Adaptable buttons and mice for everyone

• Microsoft

• Hardware
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

How a robust public interest technology field can overcome historical inequities and ensure that everyone can fully benefit from technology. By Jenny Toomey & Latanya Sweeney

• Public Interest Tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Listen to the How to Citizen Podcast where Baratunde Thurston reimagines the word “citizen” as a verb and reminds us how to wield our collective power.

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

A programme aimed at circumventing our geographic limitations and strengthening regional connection and participation within the African civic tech community.

• Partner networks and coalitions

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

• prisoners

• Open justice
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Democratizing information about the legal system

• apps

• Legal tech
• Open justice
• Access to laws

A guide to help progressive donors consider more political choices. Key learnings on the journey from non-political to political giving. The political donor experience is terrible

• guides
• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Analyst Institute's Expy Awards recognize innovation in political organizing efficacy

• Awards and prizes

Through a unique pan-university course, NYC universities partner to explore challenges and opportunities & build prototypes at the intersection of technology, media and democracy

• Fight disinformation
• Courses

A comprehensive guide on how government agencies can recruit, hire, onboard, and retain digital talent.

• guides

• Govtech

“Mann Mela” is a museum of young people’s mental health stories from India Through sharing people’s real experiences, we tackle common misconceptions about mental health and mental illness, break down stigma and discrimination and encourage help-seeking.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Gong is a civic megaphone that hinders corruption and builds a more democratic, just and equal society.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Access to information

An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

This dashboard allows you to interact with first of its kind quantifiable data on China’s public diplomacy efforts from two of AidData’s reports Ties That Bind and Influencing the Narrative

• Civic maps

The 2020 documentary explores the government of Boston, Massachusetts, from racial justice, housing, climate change action and more

• Govtech
• Shows and films

A free relational organizing technique informed by behavioral science; a lightweight relational organizing approach that reaches non-activists; a commit-to-vote replacement that doesn’t insult your supporters.

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Behavioral economics programs

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Indicators

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

• YouTube

• Fundraising tools
• Civic features

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Transforming the justice system with digital & technology services

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Open justice

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) is a national nonprofit that harnesses the power of data, technology, and policy to provide efficient and dignified access to assistance.

• Access social benefits

Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Compara aquí las posturas de distintos actores políticos para Chile

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

We build digital brands and products for the future of government. A digital brand and product design studio

• Social impact design firms

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

• local

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors & Pioneers

The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.

• city
• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Evaluate impact
• Dashboards
• Indicators

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

At the Innovation Lab, an arm of the Science, Technology Assessment, and Analytics team at the Government Accountability Office, we’re using emerging technology to rethink analytics, auditing, and cybersecurity.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• News and blogs

Amp Impact is a Salesforce-based solution for organizations pursuing impact.

• Salesforce

• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.

• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Public Private Partnerships

Solve for Good is the Data Science for Social Good Foundation's platform for social good organizations to post data projects they need help with, for volunteers to help scope those projects into well-defined problems, and to help solve those problems.

• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

Volunteer lawyers and legal aid advocates increasing access to justice From connecting attorneys to those most in need, to creating legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves, we make the law work for the many and not the few.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Resource matching and sharing

Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Emergency services

Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf
• civic features

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic features
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.

• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• News and blogs

Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.

• Google
• labor

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Tech unions

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

Tifa Foundation is a grant-making organization that works to promote an open society by actively strengthening civil society in Indonesia.

• Funders & donors

A newsletter on democracy, organizing, movements and tech by Micah Sifry

• Newsletters

A privacy-focused web browser for use with Orbot, based on Tor Browser

• apps

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity