The initiative for a global debate was rooted in our deeply-held conviction that, when it comes to critical issues such as climate change, citizen participation is necessary at a worldwide level, and that it can bring real added value to international negotiations.

• Inactive Projects Archive
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies
• Specific instances of citizen assemblies

Helping movements leverage the power of deep canvassing to create lasting progressive change.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Launched at Christmas 2003 to help Dean supporters understand grassroots outreach and to encourage them to participate in pre-caucus campaigning in Iowa or in their local area. Commissioned by Dean for America, the game was the first ever official U.S. Presidential Election game.

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification
• Predecessors & Pioneers

Bringing citizens to the heart of climate negotiations

• Climate action

• Inactive Projects Archive
• Sortition & Citizen Assemblies

"le Réseau des Jeunes pour le développement communautaire est une organisation à but non lucratif qui lutte pour la préservation de l'environnement, le respect des décisions des COP, la lutte pour la justice Climatique, l'utilisation des énergies renouvelables"

• Open Dev Africa

• Government transparency
• Inactive Projects Archive

The project Automating Public Services: Learning from Cancelled Systems investigates why government departments and agencies in different countries are deciding to pause or cancel their use of algorithmic and automated decision support systems.

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Procurement

• Artificial Intelligence
• Inactive Projects Archive
• Registers of government AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Inactive Projects Archive
• Registers of government AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Inactive Projects Archive
• Registers of government AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Inactive Projects Archive
• Registers of government AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Inactive Projects Archive
• Registers of government AI

Democracy Technologies' magazine's proprietary database of civic tech platforms with filters for country, functions, and more

• Civic tech catalogs
• Inactive Projects Archive

ROW3D is a consortium of different partners including technologists, aid workers, entrepreneurs and medics focusing on humanitarian innovation - primarily equipping refugees with skills to use digital fabrication techniques to manufacture essential supplies.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Inactive Projects Archive

Das Ziel des Solution Enablers ist es, 130 Lösungen schnell zu testen und breitflächig umzusetzen, damit diese konkreten Nutzen in der Krise und danach stiften.

• Accelerators
• Inactive Projects Archive
• COVID

The #WirVsVirus Hackathon not only produced 1,500 solutions, but also a strong digital community.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Inactive Projects Archive

Vom 20.-22. März haben in 48 Stunden 28.361 Menschen zusammen an über 1.500 Lösungen gearbeitet. Das war der #WirVsVirus Hackathon.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Inactive Projects Archive

Der Solution Builder ist das Fast Track Programm von #WirVsVirus und setzt insgesamt ca. zehn Projekte innerhalb von acht Wochen direkt um.

• Inactive Projects Archive
• COVID
• Incubators

These eight projects — all focusing on auditing tools for AI systems — comprise the second-ever Mozilla Technology Fund (MTF) cohort

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Inactive Projects Archive

TLC is the first trans-led specialist gender identity legal practice in Britain, providing free and accessible legal help to transgender and non-binary people in need.

• trans rights
• LGBTQI

• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Inactive Projects Archive

DataKind is hosting a virtual DataKit event, a work-ready set of data science problems in the domain of social good

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Data science for social good

Mark your calendars—on 15-16 October 2025, 300 deliberative democracy professionals will gather in Brussels, Belgium, a country with a rich history of democratic innovation, from the G1000 movement to the Ostbelgien Permanent Citizens' Council.

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

O Acessibilidade Digital Challenge visa capacitar as equipas técnicas dos municípios portugueses a obterem a Declaração de Acessibilidade para os seus sítios web

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Challenges

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Inactive Projects Archive

This directory showcases some of the individuals who have worked at Mozilla Foundation. Please take a moment to browse their profiles, share this page, and support these amazing folks in finding their next role.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Inactive Projects Archive
• Recruitment campaigns

Free online course at ITU Academy funded by the EU

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Inactive Projects Archive

El programa Cali Cómo Vamos, el laboratorio ciudadano Mi Cali Contrata Bien, la Unidad de Acción Vallecaucana y el observatorio Cali Visible, ponen a disposición una ruta de obtención de datos referidos a indicadores de bienestar y gestión pública de la ciudad.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Humans of the House has received national media coverage and has been the #1 show in the Government category for several weeks on Apple Podcasts where it has also been featured as a New & Noteworthy Special Series.

• Govtech
• Civic literacy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Inactive Projects Archive

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• United Nations

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Inactive Projects Archive

Inspirados por nuestros amigos de Estonia y la comunidad de Garage48, Hack the Crisis MX es un hackathon virtual de 48 horas durante el cual, equipos trabajaran de forma remota en varios retos que afectan nuestro país.

• Inactive Projects Archive
• Civic hackathons

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
• Inactive Projects Archive

The 2004 project that used comedy and live theatrical performances to protest against former President George W Bush

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Predecessors & Pioneers

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

El Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital es un concurso online y gratuito donde pueden participar todas las iniciativas digitales de diversa índole (web, blogs, redes sociales u otras herramientas) que promuevan un cambio positivo en la sociedad.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes
• Inactive Projects Archive

Ahbap crowdfunding page with over 57,000 donations

• earthquakes

• Inactive Projects Archive
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

• students
• Quality education
• Consul

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Foundational layers
• Inactive Projects Archive

Medical Discussions

• Inactive Projects Archive

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Inactive Projects Archive

“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Inactive Projects Archive
• Shows and films

The initiative will empower investigative media and watchdog NGOs in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, and Senegal.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

A set of information technology (IT) tools to enable citizens to analyze state budgets, in theory to develop critical thinking to counter politicians’ populist rhetoric on complex economic issues.

• Engagement tech
• Budget explorers
• Inactive Projects Archive

​How much of your work day is spent paying taxes?​

• taxes
• labor
• Decent work and economic growth

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Budget explorers

The AR Developer Challenge is a series of community-driven competition events focused on solving problems in areas such as healthcare, education, workforce development, and more

• mass transit
• Facebook

• Inactive Projects Archive
• Walking tours
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

An initiative that "aims to examine the cross-pollination of talent and innovative ideas between the public and private sectors

• Learn about civic tech
• Inactive Projects Archive
• News and blogs

FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators
• Inactive Projects Archive

What stuck with us throughout this pandemic? Research project by @vishublab & @uclab_potsdam

• Archives
• Inactive Projects Archive
• COVID Engagement Projects

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Watchdogging and transparency

A public machine that would print out NY transit directions in 1961

• mass transit

• Predecessors & Pioneers
• Inactive Projects Archive

The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses
• Inactive Projects Archive