Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas:

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Connectivity

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

Code for BTV is an organization based in Vermont that works on projects to address technology problems for social and civic justice organizations.

• Meet the others
• Civic apps outfits

Inactive -- Once you install the Android app, you can assign “trusted” status to your closest friends and family. Your trusted contacts will be able to see your activity status — whether you’ve moved around recently and are online — to quickly know if you're OK.

• apps
• civic features
• Android

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic features

Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Civic apps outfits
• Fieldwide resources

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Voter outreach
• Phone banking tools

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Relational organizing

You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.

• partisan
• courses

• Organize campaigns
• Online courses
• The craft of organizing

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Meeting tech
• Organize events

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Ranking of countries by their open government data governance processes

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.

• Awards and prizes

The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• Emerging Tech report (2020)

The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Justice tech

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them

• Civic data
• Mapping

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.

• Graveyard
• Meet the others
• Mastodon

eupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Mastodon

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

A virtual assistant for Filipinos on social welfare.

• Facebook

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Bots

An annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Mainstream media coverage

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports
• hurricanes

• Social media
• Public media

112 job boards, Maintained by Ted Fickes & Edward Saperia

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

A Starting Point is a video-based civic engagement platform created by Chris Evans, Mark Kassen, and technology entrepreneur Joe Kiani

• celebrities

• Civic literacy
• Shows and films

A map of Seattle and areas with accessibility in mind, including hill steepness and sidewalk curb barriers

• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Catalog of Digital Solutions is an interactive online tool providing data and resources for donors, governments, procurers, and implementers to support their digital initiatives.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Using AI to make journalism better. Together.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

Virtual visits to innovative newsrooms

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012

• apps
• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action

We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsletters

In just 30 minutes, we bring you insightful interviews with public interest technologists and guest experts on such pressing public interest issues as social justice, inequality and internet rights, the digital transformation, social change, the environmental justice, and more.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

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

OpenSPP is a scalable, integrated and digital social protection information system.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The World Ethical Data Forum is the only event in the world that embraces the full range of interrelated issues around the use and future of data.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Conferences

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good