State-by-state info making it easier to vote

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Gong is a civic megaphone that hinders corruption and builds a more democratic, just and equal society.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Freedom of Information

Our research suggests that stepping outside your echo chamber can make you more polarized not less

• X (Twitter)

• Bots
• Filter bubble poppers

A free relational organizing technique informed by behavioral science; a lightweight relational organizing approach that reaches non-activists; a commit-to-vote replacement that doesn’t insult your supporters.

• Organize campaigns
• Behavioral economics programs
• Relational organizing

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Indicators

UNLOCK Accelerator by Wikimedia Deutschland We accelerate your ideas. Together we build the future of Free Knowledge.

• Accelerators

An early video mapping project of Aspen, Colorado

• Civic maps
• Predecessors

The Fellowship Program is a 6-month program supported by Code for Pakistan, the KP IT Board, and the World Bank, where a team of talented researchers, designers, community organizers, and developers collaborate to build apps, inspire citizen engagement, improve government, and show how to innovate in public services

• Fellowships

By layering data relating to different social and environmental indicators, we hope to build a better picture of the circumstances of people living in urban areas and how their environment impacts their health.

• city
• Good health and well-being
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Evaluate impact
• Dashboards
• Indicators

Circular City Studio, a program established with support from NYCEDC, encourages entrepreneurs to reimagine urban environments and help New York City address short, medium, and long term challenges facing our city.

• Climate action

• Incubators

A development-focused map of Africa with layers for water, maize, etc.

• Civic maps

Solve for Good is the Data Science for Social Good Foundation's platform for social good organizations to post data projects they need help with, for volunteers to help scope those projects into well-defined problems, and to help solve those problems.

• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation
• Group decision making

Volunteer lawyers and legal aid advocates increasing access to justice From connecting attorneys to those most in need, to creating legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves, we make the law work for the many and not the few.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Resource matching and sharing

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Mapping tools

The Polarization Lab at Duke brings together scholars from the social sciences, statistics, and computer science to study how to bridge America’s partisan divide.

• Research and policy centers
• Filter bubble poppers
• Polarization

We partner with agencies to enable human-centered, digitally-assisted public benefits programs.

• Project 2025
• United States (federal government)

• Access social benefits

Empowering a faster, smarter emergency response Contextual emergency data: e.g

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Location

New_ Public: a magazine, a newsletter, and a community for better digital spaces. It's a home for the people who are building a community-serving, public-spirited tech future.

• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• News and blogs

Our union strives to protect Alphabet workers, our global society, and our world. We promote solidarity, democracy, and social and economic justice.

• Google
• labor

• Tech unions

White Collar Crime Risk Zones uses machine learning to predict where financial crimes are mostly likely to occur across the US. To learn about our methodology, read our white paper.

• white collar crime

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

Research ICT Solutions Ltd

• guides

• Connectivity

a research project and a research collective exploring the politics of big data broadly defined

• Research and policy centers

Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Civic features

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories

• Report cards and audits

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions
• Archives

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

Tifa Foundation is a grant-making organization that works to promote an open society by actively strengthening civil society in Indonesia.

• Funders & donors

A newsletter on democracy, organizing, movements and tech by Micah Sifry

• Newsletters

Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful Africa No Filter (ANF) is a donor collaborative that supports the development of nuanced and contemporary stories that shift stereotypical and harmful narratives within and about Africa.

• Media
• Narrative tech

Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Benefits Data Trust (BDT) is a national nonprofit that harnesses the power of data, technology, and policy to provide efficient and dignified access to assistance.

• Access social benefits

Filter and aggregate data to provinces or districts without code or mapping software

• Mapping tools

An open source infractructure for multi-stakeholder collaboration, enabling a shared representation of challenge goals, community and collaboration.

• Challenges

Report for America is a national service program that places emerging journalists into local newsrooms across the country to report on under-covered issues.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Defending Digital Campaigns makes our political process more secure by providing political parties and campaigns with knowledge, products and services to defend themselves from cyber threats and attacks.

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Compara aquí las posturas de distintos actores políticos para Chile

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

We build digital brands and products for the future of government. A digital brand and product design studio

• Social impact design firms

The XR Collaboratory (XRC) at Cornell Tech works with faculty, researchers and students from computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction, as well as practitioners in application areas such as healthcare, education, and architecture.

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Discover how deepfakes work and the visual clues you can use to identify them. We are a group of communication designers that have created this project to demonstrate our research into making our own deep fake, and to communicate the signs you can spot to identify them.

• guides

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation
• Digital literacy

People-powered news on your local government. We’re putting every public meeting on the record. A City Bureau project.

• local

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

A guide for state & local agencies on how to improve cross-organizational data sharing.

• guides

• Govtech
• Civic data

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

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

• Digital transformation
• 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

We are a specialist group of journalists, technologists, digital storytellers and development practitioners. We work together to tackle voicelessness, surfacing stories from unheard groups worldwide.

• Media

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Over 3,000 people are using this service to stay connected and maintain bonds

• Justice tech
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)