Equipping policy makers and researchers with AI-driven tools to explore legislation, analyse parliamentary developments, and empowering them in the policy making process.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

Google DeepMind and Stanford researchers built the "Habermas Machine" and found that AI mediators generated more palatable summary statements of the discussions, as rated by participants, than human-written summaries, while still representing minority views in the final version.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

This article proposes, and presents results from, an online technology platform and a methodology, which can help depolarize sectors of society, with the specific application to the current divisive post-war landscape within Colombia.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

Stanford + DeepMind study that used LLMs to simulate people with AI agents based on a 2-hour interview

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Academia

"Google can turn your Discover feed into an AI-generated podcast" - The Verge

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

AI-powered insights to help you find out what the f(ed) the US government is doing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Let participants record conversations, we transcribe and help you analyse it in minutes..

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

"Naskvoz" (meaning "seeing through" in Russian), analyzes news texts for emotional manipulation techniques and propaganda markers.

• Telegram

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Dokopalsya! (which playfully means "got to the bottom of it" in Russian), leverages large language models to serve as a rapid fact-checking assistant in Russian. When users share claims or news snippets, the bot identifies key assertions and checks them against reliable sources, providing evidence-based verification with links to authoritative references.

• Telegram

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements and build long-term power among the people and communities that AI is leaving behind.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Access social benefits

The platform to reimagine the future of our cities.

• city
• apps
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Impulsgeber für die digitale Gesellschaft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data governance
• Civil society research outfits

Findet es im Kartenspiel KI-Kompass heraus! Hier schlüpft ihr in die Rolle von ultimativen KI-Expert*innen und helft Bürger*innen bei ihren Anfragen.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Games and gamification
• Board games

Line chatbot to help people interact with and understand Tainan City Council data. Users can ask in Mandarin, Taiwanese, English or by voice.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• IBM Watsonx

• Artificial Intelligence
• Natural Language Processing

It provides a comprehensive look at AI applications in legislative drafting, procedural guidance, historical archiving, and citizen engagement, supported by real-world case studies illustrating practical implementations.

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Books

Community-led AI Audits: Making AI Systems Fair & Accountable

• CTFG partners

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing

AI Digital Public Goods for Justice in India

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open justice

Digital Infrastructure for Governance and Inclusive Transformation (DIGIT) is an open-source, scalable, interoperable platform for responsive public service delivery and good governance.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Service delivery

Your virtual facilitator.

• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making
• Internal communication and coordination

The AI4CI Hub’s Rapid Response Fund offers an exciting opportunity for small-scale, high-impact projects that unite academic and non-academic partners from across the UK. This fund is designed to support collaboration on AI for Collective Intelligence research, with the potential to achieve concrete outcomes that pave the way for more significant research activities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Collective intelligence

An AI Inventory is an important transparency mechanism that enables the City of San José to meaningfully communicate the AI systems that it uses to its residents. In January 2023, the DPO began maintaining an AI Inventory in an effort to increase transparency of the technological tools used by the City.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Registers of government AI

The AI4CI Hub is a UKRI National AI Research Hub involving universities from each of the UK’s four constituent nations and over forty initial stakeholder partners from across academia, government, charities and industry.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Collective intelligence

The GovAI Coalition went public...publishing a set of deliverables any organization could use to help jumpstart their agency with responsible AI practices.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Work in progress AI integration for the participation platform that allows platform admins to install and configure a spam detection service so that any suspicious content gets reported at the earliest possible step.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

The OASI Register compiles information about algorithms with the aim of increasing public awareness and providing the necessary knowledge for an informed public conversation, and of making possible for experts and the public to search and analyse the use and social impact of algorithmic systems across the world.

• Artificial Intelligence
• AI Auditing
• Algorithmic transparency

A guidance system for collaborative problem solving.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Unanimous AI develops Swarm® & Swarm AI® technology that amplifies human intelligence, empowering groups to optimize their collective knowledge, wisdom, and intuition by forming real-time AI systems [plus Thinkscape and Mindmix]

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing

How AI-powered tenant screening hurts renters: Research paper by TechEquity Collaborative

• housing
• landlord
• Reduced inequalities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Active Citizen is an open source library, API and UI using various AI technologies aimed at empowering citizens democratically.

• Your Priorities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Online Deliberation Platform is a video discussion platform for groups of 8-15 people.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Academia

SSARE serves as an efficient and scalable resource for semantic search and article recommendations, catering primarily to political news data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis

Making Disagreement Useful Again

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

Starting in 2024, Albert will be tested at local public service counters — Maisons France services — to help users with their paperwork.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

A custom-AI model GiusBERTo is used in Italy to automatically deidentify and anonymise court decisions without sacrificing any important information, a process previously done manually.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Judicial opinions

Policy Synth is an open-source TypeScript library developed by the Citizens Foundation to facilitate the creation of multi-scale AI agent logic flows, APIs, and real-time web applications.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Caddy is an AI powered co-pilot for customer service functions everywhere.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

US federal website launched by the Biden Administration

• United States (federal government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Policy explainers

Apply for a 15% discount for non-profits.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

In Spring 2024, NCSL surveyed eight legislative staffing groups about their use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools for legislative work.

• state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Tracking AI legislation across all 50 US states as of January 2024

• state

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy

Bots for Slack, Discord, Google Chat, and Microsoft Teams. You will tell these bots which cases to follow, and you'll get updates for those cases right in your chat app.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Access to laws

As well as the broad range of information that the regular AI uses, this modified version has been exposed to a specific set of policies and information to help unlock the power of AI for the new constituency of West Ham and Beckton.

• local
• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We use satellites, other remote sensing techniques, and artificial intelligence to deliver a detailed look at global emissions that gets even better over time.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Satellites

Faster, market-informed hiring for govs

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone

A newsletter issue with a great summary of back-office efficiencies for social good organisations using AI

• guides
• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

The OSAID offers a standard by which community-led, open and public evaluations will be conducted to validate whether or not an AI system can be deemed Open Source AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source
• Data schemas and standards

OpenLLaMA, a permissively licensed open source reproduction of Meta AI’s LLaMA 7B trained on the RedPajama dataset

• commercial
• Meta

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

An open platform for training, serving, and evaluating large language models. Release repo for Vicuna and Chatbot Arena.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI