ETH Zurich and EPFL are launching the Swiss National AI Institute (SNAI) to provide a national perspective on AI-based research, education and innovation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital sovereignty

ETH Zurich and EPFL will release a large language model (LLM) developed on public infrastructure. Trained on the “Alps” supercomputer at the Swiss National Supercomputing Centre (CSCS), the new LLM marks a milestone in open-source AI and multilingual excellence.

• Open source
• Generative AI
• General purpose open source tools

Company selected to build India's sovereign AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital sovereignty

Bihus.Info – команда журналістів, юристів, айтішників і активістів, що завдають змін.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism
• Watchdogging government

Situated in the heart of Europe, yet forging con­nec­tions all over the world, ETH Zurich is pioneering solutions to the global challenges of today and tomorrow. It has more than 20,000 students from over 120 different countries.

• Academia

KanishkaKloud visualises what MPs talk about most - by collating and filtering data from every word they’ve ever said in Parliament.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Plus mention of an internal AI tool for Parliament

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Our aim is to develop an international network of academics and practitioners across the world to critically examine the effectiveness and impact of public engagement with parliament.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions

Parliaments in Africa: Opportunities and Prospects for Sustainable Development

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Conferences

An experimental tool with information relevant to the work of junior staff in the U.S. Congress.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

The IndiaAI Mission aims to build a comprehensive ecosystem that fosters AI innovation by democratizing computing access, enhancing data quality, developing indigenous AI capabilities, attracting top AI talent, enabling industry collaboration, providing startup risk capital, ensuring socially impactful AI projects, and promoting ethical AI.

• India (Government of)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Digital sovereignty

Participatory Budgeting empowers communities, amplifies voices, and transforms ideas into action. Partner with Civic Trust to build engaged, thriving cities.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participation consultants

The Interoperability Test Bed launches an online AI assistant, trained on its official documentation, to support test developers and users of its services.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

This hub supports peer learning and knowledge exchange about public engagement with parliament.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Public engagement with parliaments and legislatures

"[A] shared legislative drafting and publication platform now used by multiple UK parliaments." - Beatriz Rey, Ph.D. in ModParl

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Policy

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Archives

A PB Platform Built by Civic Trust

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

A fresh perspective on the work, impact, and relevance of UK Parliament, combining academic and practitioner perspectives with evidence based case studies to reveal what really goes on behind the scenes.

• books

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Books

• apps

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech

The map of public engagement activities created (similar to this map showing parliaments’ access to academic research) will enable the International Parliament Engagement Network to foster lesson sharing, knowledge exchange and collaborations.

• comparative

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Academia

The Interoperability Test Bed is a service offered by the European Commission’s DIGIT to facilitate the conformance testing of IT systems.

• Govtech
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

We capture, preserve and make accessible UK central government information published on the web. The Web Archive includes videos, tweets, images and websites dating from 1996 to the present day.

• Govtech
• Archives

The Guidelines for AI in parliaments offer a comprehensive framework for parliaments to understand and implement AI responsibly and effectively.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Organizational policies on AI

Public Good Group helps design and implement strategies to strengthen civic knowledge and engagement (on a wide range of topics), and in turn enable democracy to be more responsive, productive, efficient and accountable.

• Build something
• Building in the private sector
• Participation consultants

We are the most open, secure, and universally verifiable voting protocol, used by hundreds of organizations worldwide.

• Voting and elections
• Blockchain
• E-voting and I-voting

"This strategy is boosted by a target to upskill tens of thousands of public sector workers in AI and digital by 2030 through a new Google Cloud training programme proposed to run in parallel to the partnership, helping to hit the Prime Minister’s target to have 1 in 10 civil servants working in tech roles by the same date."

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Public Private Partnerships

We are a technology-driven initiative that strives to make information more accessible and foster accountability in Africa’s public sector.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

• Google

• Civic teams at tech companies

We train women to win elections. For candidates across the political spectrum from EU member states, the United Kingdom, Switzerland, Norway and Iceland.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Voting and elections
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Help more people run for office

Explore endangered languages using AI. Let your camera translate the world around you.

• culture
• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Translation and linguistic representation

A shared language for democratic AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Governance of AI

Unlock insights from YouTube comments with the power of AI

• YouTube

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

What would democracy look like if it were being invented today, instead of in the 18th century? That’s the driving question of Futurepolis.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters
• Civic imagination

The Democracy Futures Project is an initiative to develop the capacity of philanthropies to think long-term about American democracy.

• Emerging tech
• Foundation initiatives
• Civic imagination

Fix our broken politics. Vote with your phone.

• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns
• E-voting and I-voting

DIVERGENTE is a non-profit, advert-free digital narrative journalism magazine

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

A collection of narrative initiatives, specific campaigns, and resources to promote narrative strategies

• Civic tech catalogs
• Narrative tech
• Narrative tech organizing

The Philea Virtual Library includes over 1,000 free-to-download publications from a range of organisations and publishers on the topics of philanthropy, the management of foundations and the areas they are involved in and support.

• Learn about civic tech
• Tools for Funders

A kanban board of various actions people can take to resist

• Project 2025

• Activism aggregators

We work with a diverse set of grantees and partners to address the underlying causes of the strains in our current system, to create a representative democracy capable of meeting the needs of all Americans today, and for generations to come.

• Funders & donors

Most states are navigating early or developing phases in these categories, building foundational capabilities while defining governance structures and strategic direction. But a few have emerged as national leaders—setting up dedicated AI offices, launching sophisticated pilot programs, training their staff, and building out infrastructure.

• state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Evaluate impact

When we begin any new engagement around the use of AI in government, we’re dedicated to following a core set of principles that center ethics, safety, and impact.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organizational policies on AI

Technology Strategy Centered on Safety & Security

• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech

The HOPE conferences are known for their creativity and diversity, not to mention a whole lot of hacker fun.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

#aufstehn ist eine Gemeinschaft von über 365.000 Engagierten aus ganz Österreich. Zusammen setzen wir uns für ein positives Miteinander, soziale Gerechtigkeit, faires Wirtschaften und den Schutz unseres Planeten ein.

• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

HEAT (Harmful Environmental Agendas & Tactics) is a unique cross-border investigation run by Logically and EU DisinfoLab uncovering how harmful climate narratives are deliberately seeded and amplified in Germany, France, and the Netherlands.

• Climate action
• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

The Political Party Peer Network was established in 2010 to serve as a network of like minded organizations in the field of political party support. Its members include almost all of the world’s most experienced practitioners in international political party development.

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• Peer networks

When not overwhelming, information is power. In that spirit to help the movement, we’ve assembled reliable trackers and databases following the Trump/Musk administrative coup.

• Project 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

The Asia Democracy Network is a regional organization of more than 300 civil society groups working to advance the democratization of governance in Asia.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democracy organizations

To address the issues associated with flash floods, especially the lack of capacity to develop effective flash flood warnings, the Flash Flood Guidance System (FFGS) was designed and developed for interactive use by meteorological and hydrological forecasters throughout the world.

• floods

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Environmental data