Every year, Democracy R&D takes stock of what our global network has created and learned.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Deliberation

Secure messaging that keeps working when the internet doesn't.

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Circumvention tech

We're launching Claude Corps, a national fellowship program for people early in their careers who are passionate about extending the benefits of AI to communities across America.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Fellowships

"Before this project, there was no centralized archive of resolutions, no search function across meeting notes, and no easy way to quickly understand what the [Community Board] had previously said about a topic."

• Civic data
• Watchdogging government
• Archives

A feature on Threads that gives users control over their algorithmic feed.

• Social media
• Recommender feeds

The best source for job hunting in politics.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Clarvia Graph is the technical engine behind Clarvia — it stores all the official rules and steps for bereavement paperwork across Europe — structured so that apps, websites, and public services can use them automatically.

• Legal tech
• Open civic data
• Bureaucracy tech

Artificial intelligence in the public interest.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

Nearly every day, two users on r/Conservative account for more than 30% of new posts, sometimes exceeding 50%, as shown through 6 charts.

• Fight disinformation

The STOA Panel, established in 1987, provides the EP with independent expert assessment of techno-scientific developments and related policy options.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers

The Allianz Foundation Next Generations Study series examines how young Europeans imagine and shape the future.

• Learn about civic tech
• Surveys & polling
• Reports

The focus of the study is deliberately narrow: how digital participation tools can be used to engage citizens in the EU policy cycle.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Plataforma cívica gratuita para Torrelavega. Transporte en tiempo real, eventos, comercio local y servicios municipales.

• Civic data
• Dashboards
• Neighborhood forums

Report garbage dumps in Bangalore. Auto-detects your ward, MLA, and MP.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

Este portal centraliza los monitores de transparencia de los tres poderes del Estado, el sistema de contrataciones públicas, el Índice de Riesgo Institucional (IRI) y el Monitor Internacional de Anticorrupción (MEACI).

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open government data

VoteClarity scores every vote against the issues you care about, so representation stops being a guessing game.

• Voting and elections
• Watchdogging government
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

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

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

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
• Direct action

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

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

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

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

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

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

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

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Tech or Digital Policy

We help governments design and implement strategic, evidence-based and innovative policies to strengthen public governance, respond effectively to diverse and disruptive economic, social and environmental challenges and deliver on government’s commitments to citizens.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Procurement

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

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

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

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Kto ma co porządkuje publiczne oświadczenia majątkowe.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Open government data

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

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

Visa itinerary services

• The Tech

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

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

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

A global union for the staff of the Wikimedia Foundation.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech unions
• Unions

The easiest to use and easiest to integrate event platform.

• Organize events

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

Open source legal AI document assistant with cryptographic guardrail verification.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open source

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

• Research tools
• Recommender feeds

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

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

• Meet the others
• Build something
• Peer networks

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

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

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

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

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

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

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