DGI curates focused, in-depth programs where technical communities gather to share their knowledge and success. DGI delivers substantial, useful information

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A new movement says that crypto-voting can purify democracy—and eventually eliminate the need for governments altogether.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Safe and anonymous platform for whistleblowing in Chile

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Demander Justice is a dispute resolution tool that helps people to settle disputes that can be brought to courtwithout a lawyer.

• criminal justice

• Legal tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

New America’s Public Interest Technology Fellowship Program is an ambitious new initiative designed to support an emerging public interest technology sector in America.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

The must-attend gigabit technology conference for city and community leaders.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Ballot Scout returns confidence to the vote-by-mail process.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Vote by Mail

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

This tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in further advocacy for more transparent procurement as well as to spot corruption using red flag indicators.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Govtech

Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital participation platforms

Code for America Brigade for Eugene, Oregon

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Govtech

A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

DISTRIBUTED DIALING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BASE

• Organize campaigns
• Phone banking tools

The prices of basic necessities (e.g., maize flour) are very important

Greenpeace is a non-governmental environmental organization with offices in over 55 countries and an international coordinating body in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

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.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Hope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Causes.com is the world's largest online campaigning platform. We connect people who support a common cause and empower them to run grassroots campaigns.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Academia
• Public Interest Tech

Aspiration is a values-driven nonprofit technology organization.

• Adjacent Fields
• Nonprofit tech
• Tech for public challenges

City Innovate Foundation

• Hubs

The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.

• trainings

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Advancing an inclusive digital society

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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
• Courses

Search the list of progressive organizations to find the right opportunity for taking action based on your interests.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Are you a reporter interested in covering voting issue this election cycle? See our Electionland project.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Partner networks and coalitions

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

• The People
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support

• Govtech

New/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.

• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools
• Bots

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Evaluate impact
• Data visualization

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

• The People
• Get funding
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Hardware
• Foundational layers

Connected technologies and always-on data flows are helping make today’s cities and communities more livable, productive, and sustainable. At the same time, these technologies raise concerns about individual privacy, freedom of choice, and institutional discrimination.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital security and privacy
• Working groups

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Digital security and privacy

The only solution designed to activate employees for good and maximize impact through workplace giving and volunteering.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Commercial law lookup tool

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Es un proyecto que nace desde la sociedad civil para fortalecer sus capacidades de incidencia en los procesos de toma de decisión política y en la generación de un debate público informado sobre la pobreza y la justicia social en España.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Good News Podcast is your daily reminder that not all news is bad, produced by Cards Against Humanity.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Tell us about your collisions and near-misses, so we can build the evidence base for improvements, together

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Activism platform

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

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

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