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Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

MCP (Model Context Protocol) is an open-source standard for connecting AI applications to external systems.

AI for Grantmakers

AI for Grantmakers

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

An open invitation for funders of all sizes to come together as peers, exploring the opportunities and challenges of AI.

Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

Agentic AI Foundation (AAIF)

The AAIF provides a neutral, open foundation to ensure this critical capability evolves transparently, collaboratively, and in ways that advance the adoption of leading open source AI projects

AI Diffusion Report

AI Diffusion Report

The report introduces three indices—the AI Frontier Index, the AI Infrastructure Index, and the AI Diffusion Index—to help policymakers, researchers, and industry leaders understand where breakthroughs are happening, where capacity exists to scale, and where AI is being used to improve lives.

Optimising For AI Search: The Definitive Guide For Charities

Optimising For AI Search: The Definitive Guide For Charities

Charities with rich informational content need to now think beyond their rankings in the “10 blue links” for visibility.

Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment

Disentangling participation in online political discussions with a collective field experiment

Stanford University, Serra Mall, Stanford, CA

These findings support preference- and incentive-based accounts of participation but suggest that light-touch interventions are unlikely to bridge participation gaps, let alone polarization.

Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention

Collective Governance for AI: Points of Intervention

United States of America 🇺🇸

Metagov breaks up the thorny problem of AI governance into smaller, easier problems and intervention points

Itiner-e

Itiner-e

Rome

A high-resolution dataset of roads of the Roman Empire

AGENTS.md

AGENTS.md

A simple, open format for guiding coding agents, used by over 60k open-source projects.

Android

Android

Mountain View, CA

Google's open source mobile operating system

Open Youth Infrastructure (OYI)

Open Youth Infrastructure (OYI)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

By exploring what truly helps or hinders youth organisations from sharing data openly, we aim to create practical solutions informed by governance, design, data, and sustainability, ensuring that every young person can access the support they need when they need it.

London College of Political Technology 2025/26 cohort

London College of Political Technology 2025/26 cohort

Newspeak House, Bethnal Green Road, London, UK

Mid-career technologists developing a holistic understanding of the civic landscape in the UK and beyond, to found groundbreaking projects or seek strategic positions in key institutions.

Sudan Witness

Sudan Witness

London

Sudan Witness was launched in April 2023, and monitors, analyses, verifies, and archives information pertaining to human rights interferences and conflict incidents in Sudan’s current conflict.

Microsoft US Broadband Usage Percentages

Microsoft US Broadband Usage Percentages

We are publishing this dataset we developed as part of our efforts with Microsoft’s Airband Initiative to help close the rural broadband gap.

Privacy & Human Rights Award

Privacy & Human Rights Award

Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

Privacy & Human Rights Award

Stop the Digital Omnibus

Stop the Digital Omnibus

Europe

People vs Big Tech, EDRi and other 125 civil society organisations are sounding the alarm: leaked documents show that the European Commission’s upcoming Digital Omnibus, set to be unveiled on 19 November 2025, could reopen the GDPR, ePrivacy Directive and AI Act, which are core pillars of the EU’s digital rights framework.

Disint.ai

Disint.ai

Netherlands (Nederland, Holland) 🇳🇱

disint.ai - a narrative intelligence and social listening platform for YouTube.

Source Cooperative

Source Cooperative

Washington, DC

Source allows trusted organizations and individuals to publish data of any kind at any scale without needing to build or maintain their own infrastructure.

Global Fact-Check Bot

Global Fact-Check Bot

Poynter Institute for Media Studies, 3rd Street South, St. Petersburg, FL

A pioneering AI platform that empowers fact-checkers and citizens worldwide to verify information accuracy with just a few clicks. Fighting misinformation across 50+ languages, powered by 60+ trusted organizations.

OpenUK Awards

OpenUK Awards

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

OpenUK’s Awards and Honours Lists are part of a UK-focused, world leading recognition programme for open tech.

Global Privacy Assembly

Global Privacy Assembly

Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines

The Assembly seeks to provide leadership at international level in data protection and privacy. It does this by connecting the efforts of more than 130 data protection and privacy authorities from across the globe.

TRIED: Truly Innovative and Effective AI Detection Benchmark

TRIED: Truly Innovative and Effective AI Detection Benchmark

Johannesburg, South Africa

a new framework for evaluating detection tools based on their real-world impact and capacity for innovation

GovWise

GovWise

Lisbon

GovWise is the ALL-IN-ONE solution with artificial intelligence supported by over 10 years of market data that helps you sell and increase your revenue in the public sector. Know How

UK Asylum Changes Response

UK Asylum Changes Response

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Simply record your thoughts, and our tool will instantly transform your voice note into a unique, professional letter to your MP - ready to send in seconds.

Perma.cc

Perma.cc

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Websites change. Perma Links don’t.

SAFE Framework: the 4 principles for HMG Brand Safety

SAFE Framework: the 4 principles for HMG Brand Safety

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The SAFE Framework introduces new standards for digital brand safety in HM Government advertising.

Archive of Data.gov

Archive of Data.gov

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

This repository is maintained by the Harvard Law School Library Innovation Lab as part of our project to preserve U.S. federal public data.

CSOTogether

CSOTogether

The Hague, Netherlands

A collaboration and engagement hub where CSOs connect with partners and audiences, share projects, and strengthen impact across borders.

Residents Councils

Residents Councils

Tokyo

KOSO NIPPON's take on citizen assemblies

Lessons from a Climate Citizens’ Assembly Kawasaki, Japan

Lessons from a Climate Citizens’ Assembly Kawasaki, Japan

Japan (Nihon or Nippon) 🇯🇵

The Climate Citizens’ Assembly Kawasaki (CCAK) was implemented in mid-2021 to produce recommendations for the local government to incorporate into its basic climate plan.

Ostbelgien - Model

Ostbelgien - Model

Eupen

The permanent Citizens’ Dialogue (“Ostbelgien – Model”) is a participation project oft the Parliament of the German Speaking Community of Belgium. It counts 2 bodies: The Citizens’ Assemblies and the permanent Citizens’ Council.

billtracks.fyi

billtracks.fyi

Your AI-powered legislative companion. Stay informed about bills and policies in Congress with real-time updates, intelligent insights, and comprehensive tracking.

Deschutes Civic Assembly on Youth Homelessness

Deschutes Civic Assembly on Youth Homelessness

Oregon

In the Fall of 2024, thirty every-day residents of Deschutes County came together to help find solutions in the region’s first-ever Civic Assembly.

PropagandaWatch

PropagandaWatch

Georgia (Sakartvelo) 🇬🇪

Monitoring pro-Russian propaganda in Georgia

European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL)

European Center for Not-for-Profit Law Stichting (ECNL)

The Hague, Netherlands

We are experts on civil society law and policy.

The UnFoundation

The UnFoundation

We commit to moving 50% of our assets into the hands of BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, and disabled-led organizations every year.

TransformGov Talks

TransformGov Talks

London

We provide a space to meet for people who care about making government work better, whether they're inside or outside the public sector.

nowCRM

nowCRM

Zurich

We offer you both: a powerful open-source platform that you can customize yourself, and a fully managed service that takes care of everything.

The State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa

The State of Inclusive Instant Payment Systems in Africa

Mauritius 🇲🇺

The report highlights key trends, challenges, and opportunities to shape digital payments, with a focus on inclusion and the role of IPS in advancing digital public infrastructure (DPI).

GDS Local

GDS Local

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

GDS Local strengthens collaboration between central and local government to deliver better, more joined-up digital public services.

Cyber incident grab bag for local authorities

Cyber incident grab bag for local authorities

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

A practical resource for responding to major cyber incidents.

New Pluralists

New Pluralists

United States of America 🇺🇸

New Pluralists is a funder collaborative investing in a growing ecosystem of people, organizations, and ideas working to bring pluralism to life in communities across the U.S.

Framework for Meaningful Engagement

Framework for Meaningful Engagement

The Hague, Netherlands

The updated FME 2.0 offers very practical suggestions on how to engage civil society and affected communities in AI development to support platforms and AI developers in creating rights-based products.

BärGPT

BärGPT

CityLAB Berlin

The goal: to support administrative staff in their daily work with smart AI features and to make routine tasks more efficient.

IRC Anti-Trafficking Response

IRC Anti-Trafficking Response

The Anti-Trafficking Response website, managed by the International Rescue Committee, is a global hub that raises awareness about human trafficking and provides educational resources and practical tools for practitioners to strengthen prevention, protection, and response efforts.

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