Projects - The People

Code for Fort Lauderdale

Fort Lauderdale, FL

Come join idea-makers, designers, citizen leaders, developers, and data geeks who volunteer to help the Fort Lauderdale government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation

4801 Rockhill Road, Kansas City, MO 64110, USA

At the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, we work together with communities in education and entrepreneurship to create uncommon solutions that empower people to be uncommon, take risks, achieve success and give back to society.

Catchafire

Catchafire matches professionally-skilled volunteers with nonprofits and social enterprises. We structure our volunteer opportunities to be short-term, discrete, and individual to cater to the busy lifestyles of high-performing professionals.

Digital Transparency in the Public Realm

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

CO-Bologna

Bologna, Italy

LABoratorio per la GOVernance dei beni comuni di Bologna

Code for Fresno

Fresno, California, USA

A group of coders, designers, government reps, and citizens building a better #Fresno

Code.gov

Washington, DC

Sharing America's Code. Unlock the tremendous potential of the Federal Government’s software

Open data in NZ

Wellington, New Zealand

Open data meetup

Baratunde's Tech Manifesto

The stories turn up daily: Social media is being used to undermine democracy. Someone has run off with millions of Social Security numbers stored by a major financial institution. Internet service…

Implementing Innovation

Implementing Innovation: A User’s Manual for Open Government Programs is a hands-on resource that provides practical advice and guidance for government changemakers as they navigate the specific challenges of implementing innovative programs in the public sector.

Civic Tech Connect India

National Capital Region

Civic Tech Connect 2018 marked the official launch of the Civic Tech India 2018 Accelerator and brought together entrepreneurs and investors

Code for BCS

College Station-Bryan, TX, USA

Code for BCS is a Code for America Brigade (local chapter) focused on improving the lives of residents in Bryan/College Station.

Bloomberg Philanthropies Government Innovation program

Bloomberg Philanthropies, 25 East 78th Street, New York, NY 10075, USA

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

Beyond Transparency

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur.

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Norman Lear Center

USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, Watt Way, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

g0v Presidential Hackathon

Taipei, Taiwan

Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed for the Taiwanese government to demonstrate its emphasis on open-source data, data utilization, and practice innovation to address the needs of the country in social innovations

impact hub

Impact Hub is the world’s largest network focused on building entrepreneurial communities for impact at scale - home to the innovators, the dreamers and the entrepreneurs who are creating tangible solutions to the world’s most pressing issues.

Intel's Big Data for Precision Farming

University of California, Davis, Shields Avenue, CA, USA

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

Code for Boise

Boise, ID

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

Cal Humanities

GovTech 100

United States of America (the)

A compendium of companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies.

Fearless Cities: the book

Barcelona, Spain

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Code for Kentuckiana

Louisville, Kentucky

Louisville's Code for America Brigade

PDX Women in Tech

Portland, OR

PDX Women in Tech exists to encourage women to join tech and support and empower women so they stay in tech.

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ICT 4 Jobs

Chapel Hill, NC

If you're doing work in technology and development, submit an opportunity or ask how we can help connect you with top candidates.

The Internet of Ownership

New York, NY

The Internet of Ownership is a resource for the emerging online democratic economy.

Knight.Slack

An online forum for community discussion

GeoCode (Twin Cities)

to co-create a better Twin Cities

Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

Apps for Democracy

Washington, DC

The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

NetImpact

Responsible Data community

The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

Code for Tucson

Tucson, Arizona

Code for Tucson is the Tucson chapter of the Code for America Brigade. We are a group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

Civic Data Privacy Leaders Network

MetroLab Network, 777 6th Street Northwest, Washington, DC 20001, USA

A collaborative that will provide an active, authoritative resource for municipal leaders to navigate emerging privacy issues, share practical guidance, and promote fair and transparent data practices

MobLab Dispatch

The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.

g0v.network

Basic 'About' page pointing to the network's mailing list and events

Woods Fund Chicago

OpenTraffic Initiative Phillipines

Manila, Metro Manila, Philippines

Partnership for the City of New York

One Battery Park Plaza, New York, NY 10004, USA

private sector tech guidance for the City

Eines per a una transformació digital oberta i àgil

Barcelona, Spain

El programa per a la Digitalització Oberta: Programari Lliure i Desenvolupament Àgil de Serveis de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona defineix el procés de canvi profund i progressiu de la manera en que la ciutat oferirà els seus serveis a la ciutadania en els propers anys.

Open Seattle

Seattle, WA, United States of America

Open Seattle advocates for open data and civic technology projects that improve the lives of Seattle residents.

G0vhk.io Hackathon

Eaton Hotel Hong Kong, Nathan Road, Yau Ma Tei, Hong Kong

The purpose is to solve social problems through technology and promote social progress in the form of projects. Taking open data as an example, through the Open Source Program or Crowd Sourcing, data in different fields are transparent, the problem of information circulation is solved, and the citizen's right to know is expanded.

Census Accelerate Video Challenge

United States of America (the)

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.