Projects - The People

Code for NL

Netherlands (the)

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

The Lenfest Institute for Journalism

The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

Automating NYC

New York, NY

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

Data Lanterns

MIT Media Lab

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

Clean water and sanitation

Démocratie Ouverte

France

Network of French civic tech organizations

the Centre For Innovation & Technology

45 Moffat Avenue, Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

we provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses

Citi Foundation

Tech Lady Mafia

techladymafia

NYC Momentum organizer training

Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

EuroCities Awards

Europe

three permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation

youth

MIT Media Lab Disobedience Award

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

Vermont Community Foundation

Chayn

A global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence

Gabinete de Inovação

Asa Sul, Brasilia - Federal District, Brazil

um laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros

Open Data Delaware

Wilmington, DE

A CIVIC TECH COMMUNITY FOR OPEN DATA IN DELAWARE.

Impact Management Project

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

Meetup's map of 181 civic hacking Meetups

Find Meetups about Civic Hacking and meet people in your local community who share your interests.

GovLab Arnsberg

Seibertzstraße 1, 59821, Arnsberg, Germany

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

Health Innovation Tech Challenge

New York, NY

One Idea, One Minute to Apply, and the Chance to Win $50,000!

Citizen Foundation

Bringing people together to debate and prioritize innovative ideas to improve their communities while connecting citizens to governments to build up trust.

Code for DC

Washington, DC

Founded in 2012, Code for DC is a non-partisan, non-political group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

Code for Hackensack

Hackensack, NJ

We are futurists. We are founders. We are friends.We are the Hackensack Brigade of Code for America.

The Montpelier Foundation

Since 2000, the Montpelier Foundation has worked to transform James Madison's Montpelier from a privately owned estate into a destination for more than 125,000 visitors each year. Learn more about the Foundation and support Montpelier's future.

SIM|ED

Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

Ottawa Civic Tech

Ottawa Civic Tech (YOWCT) is a community of citizens from diverse sectors and experiences who are interested in better understanding our complex social and civic challenges and building solutions at t

Omidyar Network

1991 Broadway Street, Suite 200, Redwood City, California 94063

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

Center for the Cultivation of Technology

A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

resources

Better Giving Studio

Making innovation in philanthropy easier.

Civic Innovation Fellows by BetaNYC

New York, NY

Civic User Testing Group Chicago

Chicago, IL

NYU Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center (VIDA)

New York University

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

EU Datathon

Brussels, Belgium

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

Governing.Digital

Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.

Code for Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Code for Pittsburgh, the Pittsburgh region’s Code for America Brigade, makes the Pittsburgh region a better place through the use of information and technology.

London Civic Innovation Challenge

City Hall, London, UK

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

CryptoHarlem

Harlem, Manhattan, New York, NY, USA

CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.

workshops

The Markup

New York, NY

We are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.

Siragusa Foundation

The Siragusa Family Foundation is a private foundation that is committed to sustaining and developing Chicago’s extraordinary nonprofit resources.

Journalism Festival

Perugia, Italy

The biggest annual media event in Europe.

Civic Solidarity Platform

A platform that brings together non-governmental organizations committed to improving the human rights situation in Europe, Eurasia and North America. Its aim is to serve as a conduit through which civic activists can build alliances, strengthen mutual support and solidarity, and improve their influence on national and international human rights policy.

Netroots Nation

For more than a decade, Netroots Nation has hosted the largest annual conference for progressives, drawing 3,000+ attendees from around the country and beyond.

List of e-democracy related groups

Spencer Foundation

Digital Sherlocks 360/OS

RoundhouseChalk Farm Rd, Camden Town, London NW1 8EH, UK

360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.

Candid

32 Old Slip, 24th Floor New York, NY 10005

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

Kaiser Permanente Foundation

Oakland, California

Kaiser Permanente | Our News and ViewsNews and views from one of America’s leading health care providers and not-for-profit health plans.

Tech for Campaigns

San Francisco

Tech for Campaigns (TFC) is a community where world class tech talent meets progressive and centrist political campaigns in need of skilled volunteer talent. The promise is not only different political outcomes but the sustained engagement of people concerned with the direction America is going.