The Afterpattern app builder is now PatternBuilder, a capability within NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-based content management platform where legal professionals do work.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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

• The People
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• Civic hacking meetups

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the idea that voting should fit the way we live.

• Civic and social impact companies

ProPublica is proud to announce the 2017 Data Institute, a 11-day intensive workshop on how to use data, design and code for journalism. The workshop will be from June 7 to June 21 in our NYC offices.

• workshops

• Workshops

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Find Meetups about Civic Hacking and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

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Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

• Microsoft

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Housing

Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.

• The People
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Media and social media analysis

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design. According to its website, the organization works with residents and governments in solving community problems.

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• Find a job or hire someone
• Emerging Tech Organizations

by the City of Denver

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) requires all government-produced digital products, including websites and applications, to be consistent, modern, and mobile-friendly.

• The People
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

SCEWC aims to empower cities and collectivize urban innovation around the world. Read about the event’s overarching mission, vision and values.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

• VPNs

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

ELECTricity is a network of over 1,000 election officials sharing best practices

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• Socialize online

A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We create survey-based applications that organize information in ways which are easily accessible, scientifically rigorous, and profoundly personalized. In so doing, we offer compelling online experiences that promote civic engagement and informed dialogue.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

• Gender Equality
• women's health

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

With Hush City app, you are an active part of a soundscape and citizen science research project to map and evaluate everyday quiet areas.

• apps
• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Find a job or hire someone

The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to invent and popularise websites and apps that enable citizens around the world to exert power over institutions and decision makers.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

The Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), as a non-governmental organization has been formed in June 2018 as a progression of the three successful projects named; Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), Data Zetu and Data for Local Impact Innovation Challenge (DLIIC). Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives. The program works with communities across Tanzania to discover issues that matter most to them. Then we work with stakeholders to arm them with skills and tools to make sense of data related to those challenges. As a result, we’re helping to foster the use of open data that is relevant, hyperlocal, and actionable

Non-profit organization specialized in helping other organizations through the implementation of innovative technological developments.

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• Nonprofit tech
• Help out

an action research laboratory

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• Degree programs

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

• The People
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• Civic hacking meetups

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century. By exploring emerging digital technology solutions with rising start-ups and experienced professionals from private and academic sectors, we enable city governments to test and learn while minimizing risk.

• The Tech
• Govtech

Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and augmented reality

Our mission is to support development actors to better collect, structure, use and open data, while respecting people's privacy and preserving the interests of the nation - through research, advocacy, training, tools and assistance

We are futurists. We are founders. We are friends.We are the Hackensack Brigade of Code for America.

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Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

Allows local governments to notify residents with important information

• civic features
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Find any State or Federal bill and, if you like, share it live through social media

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The new Barcelona Metròpolis wants to be a tool for promoting and stimulating citizen debate on the big questions affecting our future.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Smart donation form that embeds directly to your website or as a pop-up.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools

Code for Kenya uses data to give citizens hyper-local and hyper-personal information to make better informed decisions about bread & butter issues. Code for Kenya also builds technology tools to amplify citizen voices.

• Civic hacking meetups

The European Social Innovation Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all European countries

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Access the internet simply and reliably where you are. BRCK is a rugged, self powered, cloud enabled wifi hotspot router with built in fail-overs.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Transforming democracy in Australia

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data