Gandhi advocated for small, local and predominantly village-based technology to help India's villages become self-reliant

• Predecessors & Pioneers

A broad coalition of philanthropic leaders today announced Humanity AI, a $500M five-year initiative dedicated to making sure people and communities beyond Silicon Valley have a stake in the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Cybersecurity

We analyzed the case of the Colombian digital ID app (“Cédula Digital”) during the second half of 2024 and early 2025. Very little is known about its functionality, and public information about how it works is scarce.

• reports

• Evaluate impact
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

Colombia requiere de una identificación que sea la llave de acceso a los servicios ciudadanos digitales a cargo del Estado colombiano y a las demás entidades que ya prestan servicios a través de internet.

• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

It is our response to the digital security problems faced by civil society organizations, journalists, human rights defenders and activists in Colombia and our way of contributing to the principle of co-responsibility introduced by the Digital Security Conpes in 2016.

• Cybersecurity
• Digital rights

Все средства от продажи мерча пойдут на помощь политзаключённым в Беларуси!

• Civic tech gifts

We are a non-profit that creates digital tools to support greater connection, peace and safety for people who have been displaced

• refugees
• immigration

• Build something
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Subway Builder is a hyperrealistic transit simulation game. Build a new subway system from the ground up while dealing with real-world constraints and costs.

• mobility

• Games and gamification

Our platform equips newcomers with job market tools, interview confidence, and workplace skills, ensuring a smooth transition into the Canadian workforce with tailored job opportunities.

• immigration

• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone
• Upskilling

The Digital Technology for Democracy Lab is a collaboration across the University of Virginia that explores how rapidly evolving digital technologies can challenge, but might also fortify, democratic institutions and practices.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Technology Law (CIPIT) is an evidence-based research and training Centre based at Strathmore University, Nairobi, Kenya.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Case studies on open source, AI-developed apps built by newsrooms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

Community list of awesome projects, apps, tools and more related to Polis.

• Polis

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Reading lists

Cutting-edge technology for immigration services

• immigration
• refugees

• Upskilling
• Digital peacebuilding
• Resettlement

LegalHub is an online service providing free legal assistance to Belarusian citizens in Belarus and abroad.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

ByMapka is a platform that unites Belarusian diasporas and their businesses around the world.

• diaspora

• Civic maps

It's like Google Maps...But for navigating complex human perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

Legacy news outlets have owners and agendas. We'll sift through all the sources and add a layer of critical thinking, for you.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

An initiative led by the National Treasury to build a connected and secure data ecosystem for better planning, policy, reporting and service delivery.

• Govtech
• Data Exchanges

How to make a difference with your career

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

FragDenStaat.at ist das Anfrage-Portal des Forum Informationsfreiheit. Es erleichtern Ihnen, Anfragen nach dem Informationsfreiheitsgesetz zu stellen und zu verwalten.

• Government transparency
• Access to information

Over 2024/25, ParticipationAI undertook an inquiry driven by the question: “How do we ensure meaningful public participation in decisions about data & AI?”. This led us to procurement...

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Procurement

The Disability and Access in Tech and AI Summit, powered by YAI, is our annual conference to discuss issues around accessibility, including research, identity, and policy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Wir setzen uns unabhängig von Parteistrukturen für konkrete Umgestaltung, Aufwertung oder Erhalt von öffentlichem Raum in Wien im Sinne von Klimaschutz, Gesundheit, aktiver Mobilität, Begrünung, Lebensqualität und Verkehrsberuhigung ein.

• city

• Participatory democracy
• Civic maps
• Civic literacy

Beteiligungsplattform der Stadt Wien

• city
• youth
• seniors

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Specific digital participation instances

Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI Act and its implementation

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Tech or Digital Policy

This post is the culmination of a months-long effort to translate principles into a measurable signal and develop an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Report cards and audits

Introducing a Research Digest on Digital Deliberation

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Senegal and Gates Foundation Seal $10M Deal to Accelerate Digital Transformation

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Identity

Portal de publicación de información de proyectos de infraestructura de Nuevo León

• Govtech
• Procurement

Follow local neighbourhood policing events in your calendar

• policing
• local
• Newspeak House

• Communicating with the government

Making the Internet better, one tea towel at a time.

• Civic tech gifts

All House & Senate hearings for 2025 with real-time transcripts, live video, instant clipping, and AI email alerts. Search our entire 2025 archive of House and Senate hearings to clip the moment you need, instantly.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Legislation trackers

• Think tanks

Horizontal, a tech for rights and justice organization has just launched a service provider branch to our work called Horizontal Labs - we build tech for you that's transparent, safe, and a joy to use.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector

The Digital Parliaments Project (DPP) is an initiative of POPVOX Foundation that aims to support legislatures around the world as they modernize to remain strong and resilient into and beyond the 21st century.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

• Civic tech gifts

The DataHaven Youth Advisory Council (DHYAC) has created a model for democratizing data and AI literacy by equipping young people with practical skills to interpret and apply data for participatory action research.

• youth

• Civic data
• Digital literacy
• Courses

• Crowdsourcing

The project’s aim is to enhance the search functionality of Wikidata by integrating vector-based semantic search.

• Wikipedia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Decentralization
• Data governance

The folks who brought you TRILLIONAIRE$ FOR TRUMP are back with some Upper East Side accents! This creative campaign tactic employs the Opposite Day methodology to draw attention to who's really supporting the opposition.

• Reduced inequalities

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The site has onboarded 40+ governments (plus CERN) to its free service scanning government domains for data breaches

• Govtech
• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

CLI is a data-driven nonprofit aiming to be the interface to unlocking civic organizations’ potential: we equip both funders and civic organizations in making the best use of data, helping them work better together.

• Civic data
• Digital literacy

The report assesses digital ID and government digital services in Kenya and Zambia, noting significant strides in digitisation but also persistent gaps in enforcement, capacity, and inclusivity.

• reports

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official digital identity systems

The creators, podcasters, and pundits who will blow up the next electoral era

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Social media

Press Forward’s new toolkits — one for funders and one for local newsrooms — offer practical, research-backed guidance on how to make the case for local news in ways that resonate with today’s audiences.

• Get funding
• Journalism
• Fundraising tools

As humanitarian organisations, we often need to share data in order to help households and communities more efficiently and effectively. We developed this Toolkit as a resource to help you and your colleagues to share data responsibly in order to address critical challenges, such as deduplicating data and making referrals.

• toolkits

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance

Through the ‘Breathe-in’ project, part of the Breathe Cities Programme, teenagers are influencing mobility decisions that will affect their futures.

• youth
• place-based
• air quality

• Engagement tech

DCinbox Insights tracks how members of Congress communicate with constituents by highlighting what’s emphasized, what’s shifting, and what those changes reveal about emerging political narratives.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Communicating with the people

The Belarus ID project is a secure, data-encrypted digital identity system through which Belarusians (including exiles) could authenticate themselves and participate in the 2024 Rada-in-exile election.

• Blockchain
• Identity