• People Powered
• local

• Participatory democracy

The Local Infrastructure Hub is a national program designed to connect cities and towns with the resources and expert advice they need to access federal infrastructure funding in order to drive local progress, improve communities, and deliver results for residents.

• local
• cities

• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

The Civic Information Index uses data to map drivers of engaged, informed, equitable, and healthy communities nationwide.

• local

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Evaluate impact

We are convinced that the battle to eliminate poverty worldwide starts here at home – in our village, our town, or our municipality. Which is why, here at ICLD, we work with people who are changing the world by building local democracy.

• local

台南市議會觀測站

• cities
• local

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Chat and messaging

• cities
• local

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Citizen Engagement

As well as the broad range of information that the regular AI uses, this modified version has been exposed to a specific set of policies and information to help unlock the power of AI for the new constituency of West Ham and Beckton.

• local
• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Simply put: MVP helps Democratic and progressive donors channel donations into the local organizing groups that tip key races AND build political power for the long term.

• local
• 2024 elections
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

The Bloomberg Center for Public Innovation at Johns Hopkins University drives innovation in local government by marrying cutting-edge practice with world-class research.

• cities
• local

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Enter your UK postcode and see how your local area has changed over the past 14 years

• local

• Civic data

By Alan R. Shark, with ChatGPT, Google Gemini, Perplexity AI

• local
• books

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Books

MetroLab’s In the Lab Initiative focused on GenAI for Local Governments, a task force

• local

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Working groups

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

Divestment campaign targeting local councils investing in fossil fuel companies

• Climate action
• local

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

This video explains how Camden Council uses machine learning to improve council services.

• cities
• local

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

A non-profit consortium will offer free cybersecurity support to almost 200 humanitarian NGOs in The Hague in the next 1.5 years.

• local

• Digital security and privacy
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Cybersecurity

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Supporting public sector from outside government

#CityHallSelfie Day is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions.

• local

• Govtech
• Holidays

Žinau, ką renku“ – tai nešališkas politikos stebėsenos tinklas, kuriame dalyvauja jauni žmonės iš įvairių Lietuvos miestų ir miestelių.

• local

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers
• Open asks

Local politics is getting less attention in the media, due to budget cuts. Meanwhile Dutch municipalities are getting more responsibilities due to decentralisations. With PoliFLW journalists and other interested parties can quickly follow news from local political parties and politicians.

• local

• Media
• Journalism
• Archives

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

• local

• Community wifi

The Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.

• local

• Neighborhood forums

Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.

• local

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

"A complete suite of local authority services for highways, environment and the public realm", wholly owned subsidiary of mySociety

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Developed in collaboration with Hackney Council, FOIWorks is an open-source user-needs focused front-end solution for taking Freedom of Information requests from citizens.

• local

• Govtech
• Freedom of Information

LocalGov Drupal is a publicly owned asset that delivers a better digital experience for citizens, improves service outcomes, and saves money.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• State and regional government technology

Our “Bedrock, USA” podcast explored the rise of far-right extremism in two local governments.

• local
• towns

• Govtech
• Podcasts

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on

• local

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Peer networks

Este documento fue realizado por el equipo de la Dirección de Datos Abiertos junto con la Iniciativa Latinoamericana por los Datos Abiertos (ILDA).

• guides
• local

• Civic data
• Open government data

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers
• local

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic maps

Stac labs accelerates party, state and local campaigns' analytical and technological capabilities.

• partisan
• local
• state

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

How local governments can serve people better through effective communications and digital services.

• local

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

We work with state and local governments to help with prototyping and procurement for federally-funded digital public services, using agile acquisition consulting services.

• local
• state

• Govtech

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

One integrated and intuitive digital front door to local authority residential waste services.

• waste
• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

Climate Emergency UK assessed plans according to 28 questions across nine sections, based on the expert-approved checklist for Council Action Plans.

• Climate action
• local

• Report cards and audits

mySidewalk gives you the tools and insights you need to build a better world.

• local

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Procurement
• Peer networks

The Integrated Technology Platform for Local Government

• cities
• local
• towns

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards