The AI 50, a new recognition program from the Center for Public Sector AI, highlights individuals and organizations making significant contributions to AI adoption and advancement in public sector agencies. Public and private sector participants focused on public service are eligible to submit.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech

We are experimenting with using AI tools to extend our work as a small nonprofit, so that we can focus our time on reinforcing human connections, conversations, and communities that have eroded.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organizational policies on AI

Type2Dialogue provides AI-enabled tools for organizers doing the hardest kind of work—changing minds, building commitment, and mobilizing action.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Practice canvassing with a virtual voter; get feedback on how well you connected with them

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

An all-in-one politics app designed to make politics simple, accessible, and actionable.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Voting and elections
• Communicating with the government

Launched at the Tallinn Digital Summit 2025, the Vision Paper maps how agentic AI systems will rewire the core functions of government — spanning public services, crisis management, governance, and procurement — and what technological, organisation, and leadership changes are needed to enable this shift.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech

The State of New York passed a bill outlawing the use of algorithmic pricing by landlords to determine rent prices. Score one for not using AI to make bad things (the housing and cost of living crises) worse!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Policy
• Civic tech legislation and policy

Free maritime sanctions database tracking 800+ vessels across OFAC, EU, UK, CA, AU, NZ with live AIS monitoring to expose shadow fleet operations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

A broad coalition of philanthropic leaders today announced Humanity AI, a $500M five-year initiative dedicated to making sure people and communities beyond Silicon Valley have a stake in the future of artificial intelligence (AI).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Cybersecurity

Our platform equips newcomers with job market tools, interview confidence, and workplace skills, ensuring a smooth transition into the Canadian workforce with tailored job opportunities.

• immigration

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

Case studies on open source, AI-developed apps built by newsrooms

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Journalism

Legacy news outlets have owners and agendas. We'll sift through all the sources and add a layer of critical thinking, for you.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

Up-to-date developments and analyses of the EU AI Act and its implementation

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI
• Tech or Digital Policy

This post is the culmination of a months-long effort to translate principles into a measurable signal and develop an automated evaluation setup to continually track and improve objectivity over time.

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evaluate impact
• Report cards and audits

The Disability and Access in Tech and AI Summit, powered by YAI, is our annual conference to discuss issues around accessibility, including research, identity, and policy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The project’s aim is to enhance the search functionality of Wikidata by integrating vector-based semantic search.

• Wikipedia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Decentralization
• Data governance

We urgently call for international red lines to prevent unacceptable AI risks. Launched during the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly, this call has broad support from prominent leaders in policy, academia, and industry.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Specific campaigns
• Governance of AI

Union reps can be more confident in starting organising conversations after practicing their approach on an AI actor using our tool.

• labor
• trainings

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• The craft of organizing

For impact funders, from VCs to foundations, Mútua combines AI and systems thinking to support mission-aligned decisions that address global challenges.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tools for Funders

The State of Play and Way Forward in Core Government Functions

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Reports

A new social media platform in civic tech

• corruption

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

This is a local democracy reporting tool that enables researchers to search auto-generated transcripts of Council meetings for different authorities across the UK and Ireland.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Tarbell Center for AI Journalism supports journalism that helps society navigate the emergence of increasingly advanced AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

The nonprofit RSL Collective brings together millions of online publishers and creators to protect their rights and negotiate for fair compensation from AI companies.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Data schemas and standards

Our team builds products and organizes advocacy to support the work of public AI model builders like the Swiss AI Initiative, AI Singapore, AI Sweden, and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center. We believe in public AI—AI as public infrastructure like highways, water, or electricity. Think of a BBC for AI, a public utility for AI, or public libraries for AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Open source AI

We are the world's first AI alignment alignment center, working to subsume the countless other AI centers, institutes, labs, initiatives and forums into one final AI center singularity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

RSL is an open standard that lets publishers define machine-readable licensing terms for their content, including attribution, pay per crawl, and pay per inference compensation.

• Responsible consumption and production

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Better Tech Industry for Everyone

• Responsible consumption and production
• labor

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Consumer watchdogging

Sway is a chat platform that connects students with differing perspectives into one-on-one conversations and facilitates better discussions between them.

• students

• Artificial Intelligence
• Polarization

A coalition calling for transparency on OpenAI's efforts to transition from public benefit nonprofit to for-profit

• ChatGPT

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

AI technologies can empower public agencies by enabling real-time network monitoring, predictive analytics for risk prevention, and automated responses to cyber incidents

• Artificial Intelligence
• Cybersecurity
• Peer-reviewed research

Welcome to The Forum Initiative, we are building a platform dedicated to exploring the pressing issues facing democracy today.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Socialize online
• Civic forums

Successful integration of generative AI for civic engagement must be powered by people who use their judgment to validate outputs, mitigate potential errors, contextualize results, and build trust between the government and the community.

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Generative AI

Building Multilanguage AI-Powered Chatbots to Foster Trust Between Governments and Residents

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

Online discourse faces challenges in facilitating substantive and productive political conversations. Recent technologies have explored the potential of generative AI to promote civil discourse, encourage the development of mutual understanding in a discussion, produce . . .

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Revolutionary Democratic Engagement Platform

• Artificial Intelligence

Participants worked in mixed-age groups, using UrbanistAI to redesign public spaces based on photographs they had taken themselves.

• workshops

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Urban planning

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

For this project we will be working in a consortium of European partners on an AI-powered Civic Assistant to integrate in the CONSUL DEMOCRACY code base.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

OECD.AI is an online interactive platform dedicated to promoting trustworthy, human-centric artificial intelligence (AI).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fieldwide resources
• Governance of AI

In collaboration with the private and public sectors, NIST has developed a framework to better manage risks to individuals, organizations, and society associated with artificial intelligence (AI).

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital standards

ISO/IEC 42001 is an international standard that specifies requirements for establishing, implementing, maintaining, and continually improving an Artificial Intelligence Management System (AIMS) within organizations.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital standards

Virtuous is fueling a new generation of courageous nonprofit teams to connect with donors, save time, and grow giving like never before.

• commercial

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Nesta’s Centre for Collective Intelligence, in collaboration with the UK government’s Incubator for Artificial Intelligence, has trialled an approach to involve the public in assessing AI tools for public services.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

responsible experimentation, real-world impact

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This study examines 51 Freedom of Information requests to reveal how the UK’s Department for Work and Pensions uses opaque data-driven fraud detection systems in welfare, highlighting the limited transparency, the role of journalists and charities in uncovering details, and inconsistencies in the department’s disclosures.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Multi-function AI assistant for police accountability, including real-time legal advice and crowdsourcing on policemen's behaviors

• policing
• police violence

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Open justice

• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Algorithmic rent-price setting company

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Internet Archive Europe is a project by the Dutch non-profit research library Stichting Internet Archive. It is building collections and tools to bring them to life.

• culture

• Artificial Intelligence
• Archives
• Open knowledge