As the winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Smart City Challenge, we’ve been offered a unique opportunity: $50 million in grant funding from the USDOT and Paul G. Allen Philanthropies to discover how we can accelerate human progress through open mobility.

• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Supporting the Global Move to Open Technologies

• Open source networks

We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID
• Civic hackathons

A new feature on some of our most widely shared articles.

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

A collaboration of government, nonprofits, and you to map all the trees of San Francisco's urban forest and understand the ecosystem services they provide.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Mit dem Fellow-Programm Freies Wissen unterstützen Wikimedia Deutschland, der Stifterverband und die VolkswagenStiftung Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler dabei, ihre Forschung und Lehre offen zu gestalten. Das Fellow-Programm startet im September in die vierte Programmrunde, wieder werden 20 Wissenschaftlerinnen und Wissenschaftler aus verschiedenen Disziplinen gefördert und dabei unterstützt, ihre wissenschaftliche Arbeit offen(er) zu gestalten.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone

A compendium of companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Website for the Center for Advanced Urbanism, a division of the School of Architecture and Planning at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A low cost air quality sensor network providing real time measurement of air quality on a public map.

• air quality

• Emerging tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Smart Cities and sensors

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Fast, affordable, online permitting for governments

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Access social benefits
• Data schemas and standards

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is already at war.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Astrea Justice is human rights remedy mobile app that is being used in Zimbabwe and has the potential of being scaled into other countries. It comes along with functions aimed to empower citizens to demand good governance, observance of human rights, accountability, inter alia.

• human rights

• Justice tech

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Code for Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh region’s Code for America Brigade, makes the Pittsburgh region a better place through the use of information and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Debate platform powered by reason

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

• cities

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

A Simple Solution for Modern Voter Registration

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

We support entrepreneurs building a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Many communities use Facebook Groups as their online message board

• commercial
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

• cities
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Measure air quality yourself

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Internet insights for social good

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

Foresight is a platform that layers complex datasets into one single source of truth.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Raise money online for your nonprofit or charity. Create an online fundraising page for your campaigns and events, or donate to any US registered nonprofit.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

We believe Congress should publish legislative information in formats both humans and computers can make sense of. Our mission is to promote greater transparency, preservation, and access to Congressional data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them.

• guides

• Data visualization

Mostly fundraising and roles that support fundraising in large organizations, education, foundations.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Research and survey on social innovation labs in Canada.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

• Emerging tech
• Civic hacking meetups
• In-person meetings

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

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

Building mission critical maps in the open

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Discover, stream, and share a constantly expanding mix of music from emerging and major artists around the world.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Narrative tech

Machine learning for creators

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Our full-time research team maintains a detailed calendar of upcoming state, special, and local elections, which we release as our Elections API.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Sorcero – How we learn

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

• cities
• mobility
• planning

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Engaging colleges and students in supporting local news