First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.

• Good health and well-being

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Since Sliced Bread was a national call for fresh, common sense ideas, organized by the SEIU.

• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This lab anticipates, assists with, and responds to various legal issues unique to internet freedom projects.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The easiest way to keep track of what’s happening on social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Tracking Donald Trump's Campaign Promises. It is a project by the fact-checking organization Politifact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

"A five-member team of Amazon product and program managers connecting with nonprofits worldwide and are ready to respond to requests for resources during a disaster." - GovTech

• Amazon

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

The Estonian dream is to have as little state as possible, but as much as is necessary. Thanks to e-solutions, communications with the state are fast and convenient for all, and our country is more effective as a result.

• The Tech
• Govtech

ePart è la soluzione web per la gestione partecipativa dei cittadini alla gestione degli ambienti urbani. Consente ai cittadini di interagire con l'amministrazione pubblica segnalando disagi e disservizi presenti sul territorio

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Tell your advocates' stories. Change policy.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

Communicate your stance on issues you care about directly to your congressperson

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Social impact design firms

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Public School empowers government organizations to become more impactful problem-solvers.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

The Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative offers a number of programs focused on helping schools to expand computer science (CS) exposure, offer access to robust CS experiences, and foster a sense of belonging in computer science for students.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Quand la technologie change la politique, les institutions et leur relation aux citoyens #CivicTech #GovTech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Opportunity Project helps teams use federal open data to build solutions to our nation’s toughest challenges.

• methodology

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Data governance

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

A metadata description standard for public software

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The MARC formats are standards for the representationand communication of bibliographic and related information in machine-readable form.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Master Directory for OpenMapKit

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A Pronunciation Guide for Names

• In-person meetings

A game of forecasts and action

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations

• partisan

• Civic and social impact companies

A transparency initiative led by the California Department of Justice that publishes criminal justice data so we can understand how we are doing, hold ourselves accountable, and improve public policy to make California safer.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech