A platform to help social good outfits import, visualize, and analyze impact data

• Evaluate impact

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

A framework to assess automated decision systems and to ensure public accountability

• reports

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

We improve the effectiveness of international development efforts by understanding and encouraging what works using rigorous, actionable and engaging evidence.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

• resources

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Research into whether legislation achieved its policy goals

• Evaluate impact

The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.

• Evaluate impact

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

A project to create an index of democratic quality

• Evaluate impact

O Impacto.Jor é uma iniciativa para medir o impacto do jornalismo na vida das pessoas, através de um software criado para reportar e agregar impactos.

• The Tech
• Media
• Evaluate impact

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

• research

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Digital participation platforms

Discover how citizens and governments are coming together around the world and how you can join them.

• The People
• Narrative tech
• Evaluate impact

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

A map of the Internet measuring its compliance with human Rights (R), evaluating its Openness (O) and Accessibility (A), and assessing the involvement of Multistakeholder actors (M) in its governance

• human rights

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact

TICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Making innovation in philanthropy easier.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We developed the Community Maturity Model™ (CMM) to help organizations understand, plan for and assess the performance of community and social business initiatives.

• The People
• Evaluate impact
• Maturity Assessment

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Evaluate impact

Variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa) and the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

When the path to social impact is unclear…we help you measure it

• Civic and social impact companies
• Evaluate impact

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

An Evaluation of Digital Gaming Platforms on Civic Capacity and Collective Action in the Boston Public School District

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Communicate impact correctly.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel

• The People
• Media
• Evaluate impact

LABoratorio per la GOVernance dei beni comuni di Bologna

• The People
• Build something
• Evaluate impact

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

• No poverty

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

We have compiled and organized more detailed information on specific topics to help operationalize recommendations in the guides and provide links to useful articles, examples and existing evaluation reports we found in our research.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

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

It helps people and organizations to use inclusive technologies to build systems and services that are accessible, responsive, and resilient.

• The People
• Evaluate impact