In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Better walking, biking, and transit

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Entrepreneurs, sign up for our Abaca platform to get notified when a relevant accelerator opens up

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Govtech
• Build something

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

An online forum for community discussion

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our Launchpad is a month-long, hackathon-inspired event that facilitates citizen volunteers working together on civic-focused, open source projects.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.

• city
• podcasts
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

Document DEFINING OPEN IN OPEN DATA, OPEN CONTENT AND OPEN KNOWLEDGE

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Open knowledge

The Code for Japan Brigade based in Nerima-ku, Tokyo

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

Connecting Museums and Communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Our Mission is to empower people through inclusive economies by conducting & supporting various academic research & strategic philanthropic investments.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Bloomberg Philanthropies works to ensure better, longer lives for the greatest number of people.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Working to restore a balanced relationship between people and planet

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

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• Meet the others
• Build something

The IGF is a global multistakeholder platform that facilitates the discussion of public policy issues pertaining to the Internet

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

If you’re working on a startup or non-profit that addresses news, the future of work, or improving democracy, we’d love to see you apply.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

TAFTIE is the European Association of leading national innovation agencies

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• Meet the others
• Build something

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Awards and prizes

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

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

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
• Digital security and privacy
• Adjacent Fields

Gifts that give Back

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Community Arts is a program of the Zellerbach Family Foundation and a vital part of the foundation’s mission to serve as a catalyst for constructive social change.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Research and policy centers

Forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time.

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

• free speech

• The People
• Digital security and privacy
• Adjacent Fields

Mostly fundraising and roles that support fundraising in large organizations, education, foundations.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Activists from 15 countries taking on kleptocracy, political violence, technology, and environmental crisis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Greater Boston’s community foundation, working in partnership with donors to build and sustain a vital, prosperous city and region.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The directory and review site Yelp shares global crowdsourced user data on restaurants across cities (such as Phoenix, Madison, and Edinburgh) in its Dataset Challenge for participating researchers to build tools and provide research on urban trends and behavior.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

BUILD HIGH-IMPACT PRODUCTS FOR LOW-INCOME AMERICANS

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

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

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Each episode explores one idea or innovation that will transform cities.

• city
• podcasts
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

• biome
• city
• Climate action

• The People
• Get funding
• Research and policy centers