TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

In our accelerator program, we will guide you for 5 months to turn your idea into reality.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Building in the private sector

We Accelerate Innovations That Address Violence Against Women

• Gender Equality
• domestic violence

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• Accelerators

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

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• Accelerators
• Fellowships

We create Sustainable Social Impact with Technology

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• Civic apps outfits

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Data visualization
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Though Black women are at the forefront of some of the most important social justice movements of our time, leading extraordinary initiatives with commitment and creativity, most of the time they are doing so with limited funding.  Recognizing this, we are extending a targeted offer of free tech and data support to Black feminist organizers.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

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• Pro bono and volunteer

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

• Artificial Intelligence
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• Generative AI

We partner with social impact organizations to design and build technology that improves lives.

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• Civic and social impact companies
• Govtech vendors

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Get funding
• Build something
• Fieldwide resources

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
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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
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
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• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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
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• 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

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

• reports

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• 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

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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

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

• youth
• Clean water and sanitation

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• 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

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• Design
• Visual Design

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

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• 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

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• 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.

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Better government software. Services that work, for people.

• Decade-Plus Club

• 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

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

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

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Well designed posters to hang in your gov office

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Provincial powerhouse: Alberta’s new government lab

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

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
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

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

• air quality

• Build something

In the spirit of Wikipatterns, this is a collection of patterns and anti-patterns for describing common practices that may help or hinder the conception or design of your civic technology.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed for the Taiwanese government to demonstrate its emphasis on open-source data, data utilization, and practice innovation to address the needs of the country in social innovations

• g0v

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio estuda o impacto e o futuro da tecnologia no Brasil e no mundo.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Impact Hub is the world’s largest network focused on building entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale - home to the innovators, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs who are creating tangible solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

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

• guides

• The People
• Civic data
• Build something

In this Playbook, we explore the evolution of the procurement function’s missions, from its original cost reduction role to risk management and to contribution to growth as a strategic partner.

• The People
• Build something
• Procurement

The United States Digital Service is transforming how the federal government works for the American people. And we need you.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs