As the US approaches its 250th anniversary, AI enables a new type of conversation amongst Americans on freedom & equality.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

In this report, we examine AI chatbots through the lens of dark patterns — deceptive or manipulative design choices that may undermine user autonomy or well-being.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact

A professional association for congressional staff focused on artificial intelligence policy and practice.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks
• Tech or Digital Policy

A curated collection of Claude Code skills for journalists, researchers, academics, and media professionals.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

Democracy Works is partnering with OpenAI to provide accurate, reliable US election information for their products this fall.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Open source legal AI document assistant with cryptographic guardrail verification.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open source

Nonpartisan, AI-powered plain-language summaries of U.S. federal and state legislation with conflict-of-interest scoring, campaign finance data, and party defection tracking.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legislation trackers
• Vibecoded

Nigeria has launched a new artificial intelligence-powered chatbot designed to help citizens access government information and services, in one of the country's biggest public sector AI projects so far.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Service delivery

This report examines the impact of five popular chatbots and text-based AI services on the UK's information supply chain and democracy in real time.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

In the US and Brazil, Claude sends users asking about elections to trusted civic sources

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

AI-powered municipal intelligence platform that turns city council meetings, agendas, and public records into searchable intelligence for Dallas and Fort Worth.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Civic Governance Platform

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Social networks

This is an MCP server for the Relational Tech Project that gives AI tools access to the Studio library, network updates, builder guides, and pattern-matching resources.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Researchers developed a value-based method for prompting LLMs that uses culturally grounded survey-derived value profiles instead of demographic proxies, significantly improving the models’ ability to predict and reproduce diverse population opinions across countries, especially in underrepresented cultures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Together, we will run a series of assemblies across Europe to understand our current digital infrastructure & governance, and reimagine, showcase & demand a Democratic Digital Commons.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

Kofile Technologies, Inc., a national leader in public records preservation and access, today announced the launch of Kleio℠, its AI-driven document intelligence and engagement platform purpose-built for government agencies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Aucklanders can now use an AI-powered virtual assistant to safely report problems, including graffiti, roaming dogs and party noise.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Issue reporting
• AI Constituent Service

MCP server for Swedish National Agency for Education (Skolverket) open data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open government data
• Civic data APIs

A clean, production-ready MCP server for analyzing Indian government datasets on data.gov.in.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open government data

MCP server for accessing SEC EDGAR filings.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open government data

Connect LLMs or AI-chatbots to let them query and interact with official data and statistics from SCB (Sweden Statistics)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open government data

Code for America, the leading civic tech nonprofit that’s making public services easier to navigate through technology, today announced a new partnership with Anthropic to improve public benefits administration through the responsible use of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

PoliSim is open-source civic infrastructure that connects official public data — 71 million census observations, open electoral records, verified polling — with transparent AI to help NGOs, civic bodies, and political consultants communicate more effectively. Before investing in a campaign. On publicly auditable data. With declared limitations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Narrative tech

MCP server for accessing Israeli Government Open Data through data.gov.il

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Civic data APIs

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides Claude and other MCP clients with direct access to CMS (Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services) healthcare data from data.cms.gov.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Open government data

Programmatic access to the Turkish Ministry of Justice Legislation Information System (mevzuat.gov.tr) for searching legislation and retrieving article content.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Open justice

An MCP server for exploring Israeli government open data (data.gov.il) — with built-in interactive visualizations powered by MCP Apps.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Official data.gouv.fr Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that allows AI chatbots to search, explore, and analyze datasets from the French national Open Data platform, directly through conversation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open government data
• Open data publishing platforms

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides programmatic access to the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) price indices and economic data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Model Context Protocol (MCP)

AI-powered plain English summaries of every Congress bill — making legislation accessible to everyone

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legislation trackers
• Vibecoded

Turn any (CKAN) open data portal into a conversation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open government data
• Civic data APIs

civic project that takes published documents about New York City and turns them into something interactive — so any New Yorker can browse, filter, and find what's relevant to them.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We believe [libraries] can shine as trusted providers of public AI: community-based AI services and infrastructure.

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI literacy
• Kiosks

All Californians are invited to participate in California’s digital democracy effort, as Governor Newsom launches Engaged California statewide to give Californians a stronger voice in AI policy and assess its impact on the state’s economy and workers. This is the first statewide use of the tool, open to every resident.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling

In this paper, we set out a vision for a different path for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Governance of AI

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• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

We argue that the use of LLMs as proxies for participants enacts the surrogate effect, raising ethical and epistemological concerns that extend beyond the technical limitations of current models to the core of whether LLMs fit within qualitative ways of knowing.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer-reviewed research
• Digital twins (of the public)

Turn your knowledge into an interactive profile people can talk to.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital twins (of the public)

A suite of open source AI-powered tools that help caseworkers at every step of their journey connecting families with the social safety net

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech
• Bots

Policy intelligence tool for advocates, nonprofits, and everyday people

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Legislation trackers

CommonLingua is a 2.35 million-parameters language identification model trained on 2,482,568 paragraphs from Structured Wikipedia and Common Corpus trained by Pleias in partnership with the GSMA's "AI Language Models in Africa, by Africa, for Africa" initiative.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Machine learning

The Japanese government has open sourced portions of its generative AI suite.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI
• Building inside government

An independent, non-partisan voter information tool for West Bengal Assembly Elections 2026.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

RAIA is Kenya's Civic Intelligence Engine that translates dense state records into instant, verified answers via WhatsApp chat.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bureaucracy tech

This paper explores how civic technology (civic tech) – that is, the use of digital technology to strengthen democracy by informing people, enabling participation and improving government accountability – can enhance citizen participation in Europe at a time of declining trust, polarization, and increasingly AI- and platform-shaped political communication.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech

punecivicai is an independent initiative working to make civic complaints easier and smarter using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

A source-anchored parsing tool for separating source text, meaning, missing information, and verification needs before downstream use.

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

CommunityOne is a cloud-native local community data exchange platform designed to streamline secure data sharing and interoperability through an open system designed to promote engagement.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech
• Dashboards

Agora is a structured civic debate platform where AI coaches you privately to sharpen your argument before you publish it and where prestige is earned through quality of reasoning.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Debate

A public toolkit of templates, prompts, workflows, examples, and evaluation checks for municipal AI governance.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Governance of AI