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

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

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

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

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

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

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

Database of hundreds of resources about nonviolent civil resistance

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech catalogs

This book analyzes how mainstream and new parties are building their digital platforms and transitioning from traditional (offline) organizations into the digital world

• books

• Group decision making
• Books
• Political parties

Our nonprofit organization, OpenAI, Inc., is launching a program to award ten $100,000 grants to fund experiments in setting up a democratic process for deciding what rules AI systems should follow, within the bounds defined by the law.

• Get funding
• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

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

• local

• Community wifi

A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources

A new, independent global science organization committed to providing actionable scientific knowledge about threats to the world’s information environment

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

2023 MOOC organized by Knight

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Online courses

In this course, you will learn how stories and narratives make disinformation popular and credible and how to counter dangerous beliefs and attitudes.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Narrative tech

The Government of Uganda, through Ministry of ICT and National Guidance constructed the National ICT Innovation Hub primarily to establish an environment for ICT innovators facing challenges of workspace and internet connectivity.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

by Mark Findlay, Sharanya Shanmugam. In this article, through vignettes from the United Kingdom and Singapore’s experience, we highlight how digital transformation can be made more participatory for users affected by digital initiatives.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

A platform to evaluate the most complex of India's technology policy conundrums

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Govtech vendor whose live audio translation has been used to translate 911 calls in realtime

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Emergency services

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online

• Wordpress

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Our new policy makes Pinterest the only major digital platform to have clearly defined guidelines against false or misleading climate change information, including conspiracy theories, across content and ads.

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards
• Pinterest

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Civic features

Computer scientists for e-democracy Facebook Group

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Data visualization nominated for 2023 Webby Award

• mental health
• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Data visualization

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

An Airtable of 30 anti-corruption projects

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech
• Research tools

Located on the second floor of our headquarters at 1800 F Street NW, Washington, D.C., the Workplace Innovation Lab showcases the latest innovations in office design, furniture, and technology to meet the needs of today’s hybrid federal workers.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Remote government

Brave Conversations seeks to explore the inter-relationship betweens humans, society and technology - as we develop smart tecnologies we need to become smarter humans!

We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Building in the private sector

ICLD’s mission is to support democratic participation and change at the local level.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

El Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital es un concurso online y gratuito donde pueden participar todas las iniciativas digitales de diversa índole (web, blogs, redes sociales u otras herramientas) que promuevan un cambio positivo en la sociedad.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

In 1999, Jeff Skoll created the Foundation to build a sustainable world of peace and prosperity for all.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Facebook Group with over 6,000 members

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Manage volunteers

Academic center at the University of Canberra, Australia and publisher of the Journal of Deliberative Democracy

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Academia

This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Reports

A research article in the Journal of Deliberative Democracy by Espen Leirset

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Communicating with the people

With branches at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, IPL is an international community of scholars dedicated to innovation in immigration policy.

• immigration
• refugees

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Federal Innovation Council seeks to build a culture of innovation and experimentation in government by enabling and empowering federal employees to meet the challenges of 21st century governance.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Roundtables

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy
• Academia

The Initiative on Cities serves as a hub for urban related research and teaching across Boston University. We engage with urban leaders, policymakers, academics, and students from around the world to work toward sustainable, just, and inclusive urban transformation.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

An inactive wiki guide to e-consultation

• guides
• wikis

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of data and technology.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech