Projects - The Tech

Urban Forest Map

San Francisco

A collaboration of government, nonprofits, and you to map all the trees of San Francisco's urban forest and understand the ecosystem services they provide.

Facebook Groups

Palo Alto

Many communities use Facebook Groups as their online message board

Impactive (formerly OutVote)

240 Elm Street, Somerville, MA 02144, USA

Outvote is a friend-to-friend texting app for political campaigns. We allow you to digitally volunteer for campaigns by reaching out to your friends with

Annenberg Civic Media Fellowship

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

The Annenberg Innovation Lab (AnnLab)

3502 Watt Way, ASC 104 Los Angeles, CA 90089-0281

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

LocalData

Collect the place-based data you need using our easy mobile tools and web dashboard. Create your own survey or engage around community health, safety, commercial development, blight, historic resources, and more. Quickly export your data for Excel or as a Shapefile.

Democ

California

Anonymous Voting at Work, School, and Play :)

InsideAirbnb

Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.

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OpenParlamento

Rome

Cosa fanno i tuoi rappresentanti? Tutte le attività parlamentari aggiornate quotidianamente.

Open Contracting standard

Governments around the world spend an estimated US$13 trillion through contracts every year. Yet, contracting information is often unavailable for public scrutiny.

Dokeza

Kenya

A legislation commenting platform in Kenya

Denver Vision Zero online survey map

by the City of Denver

Vote Women

Kampala, Uganda

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

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From the Ground Up: Developing Jamaica’s National Land Agency, 2000-2016

Jamaica

In 2001, registering or transferring land in Jamaica was an uphill battle

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Standards.data.gov.uk

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Shared, open cross-government standards make services better for users and cheaper to run.

Impact Stack (formerly Campaignion)

Europe

Join leading charities and unions in Europe and use our powerful technology platform to increase your impact.

Vote for Policies

United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)

Vote for Policies makes it easy to compare what the political parties are promising to do in the 2017 general election. It helps you decide who to vote for.

Proto's WhatsApp Checkpoint Tipline

London

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

WhatsApp

World Bank talent network

This Expert Network Accelerates The Search For Talent. Case study by GovLab

Explora Latam

South America

Map of Open Data, Civic Technology and social innovation in Latin America

eMBeD at the World Bank

The World Bank Group, H Street Northwest, Washington D.C., DC, USA

Using the Behavioral Sciences to Fight Global Poverty and Reduce Inequality

No poverty

Citizen Observatory Madrid

Madrid (Spain)

In this panel called Citizen Observatory, a group of people chosen at random will approach and provide solutions to key issues for the life of the citizens of Madrid.

Blackbaud

Charleston, South Carolina

The world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.

COVID-19 map

Taiwan (T'ai-wan)

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

COVID-19

Link NYC

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

Digital Cities

United States of America (the)

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.

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Grassroot

Johannesburg, South Africa

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.

Amsterdam DocLab IDFA Festival

IDFA International Documentary Filmfestival Amsterdam, Frederiksplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is one of the leading documentary events in the world.

Media Party

Buenos Aires

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

Copy, Paste, Legislate

Phoenix, AZ, USA

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

SharedStreets

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

Open Data Portal Österreich

Austria (Österreich)

Das zentrale Datenportal für Wirtschaft, Kultur, NGO/NPO, Forschung und Zivilgesellschaft. Das Open Data Portal bietet eine Plattform um auf Daten aus den

Pocket Law

South Africa (South Africa, Afrika-Borwa, Suid-Afrika)

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.