At Organizer, we strive to build the tools you need to make canvassing and field outreach efficient, effective, and accountable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

A single platform to design for multiple transportation modes to thrive in your city.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.

• guides

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

• democracy
• free speech

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Mapping

Empowering everyone with a better understanding of content.

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

News from the intersection of Public Engagement, Civic Tech and Future Cities.

• Mainstream media coverage

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Help out

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

• STEM

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

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

EveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

TGL is committed to giving voice to underrepresented public interests and bringing more citizens into the public policy process.

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Help out

We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation focusing on EBT Food Stamps.

• apps

• Access social benefits

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the county, these awards are presented during NACo’s annual conference held each July.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

Smart donation form that embeds directly to your website or as a pop-up.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Nonprofit tech

Good Habit Lab is a web platform that will help people meet their health and wellbeing goals.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Building Free Technology Tools for We, The People

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

The purpose of this guide is to help PB implementers understand how they can use mass text messaging to effectively engage underrepresented communities in participatory budgeting (PB).

• guides

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools
• SMS tools

You have the right to request information from any publicly-funded body, and get answers. FrågaStaten helps you make a Freedom of Information request. It also publishes all requests online.

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

Start where you are

• Graveyard
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Clear Ballot is re-imagining elections with the world's most innovative and transparent voting system.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Design

Parliamentary monitoring in Ireland

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

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Today, Seabourne is advancing the state of the art for data integration, consolidation, and visualization tools.

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

This group is a place for those who facilitate online (or need to) can learn, share and make offers to the world as the Covid19 virus plays out.

• The People
• Meet the others
• COVID

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Community Prototype Fund supports the rapid development of innovative, viable and open Internet freedom technology prototypes that serve the immediate needs of the Internet freedom and human rights communities.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

The knowledge hub for start-ups and SME’s

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Through this programme, Fellows design and deliver targeted projects that contribute to the Centre's overall goal of increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Skews towards fundraising, organizations pay to post jobs

• The People
• Graveyard
• Find a job or hire someone

Providing an affordable website platform geared for political campaigns and organizations.

• Campaign tools

We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Social Media Scraper is a tool helping journalists and watchdogs to keep politicians accountable for the statements they make in social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Case management software for governments and nonprofits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Case management

A collection of tools and resources to learn and act on Brexit.

• Brexit

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

We create survey-based applications that organize information in ways which are easily accessible, scientifically rigorous, and profoundly personalized. In so doing, we offer compelling online experiences that promote civic engagement and informed dialogue.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections