An initiative that "aims to examine the cross-pollination of talent and innovative ideas between the public and private sectors

• News and blogs

The e-LIberate / openDCN tool supports synchronous online deliberation with the goal of making decisions. 

• Predecessors
• Deliberation
• Meeting tech

Democratizing information about the legal system

• apps

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Access to laws

With Stripe Climate, you can direct a fraction of your revenue to help scale emerging carbon removal technologies in just a few clicks. Join a growing group of ambitious businesses changing the course of carbon removal.

• Stripe
• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Civic features

Academy includes outcomes-driven online trainings for anyone, anywhere onthe essential skills and tools for making an impact in the 21st Century.

• trainings

• Govtech vendors

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

• Pro bono and volunteer

The Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation develops ideas and fosters practices for equal and inclusive, multiracial and multiethnic democracy and self-governance.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

SMARTFISH H2020 is an international research project which aims to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU fishing sector.

• Life below water
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

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

• reports
• public space

• Smart Cities and sensors

A platform built for accessible and consensus-driven public consultation, harnessing machine learning to derive quality insights. Cornell Tech Studio project

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• Find a job or hire someone

Mapping the videos of the US Capitol building attack

• Civic maps

Apolitical's list of climate policy breakthroughs by governments around the world

• Climate action

• Civic tech catalogs

While COVID-19 has put a temporary stop to our classroom-based training, we have created a library of online training courses to support local authority staff to learn and develop their digital skills.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Professional associations

A Field Guide to the Dark Ecologies of Newtown Creek is designed in phases that we are developing over time.

• local
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions

Signalboost gives grassroots organizers the power to communicate with mass audiences securely and directly via message broadcasts and hotlines.

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Hotlines

The full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Council’s vision is to improve government mission achievement and increase the benefits to the Nation through improvement in the management, use, protection, dissemination, and generation of data in government decision-making and operations.

• United States (federal government)

• Civic data
• Govtech

The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

Now available at https://hansard.parliament.uk/

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

DSFSG aims to enable collaboration within the data software for social good ecosystem and welcome a diverse and independent set of member projects.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Data science for social good

Paid directory listing site that organizes tech solutions by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data points:

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Civic tech catalogs

Connecting NGOs with Tech. A voluntary movement of tech companies to help non-governmental organizations around the world implement digital solutions to scale up their activities.

• Nonprofit tech
• Resource matching and sharing

• Graveyard
• Innovation teams and labs

You want to tell great stories? You’re not alone. Hostwriter powers the collaborative future of journalism.

• Media

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations

• Accelerators
• Tech or Digital Policy

PLACE is a non-profit data trust that creates and stewards hyperlocal mapping data for a membership community that is open to all and serves the public interest.

• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping tools

The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can

• guides

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Online courses

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic and social impact companies

Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivStart is a nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for underserved and unconnected communities through startups that build with local governments. Our goal is to help impactful innovations quickly enter the state & local market. [email protected] 80 M St. SE, Washington, DC 20003

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Govtech vendors

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

• Awards and prizes
• Smart Cities and sensors

Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Resident Fellows seek to advance society's understanding of surveillance capitalism and change the way Reset works by embedding within Reset to produce creative research and technology outputs.

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

Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.

• Govtech vendors

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

FOSS, govtech, and open data.

• Govtech
• News and blogs
• Procurement

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

• Promise trackers

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Bureaucracy tech

An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software.

• Find a job or hire someone

In this historic election, in addition to a traditional editorial that argues that the former vice president can restore the integrity of the presidency and set the country on a better path, the Globe editorial board make 12 cases for 12 different kinds of voters.

• US Election 2020

• Media

Open Justice Oklahoma (OJO) seeks to improve understanding of our justice system through analysis of public data.

• Civic data
• Justice tech

Taught by David Eaves

• Govtech
• Courses
• Digital transformation

An open technical standard providing publishers, creators, and consumers the ability to trace the origin of different types of media.

• Fight disinformation
• Data schemas and standards
• Content provenance

The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.

• People Powered

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

BoardTrack is a community board attendance tracking tool and data standard that helps community board staff submit attendance records to the Manhattan Borough President’s community board liaisons. In turn, liaisons can quickly analyze attendance history. By BetaNYC

• templates

• Meeting tech

Congress.gov is now OCRing the official Statutes at Large compilation, covering Congress's Generation X era of 1973-1994.

• guides
• United States (federal government)

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

We're looking for tech workers, researchers, journalists and content creators who want to tell the stories of collective action in tech in the Global South.

• labor

• Get funding
• Fellowships