Shift Press is a media organization that provides journalism training and news that encourages Houston youth civic engagement.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

NowKalamazoo is a nonprofit community news service and a public resource for all who live, work, and play in Kalamazoo County, producing high-quality journalism that serves the public good and assisting citizens in accessing civic information, with a focus on communities that have been historically marginalized, harmed by the media, and/or otherwise kept from telling their own stories. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Arizona Luminaria is an independent nonprofit journalism organization publishing local news in English and Spanish. It provides equitable access to local information that empowers readers in Tucson and Southern Arizona—especially Latinx, Black, Indigenous, people of color, and other historically marginalized and underrepresented people—to participate in civic life and elections.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Allegheny Front educates the general public to become environmentally literate and understand the issues facing their communities. It reports on local and regional news and stories that connect people to their own communities so they can become part of the civic dialogue, raising awareness about state, regional, and local environmental issues that affect the region. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

ThreeSixty Journalism, a program of the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of St. Thomas, provides journalism and multimedia training opportunities to diverse Twin Cities youth whose communities are underrepresented, misrepresented, and absented in the information ecosystem. Grounded in the principles of journalism, committed to media literacy, and focused on contributing to accurate narratives, ThreeSixty offers technical, ethical, and entrepreneurial training for fulfilling careers in storytelling and civic leadership. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Our Times Newspaper, the legacy Black-owned newspaper in Evansville, Indiana, seeks to raise racial equity and address power structure imbalance by providing transformative civic journalism solutions to address the community’s news desert. Its mission is to provide truthful information to the public, foster civic engagement, promote accountability, and elevate the voice of the Black community. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Charlottesville Tomorrow delivers in-depth reporting and analysis that improves local decision-making in central Virginia. It seeks to expand civic engagement to foster a vibrant, inclusive, and interdependent community.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Boston Institute for Nonprofit Journalism (BINJ) supports the development and production of independent news reporting in Massachusetts. BINJ provides organizational support to community publications, runs reporting collaborations and civic engagement initiatives, trains new and early-career journalists, and produces bold, independent journalism. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

The Journal of Olympia, Lacey & Tumwater (The JOLT) nourishes the civic lives of the residents of Thurston County, Wash., and grows community capacity by publishing accurate, relevant, and entertaining stories that help people become better informed and more involved in local issues, events, and activities.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Excelsior Citizen connects and enriches the community of Excelsior Springs by delivering comprehensive local news, insightful community coverage, and effective civic engagement. It strives to be the leading source of local information that residents trust and rely upon. 

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

NonDoc’s mission is to produce and distribute quality journalism with context that enables civic involvement.

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

데이터트러스트는 공익 단체, 공공 기관, 시민, 연구자 등 다양한 주체들이 함께 공익 데이터를 생산, 관리, 공유하는 데이터 거버넌스 체계를 만듭니다. (DataTrust creates a data governance system in which various entities, including public interest organizations, public institutions, citizens, and researchers, work together to produce, manage, and share public interest data)

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Data governance

The Sunday Show is the weekly (and sometimes more often) podcast from Tech Policy Press.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts
• Tech or Digital Policy

Join our newsletter on issues and ideas at the intersection of tech & democracy.

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

We’ve put this guide together to point you to some of the brilliant resources available for UK activists.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Our goal is to identify, categorize, and quantify existing organizations, networks, and funders who work to promote and protect healthy democracy in America. We aim to create a compelling, interactive resource that educates and empowers users to engage in democracy.

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs
• Civic literacy

The most comprehensive, insightful, and accessible data platform for the U.S. nonprofit Democracy field.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs

Moved by these challenges, Nova SBE’s team, represented by the Nova SBE Data Science Knowledge Center, started mapping the social ecosystem by creating a public and easily accessible platform aimed at providing quality information in a simple, intuitive, complete, and fair way about all social and environmental impact organizations in Portugal.

• Civic data
• Nonprofit tech

Helping Others Help Others

• Build something
• Nonprofit tech
• Civic and social impact companies

A powerful tool designed to train reinforcement learning agents to optimize energy consumption and minimize carbon emissions in buildings.

• buildings
• Google
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Environmental data

Get energy data with a few lines of code

• Affordable and clean energy

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Environmental data

The aim of the UN World Data Forum is to spur data innovation, nurture partnerships, mobilize high-level political and financial support for data, and build a pathway to better data for sustainable development.

• United Nations

• Civic data
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A full suite of mapping and geodata tools developed by and for Medecins Sans Frontieres

• Good health and well-being

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

A comprehensive collection of six years of telemetry data from three Google buildings, providing real-world insights for developing and validating optimal control solutions.

• Climate action
• buildings
• Google

• Civic data
• Environmental data

Civic tech participatory platform focusing on local level (municipalities). Kάνε ερωτήσεις και προτάσεις στο Δημοτικό Συμβούλιο, οργάνωσε εθελοντικές δράσεις , συνδιαμόρφωσε τον προϋπολογισμό του Δήμου και πάρε μέρος στις διαβουλεύσεις και στην αξιολόγησή του

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The Hand-in-Hand (HiH) Geospatial Platform is the enabling tool for the HiH Initiative unlocking over 2 million data layers for more targeted, evidence-based interventions.

• United Nations
• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• Civic data
• Open civic data
• Dashboards

The Upward Mobility Dashboard helps people understand key conditions affecting upward mobility from poverty and racial equity in communities.

• Reduced inequalities
• No poverty

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Dashboards

Cooperative AI is an emerging research field focused on improving the cooperative intelligence of advanced AI for the benefit of all.

• courses

• Artificial Intelligence
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Vote map and data dashboard showing support for elected representatives in Cali, Colombia

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Government transparency

Cada pessoa embaixadora de inovação cívica atua na organização de eventos locais, bate-papos, documentação de processos e, claro, na integração com os demais participantes da rede.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Jarbas, a public panel of [Brasilian] parliamentary reimbursements, where suspicious purchases are easily accessible for public scrutiny.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Free online course at ITU Academy funded by the EU

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

This map shows municipal networks across the United States.

• Civic maps
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Research and Technology Lab

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

デジタル空間社会連携研究機構ではIoTデバイスからのデータなどの多様でダイナミックなリアルタイム時空間ビッグデータを一元的に集約し、これらを統合した形で人々や企業の活動、交通

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Mapping

A tool to help you run local campaigns with local data.

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Data activism

In this podcast, we (Hal and Saya) will explore civictech in Japan and across the world.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Make your campaign wiser with data & AI

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

GovTech Glossary contains definitions of key terms, concepts, and acronyms commonly found in the GovTech Maturity Index (GTMI) online survey.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

Data visualization plots showing the changing trends in outdoor concentrations of particulate matter (PM2.5) air pollution from 1850 to 2021 in cities around the world

• air quality

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Environmental data

FireBench is the largest high-fidelity wildfire simulation dataset, enabling the generation of ensembles of fire evolution scenarios and combining observational environmental data with high-fidelity simulations.

• fires

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Digital twins

Why grassroots data activists in Latin America count feminicide—and how this vital social justice work challenges mainstream data science.

• women
• Gender Equality
• books

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Data activism

They will play a critical role in the collaboration of the U.S. National Action Plan for Open Government (NAP 6) and support for broader open government initiatives. 

• Project 2025
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Government transparency

Customizable and skinnable social platform dedicated to (open)data.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

InvenioRDM is a turn-key research data management (RDM) repository platform based on Invenio Framework and Zenodo.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

La herramienta para crear historia con datos del portal nacional de datos abiertos

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Story tech

A platform dedicated to monitoring and exposing censorship in Google Play Stores worldwide. We hope this initiative will be a step towards greater transparency and the promotion of digital freedom.

• Google
• free speech

• Civic data
• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

OpenGovLoc, a digital transformation project, is a scaling-up operation in 4 priority municipalities and the involvement of 20 other municipalities in the use of digital technology to promote accountability and local participation led by young people.

• Civic data
• Journalism
• Freedom of Information

El programa Cali Cómo Vamos, el laboratorio ciudadano Mi Cali Contrata Bien, la Unidad de Acción Vallecaucana y el observatorio Cali Visible, ponen a disposición una ruta de obtención de datos referidos a indicadores de bienestar y gestión pública de la ciudad.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Kepler.gl is a powerful open source geospatial analysis tool for large-scale data sets.

• Civic data
• Mapping tools