The best breaking news, stories, and events from the Patch network of local news sites

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

A game of forecasts and action

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

bluenove is a technology and consulting company that pioneers massive collective intelligence and is actively committed to civic tech. They operate the Assembl collective intelligence platform.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Issue reporting, cameras, and sensors to improve government efficiency in Jakarta

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Froide is a Freedom Of Information Portal using Django 3.2 on Python 3.8+. It is used by the German and the Austrian FOI site, but it is fully internationalized and written in English.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

With Datasketch Apps you can create data visualizations in seconds and empower users to analyze data faster with access to open information repositories curated by journalists and researchers.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• CONSUL

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The aim of the tool is to help Lithuanian citizens to understand how courts and judges work in their country. Transparency International chapter

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Makers of Citizen Space, Dialogue, and Simulator.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

An online conference platform

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Meeting tech

#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

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

• partisan

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• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Solutions Journalism Network: We train and connect journalists to cover what’s missing in today’s news: how people are responding to problems.

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• Media
• Solutions journalism

Discover the Estonian eID (Estonian: ID-kaart), its major applications and benefits for all citizens.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Örömmel tudatjuk, hogy – a K-Monitor webes felületének közelgő megújulásával szinkronban – a mai naptól elérhető a K-Monitor új okostelefonos alkalmazása

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.

• human rights
• trainings

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Das NEOS Lab, die Parteiakademie der NEOS, schafft Raum für politische Entfaltung, um neue Lösungen für eine neue Politik zu entwickeln.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

“Marsad Majles” is Al Bawsala's project to monitor Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA).

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

a McKinsey report

• cities
• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Make your data as dynamic as your city.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way

• supply chain

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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

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

The OGP Toolbox is a free software initially developed by Etalab, the Prime Minister taskforce in charge of open data and open government French policy, on behalf of the Open Government Partnership community.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Analysen und Visualisierungen der Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Karlsruhe. Größte Änderungen, Wechselwähler, Erststimmen und mehr Statistiken.

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• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Explore what the world is searching

• commercial
• Google

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• Media
• Media and social media analysis

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.

• fintech

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

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

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• The People
• Govtech

Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Established in 1993, Joint Venture Silicon Valley provides analysis and action on issues affecting our region’s economy and quality of life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Автоматизированный мониторинг и аналитика по заключенным госконтрактам – инструменты для общественного анализа, выявления злоупотреблений, борьбы с коррупцией и неэффективным расходованием государственных средств.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The blockchain-based land-titling project is being presented at both Harvard and the United Nations.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media
• Journalism

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

• labor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, DC Code §§ 2-531-539, provides that any person has the right to request access to records.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information