A US-based campaign

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

KivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Hubs

En 2015, Transparencia Mexicana (TM) y el Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) lanzaron la plataforma independiente #3de3 para promover y recibir las declaraciones de situación patrimonial, de intereses y fiscal de quienes competían por un cargo de elección popular.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

A first-of-its-kind resource that defines corporate civic engagement, providing clear tools to help more companies become active players in strengthening the resiliency of our democracy

• commercial

• Playbooks and design principles
• Building in the private sector

At Nava, we work with government agencies to provide digital services that are simple, accessible, and effective for all. Now, a supermajority of eligible employees have come together to form our union, Nava United, which is affiliated with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Tech Workers Union Local 1010.

• labor

• Civic tech unions

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

• The People
• Graveyard
• In-person meetings

By Christopher Whitaker Edited by Daniel X. O'Neill

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.

• Quality education

• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

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
• Civic literacy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Each will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support

• Funders & donors
• Academia

The Audit Law Database describes state laws, regulations and procedures for post-election audits in states across the country.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

We make one-year, $50,000 investments in faculty from across the university who want to conceptualize new impact labs through participation in our year-long Impact Lab Design Fellowship.

• Fellowships
• Design

EarthFund is using 15% of its equity (plus contributions and LP rewards) to build a planet-saving treasury, controlled by you.

• Climate action

• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)
• Blockchain

Games and gamification for local engagement

• Games and gamification

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing portals

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Open source networks
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital Public Goods

As an office within the General Services Administration, we know how to work with government. Partner with 18F to deliver projects that fulfill federal rules, stay within budget, and provide excellent value to the public.

• Project 2025
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Service delivery

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

• The People
• Peer networks
• Meet the others

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

• Digital literacy
• Tech talent
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world.

• Media
• Journalism

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Graveyard
• Govtech vendors

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Data visualization
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Network visualizations

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Digital participation platforms

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.

• Open asks

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

Democracy and participatory political group in Guayaquil

• Participatory democracy

The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change.

• books

• Design
• Books

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

• Civic data

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Help more people run for office

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

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• State and regional government technology

A 501(c)3 nonprofit that works with residents, organizations, and municipalities to help improve the quality of life of all people in communities. We do this through engagement, education, connection and design.

• Design

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online

Since 2002, the Fund for Global Human Rights has raised and invested over $100 million into the work of community activists in more than 25 countries, providing these bold local leaders with the funding, tools and contacts they need to tackle some of the world’s greatest challenges

• human rights

The GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte / Society for Civil Rights) is a Berlin-based non-profit NGO founded in 2015. Its mission is to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe.

Concise civic engagement research summaries

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Peer-reviewed research

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Teams of researchers will work with up to 350 partner organisations on a range of topics and themes, including how data-driven innovation can improve public services in the region, the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

It provided an easy way for constituents to sign up to hear from their MPs, and a simple online forum for discussion.

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the people
• Communicating with the government

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Civic tech catalogs
• Peer networks
• Crowdsourcing

Empoweringdisplaced personswith technologyOUR ACTIONS INNOVATIONWe support and help the deployment of responsible technology products and services for and with displaced persons across the world since 2015.

• refugees

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

The eCityGov Alliance offers easily accessible online government services. Our regional solutions provide one-stop convenience and deliver services from the customer perspective.

• The People
• Build something
• State and regional government technology

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Fellowships