The World Bank's program to "support countries in adopting sound practices and solutions in GovTech, and to ensure a broad global partnership for effective exchange and transfer of knowledge and good practice."

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Foundation initiatives

Write for the causes you care about, and predict which points will prove most powerful. On Crowdvocate you can help create campaigns that change minds – and win real money while you're at it.

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Evidence-driven campaigning

Make your campaign wiser with data & AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We are a research collective dedicated to providing public communication campaigns with rigorous, state-of-the-art tools for message development. Our methodology combines machine learning, crowdsourcing, and adaptive randomized controlled trials.

• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech
• Communicating with the people

Compiler is a nonprofit newsroom launching in 2024 to cover the people, institutions and global forces shaping our digital future.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• News and blogs
• Policy

Research and Technology Lab

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

The Bank launched GovTech Working Groups to provide thought leadership, facilitate the exchange of ideas, and support the development of sound GovTech solutions. Community building and impact-driven collaboration are the core objectives of this initiative.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Working groups

InOut.bot uses the official WhatsApp API from Meta to send and receive your messages to/from the most popular platforms. Works with IFTTT.

• WhatsApp
• commercial

• Group communication tools

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Mapping

This publication aims to provide practical, actionable insights and a deep understanding of CivicTech applications to support World Bank Group projects and government initiatives, enhancing transparency, enabling public feedback, and fostering collaboration.

• Learn about civic tech

The GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) was developed as part of the GovTech Initiative to introduce a measure of GovTech maturity in four focus areas — supporting core government systems, enhancing service delivery, mainstreaming citizen engagement, and fostering GovTech enablers— and to assist practitioners in the design of new digital transformation projects.

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

東京大学内に設置された「デジタル空間社会連携研究機構」を中心に、市民や地域企業、行政、関連団体など多様なステークホルダーが関わり、地域やコミュニティのためのデータ・

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

In this podcast, we (Hal and Saya) will explore civictech in Japan and across the world.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Find information faster on the Electoral Commission website: Use our chatbot to do the searching for you

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Bots

GovTech Glossary contains definitions of key terms, concepts, and acronyms commonly found in the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) online survey.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

Earth Fire Alliance is a global, community-led, non-profit coalition aligned to deliver transformative real-time data from all fires on Earth.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

A new global satellite constellation designed specifically to detect and track wildfires the size of a classroom within 20 minutes.

• fires

• Hardware
• Emerging Tech Projects
• Satellites

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

• fires

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Digital twins

Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world

• air quality

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Environmental data

An open database of conversations ChatGPT had with people who believe in a variety of conspiracy theories, which can be filtered by the efficacy of the conversation in changing beliefs.

• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

To accelerate work toward democratic governance and alignment of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Through a comprehensive analysis of various ICT projects, this study examines the success and challenges of using technology to protect and restore land rights.

• land
• indigenous

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

An insider offers a “forceful critique...of Big Tech's steady erosion of democracy” (The New Yorker) and describes what must be done to stop it

• books

• Govtech
• Books
• Public Private Partnerships

"Nevada plans to launch a generative AI system powered by Google that will analyze transcripts of unemployment appeals hearings and issue recommendations to human referees about whether or not claimants should receive benefits."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Generative AI

Law enforcement agencies are increasingly using surveillance tools, predictive technologies, and automated decision-making systems that impose a disproportionate burden on communities historically impacted by systemic bias.

• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Justice tech

Eticas Foundation's adversarial audit of an AI-powered criminal justice tool, RisCanvi, that has been used in Catalonia since 2009 finds it "does not meet the required standards of reliability and fairness."

• recidivism
• reports
• criminal justice

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech
• AI Auditing

The Investigative Reporting Laboratory (IRL) is a non-profit media organization whose reporting focuses on corruption, crime and good governance.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

They will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives. 

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Story tech

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Set in the beautiful redwoods near the Mendocino coast of California, DWeb Camp is a five-day retreat for builders and dreamers to connect, learn, share and have fun as we work towards building a better, decentralized web.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

London's Techno-Optimist Members Club

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

aims to help us understand how AI models and humans differ in their perception of risk

• Artificial Intelligence
• Justice tech

Public Policy Lab has launched a new qualitative research platform designed to inform policy.

• seniors

• Narrative tech
• Research tools
• Story tech

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

• Google

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.

• cities
• local

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Tech upskilling platform including Máquina de Identificação de Talento (MIT), "para avaliar o potencial de requalificação dos trabalhadores e, assim, agilizar a seleção de candidatos para formação"

• Artificial Intelligence
• Economic development
• Upskilling

Tides is a nonprofit and philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing social justice.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Includes both cloud APIs and special purpose tools to make your text articles more accessible

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Website builder

Civic Echo is a citizen survey tool that provides a simple and inclusive way to diagnose the opinions of a population while making the results available in real time in a transparent way.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Surveys & polling

This course uniquely combines the critical lens of art with the innovation framework of DesignX, promoting introspection and thoughtful deliberation before diving into design interventions.

• Academia
• Courses
• Design

Free tool to gather opinions and simplify participation.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Freedom of Information

Civil society organization that strengthens democracy through digital listening tools and participatory processes.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Big listening

To...help governments hire more effectively, U.S. Digital Response (USDR) has actively engaged government organizations at the state, county, and city levels to optimize their talent practices and build digital capacity — and we’ve learned some things.

• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Tech talent

Message provides email, text, and CRM solutions designed for large-scale digital programs run by top practitioners.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

We estimate that UK central government conducts approximately one billion citizen-facing transactions per year in the provision of around 400 services, of which approximately 143 million are complex repetitive transactions. We estimate that 84% of these complex transactions are highly automatable.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech