The Aspen Institute drives change through dialogue, leadership, and action to help solve the greatest challenges of our time.

• Research and policy centers

We are training the next generation of cyber leaders and safeguarding community organizations.

• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Cybersecurity

Our mission is to connect and spark policy action among those crucial to making our interconnected world accessible, safe, and inclusive — both online and off.

• Research and policy centers

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity
• Open knowledge

Aspen Digital, a program of the Aspen Institute, is launching the AI Elections Initiative as an ambitious new effort to strengthen US election resilience in the face of generative AI.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

Brooks School of Public Policy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Tech or Digital Policy

Scrutinizing what steps platforms have taken to protect election integrity globally

• reports
• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Journalism
• Accelerators

The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) provides innovative learning solutions to individuals, organizations and institutions

• United Nations

Citizen Clinic is a public-interest cybersecurity clinic at UC Berkeley.

• Academia
• Cybersecurity
• Pro bono and volunteer

Custom GPT tool to help journalists in the Philippines to parse long government audit reports for anomalies

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Hack The Press is a movement. We're not satisfied by the current situation of owned media, and we've taken Michael Jackson's song "Man In The Mirror" to heart.

• Media
• Meet the others
• Journalism

Fostering youth engagement in Tunisia

• youth

• Citizen Engagement
• Social media

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Our committed staff of lawyers, community organizers, policy experts, and other advocates combine forces with 80 member firms, 900 pro bono attorneys, and thousands of community members.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Environmental data
• Civic features

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

• Media
• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

NYC's legislative body

Demos is Britain’s leading cross-party think tank. We put people at the heart of policy-making to create bold ideas and a more collaborative democracy.

• Research and policy centers

Research, ideas, and leadership for a more peaceful world.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The GSMA represents the interests of mobile operators worldwide

The OSCE stands for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe. With 57 States from Europe, Central Asia and North America, the OSCE is the world's largest regional security organization.

• Govtech

WFD is the UK’s democracy support organisation.

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities
• People Powered

• Artistic interventions

Platformable's Data Governance training products, resources and tools can help your organisation to build a comprehensive, automated, high quality data governance system.

• Data governance
• Online courses

Mit ihren Projekten, Studien und Veranstaltungen regt die Bertelsmann Stiftung Debatten an und gibt Impulse für gesellschaftliche Veränderungen. Gemeinnützige Arbeit und nachhaltige Wirkung sind die Grundlagen ihres Handelns. Die Initiativen der Stiftung zeigen nicht nur Lösungen auf, sondern schaffen empirisch gestützte Orientierung in einer breiten Öffentlichkeit.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

The Decentralized Social Networking Protocol establishes a shared social graph that is no longer dependent on a specific application or a centralized platform.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Social media

Your weekly insight into GovTech collaboration and innovation in Europe and Asia

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Help us create the world's most advanced open database on litter, brands & plastic pollution.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• apps

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Blockchain

Pretendemos lograr que las nuevas e innovadoras formas de participación, que ya son una realidad en el ámbito internacional y en nuestras propias regiones y entidades locales, lo sean también en el ámbito estatal español. También queremos aumentar el nivel de exigencia respecto del funcionamiento, inclusividad, transparencia y rendición de cuentas de los mecanismos y herramientas de participación ya existentes.

• Participatory democracy
• Manifestos

A ten-year anniversary retrospective on the Humanitarian Data Exchange, which was accessed by 1.4 million people in 230 countries to download 2.7 million open humanitarian datasets in 2023.

• reports
• United Nations

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A design toolkit for USAID staff on how to design inclusive digital technology interventions, written for work on global hunger but applicable in many other contexts.

• Zero hunger

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design
• Toolkits

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Surveys & polling
• Research tools

At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, change is in our DNA.

• Media
• Journalism
• Academia

We are a partnership bringing together 20 specialist organisations to support democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions

El objetivo es realizar un archivo fotográfico que muestre la realidad de la extensión del movimiento feminista, incluyendo la variedad de experiencias, testimonios y emociones que plasma el 8M en nosotras.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

A marketplace of vendors who can help implement, host, train, and develop custom solutions for groups using CiviCRM, Drupal, Wordpress, and more

• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic and social impact companies
• CRM

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Consumer watchdogging

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Factchecking

Led by Harold F

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tech company signatories of the voluntary EU Code of Practice on Disinformation report relevant data on disinformation on their platforms

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Consumer watchdogging

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The AI Democracy Projects engage the implications of AI systems and tools, including predictive algorithms, machine learning, and frontier models, for democratic society.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections

The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for European Commission funded research.

• Github

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• General purpose open source tools

Discover the modern engagement platform powered by natural language AI to help you gather feedback, manage your data and understand what is being said.

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

Creating and supporting independent news entrepreneurs

• Media
• Journalism
• Peer networks