Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Come join idea-makers, designers, citizen leaders, developers, and data geeks who volunteer to help the Fort Lauderdale government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

a civic technology platform, which aims to raise awareness and sensitize citizens to play their roles well in the promotion of Peace, Union and Social Cohesion.

• Citizen Engagement

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Browse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

It is time for a new league of heroes to take charge.

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• Conferences

Investigative Dashboard makes public documents (such as financial or property records) searchable and more useful for journalists investigating money laundering or corruption.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

The Open Cities Accra Project seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters, especially flooding. The project will also involve the remote mapping of Nima, Akweteman and Alajo.

Development Impact and You — Practical tools to trigger & support social innovation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A venture capital fund that identifies early-stage innovators solving our toughest urban challenges and provides them with the capital and regulatory expertise to scale into tomorrow's most valued companies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Mapped: The innovation labs transforming government — and how to get in touch

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• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

• road safety
• speeding
• Vision Zero

• Crowdsourcing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

GoFundMe: The most trusted free online fundraising platform. Start a successful crowdfunding campaign on the site with over $5 Billion Raised. Read our guarantee!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Polish constitution, online

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Petition interactions, built with Amplify.ai

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Advocacy tech

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

• US election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

Bringing people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities while connecting citizens to governments to build up trust.

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

We aim to improve how standard-setting bodies, data producers and data users collaborate to join-up their data to make it interoperable and comparable.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Wir erforschen und erproben digitale Werkzeuge um gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen, Verwaltung und Unternehmen die Zukunft Berlins zu gestalten.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

• books

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• Quality education

• Watchdogging and transparency

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

It deals with central issues such as location factors and potential of urban production, future-oriented ideas for logistics in urban areas and the opportunities of additive manufacturing in urban areas.

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• Conferences

We are committed to building a crowdsourcing community for social innovators.

• The Tech
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Unser Ziel: Politik vor Ort für Sie transparent machen.

Villageois 2.0 is an association which aims to raise awareness among citizens of Guinea on the advantages and risks of ICTs. The association uses the internet, namely www.lesvillageois.org, to promote good governance, citizen control, open data, citizenship and human rights. Its aim is to demonstrate to Guinean citizens how digital technology can be used as a means of freedom of expression and a weapon against underemployment.

• Report cards and audits

Embeddable map of parallel events and buses going to the People's Climate March in Washington, DC.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday to provide a framework for dealing with current and future technologies that impact privacy. This is a major step with the adoption of six privacy principles guiding the actions the City will take when collecting and using information from the public. The Council also established an August 2015 reporting deadline […]

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Cast Your Vote teaches students how to evaluate what they hear politicians say, and to determine if they think they will keep their word in office.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Get ready to ride the best motorized skateboard when you buy a Onewheel today! Designed and made in California from the highest quality components.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

YouGov is a global public opinion and data company. Explore what the world thinks, discover our solutions, and join our community to share your opinion.

• Surveys & polling

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the county, these awards are presented during NACo’s annual conference held each July.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

• cities
• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

The use of prizes and awards is a visible element of the Obama Administration’s efforts to promote innovation in government. For example, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has sponsored a competition among federal employees to find cost savings and the White House has created the “challenge.gov” website where federal agencies can pose problems in hopes of getting

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• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

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• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• cities

• Awards and prizes

Smarter choices for a better world

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Founded in 2012, Code for DC is a non-partisan, non-political group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

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• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Commercial law lookup tool

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To explore the different ways that people at the local level can influence conversations and policy making at the European level.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We propose an effort to develop a “Joint Roadmap for Open Science Tools”. This will be delivered by an informal group of like-minded organizations coming together around a common purpose.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Citizen science

A digital hub where people determined to change the world can find a job, discover workshops and courses, locate funding, hire the right team, connect with mission-driven companies, share best practices, or learn from others who are using their careers to make an impact.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards