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Meetup counts over 100,000 members of 166 civic hacking meetups around the world. The groups included here vary in how technical they are, but you can always count on meeting people and contributing to projects, regardless of whether or not you can code.

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Living Lots NYC

Living Lots NYC

New York, NY

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

Themis

Themis makes it easy to surface, capture, 
and share your organization’s knowledge. Our tools activate and enable every employee.

On Our Radar

We are a specialist group of journalists, technologists, digital storytellers and development practitioners. We work together to tackle voicelessness, surfacing stories from unheard groups worldwide.

Documenters.org

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

NC CopWatch

NC CopWatch

North Carolina

Have you or someone you know been subjected to an unfair stop or search? Enter the stop information to view all data associated with that particular officer.

Team America

Team America

Afghanistan

An ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Kabul before the American airlift ends.

Urban Impact Lab

Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.

Twisted Toys

Welcome to the World of Twisted ToysTM, a wonderland of excitement, experiences and exploitation. We pride ourselves on making toys that are addictive, risky and put you completely under our control.

Ethelo Build Back Better survey

eDemocracy Network and the researchers at Corporate Knights Magazine launched a public engagement survey to invite the public to weigh in on budget priorities using the Vancouver-based Ethelo Decisions platform.

NIMBY Rails

After playing thousands of hours of transportation simulation games, we were left wondering what could happen if some of the traditional limits of the genre didn't exist: in map sizes, track layout complexity, or train scheduling.

Report for the World

Report for the World matches local newsrooms with talented emerging journalists to report on under-covered issues around the globe.

Grade DC

Grade DC

Washington, DC

This program enables you to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help you better engage with your government and help government agencies to improve the quality of their services.

netCommons

netCommons is a Horizon2020 research project, which follows a novel transdisciplinary methodology on treating network infrastructure as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, self-determination, and social integration.

Greater Good Studio

Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.

NYC City Scanner Pilot

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data. The sensor attaches to the roof of vehicles and collects detailed data at a more geographic level than traditional fixed-position sensors. The City Scanner sensors capture data related to environmental conditions including air quality (particulate matter 1, 2.5, and 10), temperature, humidity, and road conditions in New York City. The solar-powered sensors are removable and do not permanently alter vehicles.

Ethelo Carbon Budget

By participating, you get to consider both community-scale opportunities for change as well as personal opportunities.

Prison Voicemail

Prison Voicemail

United States of America (the)

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

Social Media and/as Urban Research: A Workshop for Beginners

Social Media and/as Urban Research is a short workshop providing an introduction to conceptualising and approaching social media as part of urban research.

Partnership for Public Service

The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that strives for a more effective government for the American people.

News With Friends

"News With Friends is a social news app showing the most important stories right now, comparing views from a selection of quality news publishers representing a range of political perspectives."

International Day for Universal Access to Information

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

The B Team

The B Team is a global nonprofit initiative co-founded by Sir Richard Branson and Jochen Zeitz. It advocates for business practices that are more centered on humanity and the climate.

Digital Democracy: Episode IV -- A New Hope, How a Corporation for Public Software Could Transform Digital Engagement for Government and Civil Society

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

NYC Internet of Things Strategy

The Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has developed the NYC Internet of Things Strategy in order to support a healthy cross-sector IoT ecosystem in New York City – one that is productive, responsible, and fair.

Infrastructure Accessibility Index

Infrastructure Accessibility Index

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure. IAT© is based on the "15-minute city" idea, which says that all important facilities and services for urban dwellers should be easily accessible within a 15-minute timeframe. We assess infrastructure accessibility by surveying the facilities reachable within 15 minutes on foot, by car and by public transport.

X4Impact Tech Solutions catalog

Paid directory listing site that organizes tech solutions by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data points:

Urban Impact

We empower startup innovators and pioneering partners to better collaborate and create scalable impact to speed up the EU’s goal to create 100 sustainable cities by 2030.

Product Admo

Don’t let your opposition take you by surprise. View broadcast data from all 210 media markets and monitor creative messaging and trends in real time. by Advertising Analytics

Tech To The Rescue

Connecting NGOs with Tech. A voluntary movement of tech companies to help non-governmental organizations around the world implement digital solutions to scale up their activities.

Sage

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

Report for America

Report for America is a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms across the country to report on under-covered issues.

LobbyControl

LobbyControl ist ein gemeinnütziger Verein, der über Machtstrukturen und Einflussstrategien in Deutschland und der EU aufklärt.

Digital Life Initiative Reflections

Concise summaries of a range of tech + society considerations

Soils Revealed

Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.

The Brick House Cooperative

The Brick House Cooperative is a publishing platform designed, owned and operated by journalists—ad-free, expandable and subscription-based.

Technology and Public Purpose Fellowship at Harvard Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs

The Technology and Public Purpose (TAPP) Fellowship provides a unique opportunity for practitioners at the intersection of responsible technology development to explore multidisciplinary approaches to maximizing the societal benefits of emerging technologies while minimizing the harms.    

Diversify Tech

Diversify Tech connects underrepresented people in tech to jobs scholarships, events, speaking opportunities and more.

Research Centre for Government IT at University of Copenhagen

The IT University of Copenhagen and the Danish Agency of Digitisation have established a Research Centre for Government IT. The purpose of the centre is to contribute to research-based knowledge and competence development regarding government IT projects, including operation and maintenance of IT systems.

Rhino Courtcases Map

Track developments in rhino poaching court cases across South Africa

Dave's Redistricting

Lets people draw their own representative districts as well as advocate to their state's redistricting process

PolCommTech Research

Pol Comm Tech is an academic research group at the University of Ottawa focused on exploring the intersections of politics, communication, and technology.

PhDX: Talent for the 21st Century

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

NYC[x] Innovation Fellows

NYC[x] Innovation Fellows

New York City Hall, City Hall Park, New York, NY, USA

New York City is launching the second cohort of its NYC[x] Innovation Fellows program to expand on this successful collaboration, embedding small teams of technologists with City agencies to rapidly solve specific challenges through the use of best practices in digital service delivery.

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