An award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels

• Climate action
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Digital transformation

The true story of Pocahontas. Play this alternative audio over a common movie about Pocahontas to learn the real story.

• culture
• indigenous
• racial equity

• Artistic interventions

The world's first text-to-sign interpreter for emergency alerts

• 2024 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Webby-award winning social video by the US Holocaust Museum

• racial equity
• videos

• Social media

There have been over 40 recent bans of the rainbow flag. The Gilbert Baker Foundation and the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Are Fighting Back.

• LGBTQI
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Civic maps
• Specific campaigns

A global, participatory memorial to biodiversity loss on our planet

• sustainability
• 2024 Webby Awards
• Life on land

• Artistic interventions
• Participatory memorials

Award-winning video by the Brennan Center for Justice on out of touch Supreme Court justices

• videos
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Specific campaigns

The AAPI Hate Tracker is a place where you can easily report incidents and connect to organizations to receive support.

• racial equity

• Crowdsourcing

A comprehensive platform designed to enhance public safety and community engagement by revolutionizing civic communication and emergency notification systems, empowering individuals and government agencies to interact seamlessly and effectively.

A global atlas of case studies of tech-enabled urban districts and municipal digital masterplans.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

The Community Tech Lab is a hands-on tech and digital equity learning space located at El Puente’s flagship Leadership Center in South Williamsburg.

• Meet the others
• Hubs

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware
• Connectivity

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

A special report by Micah Sifry

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Reports

eine übersichtliche, zentrale Datenbank von der Kommune bis zum Bund – zu Wahlkreisen und Mandatstragenden. 
Mit einer digitalen Landkarte wollen wir Bürgerinnen und Bürgern den Weg durch das Wirrwarr der Zuständigkeiten weisen.

• Communicating with the government
• Find your representatives

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research
• User research groups

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

The NYC Smart City Testbed Program is inspiring innovation within City government by streamlining and accelerating the citywide process for piloting emerging technologies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• city
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Peer networks

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science...

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Meet the others

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

• STEM
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Economic development

This survey is a series of questions designed to shed light on public sentiment towards political animosity, respect for democracy, and support for political violence -- asked of a thousand Americans each week.

• Surveys & polling
• Polarization

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

the EU’s largest interdisciplinary network to counter disinformation.

• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers
• Factchecking

Open Terms Archive publicly records every version of the terms of digital services to enable democratic oversight.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Archives

We Need Cooperation Among Fact-Checkers

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Donate directly to a homeless person or refugee. Follow their journey into a career and home with our award-winning support 🤝

• homelessness

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Story-based campaigns

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

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Open government data

We fund new technologies to cultivate internet freedom.

• Get funding
• Decentralization

A decentralized toolkit for funding your critical software dependencies.

• Build something
• Blockchain
• Fundraising tools

The initiative seeks to be a centralized repository for information about government commitments and the progress it has made toward achieving them.

• Promise trackers

Parte del programa Justicia Abierta, este es un proyecto integral de apertura institucional, que comprende un software web que permite a las fiscalías sistematizar las solicitudes de acceso a la información condensando datos procesales, de uso

• Civic data
• Justice tech

Rootcause is a not-for-profit consultancy helping forward thinking organisations win in modern digital information ecosystems.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Tussell & techUK are thrilled to share the 3rd annual Tech200 awards - our list of the 200 fastest-growing technology companies in the UK public sector, from FY 2021/22 to FY 2022/23.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Govtech vendors

Platformă de monitorizare a activității politicienilor aleși

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

Working with experts in public media and technology from around the globe, we’ve researched over 100 software products throughout the public media workflow: from collaboration and editing, through distribution and measurement, to archiving and storage.

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech catalogs

Now offline guide for good grantmaking things to be aware of

• Tools for Funders

The OECD's 700+ case studies of citizen juries, councils, assemblies, and more

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The goals are to oversee the congress, eliminate inadequate legislators and improve congress culture.

• LINE

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Partner networks and coalitions