"The Government Says" make news releases from Government departments easy to find and easy to scan through quickly.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Archives

whopostedwhat.com is a non public Facebook keyword search for people who work in the public interest. It allows you to search keywords on specific dates. You are granted access because of your work. We do urge you to donate a small amount of money to keep the server running.

• Facebook

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

UK PlanIt is a national aggregator for current and historical planning information.

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

• Reports

The information assembled here is for any campaign in any party. It was designed to give you simple, actionable information that will make your campaign’s information more secure from adversaries trying to attack your organization—and our democracy.

• Organize campaigns
• Cybersecurity

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Economic development
• Reports

Collaborate is an open-source tool that newsrooms can use to enable multiple reporters to share a dataset.

• Media
• Research tools
• Journalism

DAO creation and management platform with no coding required

• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

The Data and Public Services Toolkit aims to help public authorities make better use of data. It addresses challenges such as: how to make a business case for data use; how to use data ethically and fairly; and how to identify and utilise relevant datasets.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Digital transformation

Network-centric resources are people-powered and participatory resources that aim to maximise usage and engagement. They are developed through sharing ownership, enabling contribution and supporting collaboration.

• Group decision making

Evidence House is a Downing Street-led initiative, working with collaborators including ONS Data Science Campus, Evaluation Task Force, Modernisation and Reform Unit, Go Science and National Situation Centre.

• Govtech
• Economic development
• Innovation teams and labs

An automated query in Wikidata of all existing profiles of Venezuelan authors, scientists and creators whose works are in the public domain according to national and international laws by virtue of the time elapsed since their death.

• Wikipedia
• culture

• Open knowledge

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

a hackathon (now in its second edition) in which teams work collaboratively from different Latin American countries to find creative solutions to problems posed by civil society in the first phase of the event. More than 20 areas of knowledge dialogued collaboratively to solve challenges in Science and Education during #CoAfina.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hackathons

Chatbot.team is a conversational messaging platform that offers chatbot development services for businesses of all sizes.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Bots

Manages Italy's public services app and electronic payments platform. PagoPA S.p.A. è una società pubblica ad alto livello specialistico, che ha la mission di diffondere i servizi pubblici digitali attraverso lo sviluppo di progetti innovativi e la gestione di infrastrutture tecnologiche strategiche per accompagnare la modernizzazione della Pubblica Amministrazione e del Paese.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Italy's government agency for connectivity, govtech transformation, cloud, ultra wide band, digital upskilling, and more

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Fact-checking video for Youtube and Rutube: displaying references to refutations, proofs and disputs of the facts contained in the video, as well as the video rating of the video and the overall channel rating.

• YouTube

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing
• Factchecking

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Citizen Intelligence Agency (OSINT) , monitoring key political figures and institutions, provides insights into financial performance, risk metrics, and political trends

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Find out how your MP votes on the issues you care about.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Innovatiana is an Impact Tech startup specialized in Data Labeling for AI.

• commercial

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Data labeling

Housing Courts Must Change! (HCMC) is a statewide campaign launched by the Right to Counsel NYC Coalition in 2020 to transform the courts across New York State (NYS) from an “eviction machine” to a place that holds landlords accountable, upholds tenants’ rights, and enables tenants to remain in their homes.

• housing

• Justice tech
• Civic maps

Freedom House's an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories.

• free speech

• Indicators

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Sortition

A blockchain-based platform for decentralized "network states"

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

The question we seek to address is: can we use AI itself to help us design and build better institutions, which enhance human capabilities for collaborating, governing, and living together?

• workshops

• Artificial Intelligence

CAIF's mission is to support research that will improve the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns

A sophisticated website builder for political campaigns

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Website builder

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Open source dev shop that has built solutions for clients like Socrata, Case Commons, and major nonprofits

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

A curriculum for the Service Design 101 course with readings and case studies

• Reading lists
• Courses
• Service delivery

A scratchpad for studying and imagining revived civic engagement in the 21st century.

• Voting and elections
• Newsletters

Digital Society of Africa (DSA) works to strengthen the resilience and ability of frontline activists; human rights defenders and other at-risk groups in the region to independently recognize and respond to digital threats and attacks.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Join the thousands of renters rating and reviewing their landlord, letting agent and rental properties.

• housing

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Bringing citizens' voices to the decision making table

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

We design and advance solutions to the world's toughest emerging security threats

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Polychat ermöglicht flüssige Crossplattform Kommunikation – niedrigschwellig und out-of-the-box: Statt einer gewöhnlichen Chat-Gruppe eröffnet ihr eine Polychat-Gruppe.

• Messaging
• Group communication tools

As AI systems become more capable, we would like to enlist their help to supervise other AIs.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Oxfam’s UnBlocked Cash project (UBC) is a blockchain-powered cash transfer solution that is set to tackle this challenge. It is saving costs of distributing aid, reducing delivery times, and bringing more transparency and accountability in the process. It offers an opportunity to improve how aid is delivered without compromising the dignity of beneficiaries.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Direct aid

AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Fintech for good

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Mapping tools
• Civic maps

AID:Tech’s Kare Platform Enables Fast & Instant Disbursements to Survivors Via Digital ID

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Identity
• Direct aid

A campaign site drawing attention to obstacles to justice in Mexico

• criminal justice

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

A free/libre book about UX research with qualitative methods on user motivations, activities, and problems, by Jan Dittrich

• books

• User research

Durch Protest verschaffen sich junge Menschen Gehör, üben politischen Einfluss aus und gestalten kreativ die demokratische Gesellschaft. PROTESTORY! bietet eine Auseinandersetzung mit Protesten der Arbeiter:innenjugend vom 20. Jahrhundert bis heute und macht jugendkulturellen Protest digital erlebbar und historisches Wissen nutzbar. (As a web application PROTESTORY! offers a playful exploration of the protest cultures of working-class youth since the early 20th century and was created in collaboration with the archive of the working-class youth movement in 2022.)

• youth

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Archives

We are Binance Charity, a non-profit organization dedicated to building a future where Web3 technology is used as a force for good.

• Blockchain