An AI feature test on Threads that lets users talk to their recommender feed algorithm and make requests in natural language. The requests are viewable by other users.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media
• Recommender feeds

IIID conducts high-impact, responsive research that keeps pace with rapidly evolving technology while addressing its profound implications for users and society.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Audience Simulator with AI Personas

• Artificial Intelligence
• Design
• User research

A YouTube feature to let users customize recommendations on their Home feed. Currently available to signed-in viewers in the U.S. on the YouTube mobile app or desktop in English (May 2026).

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social media
• Recommender feeds

Nonprofit AI platform making every bill plain-English and letting verified voters register, vote on legislation, and send weekly feedback directly to their reps.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government
• Watchdogging government

Create Your Digital Self

• Artificial Intelligence
• Creators and Influencers
• Digital twins (of the public)

Explore Every GovTech Solution in Ukraine

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Dashboards

• Social media

The official portal for European data

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Predecessors & Pioneers

As part of the MTA’s Vacant Unit Activation Program, the Data Vandals created a data-art kiosk and conversation space on the downtown 6-train platform at 51st & Lexington.

• Civic data
• Digital literacy
• Artistic interventions

A timeline of policy and legal developments on EU open data have taken place since 2003.

• Civic data
• Timelines

Aggregating civic tech jobs from Digital Services Coalition companies and other modern civic tech firms.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Metadata Quality Assurance is intended to help data providers and data portals to check their metadata against various indicators.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Open government data

A circumvention proxy built leveraging the unique benefits of a serverless platform

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

The Data Vandals present data in exciting new ways, stopping people in their tracks and inviting them to learn more.

• Civic data
• Digital literacy
• Artistic interventions

The Conduit Foundation exists to catalyse collaborative solutions to the world’s most complex problems.

• Participatory democracy
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Data Catalogue Vocabulary (DCAT) AP is a specification for metadata records, enhancing semantic interoperability across European data portals.

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Government Interoperability

Everything MCP: servers, clients, use cases, tools and a weekly newsletter

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

This practical book outlines the benefits of communities of practice, including accelerating professional development, breaking down organisational silos, enabling knowledge sharing, building better practices, helping to hire and retain staff, and making people happier.

• Books
• Community-building resources

Tacit is a UK based organisational consultancy founded in 2014, working with government, public sector, third sector and private organisations to create better-equipped leaders, connected learning organisations, and thriving people and teams.

• Internal communication and coordination

Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Policy

Pentesting, dependency scanning, and more for AI-coded apps

• Build something
• Cybersecurity

Paste any Rightmove rental listing URL for instant deal intelligence — market position, negotiation advice, and drop predictions.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Civic maps

Open source automation platform

• Build something
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

At the intersection of peacebuilding and technology, Build Up uses new tools for old problems, and old tools for new problems.

• Digital peacebuilding

CyberWell is the first-ever live database of online antisemitism.

• Civic data
• Content moderation

Building the world we want through holding leaders accountable for their promises

• Watchdogging and transparency

Explore our library of connectors to automate your business without writing code

• Build something
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

"the first frontier-quality, open-weight text-to-speech model designed specifically for enterprise use." - VentureBeat

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Scale participation with decidim chat integrations

• Engagement tech
• Chat and messaging
• Civic platform interoperability

A group of more than 50 international think tanks and research centers in areas of digital and data policy. This Network serves as a trusted interface, offering independent research and observations on the implementation of the Guidelines, and ensuring a human-right respecting and multistakeholder approach on the governance of digital platforms.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy

European Commission resources on open justice and legal tech

• Legal tech
• Open justice

Meta announced it was introducing a community notes program and ending its third-party fact-checking program in the U.S. The company indicated it would refine community notes before making it available for users outside the U.S.

• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

An AI-powered media observatory that measures bias, framing, and transparency in the Chilean press

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis

The Democracy Narratives Alliance (DNA) is a global initiative bringing together 40+ organizations, research institutions, and funders to shift how we talk about democracy.

• Narrative tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democracy organizations

A new multi-stakeholder initiative dedicated to shaping a democratic, values-driven digital future for Europe.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Democracy organizations

A new legislative toolkit from the Knight-Georgetown Institute equips lawmakers with modular components to support the development of legislation that encourages algorithmic feeds that put people first.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Algorithmic transparency

A diverse group of full-of-attitude New Yorkers reveals how a hidden world of beautiful wild birds in the middle of Manhattan has upended and magically transformed their lives.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films

This is the tool that helps you to make quicker and better informed tech choices in your media organisation.

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

This systematic literature review examines how narratives about democracy shape democratic engagement and behavior.

• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech
• Reports

The Busara Lab is now the largest behavioral science lab in the world with a panel of more than 133,000 participants across sites in India, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Surveys & polling

An interactive data project by The Washington Post that created an 800-person reader sample to monitor TikTok interaction data

• Journalism
• Crowdsourcing
• Engagement journalism

It maps the dominant narratives that shape how people understand democracy, explains how messaging interacts with deeper mental models, and identifies strategies that can help rebuild support, engagement, and participation.

• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech
• Reports

The European Citizens’ Initiative (ECI) Forum is an online collaborative platform that offers support to citizens when organising a European citizens’ initiative.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Get funding

When a global developer purchases Industry City - a massive industrial complex on the waterfront - and begins to transform it into an “innovation district,” a battle erupts over the future of the neighborhood and of New York City itself.

• Learn about civic tech
• Urban planning
• Innovation teams and labs

The European Citizens´ Initiative Forum provide[s] tailor-made and independent advice to (potential) organisers of European citizens’ initiatives in any of the official EU languages within maximum eight working days, such as legal advice, advice on campaigning, on fundraising or on any other relevant topics.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Expert networks

Planning and politics collide in the struggle to redesign Brooklyn’s notoriously dangerous McGuinness Blvd.

• Learn about civic tech
• Urban planning
• Shows and films

THROUGH THE NIGHT is a cinema verité portrait of three working NY mothers whose lives intersect at a 24-hour daycare center: a mother working the overnight shift as an essential worker at a hospital; another holding down three jobs to support her family; and a woman who for over two decades has cared for the children of parents with nowhere else to turn.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films

Voxit is a [Pol.is fork and] open source polling platform that addresses challenges commonly found in online conversations and digital polls, like low engagement or highly polarising debates.

• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Surveys & polling

Data Docs: Open Data on Screen is a day-long documentary screening program full of films exploring issues New Yorkers care about — street safety, housing, child care, and urban nature — are each paired with NYC Open Data datasets and followed by panel discussions with data experts, City staff, community practitioners, and, where possible, the filmmakers themselves.

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Open government data