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https://datasociety.net/worker-lens-on-the-ai-economy/

Worker Lens on the AI Economy

Worker Lens on the AI Economy is a nonprofit research program from Data & Society that documents how AI is changing work through workers' firsthand experiences across five industries.

New York City

2026

Academia, Adjacent Fields, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Civic data, Data science for social good, Emerging tech, Ethical tech and responsible tech, Externalities of tech, Labor platforms, Learn about civic tech, Participatory democracy, Peer-reviewed research, Resource matching and sharing, The People, The Tech

https://urbanly.org/

CityCompass

CityCompass is a commercial agent-based urban simulation platform from Urbanly that models households, firms and developers so planners can test land-use, transit and housing scenarios for a region.

Civic data, Dashboards, Data visualization, Emerging tech, Engagement tech, Govtech, Mapping, Participatory democracy, Policy, Policy simulators, Smart Cities and sensors, The Tech, Urban planning

https://online-voting-system.multireligionvalsystem.eu.org/

Online Voting System

Online Voting System is an advocacy campaign site with an online voting page that promotes a "Multireligionvalsystem" (multi-religion election system), proposing that every religious community choose its leaders through democratic elections.

Advocacy tech, Digital participation platforms, Engagement tech, E-voting and I-voting, Govtech, Organize campaigns, Participatory democracy, Specific campaigns, The Tech, Voting and elections

https://plurality.is/

Plurality

Plurality is a free community-organizing and event platform that gives organizers tools to plan, run, and follow up on in-person neighborhood gatherings across the United States.

San Francisco

2026

Advocacy tech, Citizen Engagement, Community-building resources, Manage volunteers, Meet the others, Organize campaigns, Organize events, Participatory democracy, Relational organizing, The People, The Tech

https://v6acolab.org/

V6A Labs

V6A is in the business of ideas, particularly those that arrive before the institutional and cultural infrastructure to support them do.

Emerging tech, Engagement tech, Get funding, Open innovation, Participatory democracy, The People, The Tech

https://aisenatus.com/

AI Senate

AI Senate is a free multi-agent AI simulation in which 100 AI "senators" debate news headlines and vote on them in a mock chamber that humans can only watch.

2026

Agentic AI, Agentic deliberation, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Collective intelligence, Debate, Deliberation, Emerging tech, Engagement tech, Participatory democracy, The Tech

https://reclone.org/

Reagent Collaboration Network (Reclone)

Reclone (Reagent Collaboration Network) is an open-science network that stewards and distributes open-source DNA plasmids and molecular-biology reagents to researchers worldwide under open material transfer agreements.

Adjacent Fields, Civic data, Crowdsourcing, Foundational layers, Meet the others, Open knowledge, Open science, Participatory democracy, Partner networks and coalitions, Resource matching and sharing, The People, The Tech

https://enhancecities.org/

ENHANCE Cities

ENHANCE Cities is a free interactive mapping tool from UCL's CASA that visualises urban-planning and sustainable-transport indicators, transport accessibility, travel sustainability, brownfield sites, 15-minute-city access, across England and Wales, from national to neighbourhood scale.

Marylebone, London, UK

2026

Civic data, Dashboards, Data visualization, Engagement tech, Mapping, Open civic data, Open government data, Participatory democracy, The Tech, Urban planning

https://baydashboard.com/

The Bay Dashboard

he Bay Dashboard is an independent, student-built civic dashboard that gathers scattered public planning records across all 101 Bay Area cities, what's being built near you, which board decides it, and when it meets, into one resident-facing tracker with plain-English meeting summaries.

San Francisco

Civic data, Civic maps, Communicating with the government, Communicating with the people, Dashboards, Data visualization, Engagement tech, Govtech, Hyperlocal news and citizen media, Journalism, Mapping, Media, Meeting finders, Open civic data, Participatory democracy, Public meetings, Public project trackers, The Tech, Urban planning