Chris Ferguson of the UK’s Government Digital Service puts together the best publicly available tools for digital government from around the world.

• The Tech
• Reading lists

thirteen23’s digital strategy for Obama for America re-imagined grassroots campaigning, lowering the barrier of entry and empowering people to take action.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

To advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem

• research

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The largest and most extensive mapping of emerging political practices in Latin America.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

Bringing sight to blind and low-vision people

• apps
• blind

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

We partner with organizations that seek to empower lower income individuals through creative and interactive programming.

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

A multidisciplinary research and teaching department of the University of Oxford, dedicated to the social science of the Internet.

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

Accelerating Civic Innovation

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

On May 8th, fifty urban planners, data scientists, and civic hackers came together for the Department of City Planning’s first data jam!

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Discover the most innovative ideas and solutions in government everywhere. Connect with the people behind them.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Peer networks
• News and blogs

Ctrl Alt-Right Delete is a weekly newsletter devoted to understanding how the far right operates online and developing strategies and tactics to fight back

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

A platform that offers different citizen engagement solutions

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

We’re the Web Foundation’s Open Data Labs. We empower people through data.

• guides

• Civic data
• The People
• Build something

Data for Climate Action called upon researchers to harness dataprovided by the multinational banking company BBVA, the global telecommunications provider Orange, Waze, and others for climate-related activities.

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

A clever response to event cancellations due to the coronavirus

• The People
• Build something
• COVID

Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.

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

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.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• CTFG partners

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Predecessors & Pioneers

SparkInfluence is a new breed of advocacy and engagement solution. A robust, mobile-friendly platform, SparkInfluence mixes the most advanced tools on the market with unrivaled data tracking and reporting to help advocacy professionals get the most out of their stakeholders.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Fundraising tools

Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.

• civic features
• Google
• mobility

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Use these cards early in the design process to help you sketch, plan, prototype and design content, interactions and processes.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

iCarol non-profit and charity help line software for crisis, referral and emotional support lines.

• Access social benefits

This project was born at LocalGov Camp 2014, during a session on common technology standards for local government services.

• waste

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Contests have a long history of driving innovation, and web-based information technology has opened up new possibilities for managing tournaments. One such poss

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Uitelkaar helps couples organise their separation or divorce procedure online. The website offers step-by-step consultation and complete guidance at a fixed price.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Civic Tech Innovation Database is a living collection of civic tech initiatives in South Africa.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Transcripts and voting records digitalized! A complete solution for any organization aiming for full transparency and digitalization of sessions. Parlameter handles transcripts and voting records from their collection to visualization and publishing.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Providing a web‑based platform and related tools for researchers to authenticate, upload, validate, harmonize, and release cancer genomic and associated clinical data into the NCI Genomic Data Commons

• United States (federal government)

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

Researchers used satellite and cell phone data to map how malaria spreads throughout Namibia and show where elimination efforts have the greatest impact.

• The People
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

We’re building the world’s largest and fastest learning network around development challenges.

• Decent work and economic growth
• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Solutions Through rigorous research and strategic partnerships, the Institute empowers media makers, studios, and industry leaders

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

This repository is designed to be a public, forkable, pull-requestable repository for standardized data schemas for use in Socrata’s open government applications as well as your own.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better.

• books

• Govtech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Participatory democracy

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

An online forum for community discussion

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Vilsquare strives to achieve digital transformation in different communities across Nigeria and all Africa, through use of open science technologies and methodologies

• Digital transformation
• Open science

Design the sustainable cities of tomorrow with the first end-to-end urban planning software. Discover the platform built for planners, by planners.

• Bureaucracy tech
• Mapping

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

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
• Funders & donors

Our Launchpad is a month-long, hackathon-inspired event that facilitates citizen volunteers working together on civic-focused, open source projects.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.

• city
• podcasts
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

A platform for running online participatory budgeting elections

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Observatoire citoyen de l'activité parlementaire au Sénat

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

Break your echo chamber

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Social change organizations job platform