DUBAWA is Nigeria’s independent verification and fact-checking platform, initiated by the Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism (PTCIJ) and supported by the most influential newsrooms and civic organisations in the country to help amplify the culture of truth in public discourse, public policy, and media practice.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Mission: Determine the veracity of the political statements that refer to specific data based on their contrast with reliable sources.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Suara Masyarakat (Community Voices) is an Internews Europe project with local Malaysian partners on a 36-month project which aims to strengthen capacity of Malaysian media as the key actor in promoting good governance, transparency and accountability.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

• Media
• Journalism

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

South Asia Check is an independent, non-partisan, non-profit initiative by Panos South Asia which aims to promote accuracy and accountability in public debate.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Goal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administration.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

PUSAD is a center for research on religion and democracy, they conduct research on hate speech and political disinformation.

• hate speech

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Digital Enquirer Kit is centered around misinformation, fact-based research and digital security.

• guides

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Centre for Policy Alternatives (CPA) was formed in the firm belief that there is an urgent need to strengthen institution and capacity-building for good governance and conflict transformation in Sri Lanka and that non-partisan civil society groups have an important and constructive contribution to make to this process.

• Engagement tech
• Local news
• Citizen Engagement

Learn about, discover resources, and explore research on the industry using our personal data to influence citizens in political campaigns.

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Urban AI is a Think Tank that proposes ethical modes of governance and sustainable uses of urban AI.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

New York City is launching the second cohort of its NYC[x] Innovation Fellows program to expand on this successful collaboration, embedding small teams of technologists with City agencies to rapidly solve specific challenges through the use of best practices in digital service delivery.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships
• Pro bono and volunteer

The People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions
• Citizen Engagement

The Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer has developed the NYC Internet of Things Strategy in order to support a healthy cross-sector IoT ecosystem in New York City – one that is productive, responsible, and fair.

• Smart Cities and sensors

The 2021 Global Mayors Challenge is the farthest reaching, most ambitious to date

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Get funding
• Challenges

596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• Specific campaigns

One Dollar Lots documented each time NYC sells or plans to sell a vacant lot to developers for $1. This tool can help New Yorkers better shape how dollar sales of public land impact our neighborhoods and city.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

Tracking the development and thinking of the newest undergraduate program at UM's Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Newsletters

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed our recovery from Covid-19

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Challenges
• COVID Government Projects

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• city
• racial equity

• Media

Arquitectura, Arte y Diseño del Tecnológico de Monterrey; es un espacio queofrece información actual y útil que permite el análisis, medición yevaluación de las ciudades mexicanas, para incidir en la planeación y latoma de decisiones que contribuirán a mejorar la calidad de vida urbana delas personas.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Indicators

With the Beta launch of the Angeleno Account, the City of Los Angeles is building the foundation for a common account to access your City apps.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official Digital Identity Systems

DEDA helps data analysts, project managers and policy makers to recognize ethical issues in data projects, data management and data policies.

• toolkits
• resources

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago.

• racial equity

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

A first-of-its-kind effort for community, non-profit, and private organizations to share data with the City to aid in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• COVID Data Projects
• Public Private Partnerships

This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs

DxD is an annual exhibition celebrating tangible and multimedia expressions of New York City’s Open Data. It provides space for creative engagement with data and new perspectives and understanding of its role in our society.

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

A space to enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

• local

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Civic Bridge recruits private sector professionals to volunteer their time to work alongside government employees on critical City issues

• Pro bono and volunteer

The Anti-Racism Extended Reality Studio, or UA-ARXRS hopes to test the capacity of immersive and interactive “extended reality” tools, including volumetric video capture, virtual reality and digital narrative.

• racial equity

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

An intelligent urban measurement project that’s changing our understanding of cities and urban life. The Array of Things (AoT) is a collaborative effort among scientists, universities, federal and local government, industry partners, and communities to collect real-time data on urban environment, infrastructure, and activity for research and public use

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less

• X (Twitter)

• Bots
• Filter bubble poppers

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Indicators

By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.

• city
• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Evaluate impact
• Dashboards
• Indicators

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• News and blogs

Created in 2009-2010, Town+Gown is a city-wide university-community partnership program, resident at the New York City Department of Design and Construction (DDC), that brings academics and practitioners together to create actionable knowledge in the built environment.

• Research and policy centers
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Public Private Partnerships

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions
• Archives

To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Awards and prizes

In 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.

• Govtech

Plan✕ is a platform for creating and publishing digital planning services. It aims to make planning less hard work, for everyone.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

Harvard report on “smart city” technology risks to civil liberties.

• reports
• public space

• Smart Cities and sensors

Mobilizing the next generation of technologists to create civic impact in cities and states across the country.

• Find a job or hire someone

This program enables you to submit comments about certain District agencies and view how District residents graded those agencies. The goal is to help you better engage with your government and help government agencies to improve the quality of their services.

• city

• Report cards and audits

Explore how your local criminal justice system performs.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Justice tech