Human-centered design frameworks start by identifying who a product is for and then placing them at the center of the product strategy

• Design
• Toolkits

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Politize Embaixadas (Embassies) program trains thousands of Brazilian youth to create influential citizen leaders in cities

• youth
• trainings
• city

• Civic literacy

We empower startup innovators and pioneering partners to better collaborate and create scalable impact to speed up the EU’s goal to create 100 sustainable cities by 2030.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• Accelerators
• Social impact design firms

The cities in this Atlas represent the vanguard of urban governments that are hosting tests, developing their own autonomous vehicle (AV) pilots, making plans and policy, and monitoring developments in AV technologies, uses, and markets.

• mobility
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Automated Vehicles

Greater Good Studio is a design firm dedicated to the social sector.

• Design
• Social impact design firms

This site gives you a clever way to explore historical aerial imagery of New York City. You can click and drag on the map to "scratch off" the historical imagery and reveal the same location's present-day imagery. By Chris Whong

• history

• Civic maps
• Games and gamification

Community Based Alternatives to the Police Not911 is designed to direct you to New York City-based organizations that offer counseling, mediation and intervention services.

• apps

• Access social benefits
• Justice tech

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

FastFWD is a partnership among The City of Philadelphia, GoodCompany Group, a social enterprise accelerator, and the Wharton Social Impact Initiative.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Accelerators

By CivicMakers: The City [of SF] turned to CivicMakers to create a new program, Public Voice SF, that allows any San Francisco department or agency to connect to a diverse group of community members, collect real-time feedback, and use the input to improve City services.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• User research
• User research groups

ᴜᴄʟᴀʙ is a visualization research group situated  between design, computing, and the humanities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

The Digital Equity Laboratory uncovers and addresses structural inequities that persist and evolve as technology transforms our cultural, social, and political systems.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom

• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Books

We are a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative in New York City.

• mobility
• gig workers

• Platform coops

All In: Data for Community Health is a nationwide learning collaborative that helps communities build capacity to address the social determinants of health through multi-sector data sharing collaborations.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Digital literacy

Parliamentary Network Africa (PNAfrica) is a convenor and connector of civil society parliamentary monitoring organizations and journalists towards promoting Open Parliaments across Africa.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• city
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Bringing organizations in Detroit together for cross-sector collaboration on urban innovation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and effectively.

• Govtech
• Civic data

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech vendors

A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

CIR is a non-profit social enterprise dedicated to countering disinformation & exposing human rights abuses.

• Ukraine
• human rights

• Fight disinformation

With every genuine advance in the field of ‘artificial intelligence,’ we see a parallel increase in hype, myths, misconceptions and inaccuracies. These misunderstandings contribute to the opacity of AI systems, rendering them magical, inscrutable and inaccessible in the eyes of the public.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• city
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The People
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

• city

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Six European cities are looking for #AI solutions to accelerate carbon neutrality using pre-commercial procurement.

• city
• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Lutece is an open source platform developed by the City of Paris to help you develop digital solutions.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Issue reporting

This site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

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

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

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

• public space

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Ideation

A design study and report on how digital technology is changing how we design cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Design

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence

Games and gamification for local engagement

• Games and gamification

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

San Francisco Digital Services works with other City departments to improve public services. We use technology to make it easier for people to get things done.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Service delivery

The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,408 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.

Consul is one of the leading open source citizen participation platforms. It's built on Ruby on Rails and deployed in dozens of cities around the world. It was originally built by the City of Madrid.

• Consul

Municipality & Town Government WordPress Theme

• Wordpress
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Website builder

A collection of data-enriched NYC maps for election results, mutual aid groups, official city boundary data, and more.