Newsgradient highlights the differences in media coverage of important events. It enables users to easily follow the daily news and observe it on the political spectrum. The media are arranged on the left-right axis and classified according to their bias and credibility.

Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."

• guides

• Govtech
• Freedom of Information
• Open government data

A guide to comparing data

• guides

• Civic data
• Data visualization

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Manage volunteers
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

An inactive wiki guide to e-consultation

• guides
• wikis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Campaign tools
• Call campaign tools
• Voter outreach

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Foundational layers

A civic explainer by the Brennan Center for Justice

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy

NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.

• Media
• Get funding
• Nonprofit newsrooms

European Institute for Participative Democracy

GROUNDBREAKING JOURNALISM. AWARD-WINNING FILMS.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.

• Govtech
• Supporting specific public sector efforts from outside government
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Bristol Cable is an independent media company in Bristol, UK, founded in 2014.

Publica is Brazil’s first investigative reporting non-profit dedicated to exposing human rights violations and promoting open democracy.

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency