U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Code for America announce the launch of tools for local communities interested in identifying areas for economic growth using 22 environmental sustainability indicators, including job growth, value-added, air quality, climate impact, energy, water, and land use across 389 industry sectors..

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Challenges

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Deliberation
• Digital Public Infrastructure

An incubator for radically disruptive public service ideas, designed, owned and delivered by the public sector for public impact. An endeavour from FutureGov.

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.

• X (Twitter)

• Media and social media analysis
• Filter bubble poppers

A collaboration between Berlin, London, New York and Paris to leverage our collective innovation and speed our recovery from Covid-19

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Challenges
• COVID Government Projects

Peer communities of digital US government workers. Collaborate and share resources with others across government. You must have a .gov email address to join.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Peer networks

Tech-industry-friendly magazine exploring the use of tech for social good

• Learn about civic tech

Our syllabus is a set of free, open access ‘teach the teacher’ materials designed to help educators teach master’s level students the skills they need to thrive as public servants in the Digital Era.

• resources
• curricula

• Govtech
• Courses

Mozilla Rally is aimed at rebuilding your equity in your data. We allow you to choose how to contribute your data and for what purpose.

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Crowdsourcing

Want To Use Mobile Health Data AND Have It To Make Sense? Get Started With Open Mhealth Today.

• Good health and well-being

• Data schemas and standards

Climate Data Hub is a dataset exploration and discovery tool for data-driven technologists and entrepreneurs. Our visualizations will help you examine datasets in context – geospatial, bioregional,  social, and financial.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

With the onset of COVID, BARI has sought to construct a data-support system for a city during a pandemic–both to serve our local communities and to act as a model for others across the country.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Surveys & polling
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID Data Projects

We’re a leading independent digital agency that works with the public and third sectors. Last year, we worked with 80 organisations on over 140 projects to deliver positive, sustainable change.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Guatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Dutch Alvateli site. Maak en bekijk Wob-verzoeken Je recht op openbaarheid van bestuur Iedereen in Nederland heeft het recht om bij een overheidsinstantie informatie op te vragen. Overheidsinstanties zijn wettelijk verplicht om je verzoek in behandeling te nemen.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Atlascope is a tool for exploring historic urban maps in metropolitan Boston and telling stories about how places have changed over time.

• history

• Civic maps

The Yearbook of International Organizations includes detailed information on c. 73,000 international organizations from 300 countries and territories, c. 41,000 of which are active organizations. Coverage includes intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Approximately 1,200 new organizations are added each year.

• Civic tech catalogs

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights

• Digital rights

Facebook's now-defunct newsletter product

• Facebook

• Graveyard
• Get funding
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Urban Reviewer catalogs over 150 urban renewal plans that NYC adopted to get federal funding for acquiring land, relocating the people living there, demolishing the structures and making way for new public and private development.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

Use #WildEye Asia to track seizures, arrests, court cases & convictions across the continent. The data is anchored in our dossier of investigations.

• animals

• Media
• Civic maps

The Digital Democracy Lab researches the implications of digital technology for politics and democracy using computational social science methods.

• Research and policy centers

OCSI provides high quality research, data and analysis to public and community sector organisations, helping you make better decisions – decisions that contribute to the public good.

• neighborhoods

• Civic data

25 years of aid accountability

• Timelines

The easiest way to check the status of every voter. Alloy Verify is an API that helps voter registration groups, progressive campaigns, and political techies know who’s registered to vote. Get started for free

• partisan

• Civic data APIs
• Voter registration

Our mission is to provide news product professionals with an inclusive community of support and elevate product leadership within the news community

• Media
• Peer networks
• Trade groups

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

The PIT Lab is building a thoughtful community around public interest technology at Stanford. Themes include systemic inequities, democratic values, bridging the divide, career pathways.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

A 3-year census of the wild cat population in Washington, DC

• animals

• Crowdsourcing

In ever changing times, it is important for every citizen to have their voice heard. Polliticly is the app that lets you find your voice by tailoring polls and questions that relate to pressing issues in your community and then sends results of those polls to your local elected officials.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Surveys & polling

The Pudding's clever visual essays present data in artistic and meaningfully interactive ways. Here they share "How to make dope shit", and other lessons.

• resources
• guides

• Media
• Data visualization

Discontinued crowd-funded journalism project

• Media

Tracking the development and thinking of the newest undergraduate program at UM's Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Newsletters

Send Texts, Make Change We leverage technology and our army of passionate, remote volunteers to help progressives run and win everywhere.

• partisan

• Peer to peer SMS

A website platform for progressive campaigns.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Website builder

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Issue reporting

The Internet Archive has started to surface some of these annotations for Wayback Machine users.

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking
• Archives

by AI Initiative

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

VR project looking at fluidity of gender identity induced by illusory body-sex change

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

596 Acres built tools to help neighbors see vacant lots as opportunities and create needed green spaces that become focal points for community organizing and civic engagement.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• Specific campaigns

This Cornell University fund supports students who are participating in any type of community-based research activities or community-engaged learning projects

• students

• COVID Engagement Projects

One Dollar Lots documented each time NYC sells or plans to sell a vacant lot to developers for $1. This tool can help New Yorkers better shape how dollar sales of public land impact our neighborhoods and city.

• land
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.

• trainings
• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

This class uses the idea of values-driven design to help creators consider the politics of the technologies we use and which we bring into the world and teaches methods of research, design and deployment intended to help technologies meet the needs of real-world communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Courses

A world map displaying the locations of indigenous peoples whose lands have been taken

• Civic maps

A union for Democracy Works employees. Fulfilling the promise of a more equitable, sustainable, and representative democracy, inside and outside of Democracy Works.

• labor

• Graveyard
• Civic tech unions

Current is Chicago’s water innovation hub.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Smart Cities and sensors

A handy guide to financial support for open source. "I do open source work, how do I find funding?" This document aims to provide an exhaustive list of all the ways that people get paid for open source work

• guides

• Get funding

• Engagement tech

Use these free K-12 civic education lessons, activities, blogs and webinars to help you educate students on the election and the importance of counting every vote.

• Civic literacy