Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Build something

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

After three decades of working with thousands of companies, we’ve distilled the best of what we’ve learned into a set of practical insights — our “10 Laws of Government Sales and Marketing.”

• Govtech
• Build something
• Procurement

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

Powered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Incubators

PolicyLab Africa uses Human centered design to imagine sustainable futures.

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Armed with user research and no-code tools, we strive to make the world a better place.

• Webflow

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Building in the private sector

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Data governance

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

A webinar by Bethnal Green Ventures

• Build something

A public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges

• Amazon

• Get funding
• Build something

Ex Nihila is a community of founders, designers, and technologists that build and launch new ventures.

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• Civic apps outfits

The Demography Project is an independent youth-led civic technology and data journalism non profit registered in Kenya.

• youth
• Clean water and sanitation

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Swedish social impact startup accelerator

• Get funding
• Build something
• Accelerators

A growing archive of 1000+ design resources, weekly updated for the community.

• resources

• Build something
• Design
• Visual Design

UserTesting is pleased to offer free and discounted customer experience research services to qualifying charitable organizations through the OneWorld program.

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• User research

We are a global network of like-minded innovation programmes across GovTech, Civic Tech and Academia. With teams across 17 countries, we help our members deliver better outcomes for their citizens and innovation ecosystems.

• Climate action

• Build something
• Accelerators

Building the next generation of collaborative systems, owned entirely in the public interest

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Mozilla Foundation survey of builders' perceptions of data governance

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something
• Data governance

Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

Better government software. Services that work, for people.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

• trainings

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

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Provincial powerhouse: Alberta’s new government lab

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Well designed posters to hang in your gov office

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.

• guides

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Helping communities create and implement their open data, data governance, and open smart city initiatives

• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups
• Civic apps outfits

Community Initiatives is a dedicated fiscal sponsor whose sole purpose is to provide best-in-class infrastructure for nonprofit leaders.

• Civic data
• Build something
• Nonprofit tech

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Ad Library provides advertising transparency by offering a comprehensive, searchable collection of all ads currently running from across Facebook Products.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We are an early stage investor in ventures using technology to radically change people's lives for the better.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts

• peace

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Okthanks is an independent organization providing research and product design services for open source technology. We unite with a mission to leverage technology for social good.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Civic Design Lab (CDL) is a civic service design and innovation team within Oakland City Hall that grew out of the Resilient Oakland initiative.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We’re the Web Foundation’s Open Data Labs. We empower people through data.

• guides

• The People
• Civic data
• Build something

The European Hub for Civic Engagement is envisioned as a platform where European civil society and its civic tech community connect.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

• United Nations

• The People
• Build something
• Public sector innovation labs

A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census

• census

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Gov tech accelerator

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech