Register for the Pilot Pitchfest in New York City on May 22nd—and apply for up to $80K to support high-impact projects.

• city

• Govtech
• Get funding
• Pro bono and volunteer

Fighting fraud is a noble cause. Using Artificial Intelligence to fight fraud is a smart strategy.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

This playbook is designed specifically for civil servants, offering practical guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to help them perform their work more effectively and efficiently.

• guides

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Playbooks and design principles

Hong Kong Accountability Archive (HKAA) is an independent, searchable, and secure database that documents the policing of the 2019 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong.

• Hong Kong protests
• police violence

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Justice tech

Checks and Balances Now is a legal and civic education initiative created by a group of lawyers who closely followed the work of the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

• Stop AI theft
• Adobe

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

A $9.8 Trillion Opportunity. World Economic Forum report (2025)

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources

Serviços e Informações do Brasil

• Brazil (federal government)

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

O OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos públicos sejam investidos em seus municípios.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

covering the Supreme Court of the United States

• Legal tech
• News and blogs
• Predecessors

At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Chat and messaging

Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.

• local
• city

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

This bot offers an interface for requesting and accessing VPN support via Telegram and WhatsApp.

• WhatsApp
• Telegram

• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech
• Chat and messaging

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

Over a nine month period, these participants will work with the CIVICUS team, technical experts, and each other to develop a fully funded project which will be delivered in their local setting.

• Build something
• Get funding
• Accelerators

Enabling and amplifying action for civic space and inclusive democracy

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Needs assessment

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

a comprehensive analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem across six regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.

• reports

• Participatory democracy

“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

• immigration

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Bureaucracy tech

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

• gun safety

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Artistic interventions

​​The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.

• Project 2025
• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

• surveillance
• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

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

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Policy

A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A glossary for the repository of Collective Intelligence Tools and Case studies

• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

*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

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

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

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

• Amazon

• 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

Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

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

• 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
• Indicators
• Taxonomies

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

• immigration

• Blockchain
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms.

• Stop AI theft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Find information about registered charities in England and Wales

• Civic data
• Nonprofit tech
• Open government data

AI Brand Monitoring and Analytics

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• SEO for AI

The new model includes the development of the largest national legislative database, which integrates not only federal and local legislation but also judicial rulings, government processes, services, and field-level systems.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Good Law Project is ready to help creatives fight back.

• culture
• Stop AI theft

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns

We break information barriers and strengthen African democracies through research and media innovation

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic apps outfits

Get your brand mentioned in AI search results

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• SEO for AI

Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

• Microsoft

• Digital security and privacy

Media publishers campaign against AI taking content without compensation

• Stop AI theft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

An Interactive Budget Simulation

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Budget explorers

Founded in 1895, it is one of the oldest non-governmental organisations and one of the largest ones measured by the number of people represented: 1 billion cooperative members on the planet.

• coop

• Fieldwide resources

Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition.

• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities
• supply chain

• Govtech
• Economic development
• Policy explainers

An independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons or commutations for criminal charges related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Justice tech