Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government
Landscape Scan of Digital Public Goods Use in Government
The George Washington University, I Street Northwest, Washington, DC, USA
https://openyc.org
OpenYC
OpenYC is an early-stage effort to build a publicly-funded, democratically-governed "public alternative to Y Combinator", a digital public infrastructure for incubating and codifying AI-native digital public goods as a public utility.
Active
Framed as YC-as-a-service run for the public rather than for private returns, OpenYC proposes democratic governance over a shared platform that helps create and sustain open, AI-native digital public goods. It appears to be at a very preliminary stage, with no team, projects, or systems yet listed.
- Org. type
- Grassroots / Indie project
- Project type
- Organization, Program
- Language(s)
- English
- Categories
- Digital Public Goods, Digital Public Infrastructure, Governance of AI, Open source AI, Participatory democracy
- Added
- 2026-07-24
- Last modified
- 2026-08-10T10:18:14.000Z
Additional details
- Number of integrations
- 0
- Geographic focus
- New York City (NYC / New York, NY)
- Geographic focus — country
- United States of America 🇺🇸
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