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

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Meeting tech
• Forms

the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals

• racial equity

• Conferences
• Peer networks

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight

• census

• Bots

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

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Awards and prizes

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

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

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

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

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out
• Open science

The We Be Imagining Podcast examines the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability in the COVID-19 era.

• Podcasts

Explore data on refugee community locations and resources in the United States. Built by Graphicacy with UNHCR.

• refugees

• Civic maps

A new podcast from The Policy Lab

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Podcasts

Tech tips for nonprofit peeps. Do well while doing good.

• Nonprofit tech
• News and blogs

The Technology Assessment Design Handbook offers both GAO’s own staff and other interested users tools and approaches to think about when designing technology assessments.

• handbooks
• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Procurement

Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.

• Games and gamification

We are crowd-sourcing a collection of comics on social good topics created by artists around the world, to encourage public understanding on complex social issues.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Artistic interventions

Stiftung Neue Verantwortung is a German non-profit think tank based in Berlin that specializes in public policy related to technology's effect on society.

• Funders & donors

In the winter of 2020-2021 Center for Urban Pedagogy collaborated with eight Teaching Artists to create civically-engaged art activities to do at home!

• Civic literacy
• Artistic interventions

El Tímpano—Spanish for “eardrum”—informs, engages, and amplifies the voices of Oakland’s Latinx and Mayan immigrants.

• Latinx

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

We are intersectional feminists working to build a network of people who are interested in radical change in the tech industry, and connecting with people who would benefit from such change.

• Peer networks

Tor Browser for Android Experience real private browsing without tracking, surveillance, or censorship.

• apps
• free speech

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

At Hivisasa, we believe that societies function best when information flows freely among people. This is why we've created Africa's first crowdsourced news site. Our innovative platform allows you not just to discover untold stories but also write your own.

• Media

an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

This tool shows the perceptions and concerns about wellbeing and discontent expressed online by the citizens of Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Engagement tech
• Data visualization
• Surveys & polling

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• city
• racial equity

• Media

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Bots

A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

With less staff and fewer resources than ever before and building pressure to enable contactless government, how can you continue to delight your citizens? With smart customer service automation.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Bots

API access for the data of Hungarian ballot-offices, the candidates and results

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

From october 26 to 30, rock the vote invites you to learn about the united states’ electoral process and, more importantly, vote on the most important issues that are being debated across the country right now.

• Minecraft

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Civic features

Fully Integrating Online Service Into Volunteer Involvement

• books

• Books
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Manage volunteers

Twitter bot making US Congressional Research Service reports publicly available to all. By Demand Progress.

• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Bots

We integrate fragmented data into a powerful analytical view, providing on-demand analytics that can uncover insights at unprecedented speed.

• Challenges
• Public project trackers

The Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is a new team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and journalists, working to build AI-powered, open-source products to help support local newsrooms and their businesses.

• Media

OpenSanctions lets investigators find leads, helps companies manage risk and enables technologists to build data-driven products.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

Under development - Monitors news sites for changes to articles that might indicate political meddling

• extensions

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

PDX CitySync is an ambitious, innovative project from the eGovernment Team and the City of Portland. Currently in Beta, built on Drupal 7.

• Graveyard
• Engagement tech
• Ideation

Our accelerator program provides 24 months of customer development, product development, network building, and expert guidance for startups, all in preparation for securing state & local contracts. 

• Govtech
• Accelerators

Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk. By combining direct technical support, strategic advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, and convenings such as RightsCon, we fight for human rights in the digital age.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services.

• trainings

• Govtech vendors
• Procurement

The Electronic Frontier Alliance is a grassroots network of community and campus organizations across the United States working to educate our neighbors about the importance of digital rights. Organized by EFF.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Digital rights