A transparency initiative led by the California Department of Justice that publishes criminal justice data so we can understand how we are doing, hold ourselves accountable, and improve public policy to make California safer.

• state

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.

• Fight disinformation
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling
• Ideation

Everyone is empowered to build and preserve resilient democratic systems in which all people’s rights are protected.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We transform conflict in the digital age

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Transformative Media Organizing Project links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States.

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Du hast Ideen, die unser Land in eine bessere, gerechte Zukunft führen. Mutig und klar. Mit Lust auf morgen?

• Debate

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

We find the brightest leaders with the best ideas for social innovation as early as possible. And then we do everything we can to make sure they succeed.

• The People
• Build something
• Funders & donors

OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Data Science Consulting for Smart Products and Effective Strategy

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

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Online forums

Format for exchanging static public transit information.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Master Directory for OpenMapKit

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A resource from Joinup

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Open-source platform for conducting verifiable, private online elections and audits used by organizations, schools, and clubs

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• ChatGPT

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

A Pronunciation Guide for Names

• In-person meetings

A game of forecasts and action

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Media
• Participatory democracy

Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations

• partisan

• Civic and social impact companies

Nava is a public benefit corporation creating software to improve how our government serves people.

• Govtech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Govtech vendors

Accessible web and mobile software for NGOs and development agencies

• Social impact design firms

Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

The Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

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

Hier findest du eine Übersicht aller Wahllokale: Wähle deine Stadt aus, gib deine Adresse ein und finde dein Wahllokal in wenigen Sekunden.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Free, practical resources for election officials

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Hyphen-Labs is an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

The MuckRock Slack channel is a free, collaborative discussion forum to discuss both the federal Freedom of Information Act as well as state public records laws.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Democratic GAIN is a national membership association for progressive political professionals and organizations.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

• videos

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

Municipal Money is a web-based mobile responsive tool developed to provide the public with municipal financial data.

• Budget explorers

MobLab enables global campaigners to build a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world by equipping them with strategies, tools, tactics, and partners.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Digital literacy