technology leaders and their teams through research & content, professional development, consulting services, learning and networking events, membership, workforce connections and recognition programs.

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Scottish Government's Digital Directorate's analysis of 31 digital participation platforms

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Connecting Talent with Opportunity

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Community Broadband Bits is a weekly audio show hosted by Community Broadband Networks Initiative Director Christopher Mitchell featuring interviews with people building community networks or otherwise involved with Internet policy.

• Podcasts
• Community wifi
• Internet governance

10x is the federal government’s very own venture studio

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Public sector innovation labs