Projects - local

Your Police Events

Follow local neighbourhood policing events in your calendar

Communicating with the government

MyTownhall

New Jersey

A one-stop-shop for accessible local political knowledge and discussion (for small towns in the NJ-NY-PA area).

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COSLA

Edinburgh, Scotland

We’re here to help councils build better and more equal local communities. To do that we want to empower local decision making and enable councils to do what works locally.

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Local Policy Lab

San Diego, CA

The Local Policy Lab accelerates the adoption of effective solutions to pressing problems at the local governmental level.

Civic Saturdays are an antidote to this feeling of apathy and despair. Friends and strangers connect around the values and practices of being an active citizen, reckoning with our nation’s creed, building relationships, and creating new civic traditions that are joyful and communal.

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Downtown Revitalization Playbook

Appalachian Mountains

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

Budget Participatif Paris

Paris

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Local E-Government Toolkit

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.

Décider pour Paris

Paris

Budget Participatif, idées citoyennes, et consultations

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Les idées citoyennes

Paris

Ce sont les idées, initiatives, projets que les Parisiennes et Parisiens peuvent proposer tout au long de l’année.

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City consultations

Paris

Official consultations of Parisians

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Representing nature at the council meeting

Southampton, UK

"Amateur actors of all ages donned costumes representing the animals, plants and natural environment of Southampton, to air their concerns and propose policy changes in the city council chamber."

Waves

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Demos is trialling AI-powered digital deliberation to strengthen trust in local government

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New Local

London

We are home to over 50 councils and partners, united in a drive to create sustainable, inclusive and community-powered public services.

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Noondawind

United States of America 🇺🇸

Allows indigenous communities to track public meetings and their agendas. "A dynamic, integrated, networked cyberinfrastructure platform to generate community impact by connecting diverse end-users with STRONG data and analyses"

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Spending wisely: Redesigning the landscape for the procurement of AI in local government

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

By Mavis Machirori for Ada Lovelace Institute

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Governing in the Age of AI: Reimagining Local Government

In this paper, we examine how AI could help reimagine local government.

Levelling-up and Regeneration Act 2023 Bill

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Requiring open digitalisation and publication of planning data in the UK

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Tree:p

Tree:p is a street tree walking project encouraging people to observe and document the street trees along their daily routes using the self-guided map.

Airys

Stanford, CA

A one-stop-shop web application to help finance resilient public infrastructure across the United States.

All of .nyc

New York City (NYC / New York, NY)

Exploration and celebration of websites using the .nyc domain name.

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Tax Break Tracker

Washington, DC

Discover What Localities Lose to Corporate Tax Abatements.

Local Minutes

Vermont

A chatbot AI that has access to millions of pages of municipal documents from small towns throughout Vermont.

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Ridiculously Hopeful Futures

California

Ridiculously Hopeful Future: a bold, slightly wild, and very optimistic project to transform how government social safety net programs are designed.

Local Government Information Unit (LGiU)

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

An independent, local authority membership organisation supporting councils around the world.

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OpenCouncil

Greece (Ellas, Ellada) 🇬🇷

Demystify local government and enable citizen participation

Neighborhood Explorer

Tulsa, OK

Platform for tracking public data metrics for local governments and nonprofits.

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Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions

Participatory democracy

Local Infrastructure Hub

United States of America 🇺🇸

The Local Infrastructure Hub is a national program designed to connect cities and towns with the resources and expert advice they need to access federal infrastructure funding in order to drive local progress, improve communities, and deliver results for residents.

Civic Information Index

Internews Network, 15th Street Northwest, Washington, DC

The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

Tainan Sprout

Tainan City

第三屆 Tainan City Council Observation Station

Tainan City

台南市議會觀測站

West Ham and Beckton GPT

London

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.

Austin Monitor

Austin, TX

The Austin Monitor is the only nonpartisan local daily news source that exclusively covers the important issues and key decisions at the intersection between the local government and the community. Its mission is to create shared prosperity through a more informed and engaged community.

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Movement Voter Project (MVP)

United States of America 🇺🇸

Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.

Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University

Johns Hopkins University

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.

UK Local Stats

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

Enter your UK postcode and see how your local area has changed over the past 14 years

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Civic data

Data For Small Communities

Describing data coverage for U.S. small communities via Census Bureau publications

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Artificial Intelligence - A Primer for State and Local Governments: Everything You Need to Know Since Yesterday

By Alan R. Shark, with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI

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Gen-AI for Local Governments

444 North Capitol Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

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CivicSearch

Massachusetts

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

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We're Right Here

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 🇬🇧

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.