Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science

• cities
• mobility

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

CODE, founded as the Center for Open Data Enterprise, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good.

• Roundtables

The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way

• supply chain

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Vilsquare strives to achieve digital transformation in different communities across Nigeria and all Africa, through use of open science technologies and methodologies

• Digital transformation
• Open science

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Let's change the feedback game

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Public access and participation in the digital age, by and with the people of Hampton Roads, Virginia

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Open-source budget visualization framework

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Effective public engagement is not easy to achieve. This roadmap helps organizations get to where they want to go.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Uliza Wakili LLP aims to provide low-cost alternative dispute resolution and legal advice to SMEs and startups.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Harnessing Data Science to Measure and Counter Hate Speech & Crime

• harassment
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

CIVICS is the first civic innovation map developed daily by citizens throughout Latin America.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

• No poverty

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

We enable leading organisations working in the peace, justice and humanitarian sector to spearhead digital innovations to increase their impact on society.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Explore what the world is searching

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots

• g0v

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.

• The People
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

Social change organizations job platform

Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Helping recruit and support under-35 year old progressives running for down-ballot office to build a Democratic bench.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Turn helps social impact organisations have personal, guided conversations that improve lives at scale.

Katere projekte je izvajala država v letu 2015

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Narrative tech
• Network visualizations

a trade group representing peer-to-peer texting apps

• Graveyard
• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS

Transcripts of public meetings should be easy to find, search or share

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Loup is a human-centered design and innovation consultancy that helps organizations listen to and learn from the people they serve.

• Social impact design firms

The District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, DC Code §§ 2-531-539, provides that any person has the right to request access to records.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

The University of Washington and city of Seattle have joined a new national network of university-city partnerships

• Working groups

Through StimuLab, the Digitization Directorate and DOGA will stimulate public innovation from the users' perspective. We support state and municipal businesses that dare to rethink roles and systems and are willing to change these to provide better services to users.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Procurement

Ruck.us can give you a high-powered, attractive political website in five minutes.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Citizenscape was a simple, manageable and cost-effective way for you to start getting involved in all the local social media conversation.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The State Decoded parser can either be modified to use bespoke PHP to parse a legal code in its native format, or it can parse a prescribed XML format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Code for Japan Brigade based in Nerima-ku, Tokyo

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We have compiled and organized more detailed information on specific topics to help operationalize recommendations in the guides and provide links to useful articles, examples and existing evaluation reports we found in our research.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Center for Information and Communication Technology for Development ICT for Empowerment and Development​

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware