O parlamento aberto é uma forma de interação entre os cidadãos e o Parlamento que assegura a transparência e o acesso à informação pública, a prestação de contas (accountability), a participação do cidadão no trabalho do Legislativo e o controle social para garantia da ética e da probidade no exercício da atividade parlamentar.

• guides

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency
• Public engagement with parliaments and legislatures

2020 OGP-informed report on open parliament in Brazil by the Câmara dos Deputados

• Open Government Partnership (OGP)
• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Public engagement with parliaments and legislatures

This guide seeks to serve as a comprehensive toolkit to enable different parties to make informed decisions around proposed digital ID systems.

• guides

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

You want to support downtown redevelopment but aren’t sure where to start. This playbook is for you.

• towns
• local
• guides

• Playbooks and design principles
• Economic development

The learning outcomes of this training toolkit are crafted to address the frequently voiced challenges associated with implementing and improving government capacities for inclusive and effective local e-government.

• guides
• United Nations

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation

The learning outcomes of this training toolkit are crafted to address the frequently voiced challenges associated with implementing and improving government capacities for inclusive and effective local e-government.

• guides
• local
• United Nations

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation

Guide to organizing securely by Micah Lee

• guides
• Signal

• Advocacy tech
• Chat and messaging
• Direct action

Best practices: van journalisten, voor ambtenaren VOORWOORD

• guides

• Access to information

This toolkit provides an actionable framework for empowering worker voice throughout the procurement process.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Procurement

A playbook commissioned by Participation AI

• reports
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

This Blueprint on Prosocial Tech Design Governance lays out actionable recommendations for governments, civil society, researchers, and industry to design digital platforms that reduce harm and increase benefit to society

• guides

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

Minimize digital harms through design, a guide for product managers and lawmakers.

• guides

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Playbooks and design principles

Make sure you’re prepared by brushing up on your rights before heading out into the streets.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights
• Direct action

This brief proposes adjustments for how we think about and approach advocacy monitoring, evaluation, and learning.

• guides

• Evaluate impact

Data Umbrella's practical introduction to the field of program evaluation

• guides

• Find a job or hire someone
• Evaluate impact

Plain language steps for digital security. Because protecting yourself helps keep your whole community safer.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Google Sheet overview of guides to digital protection for human rights defenders, activists, journalists, and other at-risk communities

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Cybersecurity

Du willst wissen, wie du Daten sinnvoll und rechtssicher in deinem Vorhaben einsetzen kannst?

• guides

• Civic data
• Data governance

Abordaje conceptual y metodológico para la incorporación de las preferencias de la ciudadanía en políticas públicas

• Argentina (federal government)
• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Learn about civic tech

How to Create Equitable Partnerships between Technical and Community Experts

• guides

• Meet the others
• Playbooks and design principles
• Community-building resources

This playbook is designed specifically for civil servants, offering practical guidance for using generative AI (GenAI) to help them perform their work more effectively and efficiently.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Generative AI

This manual aims to empower individuals in their roles as citizen scientists and to promote the practice of community-based citizen science as a vehicle for environmental justice.

• guides

• Citizen science

EFF’s Street-Level Surveillance project shines a light on the surveillance technologies that law enforcement agencies routinely deploy in our communities.

• surveillance
• place-based
• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Hardware

Different voting systems have a variety of different features, ranging from how proportional they are (whether seats in parliament reflect votes cast), the connection between MPs and their communities and the extent to which voters can choose between different candidates.

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Democratic Innovations

Documentation on how to use Google Gemini for nonprofit use-cases

• Google
• guides
• Gemini

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

Alert people privately through a system that protect their privacy - without texts, emails or phone calls.

• guides

• Organize campaigns
• Connectivity

Freddy Guevara offers a fundamental playbook for social activists on how to augment advocacy efforts with artificial intelligence technologies

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

No matter if your newsroom has an established AI policy or if you are just getting started, here are 5 key challenges to consider and 5 practical recommendations for establishing a trust-based AI policy based on insights from the publishers participating in the AI Collaborative and Fellowship

• guides

• Media
• Journalism
• Organizational policies on AI

NGOs in the democracy, rights, and governance space are facing unprecedented cuts to their funding. This blog explores new revenue streams to help them continue their critical work.

• Project 2025
• guides

• Get funding

Partnership for Public Service's resource for you to answer the questions we are frequently asked about how various proposals may affect federal employees, to create a safe space for information sharing and community building, and most of all, to respond to what you need in this moment and in the months to come.

• labor
• guides

• Celebrating public service and public servants

Article in Human Service Organizations by Lauri Goldkind, Joy Ming, and Alex Fink

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech
• Peer-reviewed research

By Anna Kawakami, Amanda Coston, Haiyi Zhu, Hoda Heidari, Kenneth Holstein

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Build something

Our team at Aspen Digital is defining and mapping, in plain terms, emerging technology topics to help impacted communities, social scientists, journalists, and policymakers become familiar with the issues and opportunities so that they can steer the current state and future promise of these tools.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy
• AI literacy

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

• guides
• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Nonprofit tech

We’ve put this guide together to point you to some of the brilliant resources available for UK activists.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

قامت أكساس ناو بإعداد دليل الأمن الرقمي بهدف تقديم الدعم للأشخاص في منطقة الشرق الأوسط وشمال أفريقيا الذين يسعون لحماية أنفسهم من التهديدات الرقمية والبقاء آمنين على الإنترنت. (Access Now has created this Digital Security Guide to support people in the MENA region who are looking to protect themselves from digital threats and stay safe online.)

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The recent wave of protests calling for peace in Palestine have been met with unwarranted and aggressive suppression from law enforcement, universities, and other bad actors. It’s clear that the changing role of surveillance on college campuses exacerbates the dangers faced by all of the…

• guides
• students

• Digital security and privacy
• Direct action

The Community Tool Box is a free, online resource for those working to build healthier communities and bring about social change.

• guides

• Learn about civic tech
• Community-building resources
• The craft of organizing

One-Pager for Staff from London’s Office of Technology

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Organizational policies on AI

In order to help election practitioners and stakeholders to better understand the use of ICTs in elections, International IDEA has conducted a global comparative study to learn how ICTs are being used in several stages of electoral process.

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

This set of free tools, guidance, and training is designed to help organizations take key cybersecurity steps and be more secure.

• guides

• Cybersecurity
• Foundational layers

Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.

• guides

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs
• Data science for social good

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Building inside government
• Public Private Partnerships

The Society Library (a collective intelligence institute) shared their micro-voting decision-making tool for city-level decision-making.

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Citizen Engagement

The Commons Library includes 1000+ educational resources in a range of formats. Topics include campaign strategy, community organising, working effectively in groups, justice and diversity, creative activism, and much more.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

This guidebook helps people design and run projects that involve the collaborative maintenance of data

• guides

• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles
• Data governance

Learn how to host events to engage non-technical audiences on open data

• guides

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Download our free guide on Transparency and Accountability for Philanthropic Organisations

• guides

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Tools for Funders
• Open philanthropy