Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

A global nonprofit committed to shaping a better urban future.

Talk London is City Hall’s online community. Have your say on big issues and help shape our plans and policies. Let’s make London better together.

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

Datos abiertos y tecnología cívica para Cuba

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

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
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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
• Open data publishing platforms
• Open internet

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
• Engagement tech
• 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
• Tech or Digital Policy

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
• Voting and elections
• Advocacy tech

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
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

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