COSS – the Finnish Centre for Open Systems and Solutions is a non-profit association that promotes open source, open data, open standards and APIs. Internationally COSS is known as one of the oldest and most active centres for openness.

• Open source
• Open source networks

Vaikuttavia, yhdenvertaisia ja haluttuja julkisia digipalveluja Suomeen.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Expected April 2026, "The [European] Commission is...required to establish a European Repository for online political advertisements...a public repository for online political advertising and the relative transparency notices published in the EU or directed at EU citizens or residents.

• Govtech
• Advocacy tech
• Advertising

VIGINUM est le service technique et opérationnel de l’État chargé de la vigilance et de la protection contre les ingérences numériques étrangères.

• Govtech
• Fight disinformation

In this funders’ briefing, the European AI & Society Fund sets out how civil society groups are rallying rapidly to respond to the EU’s deregulation push to ensure hard-won public safeguards are maintained – through campaigning, advocacy and allying across causes such as climate and labour, that also face sweeping cuts in protections.

• Decentralization
• Regulation
• Tools for Funders

As a world-leading multidisciplinary conference CPDP offers the cutting edge in legal, regulatory, academic and technological development in privacy and data protection.

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Continuous data about provably false narratives spreading online — built for false claim detection at scale.

• Civic data
• Fight disinformation
• Content provenance

We develop methods and tools for a participatory evaluation of public policies by local communities and the final beneficiaries of the interventions

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Watchdogging government

The Carpentries teaches foundational coding and data science skills to researchers worldwide.

• Digital literacy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Check our Movement Job Board for movement/organizing jobs across the country!

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

What is The Future for Cities? podcast is a platform to introduce and connect people who are actively and consciously working on the future of cities and to introduce research about the future of cities.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Podcasts

Address-level lookup tool for EPA drinking water violation records.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open government data
• Vibecoded

A training institute for the progressive movement

• Advocacy tech
• The craft of organizing

NECE is a multi-stakeholder network for civic educators to connect, learn and grow.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic literacy

Welcome to the world's leading organization for Smart Cities, Smart Buildings, Strategies, Policy, Research and Technologies.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Accelerators
• Hubs

Join us as the Smart Cities Council team and members from around the world talk to the people and places advancing the application of science, data, technology, and engineering aiming to create a safer, more beautiful, enabled, and resilient future for everyone.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Podcasts

Our mission is to empower the next generation of young pro-democracy leaders across Central and Eastern Europe, the Western Balkans and the South Caucasus by equipping them with the tools, networks, and opportunities to engage meaningfully in civic and political life at local, national, and European levels.

• Peer networks
• Democracy organizations

MediKey is an AI-powered platform that helps healthcare organizations identify eligible patients, automate Medicaid enrollment and recertification, and prevent coverage loss while reducing uncompensated care.

• Access social benefits

A Deliberation Platform for AI Agents

• Artificial Intelligence
• Deliberation
• Agentic AI

Includes the world's most comprehensive and detailed democracy ratings.

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Open civic data

The V-Dem Graphing Tools is a platform for making data visualization intuitive, accessible and easy to use

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

At Issue One, we’re building bipartisan power to strengthen the foundations of American democracy — because fixing our broken political system starts with all of us.

• Democracy organizations

State Infrastructure Fund (SIF) is a collaborative fund with a mission of building permanent state-based civic engagement and voting rights infrastructure in historically underrepresented communities.

• Get funding
• Voting and elections
• Funders & donors

We are Republicans, former Republicans, and conservatives committed to protecting every American’s right to vote.

• Voting and elections
• Democracy organizations

Rural Democracy Initiative builds power toward a thriving democracy and shared prosperity across diverse communities in rural areas and small cities.

• Partner networks and coalitions

PolicyLink is a national research and action institute working to advance the laws, policies, and public demand necessary to realize a nation that governs for all.

• Democracy organizations

We're working on behalf of the American people to hold our government accountable

• Voting and elections
• Democracy organizations

V-Dem provides a multidimensional and disaggregated dataset that reflects the complexity of the concept of democracy as a system of rule.

• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Varieties of Party Identity and Organization (V-Party) is a dataset examining the policy positions and organizational structures of political parties across the world.

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Research tools

This interactive map is designed to provide evidence on where housing is most needed.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

We advocate for Legislative Transparency and Open Parliament

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

An open-source civic intelligence platform that scores every major U.S. political event on two axes: constitutional damage and media distraction. Publishes immutable weekly snapshots with full algorithmic transparency.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

In particular, this paper outlines a joint qualitative and quantitative study for understanding “Interested Bystanders,” or that portion of the population that is paying attention to the world around them, but not regularly voicing their opinions or taking action.

• Learn about civic tech
• User research

The Project Liberty Alliance consists of over 175+ organizations—tech companies, policy groups, impact initiatives, academic institutions, and more—committed to a people-centered internet.

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

Building Movements, Winning Change

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

SmartRaise grows regular fundraising income for your campaign by making giving easy – so you can focus on making a difference.

• Advocacy tech
• Get funding
• Campaign fundraising

Advancing research and practice at the intersection of media, technology, and democracy.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Building a democratic future through citizen deliberation.

• Participatory democracy
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

A Bluesky feed of verified news publications

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic features

Automated label service allowing you to hide Twitter and other screenshots.

• Crowdsourcing
• Social media
• Content moderation

We believe in building a better future by placing the power of the collective at the heart of decision-making.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits
• Participation consultants

The city's meeting place and workshop for democracy and participation in the heart of Copenhagen Northwest. In the garages, where there used to be a blacksmith and car repair shop, we are now experimenting with new formats of democracy.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

UM6P School of Collective Intelligence – SCI trains future changemakers to solve complex challenges through interdisciplinary methods, data-driven insights, and collective problem-solving.

• Academia
• Collective intelligence

Transparent, fact-based tracking of Reform UK officials.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency

/e/OS is an open-source mobile operating system paired with carefully selected applications.

• Digital security and privacy
• Open source
• General purpose open source tools

Open-source tools for AI-powered civic data access

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open government data

I am a facilitator and engagement expert with a firm belief communities and stakeholders will find the best way forward together if given the chance to listen and be heard and if provided with the tools and processes to progress from the problem space to an agreed solution.

• Participatory democracy
• Building in the private sector
• Participation consultants

• Democracy organizations

We are the leading Nordic advisors in democratic innovation and deliberation

• Participatory democracy
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Twice-monthly Substack on: Regulation & policy, Resources & tools, Model & product news, Societal impacts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Tech or Digital Policy