PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

China Green Horizon is a project between Beijing’s municipal government and IBM Research to improve the accuracy of air quality assessments.

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

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide supports evaluation specialists and non-specialists in every stage of an evaluation, from initial decision to final dissemination.

• The People
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

Baobab.law attempts to remove barriers to legal assistance by providing DIY legal solutions in the form of videotutorials. Videos are recorded with professional lawyers, and are available in multiple languages.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

NPP Off The Record ist ein Podcast zu unseren Reportagen und Recherchen, der einen Einblick in die redaktionelle Arbeit gibt. Er erscheint regelmäßig am 1.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Rights x Tech is a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, products and power.

• racial equity
• human rights

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A national, nonpartisan group of LGBT organizations, academics, and high technology companies whose mission is to engage with critical technology and public policy leaders for strategic discussions at all levels.

• LGBTQI

• Meet the others
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Socialize online

Group leaders set the most important actions of the day, while members use the Amplify app to easily accomplish them and encourage others to do the same.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Education innovation has found a new home - Nairobi! There is so much exciting work being done and we're all learning so much - let's find a way to share and support one another! The purpose of the gr

• Quality education

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Media

The Langeloth Foundation supports health and racial equity outcomes in order to foster and sustain safe and healthy communities.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

OUR NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO UNLEASHING YOUR TEAM'S POTENTIAL

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Civic Tech Sweden is a network of people working with technology for the common good and digital tools for community, democracy, and transparency.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Participatory budgeting

Das zentrale Datenportal für Wirtschaft, Kultur, NGO/NPO, Forschung und Zivilgesellschaft. Das Open Data Portal bietet eine Plattform um auf Daten aus den

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Support civic projects with tech

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

I'm Resistbot. Text RESIST to 50409 and I'll help you contact your officials.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

From the federal to state to local government, the Books are Open… Search salary, pension and spending databases.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Given the volume of events being organized in the emerging field around Digital Disinformation, we are developing an events calendar to better track the timing and focus of these convenings.

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

Opportunity Awaits: Introducing (Port)Land of Opportunity, Our Newest Game

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

WoeLab is a grassroots network of inventors and entrepreneurs who want to build smart city projects or a digital democracy

This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Local Law 49

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Data and Statistics division of Seoul’s metropolitan government analyzed late night call records provided by the Korean telecom KT Company to plan bus routes in a more inclusive manner.

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

ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Campaign platform for nonprofits, brands, advocacy groups

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

• Digital rights
• Emerging Tech report orgs
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Engine supports the growth of technology entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis, and advocacy on local and national issues.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

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

Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

The Municipal Barometer is a web-based portal that provides municipalities and people with local level data so municipalities can make informed and resolute decisions to deliver on their mandates

Connecting Expertise to Government

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Other analytic software can show you what is happening, but only Quid can unlock the context that explains why.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

SpeakEasy democratizes the political process by making it cheaper and easier for campaigns to use targeted direct mail to communicate with voters

• Organize campaigns

Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Visible Polls is a platform that curates election data across Africa

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

傳真社將逾220個大廈翻新工程的入標資料製作成「樓宇維修工程關係圖」，使用者只需要輸入屋苑、顧問或工程公司名稱，便可以找到相關公司或工程的入標紀錄，有助了解公司口碑。

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence