An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

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

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Tech for public challenges

Supporting the transition to better German public services through events, workshops, publications

• The People
• Build something
• Meet the others

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

• youth

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Cosa fanno i tuoi rappresentanti? Tutte le attività parlamentari aggiornate quotidianamente.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Change.org is the web's leading platform for social change, empowering anyone, anywhere to start petitions that make a difference.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Fluicity est une solution d’engagement citoyen, qui permet la prise de décision collective autour des sujets d’intérêt général.

• apps

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

WE ARE A COLLABORATIVE GROUP OF CODE FOR AMERICA VOLUNTEER BRIGADES FROM NORTH CAROLINA

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Primer Concurso Nacional de Estudiantes de Derecho

• students

• Legal tech

Exygy's collaboration with the CROP Organization and their work aggregating reentry data across the state of California.

• recidivism

• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

The Risk and Response Fund is a $10 million pool of unrestricted resources that can be deployed with speed when a crisis strikes. It will also ensure Internews has unrestricted funds to cover the organizational risks and costs inherent in operating a multinational nonprofit with programs in the places that need information most.

• Media
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Location-based personal safety app that integrates with Tinder, emergency services

• crime
• domestic violence
• apps

• Emergency services
• Location

Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities. Watch Videoplay_arrow

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

The interactive story game aims to inspire young people to stand for what they believe is right and become active in civil society and non-governmental organizations.

• Games and gamification
• Media literacy
• Active battles in civic tech

Promise Made = Debt Unpaid First web promise tracking platform of political promises in Slovenia.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

In cooperation with the Organization for a Participatory Society and PIC - Legal-Informational Centre for NGOs, we prepared a survey on the transparency of Slovenian municipalities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Communicating with the government

Budget and financial transparency visualization tool for NGOs.

• Budget explorers
• Internal budgeting tools

PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• News and blogs

"A complete suite of local authority services for highways, environment and the public realm", wholly owned subsidiary of mySociety

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.

• local

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."

• guides

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Freedom of Information

One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Developed in collaboration with Hackney Council, FOIWorks is an open-source user-needs focused front-end solution for taking Freedom of Information requests from citizens.

• local

• Govtech
• Freedom of Information

A free climate job board with 10,000+ jobs from more than 800+ companies across industries and geographies!

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work. Hope-based communications acts on the principle that we should be focused on building the world we want, setting the agenda with our values, our goals, our mission.

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Student Privacy Compass (formerly known as FERPA|Sherpa) is the student privacy resource center website. This site is your tool for finding information, news, and opinions on maintaining student data privacy. Student Privacy Compass is an initiative of the Future of Privacy Forum.

• students

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

The JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Find a job or hire someone

An AI tool that detects cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter

• anti-harassment

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Solidarity networks

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• State and regional government technology

Proyecto de evaluación ciudadana del proceso constituyente en Chile

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

Twitter's community-based approach to misinformation

• civic features
• Twitter

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

We utilize radical imagination, art and culture to communicate ideas, connect brands with causes and advance social change.

• Social impact design firms

Organization working on strenghtening citizen participation by using technology for offering quality information on public administration. Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• COVID
• Emerging Tech Projects

it's like a dictionary, but using analogies instead of definitions.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.

• youth

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

These events join New Yorkers of all ages to test and give feedback on technologies aimed at improving quality of life and City services.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

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

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging Tech Organizations