Our mission is to promote the advantages of online participation in all kinds of contexts, from international organisations to small local initiatives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Fellowships

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Here's a list of actions, ideas, ways to help, volunteer and donation opportunities to help those impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.

• racial equity

• The People
• Campaign organizations

Konveio turns regular PDFs into social documents for draft reviews, interactive reports, digital workshops or immersive guides and training materials.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

See contact information and details about Social Coin.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

• crisis
• Google
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Transparencia is a platform for access to administrative documents (subsidies, public markets, etc.) developed by Anticor Belgium

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

The platform for education and learning.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Explore the far reaches of the world, right in your browser.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Create campaign websites and embed email, call-in, fundraising and social network actions targeting politicians and decision makers anywhere in the world.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Communicating with the government

What if you are subjected to domestic violence?

• women
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

De Blasio Administration Launches NYCx to Stimulate Economic Growth, Create Jobs and Solve Big Challenges Through New Technologies

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Civicbudget is an open source participative platform enabling any organization, public or private, to launch a consultation process.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Defend yourself against tracking and surveillance. Circumvent censorship.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A report on innovations attempted by Mobile Network Operators following the major earthquake in Nepal

• earthquakes

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

IDEO brings together technologists and social innovators to imagine new uses for these “flying helpers"

• Drones

the easiest way to find local freelancers

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

WeSpeak is a citizen feedback platform

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

CIRCLE is a non-partisan, independent research organization focused on youth civic engagement in the United States.

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

When conversations are held in public, everyone’s accountable

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Livestream discussion on March 15th hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change

• Organize campaigns
• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

This map shows the combined areas forming a 10-minute "walkshed" around NYC's 470 subway stations.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

P-lab es una firma evolutiva, adáptativa, creativa e innovadora, para el diseño y prototipo de soluciones para generación y aprovechamiento de valor público

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

iCampus is Liberia’s first multi-disciplinary, innovation and community space for change-makers focusing on the intersection of technology, accountability and social change

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

Embeddable map of parallel events and buses going to the People's Climate March in Washington, DC.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

• Gender Equality
• women's health

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

A game that puts you in the mindset of propagandists and agents promoting fake news, propaganda and hate-speech to help the user understand how fake news is made and promoted

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Deze tool brengt alle onderwijs- en onderzoeksprojecten van de HvA in kaart en is een startpunt voor onderlinge samenwerking. Kijk, ontdek, deel en doe mee met HvA in de Stad!

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The Human Utility provides assistance to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.

• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

To make VR production more accessible, rent professional cameras, lenses, lighting and more from 5-star vetted vendors in your neighborhood.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration among SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google to map and measure fishing activity worldwide using data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a ship-tracking system used by large fishing vessels.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Grow Progress lets you unlock more support through the power of persuasion science.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

The United States Digital Service is transforming how the federal government works for the American people. And we need you.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Citizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Applied makes recruitment smart, fair and easy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone

Civic I/O is a network of innovators and instigators committed to the hard work of progressing their cities. United by a common drive and ambition, civic leaders join together to help each other imagine and realize what is truly possible, altering the course of their city’s future and making a lasting impact.

• cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

POINT Conference (Political Accountability and New Technologies) is the largest conference in SEE and seeks to be a platform for civil society that encourages the use of new technologies – tool for education about the use of new technologies and social networks; forum for exchange of views and experiences; incubator for the development of ideas, projects and strategies; virtual place for networking and informing socially conscious Internet users; as well as a social network for exploring and searching for partners and associates and building coalitions.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Wilson Center Commons Lab: “In 2011, residents of Macon, Georgia received over $65,000 in free local currency—with a catch."

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

A mobile application that enables anyone in Ghana to use their mobile phones to safely record corruption activities in their communities. Built in partnership with the Tiger Eye Foundation, it has security features that ensure the safety of citizens who use it.

Help build the free database of UK election candidates

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech