The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy
• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

• Media
• Academia
• Courses

Inspirit Foundation program "to shift the Canadian narrative landscape for equity-seeking groups through pop culture."

• Reduced inequalities

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good.

• Get funding
• Holidays

The Opportunity Project for Cities puts open data to work. We bring together governments, community leaders, and tech volunteers to address local challenges through the power of open data and community engagement.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Incubators

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.

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

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Our chat bots, voice bots and process automation tools are used by millions of people, and businesses in every sector.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

Namati convenes the Legal Empowerment Network. In 2021, our membership grew to over 11,000 individuals and over 2,800 groups from 170 countries.

Connect and live more safely

• apps
• crime

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

At the Public Knowledge Workshop we apply technology to enhance democracy and to empower citizens.

Refugees as City-Makers

• city
• refugees
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Research and policy centers

The Association’s aim is to empower and upgrade the underprivileged and marginalized citizens in Egypt with a main focus on women, youth and children.

An independent, not-for-profit media organisation that holds power to account.

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

Powered by Ushahidi

The Ferret is an award winning investigative journalism co-operatitive powered by our readers and writers. Join us.

• Journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

DistrictBuilder puts the power of drawing electoral maps in the hands of the people. Redistricting can be a transparent process that represents communities fairly and prevents gerrymandering.

Kaggle is the world’s largest data science community with powerful tools and resources to help you achieve your data science goals.

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a donor collaborative working toward a democratic world where power and resources are more equally distributed; people are informed and empowered, governments and the corporate sector are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good.

• Foundation initiatives
• Open philanthropy

Kiln is the company behind behind Flourish, a powerful platform for visualising and storytelling with data.

Empowering Citizens, Enhancing Governance

Public Citizen is a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that champions the public interest – your interests – in the halls of power.

• Watchdogging and transparency

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

An organization dedicated to investigating corruption, injustice, and abuse of power in the federal government and advocating for reforms.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Viewfinder is an accountability journalism project in South Africa. Viewfinder conduct long term investigations into abuses of power which impact on the public interest – specifically as it relates to the need for equality and redress – in post-apartheid South African society.

• Investigative journalism tech

🚀 Empowering governance reformers through community strength!

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Qomon is the most innovative and user-friendly Mobilization platform & mobile app that powers non-profit organizations, campaigns, movements & advocacy groups worldwide to mobilize bigger using data & digital.

• 2024 elections
• US Election 2024
• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Catalyst California (formerly Advancement Project California) advocates for racial justice by building power and transforming public systems.

(a project of the Citizen Power Foundation)

CREW is a leading ethics watchdog organization that takes relentless legal and investigative actions holding people in power to account.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

It would be a game changer if more journalists and campaigners could understand financial statements. Power would be held to account more effectively.

A networked organisation, we work across Europe to connect citizens with the decisions that shape their lives.

• People Powered

MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice) is building a powerful grassroots movement for a more just and participatory media —fighting for racial, economic, and gender justice in a digital age.

• People Powered

ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office

• Gender Equality
• women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Bots

China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The Closing The Gap Conference is an annual assistive technology conference that presents an opportunity to deepen your assistive technology (AT) knowledge and strengthen your implementation strategies.

• Conferences
• Predecessors
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

ALL YOU CAN LEARN – Das ist nicht nur der Name unseres Aus- und Weiterbildungsprogramms, sondern auch unser Versprechen an dich!

• trainings

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

ArcGIS Field Maps is an all-in-one app that uses data-driven maps to help mobile workers perform data collection and editing, find assets and information, and report their real-time locations.

• Organize campaigns
• Canvassing & Doorknocking

The Digital Freedom Fund and its partner European Digital Rights (EDRi) are in the second phase of an initiative that emerged to decolonise the digital rights field.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Diversity & Inclusion

Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Voter registration

With a Mighty Network, you can bring your courses, memberships, and offers together in a powerful community under your own brand on iOS, Android, and the web.

• commercial

• Online forums
• Social networks

Initiative of Mobile World Capital Barcelona

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Citizen Engagement

The European Capital of Democracy Initiative will build a strong network of Cities that will foster participation; a platform for hope, and for exercising the will and power to change our world for the better.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Peer networks
• Awards and prizes

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research