Good Call NYC provides support during an arrest process. Its 24/7 hotline puts people in touch with lawyers, free of charge.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

• Crowdsourcing

Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This may be h…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Deliberation

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

FiscalNote gives you access to the technology that can transform how you manage emerging and persistent issues in your environment.

• Bureaucracy tech

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

We are a Silicon Valley-based technology company that partners with cities to rethink the permitting and development process.

• The Tech
• Govtech

Protests for a kinder world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

we provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

Investing in Our Communities Citi and the Citi Foundation are working in new ways to help build equitable and resilient communities

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Find Meetups about Civic Hacking and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

• city
• commercial
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

ProspectSV is a nonprofit cleantech innovation hub driving the adoption of sustainable solutions in advanced mobility, energy and the built environment.

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

European Foundations And Journalists Working Together To Ensure More Effective And Impactful Funding Of Journalism.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

• The Tech
• Games and gamification
• Data governance

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

• landlord

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises

• France (national government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Involved is an application that connects you with all of your elected officials through polling and direct messaging

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We forge partnerships between neighbors who use technology to improve interactions with, and access to, public services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Panacea allows you to check your food stamps and cash benefits balance all on your smartphone.

• apps

• Access social benefits

Parcours interactifs, ateliers, conférences, hackathons, journée portes ouvertes etc. mettent en lumière des méthodes originales pensées par des acteurs locaux pour concevoir plus efficacement les politiques publiques et transformer l'administration.

• France (national government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Holidays

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

Justika offers real-time legal support over the telephone for a broad range of problems, such as marriage, inheritance, and employment.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Our mission is to deliver user-centered technology solutions that simplify access to City services and drive innovation.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Internal government tech capacity

A list of digital standards used by governments around the world

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

A forum for the discussion of subjects related to data journalism. It also acts as a posting board for new developments at NICAR, including seminar announcements and database information.

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• Consul
• experiments

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations

State by state tracking of mail ballots requests and returned

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

a platform for exploration and visualization of graph-based data

• The Tech
• Civic data

A comprehensive look at the growing world of new mobility.

• mobility

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic maps

Neocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

DKAN comes out-of-the-box with comprehensive public-facing engagement and administrative site management tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Design
• Voter assistance tech

The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.

• state

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs