Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

• apps

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Ekō is 22,823,008 people stopping big corporations from behaving badly.

• Campaign organizations

Short-lived ideas + funding platform by the Government of Singapore

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Legislative district matching and elected official data

• Civic data
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Between 2015 and 2020, Doteveryone helped to provoke change in how tech is made and used so that it serves a fair, inclusive and sustainable democratic society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The latest bills and statements by members of Congress on the topics you care about - search the record

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

the project to develop the public services app

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

How emerging technologies are applied to journalism

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

• census

• Civic data
• Civic maps

We are civic tech collaboration that partners with the community to design technology-driven programs and services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

Broadband connectivity is crucial for access to the modern economy, as well as engagement in contemporary civic and political life

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

One of the key factors in a Nation’s democratic success is how engaged and inclusive her Government is

• Build something
• Accelerators

Good government in the 21st century means good technology. But often it seems too hard for new startups to get into the business of government, even though innovative public servants and entrepreneurs want to work together. That's where EthosLabs comes in.

• Civic and social impact companies

Get answers from the government and public sector

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

Vizalytics creates custom contextual insights from open and private data for enterprise, government, and institutional clients

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

MediaLab for Women provides journalists with training on how to manage gender-related open data and with support to investigate gender inequality in French speaking Africa. This project is making use of innovative content to raise awareness of gender and open data issues among journalists and civil populations in four countries.

• Solutions journalism

State by state tracking of election results in real time

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Across the country, Sunshine Week is marked by panel discussions, workshops and other events about using and understanding the latest developments in freedom of information resources.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Uses open-science to mitigate climate change. Open Climate Fix is a new non-profit research and development lab, totally focused on reducing greenhouse gas emissions as rapidly as possible.

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

We support the research, design, development, and deployment of technology-focused projects that counter online censorship and combat repressive surveillance, to enable global internet users to exercise their fundamental human rights online.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easily-digested information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.

• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization
• Digital participation platforms

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Digital literacy
• Hardware

It is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Holidays

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• cities
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Emerging tech

The Vanguard conference is an experiential urban leadership gathering of rising urban leaders working to improve cities across sectors, including urban planning, community development, entrepreneurship, government, transportation, sustainability, design, art and media. By selection only.

• cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Public People makes news more effective at supporting accountability and democracy

• Media

The CSAP uses interactive radio shows (radio dialogues in combination with SMS feedback) to enable citizens to hold their leaders to account by asking the hard questions

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Discover the people behind the world’s most innovative companies

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We provide software that ensures free speech online

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Interactive platform which makes available and accessible information on judicial decrees, hearings and other selected documents, that were published on pages of the Ministry of Justice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Le site qui vous donne la parole

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.

• racial equity

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

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

Meeting people where they already are

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

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
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

DataFirst provides easy online access to survey and adminstative microdata from South Africa and other African countries to researchers

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
• Building inside government

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes