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kiolo

Kiolo is a commercial AI note-taking hardware device (a magnetic phone attachment with five microphones) that records real-world meetings, calls, and site visits and turns them into transcripts, summaries, decisions, and action items.

Commons

Commons is high-volume messaging infrastructure for political campaigns, public offices, agencies, and advocacy organizations, supporting broadcast, peer-to-peer, and one-to-one text messaging.

Dallas, TX

LiteScribe

LiteScribe is an AI transcription platform that turns any meeting, interview, or recording into accurate text in 100+ languages, with automatic AI summaries, action items, and topic tags.

2026

Civic Action Toolbox

A free tool that puts who decides, when, and how to reach them inside your story — and counts every action readers take.

Tayr

Tayr (طير) is a Moroccan civic platform, by the Digital Citizen Association, that lets residents report visual pollution (unsightly signage, billboards, urban blight) in their cities and track its resolution; currently piloting in Smara.

Truth Bear (真相熊)

Truth Bear is a small, honest data service. For each answer it reports a fact + its official source + a timestamp, and leaves the decision to you.

Zette

Zette turns published local-council agendas, committee papers, and minutes across England and Wales into digestible weekly briefings, delivered as newsletters, podcasts, and videos so residents can actually follow what their council is doing.

2026

Festival de Tecnologia Popular

Dois dias para descobrir como libertar a tecnologia do sistema económico capitalista e pô-la ao serviço do povo.

Setúbal, Portugal 🇵🇹

Oficina de Democracia e Ecologia Tecnológica (ODET)

Criámos a O.D.E.T. da União Setubalense como um espaço de emancipação aberto a todas as pessoas — novas ou velhas, com ou sem conhecimentos de informática —, para aprendermos e pensarmos em conjunto sobre a tecnologia.

Setúbal, Portugal 🇵🇹