ITU is the United Nations specialized agency for digital technologies (ICTs). 

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-led multi-stakeholder initiative on Open-Source Generative AI for Public Services aims to develop an end-to-end, open-source implementation framework that enables public sector stakeholders to easily build and deploy their own GenAI solutions using modular, open-source software blueprints.

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Open source

Swedish network for collaboration on open data and open source code

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

This pilot, in collaboration with The University of the West Indies, and UNDP, is...a model for how open-source practices can strengthen digital ecosystems and drive inclusive innovation across the region.

• United Nations Development Programme
• United Nations

• Govtech
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Annual symposium celebrating Open Source Programme Offices (OSPOs)

• Govtech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Repository of Open Source Solutions of Public Administrations

• Govtech
• Open source
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Nous accompagnons les administrations pour renforcer leur utilisation de logiciels libres, soutenir leurs démarches de publication et de mutualisation de codes sources et créer des liens avec l'écosystème open source.

• France (national government)

• Govtech
• Open source
• Procurement

Devolutos is a pro-bono project built by a collective of activists to map Lisbon's empty housing and encourage the government to tax their owners to prompt redevelopment.

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Fondée en 2002, l'ADULLACT a pour objectifs de soutenir et coordonner l'action des Administrations et Collectivités territoriales dans le but de promouvoir, développer et maintenir un patrimoine de logiciels libres utiles aux missions de service public.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

The Open Source Ecosystem Enabler project seeks to empower local and regional public and private actors to effectively adopt open source technologies for delivering digital government services.

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Brooklyn-based creative agency behind Zohran Mamdani's campaign socials

• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Civic and social impact companies

ohsomeNow Stats is being developed and provided by HeiGIT (Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology) and offers up-to-date and global scale overview statistics on mapping activity in OpenStreetMap (OSM).

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Cybersecurity for Cities and Nonprofits

• Cybersecurity
• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Building public understanding of AI capabilities and dangers

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity

ITU Open Source Programme Office (OSPO) is committed to harnessing the power of open-source technologies to empower nations, organizations, and individuals to leverage cutting-edge digital solutions for the sustainable development. ​​

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Internal government tech capacity
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Racjonalny dyskurs publiczny jest możliwy

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

BlueHats 🧢 is a worldwide community of public servants (teachers, researchers and other government workers, etc.) who promote Free and Open Source software in, by and for the public sector.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Honolulu Civil Beat is a 501(c)3 tax-exempt news organization dedicated to cultivating an informed body of citizens, all striving to make Hawaiʻi a better place to live.

• Media
• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Transparentes es una invitación a tomar el mando y construir un espacio donde la transparencia y la ciudadanía sean parte de cada jugada de la sociedad civil.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Argument mapping software combining collective intelligence and AI

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Google Sheet aggregating attendance estimates at hundreds of No Kings Day protests in the US and beyond in 2025

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evaluate impact

Makers of Chatíco and other customer service chatbots

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• AI Constituent Service

PollFinder.ai leverages large language models to help newsrooms collect and organize both horserace and issue polls, enabling journalists to write stories that are informed by an up-to-date aggregation of public opinion polls.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Voting and elections

Web- and WhatsApp-based virtual agent chatbot for residents of Bogotá

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government
• Open government data

Operation Vulindlela is a joint initiative of the [South African] Presidency and National Treasury to accelerate the implementation of structural reforms and support economic recovery.

• Affordable and clean energy
• Clean water and sanitation
• mobility

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• TICTeC 25
• Polis

Geo Pol.is about land use and conservation in the San Juan Islands

• land
• Polis

• Engagement tech
• Specific digital participation instances

Insight, strategy, and coaching for mission-driven leaders & organizations

• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

USC Annenberg and L.A. TACO have developed a new course, “Bridging the Gap Between L.A. Influencers and Independent Journalists,” which will provide time and space for USC students to contribute to the L.A. TACO Media Lab.

• trainings

• Media
• Journalism
• Academia

The automatic classifiers for peace group is an open-source community of researchers, organisations and individuals that are interested in aiding social media analysis through the automatic classification of social media discourse.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Phoenix is an open source, non-commercial platform designed to enable peacebuilders and mediators to conduct ethical and participatory social media listening in order to inform conflict transformation work.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media and social media analysis
• General purpose open source tools

This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increase benefit to society

• guides

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.

• guides

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Playbooks and design principles

The PeaceTech and Polarization (PTAP) Lab, part of the Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies within the Keough School of Global Affairs, offers students the opportunity to study and research the design and functions of technology and its intersection with peacebuilding and democracy.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital peacebuilding

View parliamentary debates formatted like your favourite chat app.

• WhatsApp
• Newspeak House

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency

We build bespoke state-of-the-art artificial intelligence systems that deliver value you can measure.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies

Public opinion infrastructure for cities

• Sustainable cities and communities
• place-based
• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Laboratório de pesquisa independente e multidisciplinar de política digital

• Global South Alliance

• Fight disinformation
• Civil society research outfits
• Polarization

The Centre for Communication Governance at National Law University Delhi (CCG) is a research centre within NLU Delhi and is meant to ensure that the Indian legal education establishment engages more meaningfully with communication law and policy, and offers academic contribution to communication policy making.

• Global South Alliance

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Digital rights

Pusat penelitian berfokus inovasi AI dan teknologi untuk demokrasi.

• Global South Alliance

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

RIPOTI is a platform developed by Paradigm Initiative to enable individuals, CSOs, human rights defenders, advocates, activists, and the general public to report and collaboratively address African digital rights violations.

• corruption
• human rights
• cyberwar

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Digital rights

A 3-day interdisciplinary workshop bringing together researchers in algorithmic fairness.

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• In-person meetings

Freedom Forum is a non-governmental organization, working for institutionalization of democracy, protection and promotion of human rights, press freedom, freedom of expression and right to information in Nepal.

• free speech
• Global South Alliance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism
• Watchdogging government

DRIF is an important platform where conversations on digital policy in the Global South are shaped, policy directions debated and partnerships forged for action.

• Global South Alliance

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Promoting equity for the Global South on the open Internet

• Global South Alliance

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civil society research outfits

Jokkolabs is an independent non-profit organization that is an open innovation ecosystem and a virtual  cluster for social transformation based on an organic community of entrepreneurs and a network of innovation center.

• Global South Alliance

• Hubs

Digital Access is a non-profit social enterprise that aims to promote digital opportunities for young people.

• youth
• Global South Alliance
• human rights

• Fight disinformation
• Digital rights
• Digital literacy

This pioneering project systematically documents and organizes over 5,000 resources from civil society organizations in the Global South dedicated to advancing digital rights. 

• Global South Alliance

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital rights
• Ethical hackers

Organización ciudadana para la defensa de derechos digitales y el uso ético del internet en Bolivia

• Global South Alliance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

Our mission is to promote fundamental rights and values ​​rooted in social justice in the face of contemporary technologies and datafication processes.

• Global South Alliance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Policy