A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

Technoloxia's podcast series that brings you an in-depth look into the digital landscape in North Africa. Latest debates at the intersection of technology, policy and Society.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Storytelling AND advocacy campaigns for movements.

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram? Authenticate your preferred one with one click!

• commercial
• Discord

• Chat and messaging
• Internal communication and coordination

An open network for secure, decentralised communication

• Matrix

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Internal communication and coordination

We are the ProPublica union. We are reporters, editors, designers and business and communications staff across the entire workplace who are dedicated to investigative reporting in the public interest.

• labor

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech unions

The Largest AI Tools Directory

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

"Just three days after the war started, Sudanese market intelligence firm DataQ launched a platform called Nidaa (meaning “call for help” in Arabic). It allows people in distress to post their requirements — from money and groceries to medical services and a ride to safety — so volunteers can reach out to them."

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

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
• city

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu

• diaspora

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Chat and messaging

A global collection of AI projects and proposals that impacts UN Sustainable Development Goals, both positively and negatively.

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

With its partners, OCHA contributes to principled and effective humanitarian response through coordination, advocacy, policy, information management and humanitarian financing tools and services.

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

All the Tools for your Creator Business to Thrive

• Media
• Creators and Influencers

RW Response aggregates operational content from existing platforms and provides an authoritative source of information in new and existing humanitarian operations.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

The Merit Data Platform connects organizations and people on a flexible HIPAA and SOC2 compliant knowledge graph.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Network visualizations

an aggregator site tracking the nearly 9,000 subreddits that went dark to protest the company's aggressive treatment of third party clients

• Reddit

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Procurement

We provide modern, effective solutions for participation and collective decision-making.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

For more than a century, IBM has been a global technology innovator, leading advances in AI, automation and hybrid cloud solutions that help businesses grow.

Fantapolitica! è una piattaforma di supporto per candidat* di sinistra che abbiano meno di trent’anni

• partisan

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Brand New Bundestag (BNB) ist eine unabhängige und überparteiliche Graswurzel-Organisation, die sich für eine progressive, zukunftsorientierte Politik einsetzt. Wir unterstützen Menschen, die mit progressiven Ideen frischen Wind in die Parlamente bringen, bei ihrem Weg in politische Ämter.

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

The global archive of research material for investigative reporting.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Kosovo factchecking project out of ADS nonprofit

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Public sector needs to prepare for what is coming next, continuously identify, test and implement innovative solutions to benefit from future opportunities while reducing the risks through increased resilience of their public systems.  To facilitate that OPSI has developed an Anticipatory Innovation Governance (AIG) model.

• Govtech
• Emerging tech

To highlight the global knowledge base of behavioural insights work in public policy, and bring the achievements of institutions to the fore, the OECD launched the Behavioural Insights Knowledge Hub and map in 2021.

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Ampliando Democracia es un proyecto que promueve la reflexión sobre cómo mejorar la gobernanza, las políticas públicas y la calidad democrática a través de una participación ciudadana más profunda, inclusiva y sólida.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources

The Media Ownership Monitor is a global research and advocacy initiative that creates transparency on “who owns the media?” - and ultimately answers the question “who controls the media?” through contextualization and analysis.

• Media
• Media monitoring

A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America.

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

Tracking two-dozen communication, Internet and media markets in nearly 40 countries.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

"Albus is an AI powered brainstorming tool that allows you to explore topics in depth. Helps prompt ideas so you can expand your knowledge with a mind map style visuals. Great for education and research." -futureailab.com

• Artificial Intelligence
• Build something
• Generative AI

We identify political changemakers in Europe and provide them with financial resources, strategic advice, practical support and a community of practice to advance their mission of reimagining politics.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

"FedNow is a service developed by the Federal Reserve for depository institutions in the United States. It will enable individuals and businesses to send and receive instant payments. Banks will be able to build products on top of the FedNow platform." - Wikipedia

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Database of hundreds of resources about nonviolent civil resistance

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.

• WhatsApp

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

Interconexión.lat es una plataforma que impulsa el intercambio y co-producción de datos entre organizaciones de sociedad civil en América Latina para hacer frente a retos transfronterizos y hacer eficientes los esfuerzos de la región.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Data governance

Todos los ciudadanos tienen el derecho a acceder a la información que tiene los organismos y autoridades públicas. Por ley, deben responder. (Alaveteli instance for Colombia)

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

• Civic data
• Data governance

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

The Global Coalition for Tech Justice is a newly formed global movement to ensure Big Tech plays its role in protecting elections and citizens’ rights and freedoms across the world, particularly in the global majority where companies – Meta/Facebook, Google/YouTube, Twitter, TikTok et al – have been negligent in dealing with the impacts of their social media and messaging products.

• 2024 elections

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Ethical tech and responsible tech