All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The AI Initiative is dedicated to shaping the global policy framework to govern the rise of Artificial Intelligence, addressing holistically short-, mid- and long-term governance challenges.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

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• In-person meetings

Sunshine Week was launched in 2005 by the American Society of News Editors — now News Leaders Association — and has grown into an enduring initiative to promote open government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Fieldwide resources

We fund research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Explore and evaluate your city's resilience, to plan for a strong future.

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

Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change

• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Driven by the rapid progress in Artificial Intelligence (AI) research, intelligent machines are gaining the ability to learn, improve and make calculated decisions in ways that will enable them to perform tasks previously thought to rely solely on human experience, creativity, and ingenuit​y

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• In-person meetings

This book takes a close look at civic apps and general-purpose tech platforms and services.

• books

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• Books

Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

• trainings

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(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

In "Abierto al Público" we explore the use of open knowledge through data, code and other media.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

You can think of Code for BTV as a pro-bono digital agency working for the public good. We pick meaningful projects and do the research, design, architecture, coding, launch, and communications work to help important organizations work more effectively.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The AI for Good Foundation engages on a number of fronts in order to continuously serve its core mission.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

AI in the Trap, a collaborative art project that explores the future of artificial intelligence and predictive policing through a hip-hop lens.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

An evolving directory of tools and resources that OPSI believes may be useful for civil servants interested in the use of AI in government

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

An innovative technology calculates the optimal time to talk about reform.

• gun safety

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• Civic fiction

Well designed posters to hang in your gov office

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

This report is a result of our scanning of digital tools that we believe can boost union outreach to members, particularly young members.

• labor

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

Three years of organizing, writing, and documenting in Chicago civic tech at the Smart Chicago Collaborative. By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Nei…

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• Learn about civic tech
• Books

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• cities
• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

AbreLatam es una desconferencia en la que actores de diferentes sectores participan en su calidad personal construyendo debates clave sobre temáticas vinculadas a los datos abiertos en diversos campos tales como gobierno abierto, servicios públicos, privacidad, derechos humanos, participación ciudadana, aspectos técnicos y muchos más.

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• In-person meetings

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

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• Socialize online

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.

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

Urban Institute opens minds, shapes decisions, and offers solutions through economic and social policy research.

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

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

Somos un grupo de ciudadanos que colaboramos para trabajar temas de caracter civico mediante la implementación de la tecnologia.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

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

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. 

• books

• The People
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• Books

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

• coop
• partisan

• The People
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

18 - 20 November 2019 in Rotterdam

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

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• Research and policy centers

Infrequent podcast covering various tech for good ventures

• podcasts

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• Podcasts

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

Any NGO, human rights or media organisation that faces threats due to the work they are doing, can apply for this grant.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

OGRX is a platform for browsing and sharing research findings about new, innovative ways to solve public problems.

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• Research and policy centers

A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Championing London’s civil society through insight, influence and powerful connections

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

The San Diego Foundation is a community resource that improves San Diegans’ quality of life by creating equity and ensuring opportunities in the region.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Association of Internet Researchers is a member-based, academic association dedicated to the promotion of critical and scholarly Internet research independent from traditional disciplines and existing across academic borders.

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

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech