The Risk and Response Fund is a $10 million pool of unrestricted resources that can be deployed with speed when a crisis strikes

• Media
• Journalism
• Get funding

Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) is an “accidental professional association” that began in Portland, Oregon in 2012 with a 16 member dinner group. Today, ELGL has grown to over 4800 members from all 50 states plus Canada, UK, Israel, and Australia.

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

• Communicating with the people
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.

• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

PwO is a technical consultancy that specializes in 0->1 product development and technology enablement in complex stakeholder environments, frequently touching government or the built environment, and often related to innovation and/or user experience-first initiatives.

• Build something
• Govtech vendors
• Building in the private sector

NoKunda was a pioneering civic tech initiative designed to catalyze a civic movement in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, enabling citizens to report instances of electricity theft to the relevant authorities.

• electricity

• Crowdsourcing
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Issue reporting

Os dados referem-se a eleições realizadas no Brasil entre 1945 e 2006 para os mais diversos âmbitos de governo. Incluem a competição eleitoral para a Presidência da República, para governos de estado, para a Câmara dos Deputados e para o Senado Federal.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Acervo de dados do Congresso Nacional coletados e organizados pelo NECON.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Decidim platform for Brazil's national participatory process (2023)

• Decidim
• Brazil (federal government)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."

• Social media
• Civic teams at tech companies

Indigenius Keyboard is a smart, multilingual keyboard supporting inclusive digital communication in 180+ Languages.

• Hardware
• Translation and linguistic representation

Digitizing Local Languages, Localizing Digital access for 1 Billion Africans

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

A Escola de Ativismo é um coletivo independente constituído em 2011 com a missão de fortalecer grupos ativistas por meio de processos de aprendizagem em estratégias e técnicas de ações não-violentas e criativas, campanhas, comunicação, mobilização e segurança e proteção integral, voltadas para a defesa da democracia e dos direitos humanos.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

#CityHallSelfie Day is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions.

• local

• Govtech
• Holidays

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

USAID launched IVR and Facebook chatbot tools that will provide Cambodian citizens clear, transparent information on public services available to them through the Royal Cambodian Government’s One Window Service Offices (OWSO).

• Facebook

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Velocidad was an accelerator program for Latin American digital media which took place between 2019 and 2021.

• Media
• Accelerators

The Digital Trade Alliance is a collaborative effort of digital rights and consumer groups assembled in 2018. The Alliance model provides effective advice and expertise to us in order to structure the transnational debate on digital trade.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Partner networks and coalitions

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Co-design

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) works in more than 100 countries to develop long-term relationships with civil society, governments, and the international community to strengthen civic space.

• Nonprofit tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Legal tech

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

The Purpose Platform is a global open source project committed to building multilingual campaigning and organizing tools for social good. Last updated 2015.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

De projectpartners zijn de gemeente Amsterdam, gemeente Groningen, Stichting Netwerk Democratie en DiA. In 2020-2021 gaan zij Polis testen en samen met andere gemeenten onderzoeken wat nodig is om op te schalen naar de rest van het land.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Group decision making

Digital Europe for All (DE4A) effectively puts forward a new Member State-driven large-scale pilot aimed at compliance with Single Digital Gateway and aligned with EU eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, Tallinn Declaration and EIF Implementation Strategy.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

150+ members pooling email audience information to drive list growth, donor growth, reactivation, and advocacy

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Email campaign tools

ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Archives

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Open science

We are raising €10 million to buy 112 rescue vehicles for Ukraine.

• Ukraine

• Crowdsourcing
• Emergency services

Die Plattform protestdata.eu beinhaltet Informationen zu Protestkampagnen und Protestaktionen von 1950 bis 2020, die in mehreren Forschungsprojekten gesammelt wurden.

• Civic maps
• Advocacy tech
• Archives

Een stembureau bij jou in de buurt, zo gevonden

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place

Report by the British Red Cross on aid groups' rush to use chatbots, from a skeptical perspective

• reports

• Bots
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Reports

Defunct platform offering info about parliament and matching users views to parties

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Nepalese government mobile app for citizens

• apps

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bureaucracy tech

The only FOSS-based service offering Matrix chat server hosting

• Matrix

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Open source
• Internal communication and coordination

Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?

• guides
• partisan
• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

IGUALA es el sistema de analítica avanzada del Ayuntamiento de Madrid para elaborar el Índice de Vulnerabilidad Territorial Agregado.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

WSA (World Summit Awards) is a unique awards system, selecting and promoting local digital innovation to improve society.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• city
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Conferences
• Meet the others

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu

• diaspora

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

To highlight the global knowledge base of behavioural insights work in public policy, and bring the achievements of institutions to the fore, the OECD launched the Behavioural Insights Knowledge Hub and map in 2021.

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs