About The Civic Innovation Lab at BetaNYC is committed to serving the growing need for public interest technology in New York City. We use data, design, and technology to make research and information on urban issues more accessible to as many civic partners as possible, especially under-resourced organizations. Our team works with elected officials, government

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• Fellowships
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Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Media

a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Mobile storytelling project at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Site

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Visuals for Gender is an initiative that seeks to equip citizens, policy makers and Civil Society Organisations to understand gender-based issues using both dynamic and static data visualizations

• Gender Equality

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artistic interventions
• Specific campaigns

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

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

event aiming to further stimulate the use of open data issued by the European Union

• The Tech
• The People
• Build something

Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.

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

Internet access in major global subway networks

• cities
• mass transit
• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Visually explore, understand, and present data SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about data

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Daten der Verwaltung werden durch digitale Infrastruktur öffentlich verfügbar und nutzbar gemacht.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

three permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation

• youth

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

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• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Deep canvassing

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

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• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

Rechtwijzer is an online dispute resolution site. It provides legal remedies and online tools to help parties settledisputes without a lawyer.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Tracking promises made by governments

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

• workshops

• Narrative tech
• Story tech

Knoema’s database features more than 2.4b time series from 1k+ sources.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Produced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A platform that brings together non-governmental organizations committed to improving the human rights situation in Europe, Eurasia and North America

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

For more than a decade, Netroots Nation has hosted the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing 3,000+ attendees from around the country and beyond.

• partisan

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Meet the others

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The opencivicdata organization on Github is the home to a collaborative effort to define common schemas and provide tools for gathering information on government organizations, people, legislation, and events.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

An Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Media

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

RePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

DilSeWill is an online platform where users can create a will, and have it mailed to them after completion

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Civil Resolution is an application for online dispute resolution. It helps resolve small claims and strata property disputes.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

One Idea, One Minute to Apply, and the Chance to Win $50,000!

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• Get funding
• Competitions

Pusat Informasi Harga Pangan Strategis difokuskan pada diseminasi informasi harga bahan pangan strategis yaitu komoditas pangan yang dikonsumsi masyarakat secara luas atau memiliki bobot kontribusi inflasi yang tinggi.

• Data visualization

fundraisers who are dedicated to INSPIRE your donors, your potential donors and your team.

• Nonprofit tech

The city of Seattle, Wash, has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

openAFRICA aims to be the largest independent repository of open data on the African continent

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Bringing people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities while connecting citizens to governments to build up trust.

• The People
• Build something
• State and regional government technology

Cast Your Vote teaches students how to evaluate what they hear politicians say, and to determine if they think they will keep their word in office.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Founded in 2012, Code for DC is a non-partisan, non-political group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

We are futurists. We are founders. We are friends.We are the Hackensack Brigade of Code for America.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Local governments working together to address the epidemic with data and maps

• opioids

• Civic maps

Google Sheet budget

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Lab for open citizen Science and tech

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Foundational layers

Tech for Campaigns (TFC) is a community where world class tech talent meets progressive and centrist political campaigns in need of skilled volunteer talent. The promise is not only different political outcomes but the sustained engagement of people concerned with the direction America is going.

• partisan

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Pro bono and volunteer

A “discovery sprint,” is a short, intense period of problem investigation.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles