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

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Government transparency
• Tech for public challenges

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

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• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Chicago's weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Community Leaders for Internet Health spotlights internet issues in diverse local community contexts and creates collaboration among local leaders to engage with tools for open campaigning towards Internet Health

a Code for America brigade

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• cities

• The People
• Build something
• Urban planning

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Confident Commuter helps people deal with ticket inspectors and fines. The user follows a guided process of questions and answers to find a solution for their case.

• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Talk London is City Hall’s online community. Have your say on big issues and help shape our plans and policies. Let’s make London better together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• partisan

• Conferences

DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

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

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

Archive of the civic tech manifesto

• Hubs

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).

• The Tech
• Participatory budgeting

Pew's work lays the foundation for effective policies and practices by invigorating civic life, conducting research, informing and engaging citizens, linking diverse interests to pursue common cause, and insisting on tangible results.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Mobilizing the public to promote freedom

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

• Govtech
• Service delivery

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Pocket Reporter is an mobile app that can be used as a personal news editor for journalists. The app is available in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Portuguese and Spanish.

Justice Today is a mobile application that protects citizens from crime and utilizes artificial intelligence to educate citizens on the steps to take when victimized. The platform also allows citizens to report crime in real time

• Communicating with the government

Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas

• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators a

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Research Action Design (RAD) uses codesign, community-led research, and development of technology and media to build the power of grassroots social movements.

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

A Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice

• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

The Wi-Fi Smart Sprinkler Control system that saves up to 50% on watering bills using your laptop or smartphone to schedule watering times and automatically adjusts watering amounts.

• Adjacent Fields

With support from the NetGain Partnership, researchers J. Nathan Matias and Sarah Gilbert from CAT Lab and Jo Lukito from the Center for Media Engagement at University of Texas Austin produced two reports that detail the challenges faced by independent researchers who conduct platform research, and provide recommendations for how to overcome them.

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research groups

A list of digital standards used by governments around the world

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The original online petition site. 20+ million signatures. Unlike others, we are non-partisan, non-ideological. Just the best tools for your campaign.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing