This tool is designed for non-profit advocates, community organizers, and government staff who need a fast, user-friendly way to dig through NYC City Council data without the friction of legacy portals

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Open government data
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

CivicCause is a civic intelligence platform designed to map the political ecosystem of a city.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Government transparency

Find and contact your representatives at every level.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Signal Radar helps public-sector AI, software, data, cyber, cloud, automation, and civic-tech vendors find and package the next 30 days of inspectable government pursuit opportunities.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech vendors
• Procurement

Ninh Binh, Vienam is launching AI-integrated Digital Public Service Stations

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Democracy Counts is an Australian advocacy campaign.

• Fight disinformation
• Democracy organizations
• Political parties

Free, open-source bilingual (EN/ES) tool that tells a Los Angeles renter which rent law protects them, their legal rent-increase cap, and whether a specific increase is legal — from their address (information, not legal advice).

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Access to information

Ethiopian Government launches new integrated electronic services portal

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Tech or Digital Policy

Africa Innovation and Technology Forum (AITF) 2026 launched the Political Economy of Digital Governance Report.

• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Providing weather, earthquake, disaster prevention and lifestyle-related information as well as consultation on its usage.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

An organization aiming to solve child poverty.

• Communicating with the people
• Community-building resources
• Support civic projects with tech

Kaga City, Ishikawa Prefecture and Uber Japan have partnered to launch the first municipality-led rideshare service with Uber.

• Mapping
• Service delivery

An agricultural support app promoting the shift 'From memory to records' in farming.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open government data

A library catalog search service to help find books you want to borrow.

• Civic literacy
• Access to information
• Open data publishing platforms

Displaying old photographs of Mishima City as a digital archive on the web.

• Archives
• Open civic data

An NPO working to socially solve poverty issues in Japan.

• Access social benefits
• Service delivery
• Mutual aid

An organization focused on child support in Japan, tackling social challenges surrounding children with child poverty as the primary focus.

• Access social benefits
• Mutual aid
• Civics education

Introducing a 'Community Development Council' system where local residents proactively participate in town planning.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Promoting digitalization in the welfare sector.

• Tech for public challenges
• Digital transformation

A community-driven storytelling platform for unhoused individuals to document their experiences with policy impacts, while providing researchers and advocates with data-driven insights to drive systemic change, alongside a comprehensive resource directory.

• Research tools
• Crowdsourcing
• Vibecoded

Grameen Japan providing microfinance and employment support programs to help people achieve self-reliance through entrepreneurship or employment

• Economic development
• Mutual aid
• Fintech for good

Implementing 'Community Development Public Offering Projects' where the city provides funding for citizen-proposed projects.

• Funders & donors
• Open government data
• Fundraising tools

An organization providing pro bono services to NPOs to support social problem-solving, including activities to eliminate poverty.

• Nonprofit tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Community-building resources

Promoting the utilization of open data to drive regional revitalization.

• Open government data
• Digital transformation
• Building inside government

Providing 'GovTech Express,' a conversational application dedicated to government agencies, to support the establishment of a 'Smartphone City Hall.'

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

The Federation of American Scientists conducted retros with over 100 US civic technologists inside of government.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Beacon brings together public data on economic security, health, housing, and more into clear, place-based maps your whole team can use.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Dashboards

Private base for open data utilization, operated by NPO Community Link.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open government data

Kyoto City's open data initiative has reduced information disclosure requests and promotes regional revitalization through citizen collaboration

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open data publishing portals

Kotoura Town deployed Liqlid to promote community development and incorporate more residents' voices beyond workshops

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Citizen Engagement

Regional revitalization dashboard by LM on Tableau Public covering local products, hometown tax, and tourism satisfaction

• Data visualization
• Open government data
• Dashboards

Open data publication and evidence-based policymaking (EBPM) promotion in Kobe City

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open data publishing portals

Zo laat de overheid u weten wat er speelt in uw eigen buurt.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Hyogo Prefecture's open data dashboard published on Tableau Public

• Data visualization
• Open government data
• Dashboards

The Commons Archive of Resistance catalogues over 200 liberation tools, each evaluated against a Decolonise, Decentralise, Democratise lens rather than summarised at face value.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Vibecoded
• Activism aggregators

Civic tech prototype development contest for students and youth under 22 (since 2020)

• Build something
• Civic hackathons
• Competitions

A community-run portal for the Philippines

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Bureaucracy tech

Japanese OpenStreetMap community and supporting nonprofit OSMFJ for citizen-edited mapping

• Open government data
• Mapping
• Open civic data

ForestMate is an open-source hiking safety companion for Korea that combines forest public data, real-time risk scoring, offline fallbacks, SOS workflows, and a k-anonymized public-agency monitoring dashboard.

• Mapping
• Mapping tools
• Vibecoded

Standardized data format for local government COVID-19 data; compiled by engineers, deployed nationwide by MIC

• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Open-data service to read public-relations magazines from municipalities nationwide on smartphones

• Civic data
• Local news
• Open government data

Japan deployment of the Decidim participatory democracy platform; first adopted by Kakogawa, expanded to 30+ municipalities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Local sightseeing map using Sabae City open data

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Civic maps

Interactive map ranking the noise of every US city over 100,000 people, built from federal US DOT/BTS National Transportation Noise Map data (CC BY 4.0).

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Civic maps

Facilitating communication between residents and local government through a participatory tree management app.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping
• Issue reporting

A guide map visualizing the characteristics and specialties of civic tech organizations across Japan to help match citizens with the right activities.

• Meet the others
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

A volunteer matching app using AI-based personality assessment to achieve bidirectional matching between volunteers and organizations, rather than a simple search-based approach.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic hackathons
• Manage volunteers

Secure messaging that keeps working when the internet doesn't.

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Chat and messaging

"Before this project, there was no centralized archive of resolutions, no search function across meeting notes, and no easy way to quickly understand what the [Community Board] had previously said about a topic."

• Civic data
• Watchdogging government
• Archives

A feature on Threads that gives users control over their algorithmic feed.

• Social media
• Recommender feeds