A curated collection of Claude Code skills for journalists, researchers, academics, and media professionals.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

An end-to-end example of pulling DC's open property data from its public ArcGIS REST APIs and turning it into an interactive dashboard + briefing decks.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open government data

ALDA is a global alliance of local and regional authorities and civil society actors working together with a participative approach for resilient, inclusive and sustainable communities.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democracy organizations

A product-focused tracker for public STOCK Act disclosures: newest filings, politician profiles, ticker pages, leaderboard context, and watchlist alerts in one workflow.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

CAMP is a think tank dedicated to addressing the issue of monopoly in Canada.

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

The European Commission today presented the European Technological Sovereignty Package, a set of measures to strengthen Europe's digital autonomy and resilience.

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, AI enables a new type of conversation amongst Americans on freedom & equality.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

In this report, we examine AI chatbots through the lens of dark patterns — deceptive or manipulative design choices that may undermine user autonomy or well-being.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

We're a campaign for free public transport in London.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

At the Laboratory of Insurrectionary Imagination we call what we do 'experiments', because it allows us to truly test things out, and fall flat on our faces sometimes.

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Workshops

With the Swiss Local Chapter, we are creating a shared home for all Swiss actors around Decidim.

• Participatory democracy
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A professional association for congressional staff focused on artificial intelligence policy and practice.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Tech or Digital Policy

ALDA's podcast - "To promote positive change and democracy, through dialogue and interaction"

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Every City in the USA tracks 19,483 U.S. cities and places using official federal data — Census population estimates (U.S. Census Bureau Vintage 2025), ACS demographics, BEA cost of living, BLS employment, NOAA climate normals, and more.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Dashboards

A civil participation platform that conveys the voice of citizens to the authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Communicating with the government
• Watchdogging government

The Institute for Continuous Improvement in Public Services is a professional membership charity; upholding standards of professional practice, undertaking research and bringing members together to share knowledge; influence policy and practice.

• Peer networks
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The easiest to use and easiest to integrate event platform.

• Organize events

A global union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech unions
• Unions

Touchstone is a field operations and campaign management platform designed for political organizing, canvassing, voter outreach, and quality control.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

Nonpartisan, AI-powered plain-language summaries of U.S. federal and state legislation with conflict-of-interest scoring, campaign finance data, and party defection tracking.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legislation trackers
• Vibecoded

We are a participation strategy and innovation consultancy with a belief that, given the right opportunity, people can and will shape the things that matter to them for the better.

• Participatory democracy
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

A Agência para a Reforma Tecnológica do Estado, I.P. (ARTE) é o instituto público responsável pela direção, coordenação e execução da transformação tecnológica e da digitalização da Administração Pública em Portugal, encontrando-se sob superintendência e tutela do Ministério da Reforma do Estado.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Where tech meets activism. Pitch, hack, ship, repeat - until the world catches up.

• Meet the others
• Build something
• Socialize online

Bonsai is a research system that replaces "black-box" engagement models with intentional, natural language-based curation.

• Research tools
• Recommender feeds

DoorashoKaab is a civic tech platform that empowers Somali citizens with accessible civic education, trusted voter information, and safe digital tools to learn, participate, and report during elections.

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Issue reporting

Canada's cities and smaller communities are facing a looming crisis in deferred maintenance and construction of critical infrastructure, both physical and social.

• Civic data
• Governance of AI
• Urban planning

Learning how to see the internet in the built environment - under our feet, above our heads, and within the city.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Digital literacy

Founded in 2002 by Marcela Okretič and Janez Fakin Janša, Aksioma – Institute for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana is a private, non-profit cultural organisation that produces, presents and disseminates art projects as well as exhibition, discursive and educational programmes with the aim of critically understanding the structures of contemporary society and the role that new technologies play in shaping the way we perceive it.

• Emerging tech
• Artistic interventions
• Externalities of tech

Open source legal AI document assistant with cryptographic guardrail verification.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open source

Limelight Foundation is Europe's leading journalism fund, strengthening the continent's information infrastructure.

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Funders & donors

aCURE.info is a deterministic search platform that can run hundreds of integrated, weighted-context queries simultaneously.

• Research tools
• Access to laws
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Nigeria has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot designed to help citizens access government information and services, in one of the country's biggest public sector AI projects so far.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Service delivery

This is an MCP server for the Relational Tech Project that gives AI tools access to the Studio library, network updates, builder guides, and pattern-matching resources.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

In the US and Brazil, Claude sends users asking about elections to trusted civic sources

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

A free tool for neighborhoods to share supplies, tools, and more.

• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

Seattle instance of CouncilMatic with AI-powered bill summaries, councilmember profiles, and meeting summaries updated nightly

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Legislation trackers

This report examines the impact of five popular chatbots and text-based AI services on the UK's information supply chain and democracy in real time.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

An MCP server for the NYS Open Legislation API, maintained by the New York State Senate.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Civic data APIs
• Open civic data

Civic Governance Platform

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social networks

A shared workbench for building relational technology together.

• Build something
• Civic tech catalogs
• Community-building resources

AI-powered municipal intelligence platform that turns city council meetings, agendas, and public records into searchable intelligence for Dallas and Fort Worth.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

With Neighbors supports a national wave of local microgrant programs.

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Mutual aid
• Community-building resources

Free public-source outbreak timeline and information tracker for the 2026 MV Hondius / Andes virus outbreak.

• Media

Researchers developed a value-based method for prompting LLMs that uses culturally grounded survey-derived value profiles instead of demographic proxies, significantly improving the models’ ability to predict and reproduce diverse population opinions across countries, especially in underrepresented cultures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

The first open platform for collective capital knowledge in the Lusophone world — where CPLP entrepreneurs share real experiences with European and multilateral fund applications

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Open philanthropy

Afrocentric Media Literacy

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification
• Media literacy

Data Morgana ontrafelt hoe Big Tech en data onze wereld vormgeven.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films
• Externalities of tech

Every tap is a choice — a digital citizenship game for African citizens.

• Games and gamification
• Digital literacy
• Civics education

Digital Citizenship Quiz for adult African citizens

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy
• Digital literacy

Next Gen News 2 sharpens our understanding of next generation news consumers' behavior and how publishers can best meet those evolving needs.

• Media
• Journalism
• Surveys & polling