Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Open source AI

• Govtech vendors

Through global collaboration and local action, we’re building a future where open, trustworthy technology serves the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Public Interest Tech

A report by the Royal Society on the impact of the internet on our information environment, and on misinformation relating to scientific issues

• reports

• Fight disinformation

We provide democratic tools and methods for communities of all shapes and sizes.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

Humane Intelligence is a tech nonprofit building a community of practice around algorithmic evaluations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• AI Auditing

We are a new social enterprise developing tools to strengthen place-based awareness and engagement. ​

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The red teaming event brought together 40 health and climate postgraduate students with the objective to scrutinise and bring attention to potential vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs1 ).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Generative AI

Advancing AI in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Public Interest Tech

Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to the Ostbelgien Permanent Citizens' Council.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.

• local

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

G1000 is a Belgian platform for democratic innovation. We develop, support and promote new forms of deliberation that reinforce democracy from the local to the national level. We believe democracy should give more space to regular citizens.

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Career Dreamer helps you uncover job skills and explore new career possibilities in a simple, playful way. US-only as of now.

• commercial
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

The aim of this Municipal Budget Visualisation Tool is to make the management of local governments transparent to the local population and the wider society.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

K-Monitor database is a searchable library of articles from the online media dealing with corruption, procurements, public spending and in general with the transparency of the public sphere.

• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

A Figyusz egy alkalmazás, amelyben értesítésekre iratkozhatsz fel, hogy azonnal értesülj a figyelt közigazgatási és állami adatbázisok frissülése esetén.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Service alerts

is an app where you can subscribe to alerts to be notified immediately of updates to monitored administrative and government databases.

• Government transparency

Updates Google Maps to show the Gulf of Mexico again.

• extensions
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping tools
• Artistic interventions

Provides a comprehensive overview of all enforcement authorities and the cases they have taken against online platforms under the Digital Services Act

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

A distributed campaign against Tesla dealerships to protest Elon Musk's role shutting down various parts of the US government

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Our team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy

Japanese think tank running residents councils across the country

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Renovate the Public Hearing is an initiative created by the Centre for Dialogue to act as a convener and catalyst to pilot changes to the provincial local government land-use public hearing requirements as a means to enhance social justice, community-building and strengthen democratic culture.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Democratic Innovations

Newsweek has added a "Is this article trustworthy?" poll below its articles

• Media
• Polarization

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Dashboards

DoT’s mission is to convene a sustained and nuanced societal dialogue between leaders, experts and community members around the social impacts of AI in British Columbia and Canada.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Hey Neighbour Collective (HNC) is a collective impact project that brings together housing providers, researchers, local and regional governments, housing associations and health authorities to experiment with and learn about ways of effectively building community, social connectedness and resilience in B.C.’s fast-growing vertical communities.

• housing
• city
• social isolation

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Urban planning

The Mitigating Wildfire Initiative facilitates dialogue and collaboration to identify and advance solutions that address the fundamental changes happening in wildfire risk and management in British Columbia.

• fires

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

BuzzFeed Unveils Plan to Take Back the Internet We Love; Company Aims to Disrupt Social Media With a New AI-Driven Platform Built for Creativity and Joy, Not Manipulation or Addiction

• commercial

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

Agence de communication et relations publics, Datack est spécialisée dans les stratégies de mobilisation et d’engagement des publics

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Open and accessible tools that put safety back in the hands of the people

• youth

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Governance of AI

By Aviv Ovadya

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Democratic Innovations

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

How can we ensure more inclusive and responsible AI so that diverse harms can be foreseen and mitigated, and its benefits equitably enjoyed around the world?

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data governance
• Governance of AI

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
• Building in the private sector
• Data governance

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions
• Narrative tech

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

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

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
• Peer-reviewed research
• Evaluate impact

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

• framework

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• User research

In the context of rising concerns regarding GenAI use, a two-day deliberative process was organized and hosted at the University of Edinburgh’s Edinburgh Futures Institute. A total of 17 students from 6 disciplines, gathered and deliberated on the question “How can we reimagine teaching, learning, and research methods to align with the advancements in AI and ethics?”.

• students
• Decidim

• Specific digital participation instances
• Generative AI

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

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

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

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
• Election observation
• E-voting and I-voting

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

Report by Hannah O’Rourke for Campaign Lab

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

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

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