BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

PeoplesHub is an online interactive school where you can learn and share new tools, skills, and strategies for making change where you live.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Engagement platform by the City of Athens

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there.

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

MEST Africa is an entrepreneurial training program, seed fund and incubator for African tech startups, headquartered in Accra, Ghana.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Unsere Vision ist eine Welt, in der alle Menschen am Wissen der Menschheit teilhaben, es nutzen und mehren können.

• Digital rights
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Open data publishing platforms

OpenStreetMap is the free wiki world map.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

• trainings

NSF's mission is to advance the progress of science, a mission accomplished by funding proposals for research and education made by scientists, engineers, and educators from across the country.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The conference will bring together international scholars, practitioners, activists, and community groups to discuss the possibilities and challenges of civic participation in a datafied society.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Participatory democracy

Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

The Challenge is a three-phase, prize-based competition to find technology-based solutions that address or improve opioid abuse prevention, treatment and overdose avoidance and response.

• opioids

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Envisio helps governments achieve greater transparency & accountability by making it easy to track and report on strategic plan.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

EasyVote Solutions delivers a SaaS platform to city, county and state election offices to help manage the process of running elections.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Slido is an audience interaction tool for meetings, events and conferences. It offers interactive Q&A, live polls and insights about your audience.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

Legalswipe educates users about their legal rights through a series of menus and cues.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

CountryTrak Index provides a baseline from which other evaluation tools can be developed and more importantly provides the county governments and other interested stakeholders with robust statistics by ward on the perception of county residents over county governments’ performance of the devolved functions.

Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

Taproot Foundation connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers through pro bono service.

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Free 7 month program turns refugee talent into tech professionals. 85% find jobs within 6 months after graduation.

• refugees

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Foundational layers

Infomocracy by Malka Older | Tor.com Publishing

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 250+ international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• arms tracking
• cyberwar
• human rights

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Partner networks and coalitions

We’re excited to share our second annual list of the World's 100 Most Influential People in Digital Government.

• lists

• Awards and prizes

Training and empowering young people to help them run for office

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

A tool to help election officials (and election officials only) report problems with election mail

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

We gather citizen voices to improve public services

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

BudgIT is a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Watchdogging government
• Budget explorers

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.

• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundational layers

Jsme komunita špičkových vývojářů, designérů a produkťáků, kteří chtějí ve svém volném čase pomáhat státu i nestátním organizacím a dělat tak Česko lepším místem k životu.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Portalul declarațiilor de avere și interese

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Aktuelle Badegewässerqualität und Informationen rund um die Berliner Badestellen

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Higher Ground Labs is an incubator and accelerator for political technology. We help entrepreneurs building tools to help democratic campaigns win.

• The People
• Get funding
• Build something

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports

The professional association for design

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Government transparency

Ranked Choice Voting Election Result Visualization

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Data visualization

Initiated in 2011 through $100 million in seed money from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and the Carnegie Corporation of New York, inBloom was a nonprofit student data repository that made cleaned, standardized school and student data available to third parties.

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

The World Economic Forum is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Tech or Digital Policy

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

This neighbor-helping-neighbor expert network attempts to replace the “pub conversation”

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Public Innovation

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Public sector innovation labs

Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

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
• city
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

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

• France (national government)

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Our placemaking blog connects people who share a passion for public spaces to ideas and issues, news, places, and events that have come out of the placemaking movement.

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