On May 1, 2025 (Law Day), lawyers across the country are encouraged to participate in #ReaffirmTheOath—a nonpartisan, nonpolitical national grassroots effort empowering lawyers in communities large and small to speak out, stand together, and publicly renew their commitment to the Constitution and the rule of law.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

O OPA é um instrumento pioneiro que permite à população participar da elaboração do orçamento anual do Estado do Piauí. Através do programa, os cidadãos podem indicar diretamente como desejam que parte dos recursos públicos sejam investidos em seus municípios.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Apply secure metadata with information about yourself and your content preferences, directly to your files with Content Credentials.

• Stop AI theft
• Adobe

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards

Serviços e Informações do Brasil

• Brazil (federal government)

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Com o Colab, os cidadãos podem participar ativamente das decisões da cidade, acessar os serviços da prefeitura, contribuir com ideias, reportar demandas e votar em questões cruciais para suas comunidades.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Checks and Balances Now is a legal and civic education initiative created by a group of lawyers who closely followed the work of the American Bar Association’s Task Force for American Democracy

• Legal tech
• Open justice

This bot offers an interface for requesting and accessing VPN support via Telegram and WhatsApp.

• WhatsApp
• Telegram

• Cybersecurity
• Circumvention tech
• Chat and messaging

At the Department of Computer Science, Aalborg University

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Chat and messaging

Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.

• local
• city

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

The Digital Democracy Initiative (DDI) is a programme aimed at safeguarding inclusive democracy and human rights in the digital age.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundation initiatives

Over a nine month period, these participants will work with the CIVICUS team, technical experts, and each other to develop a fully funded project which will be delivered in their local setting.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

Meta uses AI to find teens pretending to be adults and place them in more restricted Teen Accounts. Plus proactive notifications to their parents' accounts.

• youth
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic features

A comprehensive analysis of the digital democracy ecosystem across six regions: East Asia, Eastern Europe & Central Asia, Latin America & the Caribbean, the Middle East & North Africa (MENA), Sub-Saharan Africa, and South Asia.

• reports

• Participatory democracy

It’s an unofficial NRA game that involves tactical shooting and four dimensional thinking.

• gun safety

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Artistic interventions

“The concept was inspired by frequent trips through airport immigration and the realization that inspecting documents in a game setting might be fun"

• immigration

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Bureaucracy tech

WIRED: DOGE is knitting together data from the Department of Homeland Security, Social Security Administration, and IRS that could create a surveillance tool of unprecedented scope.

• surveillance
• Project 2025

• Govtech
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

​​The first #50501 protests were a decentralized rapid response to the anti-democratic and illegal actions of the Trump administration and its plutocratic allies. The idea—50 protests in 50 states on 1 day—was born on r/50501 and spread rapidly on social media.

• Project 2025
• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Specific campaigns

GIJN is an international association that supports the work of investigative journalists worldwide.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

Good Jobs First is a national policy resource center that promotes corporate and government accountability in economic development.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

A glossary for the repository of Collective Intelligence Tools and Case studies

• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

Discover How Much the Public is Subsidizing One of the Largest Retailers

• Amazon

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Violation Tracker Global is the first wide-ranging database on corporate misconduct around the world.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Discover Where Corporations are Getting Taxpayer Assistance Across the United States

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

A Tool for Researching Corporate Regulatory Infringements in the United Kingdom

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.

• local
• taxes
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Consumer watchdogging

AI Policy Bulletin publishes policy-relevant perspectives on frontier AI governance.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Policy

*SLAPP - Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation is a legal action taken to block public participation, including journalists and activists, in public debate. Their goal is to silence criticism of the actions of government or large corporations.

• Media
• Journalism
• Partner networks and coalitions

Right-wing influencers are shilling an immigrant bounty hunting app

• immigration

• Blockchain
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

AI Brand Monitoring and Analytics

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• AEO (SEO for AI)

Media publishers campaign against AI taking content without compensation

• Stop AI theft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns

Nightshade transforms images into "poison" samples, so that models training on them without consent will see their models learn unpredictable behaviors that deviate from expected norms.

• Stop AI theft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Find information about registered charities in England and Wales

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Nonprofit tech

An Interactive Budget Simulation

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Budget explorers

We break information barriers and strengthen African democracies through research and media innovation

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic apps outfits

Good Law Project is ready to help creatives fight back.

• culture
• Stop AI theft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Here, we explore four applications of LLMs to improve digital public squares: collective dialogue systems, bridging systems, community moderation, and proof-of-humanity systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Get your brand mentioned in AI search results

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• AEO (SEO for AI)

The new model includes the development of the largest national legislative database, which integrates not only federal and local legislation but also judicial rulings, government processes, services, and field-level systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Free antispy tool for Windows 10 and 11

• Microsoft

• Digital security and privacy

Founded in 1895, it is one of the oldest non-governmental organisations and one of the largest ones measured by the number of people represented: 1 billion cooperative members on the planet.

• coop

• Fieldwide resources
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Unlocking regulatory innovation for the circular economy transition.

• sustainability
• Sustainable cities and communities
• supply chain

• Govtech
• Policy
• Economic development

So far, the NGI has funded more than 1000 innovators with inclusive and trust-based complementary technology building blocks. Discover their solutions.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

The Impact Map provides timely data—as it becomes available—on policy, funding, and workforce changes and their localized effect. This tool is currently in beta and will continue evolving, so you may find areas that need updating.

• Project 2025

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Evaluate impact

OONI Explorer is an open data resource on internet censorship around the world.

• Civic data
• Circumvention tech
• Open internet

An independent investigative journalism and data visualization project, documenting the statements, activities, and networks of the individuals that received pardons or commutations for criminal charges related to the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Project 2025

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Open justice

Mapping the networks of the 1,580 individuals who were arrested, charged, or convicted for participating on the attack on the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021.

• Project 2025

• Data visualization
• Crowdsourcing
• Open justice

The Impact Project provides objective, transparent, and open-source data to help explain how federal policies, funding, and workforce changes affect our communities.

• Civic data
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Celebrating public service and public servants

The AI Security Institute is the largest team in a government dedicated to understanding AI capabilities and risks in the world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Trust & Safety