The Federal Taxpayer Receipt provides American taxpayers with an itemized receipt that estimates how your tax dollars are spent by the government based on how much you paid in taxes.

• taxes

• Taxpayer receipt
• Budget explorers

The Nonviolent Action Lab Podcast brings you the latest research, insights, and ideas on how nonviolent action can — or sometimes fails — to transform injustice.

• podcasts

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

The Nonviolent Action Lab is an innovation hub for activists, researchers, and supporters who share common goals around defending and advancing democracy worldwide through civil resistance — protests, demonstrations, and other actions.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

We propose an alternative platform model that the social fabric an explicit output as well as input. By E. Glen Weyl, Luke Thorburn, Emillie de Keulenaar, Jacob Mchangama, Divya Siddarth, Audrey Tang

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

The 74 is a nonprofit news organization covering America’s education system from early childhood through college and career.

• Quality education

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Wiki Education engages students and academics to improve Wikipedia

• Wikipedia
• students

• Crowdsourcing
• Academia
• Open knowledge

EDGI’s website monitoring team is monitoring thousands of federal government webpages to track changes under the Trump administration.

• Climate action
• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency

Prudence B2B's Grants Management Software streamlines the grant management process with real-time tracking, detailed reporting, and robust compliance features.

• Nonprofit tech
• Grant management

Agency For Urban Change

• youth
• city
• place-based

• Participatory democracy
• User experience

Connecting top public sector talent with essential local government jobs.

• Project 2025

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job-matching

Tulevaisuustalona tehtävämme on edistää Suomen hyvinvointia ja vauhdittaa talouden kasvua luonnon kantokyvyn rajoissa. Luotaamme tulevaa, tuotamme innovaatioita ja uudistamme yhteiskuntaa.

• Get funding
• Investors

whatsmeow is a Go library for the WhatsApp web multidevice API.

• Matrix
• WhatsApp

• Group communication tools
• Chat and messaging

Since 1995, we've coordinated the philanthropic endeavours founded by the Brenninkmeijer family business owners, continuing a tradition of social engagement stretching back as far as 1841.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Your Trusted IT Partner for Community Health & Social Services

• Nonprofit tech
• Building in the private sector

Gestisci la tua identità digitale e accedi velocemente ai servizi online con l’app CieID.

• apps

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official Digital Identity Systems

Ever wonder, “How can civic tech help improve government service delivery?” If so, check out this new research from the Canadian Digital Service! It includes 5 case studies of partnerships between the Canadian government and civic tech groups, plus tools to assess if civic tech might be a good partner for a government initiative. Find it here: https://digital.canada.ca/2025/01/23/how-can-civic-tech-help-improve-government-service-delivery/

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Fieldwide resources

Here, you'll find stories from real government employees: How we save you time and money, how we protect your personal information, and how DOGE's dangerous dismantling of government technology puts you at risk.

• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Build something
• Narrative tech

Free and open source software for video recording and live streaming.

• General purpose open source tools

The UK news industry is calling on the government to ensure creatives are rewarded properly so as to ensure a sustainable future for AI and the creative industries.

• Stop AI theft

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Turn presentations into conversations with interactive polls that engage meetings and classrooms.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

[A] dynamic prototype from MIT’s Center for Constructive Communication that identifies how words common in American political discourse are used differently across the political divide

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis

The NOTICE Coalition (No Tech Criminalization in Education) is a national network of advocates, researchers and organizers building a movement to end police surveillance in schools and defend youth justice in the digital age.

• youth
• surveillance
• criminal justice

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

Report by Ending Youth Surveillance and NOTICE Coalition published November 2024

• surveillance
• youth
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Our mission is to build and develop a problem-solving ecosystem fueled by a critical mass of diverse, highly engaged residents, policymakers, and entrepreneurs made up of Black Indigenous and People of Color, in addition to other marginalized groups traditionally identified as the end-users and consumers of innovation and design, and transforming them into the innovators, purveyors, and beneficiaries.

• Quality education
• surveillance
• CTFG partners

• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights
• Campaign organizations

• criminal justice

• Justice tech

People from around the world are sending emails to trees in Melbourne, expressing their love, admiration, and curiosity about the trees

• trees

• Data visualization

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

ShotSpotter creates thousands of unfounded police deployments, fuels unconstitutional stop-and-frisk, and can lead to false arrests.

• surveillance
• crime
• criminal justice

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns

Europe's first public, open and multilingual AI infrastructure

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

by Rahul Bhargava

• books

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

• Govtech vendors

The Initiative for Digital Public Interest (IDPI) is launching a fund to support civil society engagement on digital public infrastructure (DPI) projects, with a focus on governance, human rights protection, and rule of law

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

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

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

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

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Ethical tech and responsible 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

Advancing AI in the public interest.

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

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

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

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

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

• local

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

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

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

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