We’re launching #RethinkingRegulationwithAI.
Across countries, regulation is growing faster than institutions can process.
ReguLens, built with @ilo.org, helps organizations analyze proposals and engage earlier in policy debates.
Read more: rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/policy-...
🚨 Last call—happening tomorrow!
Join The GovLab, NYU Alliance for Public Interest Tech & Brooklyn Public Library for a hands-on session to design data-driven questions for NYC in the age of AI.
📅 Mar 27 | ⏰ 2–3:30 PM
📍 Brooklyn Central Library
Rregister now!
www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/ope...
NYC has the data, but do we have the right questions? 🧐📊
Join us on 3/27 for "Open Data and Better Questions" at Brooklyn Public Library! 🗽 Shape the city by turning your questions about New York into data-driven policy. 🗳️✨
Just TWO DAYS to go. Register:
www.bklynlibrary.org/calendar/ope...
🤔How can communities define the conditions under which data about them is reused?
➡️ Explore the Open Data Policy Lab’s latest resource for capturing community expectations around data reuse in this Facilitator's Guide.
tools.opendatapolicylab.org/files/Data-R...
💡 Wondering how #AI be used in #philanthropy and the policies and practices needed to ensure it is applied responsibly?
➡️ Read DATA4Philanthropy’s new primer to learn how philanthropies are using AI to complement human judgement.
cms.thegovlab.com/assets/68c58...
📚❓How can #data from gaming platforms improve public #health communications? How can supermarket loyalty card data inform health #policies?📚
Our NEW Social Data for Health report draws on several case studies from across the globe.
Read the case studies 👀
wellcome.org/insights/rep...
🌍💻NEW REPORT: Social Data for Health📊🩺
Drawing on 290+ studies, 5 studios, numerous interviews & 23 expert reviews, we look globally at how #health researchers use social #data, key challenges, & actions for #policymakers, funders & researchers.
wellcome.org/insights/rep...
“La desinformación no es nueva; la IA solo la hace más barata.”
En @lavanguardia.com, @bethnoveck.bsky.social aboga por una gobernanza democrática de la IA. De Decidim a la inteligencia colectiva, la IA pública debe ser humana y gobernada localmente.
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Vietnam just released a draft AI law. It’s ambitious: national AI fund, risk tiers, sovereignty safeguards.
But public legitimacy depends on how people are heard. As Giulio Quaggiotto showed in his Reboot post, Vietnam’s “applied AI” work is already people-first.
The Agentic State project just dropped a new Vision Statement.
Back in June, we unpacked the original whitepaper and asked, can AI help us build institutions worthy of public trust?
📖 Read @bethnoveck.bsky.social’s take → buff.ly/Quty6oL
#AgenticState #AIforGovernance #RebootDemocracy
This week’s news picks bring the democratic AI vision to life:
🗽 NY trains 1,000 civil servants
🇪🇸 Spain audits procurement with AI
🇺🇸 US agencies release compliance plans
🗺️ Plus: mapping NYC’s public spaces with AI + crowdsourcing
📚 News That Caught Our Eye #80: buff.ly/bFbyXL0
Special congrats as well to our Honorable Distinctions:
* Open Knowledge Brazil’s Querido Diário
* Slum Dwellers International’s Know Your City Academy
* PLACE Foundation’s PLACE Hub in Nigeria
* Global Strategic Litigation Council’s Advancing Climate Justice
More: www.newcommons.ai/blog/buildin...
We're also proud to celebrate the work of CERTI Amazonia for its "Amazon Rainforest Evolution Index".
It won a prize for "Enhancement of a Data Commons" for building a data commons focused on environmental monitoring within the Legal Amazon region in Brazil.
Read: www.newcommons.ai/winners/amaz...
We’re proud to celebrate the Malawi Voice Data Commons (MVDC), a winner of the 2025 New Commons Challenge for Development of a Data Commons! 🎉
The MVDC seeks to create a voice data commons to enable citizens to report emergencies in local languages.
Read more: www.newcommons.ai/winners/mala...
“AI doesn’t just change how gov works. It changes what it is.” @slaughteram.bsky.social said it best at this summer’s National Gathering for State AI Leaders.
That’s the future we’re building at @innovateus.bsky.social
Read her reflections → buff.ly/xwZEDpo
#GlobalAIWatch
NYC has 2,800+ public spaces.
But no easy way to find them.
chriswhong.bsky.social built a map
using open data, AI, and “vibe coding.”
Open data isn’t just transparency.
It’s an infrastructure for public good.
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#ResearchRadar #RebootDemocracy
Big news from New York: Governor Hochul just launched an AI training pilot for 1,000 state employees with @innovateus.bsky.social
Proud to see public servants getting the tools and trust they need to shape AI for the public good.
📖 buff.ly/KhFhifd
#AIforGovernance #RebootDemocracy #InnovateUS
📖 Read this week’s News That Caught Our Eye: buff.ly/T0J55OK
This week’s reporting captures the widening gap between AI adoption and the structures meant to guide it. Together, it sketches the messy yet essential evolution toward accountable, civic-aligned AI.
#RebootDemocracy
Excited to welcome Elana Banin as Interim Comms Director at @burnescenter.bsky.social + Editor of @rebootdemocracy.bsky.social!
Her first blog post analyzes the UN’s new AI resolution, arguing legitimacy isn’t declared, it’s built from the ground up.
📖 buff.ly/w9De8SS
#GlobalAIWatch
New on Reboot Democracy's Research Radar: The AIMES Lab at @northeasternu.bsky.social is pioneering methods in “Silicon Sampling” using AI to simulate public opinion in early-stage survey design.
📖 Read the full piece:
AI is ravenous, and public datasets feed its growth. In Spain with @opengovpartnership.org this week, we ask: what do we get in return?
If public data fuels private innovation, it’s time to demand civic licenses, open benchmarks & public returns.
📖 buff.ly/6FzzMvp
#RebootDemocracy #OGPSummit
This week's news in AI + democracy:
🔹 California passes first U.S. AI safety law
🔹 Experts weigh in on Spain’s landmark ruling on algorithmic transparency
🔹 New frameworks for peace tech + civic procurement
More in our weekly roundup 👇
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#NewsThatCaughtOurEye
📣 Spain’s Supreme Court just made algorithmic transparency a constitutional right. A huge step forward for democracy.
@jlmarti.bsky.social breaks down the significance of the Bosco ruling and why it matters beyond Spain.
🧵 Read: buff.ly/J36Ig6K
#GlobalAIWatch #DigitalDemocracy
A new post by Sofía Bosch Gómez of @burnescenter.bsky.social spotlights AIEP, an AI tool co-designed with parents to navigate IEPs and build civic power.
🤝 Trained parent leaders
📱 WhatsApp-based AI literacy
🏫 Schools now adopting
📖 buff.ly/Mi55ulU
#AIandEducation
Today on Reboot Democracy: A close review of friend.com, the AI “wearable” marketed across NYC subways as a cure for loneliness.
It listens, responds, and records, without consent. What should we do about it?
📖 buff.ly/C71FHe9
#ResponsibleAI #TechEthics #RebootDemocracy
Congress adopts Copilot. Spain backs algorithmic transparency. Trump-linked firms profit from AI chip diplomacy. And a new People Powered guide reframes participation platforms as governance choices.
📖 Read this week’s News That Caught Our Eye:
Participation only works when tools match purpose.
Dane Gambrell reflects on @peoplepowered.bsky.social's new platform guide + how to design engagement that works. Read the post buff.ly/EMyd7b9
Then join us tomorrow at 3pm ET for a workshop: buff.ly/1lC39Uc
Governing with AI: Why Albania’s “Chatbot Minister” isn’t a stunt. History shows digital tools can fight corruption & build trust, if they deliver visibility, accountability & recourse.
📖 Read @bethnoveck.bsky.social on Reboot Democracy: buff.ly/mcXex09
🎙️ TOMORROW at 2PM ET: Join Senior Fellow Dr.
@alisterfmartin.bsky.social
for a free InnovateUS workshop on how AI is cutting through red tape to unlock access to SNAP, WIC, Lifeline, and more.
💻 Register here: innovate-us.org/leveraging-a...
💡 How can AI help people enroll in federal benefits?
Join Dr. @alisterfmartin.bsky.social for an @innovateus.bsky.social workshop on how improve equity in benefit enrollment using AI.
@linkhealth.bsky.social, @ahdemocracy.bsky.social
📅 Sept 17, 2pm ET
💻 Register: innovate-us.org/leveraging-a...