Explore how cities around the world are applying innovation methods to tackle their tough challenges

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

Start a new political campaign and begin crowdfunding in minutes. Support candidates and causes you agree with. Crowdpac is your home for impacting politics.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

We are a Tech & Innovation Hub located in Tunis and operating all over the world. Our aim is to create, and co-found ventures in E-Health, Gaming, Blockchain & Digital Transformation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

Greenpeace's climate report card that encourages users to thank or shame candidates based on their position

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Immi helps immigrants understand their rights and options during the immigration process. The website’s guided process helps users determine their path to legal immigration, and offers a list of organisations and self-help resources.

• immigration
• human rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of the register of interests of French MPs as well as Lobbying activities.

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Web platform for direct public participation in Bosnia and Herzegovina lawmaking, hosting public consultations and Q&A with parliamentarians, run by NGO U.G. "Zašto ne"

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

An inter-galaxial space station that enhances open culture

• Hong Kong protests

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

Li Ka Shing Foundation supports projects that promote social progress through expanding access to quality education and medical services and research, encouraging cultural diversity and community involvement.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Neighborland instance. From amazing new parks and safe neighborhoods to growing our local economy and promoting green initiatives, City leaders are looking for your bright ideas to Imagine Mesa in innovative and exciting ways.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Choisissez vos commerces et construisez un quartier à votre image!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

HealthTools gives citizens localised answers to everyday health challenges via SMS and the web to help the mwananchi get the best medical care. Data is from reputable official sources, with additional crowd verification

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Engagement journalism

The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

• WhatsApp
• COVID-19
• Good health and well-being

• Bots
• COVID Engagement Projects

News from the intersection of Public Engagement, Civic Tech and Future Cities.

• Mainstream media coverage

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Open innovation space

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

Discover how your MP votes on the issues that matter to you.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Players take on the role of suffragettes trying to occupy the House of Commons, or police officers trying to break up the protest.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

We help everyone to shape and claim the future of the Web.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns

The San Diego Foundation is a community resource that improves San Diegans’ quality of life by creating equity and ensuring opportunities in the region.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Steps to Justice provides users with step-by-step legal information, practical tools, and referral information for legal and social services across Ontario.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Münchens Stadtpolitik einfach erklärt. Aktuelle Entscheidungen und Dokumente im alternativen Ratsinformationssystem.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The Rockefeller Foundation's mission, unchanged since 1913, is to improve the well-being of humanity around the world.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Flare is an app that aggregates public and privately owned ambulance companies into an interface for patients and hospitals

• Emergency services

U.S. Congress legislation, Congressional Record debates, Members of Congress, legislative process educational resources presented by the Library of Congress

• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

• workshops
• Minecraft

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Research and survey on social innovation labs in Canada.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Challenge.Gov is the official GSA government website supporting prize challenges and prize competitions that are sponsored by the US federal government.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

The California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Help out

„Forum Bundesgerichtshof“ ist eine private, politisch und konfessionell unabhängige Webseite, die es interessierten Bürgerinnen und Bürgern ermöglicht, alle Urteile des deutschen Bundesgerichtshofs öffentlich zu analysieren, zu kommentieren und darüber zu debattieren.

• Participatory democracy
• Legal tech
• Open justice

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

• STEM

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Internet Government is an alternate legislative government platform where people elect ideas, not individuals. It's politics without politicians.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

It's time to make your plan to vote together with your squad!

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

This story map was created with the Story Map Series application in ArcGIS Online.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.

• Wikipedia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Streetwyze app is the world’s first neighborhood navigator powered by local knowledge.

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data