A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

The National League of Cities is a resource and advocate for the nation's cities and their leaders.

Apax the global private equity advisory firm that owns Bonterra, the umbrella company holding many of the political organizing and fundraising tools in the US.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Working towards a corruption-free society

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Citizens Network Watchdog Poland is an independent, apolitical and non-profit organization in the form of a watchdog and think-do-tank organization for the public benefit.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

시민 참여, 협력, 자치를 확대하는 시민 플랫폼 (Citizen Platforms)

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The World Urban Campaign (WUC) is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive urban change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well planned cities

Skaidresnės Lietuvos link! Esame viešosios politikos organizacija, kurios tikslas – įgyvendinti skaidrumo bei antikorupcines iniciatyvas.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Black Sash Trust is a 66 year old veteran human rights organisation advocating for social justice in South Africa.

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve

The Clinic to End Tech Abuse (CETA) helps survivors of intimate partner violence end tech-related abuse.

• anti-harassment
• domestic violence

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We create data and technology solutions for better health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. By working alongside health advocates, governments, local communities, donors, and manufacturers, we provide reliable

• health
• vaccines
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Media
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change.

• books

• Books
• Design

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Our mission is to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic and social impact companies

The Anti-Corruption Data Collective brings together leading journalists, data analysts, academics and policy advocates to expose transnational corruption flows and push for policy change using the advocacy reach of ACDC partners

Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

• immigration

Katiba Institute works to achieve social transformation in Kenya through the Constitution

The African Media Initiative strengthens Africa’s media sector through advocacy, investments, technology, and training.

Our independent, non-profit organization provides policy advice and advocacy infused with lessons learned in the field and with insights developed through rigorous research

The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa seeks to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

Directorio Legislativo is an Argentina-based research and advocacy organisation focusing on legislative transparency, consensus building and research on current regulatory affairs.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

SERAP uses human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination through advocacy, research, education and litigation.

• human rights
• research
• No poverty

The Right2Know Campaign launched in August 2010 and has grown into a movement centred on freedom of expression and access to information

Tax Justice UK is a campaigning and advocacy organisation, working to ensure that everyone in the UK benefits from a fair and effective tax system

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

• No poverty
• Reduced inequalities

Open Secrets is a non-profit organisation which exposes and builds accountability for private sector economic crimes through investigative research, advocacy, and the law.

Transparency International aims to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability, and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Lateral Economics do things differently so that their clients reap the rewards

ONE is a campaigning and advocacy organisation of nearly four million people, taking action to end extreme poverty and preventable disease, particularly in Africa.

• No poverty
• Good health and well-being

Korean online petition platform for citizen-driven campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Most Powerful Way to Advocate for Your Community

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Greenfly is the leader in digital media monetization. The Greenfly software platform empowers organizations to collect, organize and distribute digital media to partners and advocates to build awareness on social media, increase loyalty and drive revenue growth.

• Organize campaigns
• Social media
• Creators and Influencers

Parliamentary oversight and citizen engegement with the legislative process.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Data Coalition advocates on behalf of the private sector and the public interest for the publication of government information as standardized, machine-readable data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Prior to the inauguration of President Donald Trump, Sunlight joined other transparency advocates in expressing concern about the future of open government data in the United States. We highlighted the ways an administration could alter government data that fell short of outright removal, from defun

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Archives

Forget clipboards and data entry. Mobile canvassing with MiniVAN 8 provides a better, more intuitive canvassing experience for everyone involved.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The data flow layer for political tech. Making data accessible to progressive tools has never been more important.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

BudgIT is a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Budget explorers

Taskforce is a volunteer group working at the intersection of technology and politics.

• Organize campaigns

Nigeria's promise tracking website.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Public Data for Public Use

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency