Whistleblowers play a vital role in helping Congress conduct its constitutionally mandated oversight responsibilities. Ranking Member Merkley is interested in information regarding waste, fraud, and abuse in the public and private sectors.

• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

A podcast about the political entrepreneurs and other progressive leaders who are finding new and improved ways to fight.

• podcasts
• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Podcasts

We are building conversational AI assistants that can streamline access to public information, deliver empathetic support around-the-clock, and strengthen bonds between governments and people.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

GANNET is a Generative AI Initiative, offering AI-powered tools built to make knowledge and real-time information accessible to our community in a resource-efficient and ethical way.

• crisis
• humanitarian
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bots

The MENA Observatory on Responsible AI is an interdisciplinary platform connecting policy-oriented researchers and innovators, aimed at fostering collaboration and building capacity for responsible data and AI practices.

• development

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Policy

A 3-year project funded by the EU's Erasmus+ programme to mitigate the discriminatory impact of AI on people's lives.

• bias
• European Union
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)
• Design

We envision a future where technology and data power positive social change

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Media and social media analysis
• Big listening
• Digital peacebuilding

We build software solutions for Democratic campaigns and organizations, focused on compliance and data management.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Building great open source software for Sri Lanka (and beyond!)

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Open source

Here you will find in-depth articles (deep dives), interviews and other content related to our lines of activity (Future Culture, Democratic Innovation, Citizen Empowerment, Social Economy and cooperativism).

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Different voting systems have a variety of different features, ranging from how proportional they are (whether seats in parliament reflect votes cast), the connection between MPs and their communities and the extent to which voters can choose between different candidates.

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Democratic Innovations

Autonomous Ethical Hacking

• Cybersecurity
• Red teaming
• Ethical hackers

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Since 2017, we've recovered over $46 million in relief for marginalized people; built a network of over 1,300 government offices, elected officials, and community-based organizations in 50 states; trained 130 prosecutors and government lawyers in 24 states; and secured court victories on abortion, immigrant, workers’, and voting rights

• labor
• women's health

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

People vs Big Tech is a movement fighting to overturn the predatory business model of giant tech corporations and change the internet for good.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

This brings critical, time-sensitive information directly to people's For You feeds to raise awareness of missing children and leverage the power of the US TikTok community to help reunite them with their families.

• TikTok

• Civic features

Research, programs and interventions that address the root causes and consequences of poverty. Learn moreabout What We Do

• No poverty

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Policy

Make Votes Matter is the [UK] national movement for Proportional Representation

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Ridiculously Hopeful Future: a bold, slightly wild, and very optimistic project to transform how government social safety net programs are designed.

• workshops
• state
• local

• Communicating with the people
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Civic imagination

Metagov is host to a community of research and practice.

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

Los 52 centros cívicos de Barcelona son espacios abiertos a todos y cercanos a los ciudadanos.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

crypto coin for sovereign tribes

• indigenous

• Blockchain

ATLAS (Adversarial Threat Landscape for Artificial-Intelligence Systems) is a globally accessible, living knowledge base of adversary tactics and techniques against Al-enabled systems based on real-world attack observations and realistic demonstrations from Al red teams and security groups.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

The Indigenous Protocol and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) Working Group develops new conceptual and practical approaches to building the next generation of A.I. systems.

• indigenous

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Working groups

The Political Party Database Project is a cross-national initiative to establish and update an online public database as a source for key information about political party organizations. Last updated 2022.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Political parties

Powering Learning about Nonviolent Action. Last updated 2011.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

Game-changing program for newsrooms with the tools and knowledge to harness AI for smarter, more efficient journalism.

• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

PLURALL is a boutique consultancy firm transforming complex policy challenges into opportunities for sustainable, community-driven digital infrastructures.

• Building in the private sector

Our House is building a popular case for democratic reform through a new People's Charter [in the UK].

• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

• X (Twitter)

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis

The Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) Program provides $42.45 billion to expand high-speed Internet access by funding planning, infrastructure deployment and adoption programs.

• Govtech
• Connectivity

Renters that received an informational postcard were 52% more likely to request an application for rental assistance and 24% more likely to submit an application than renters that did not receive a postcard.

• housing

• Communicating with the people
• Democratic Innovations
• Access social benefits

Open-core Airtable alternative

• Civic data
• General purpose open source tools

An IREX Venture are identifying how we can support the development community to surface potential strategic partnerships or mergers that can strengthen resilience.

• Project 2025

• Nonprofit tech
• Fieldwide resources
• Resource matching and sharing

A powerful suite of nonprofit fundraising tools & features that works for your organization.

• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools
• Merchandise

Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases

• Google
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

Sweaters, t-shirts, hoodies, and ball caps supporting following the money in American politics

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic tech gifts

A personal digital wallet for EU citizens and residents

• Govtech
• Identity

Alert people privately through a system that protect their privacy - without texts, emails or phone calls.

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Connectivity

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Paid job listserv. The Sujata Strategies Job List is one of the most well-read and respected job lists in the progressive community.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We’re publishing reports by Congress’s think tank, the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate. These reports are already available to the well-connected — we’re making them available to everyone for free.

• Govtech
• Open knowledge
• Research tools

The American Governance Institute develops ideas and educates policymakers on innovative approaches to strengthening American democracy, state capacity, and federal governance.

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity

TV Kitchen is an open source community making it easy to create, collect, and share tools to understand the impact of media. LEARN MORE READ THE DOCS

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

Analyzes the size, rhetorical nature, and non-violent nature of the pro-Palestine protest wave, which it finds to be "the largest, most sustained US protests sparked by a foreign event" since their data became available in 2017. Published in Social Movement Studies

• Israel Palestine

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

Organizing Info About Congress

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity