We commit to moving 50% of our assets into the hands of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled-led organizations every year.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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• Civic tech gifts

Creation of a centralized system for processing freedom of information law requests.

• Access to information
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Ask the right questions to gather data on assemblies and protests organised and/or held online, offline or a combination thereof.

• Advocacy tech
• Research tools
• Protest movements

The Community Councillor Collective is a network of councillors committed to putting citizens at the heart of local decision-making and building the power of their communities.

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks

The OneTeamGov Canada Pattern Library is a curated set of design, service and policy patterns and tools to help government teams across Canada deliver services.

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design
• User research

PUCAR is a non-profit public mission to transform the dispute resolution experience of every person.

• Legal tech

Distilling safety research into a complete learning ecosystem

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity

We offer you both: a powerful open-source platform that you can customize yourself, and a fully managed service that takes care of everything.

• General purpose open source tools
• CRM

We provide a space to meet for people who care about making government work better, whether they're inside or outside the public sector.

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The report highlights key trends, challenges, and opportunities to shape digital payments, with a focus on inclusion and the role of IPS in advancing digital public infrastructure (DPI).

• Govtech
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Payments

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• Civic data
• Govtech
• Data visualization

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• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Glossaries

We preserve the work of independent journalists in Russia – their reporting over the past twenty years and the stories they continue to tell today.

• Media
• Journalism
• Archives

Taking court to the people

• Legal tech
• Digital transformation

Messaging app owned by the Indian state, which is attempting to force mobile platforms to pre-install

• Govtech
• Chat and messaging
• Digital sovereignty

Accelerating financial inclusion in Africa

• Govtech
• Digital Public Infrastructure
• Payments

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• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Web hosting
• Local-first tech

The AI Incident Database (AIID) tracks instances of ethical

• AI Auditing

Together, let’s accelerate the digital social economy in France and Europe

• Digital transformation

NHS England is rolling out software to run our health records from Palantir – a US spy-tech firm that has supported mass deportation in the US and enabled genocide in Gaza.

• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

Alongside our regular output that makes it easier to compare each APPG register to the previous one, there’s now a big new update on TheyWorkForYou allowing you to browse your MP’s memberships for the first time.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Find your representatives
• Caucuses

We are building a vibrant transnational civil society ecosystem for learning, collaboration, and innovation to advance inclusive and resilient democracies.

• Democracy organizations

The 2025 Digital Service Champions Awards celebrate excellence in digital government modernization.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Celebrating public service and public servants

The Keseb Democracy Champions’ Pocket Guide is a digital resource hub offering key trends, frameworks, and strategic recommendations to advance democratic resilience and innovation.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic literacy

Keseb’s Democracy Innovation Lab catalyzes promising early-stage innovations reimagining the building blocks of democracy.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

Beginning with an intensive 2-year Immersion, Keseb’s Fellowship provides ongoing support and community to a mosaic of leading and established national Democracy Entrepreneurs and organizations from Brazil, South Africa, and the United States.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

New_ Public’s app for local communities enters closed beta in five pilot communities

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Neighborhood forums

We help organizations, communities, workplaces, and collectives learn sociocracy — a decentralized way of organizing that makes decision-making more equitable, efficient, and transparent.

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

The Outlook is a digital global magazine for and by democracy champions.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Qiqo is a trusted community hub of positive & useful local information to help you love where you live

• Community-building resources
• Local-first tech

8 and counting active protests against data centers in the US

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The Common News makes it easy to follow city council meetings, read meeting minutes, and stay informed about local decisions that affect your community.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Sparkable is a nonprofit aiming to strengthen democracy and social cohesion by rebuilding social media into a force for good.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media

The Journalism Support Exchange (JSX) is a matchmaking service for the news industry.

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

The European AI Office is the centre of AI expertise across the EU, that promotes the development and deployment of AI solutions that benefit society and the economy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy

Our work brings mission-driven organizations, philanthropies and communities to the table to make ambitious ideas actionable.

• Media
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Public Data Works is an engineering and design workshop. We build tools that help make data useful to the public.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

• Media
• Journalism
• News and blogs

"A small Python library I've built for cleaning messy human-centric data: HumanMint, a completely open-source library. Think government contact records with chaotic names, weird phone formats, noisy department strings, inconsistent titles, etc."

• Civic data
• Open government data
• General purpose open source tools

Get a Dinners for Democracy giftbox or a democracy scented candle

• Civic tech gifts

Democracy Works 250 is a new initiative from Democracy Forward that is building the foundations of a democracy that works for all of us.

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Democracy organizations

It’s time to unlock Parliament and build a House of the People up from the grassroots.

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Ayudamos a personas, familias, escuelas y empresas a encontrar un uso equilibrado de la tecnología.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

A campaign to establish a parallel UK Parliament with a representative Citizen's Assembly of the public

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

America's Essential Data is a collaborative effort dedicated to documenting the value that data produced by the federal government provides for American lives and livelihoods.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Specific campaigns

Freely Accessible Government Data, Documents, Records, and Research

• Govtech
• Archives
• Public records

This page memorializes the federal datasets and variables, as well as select data tools, that have been terminated or removed in 2025.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing

Transformer is a publication about the power and politics of transformative AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

We’re a philanthropic funder that partners with leading donors to multiply their impact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors