Now there’s an even easier, faster, and more secure way for Texans to take care of government to-dos – like driver license and vehicle registration renewals – anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

• state

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

A guide to the news company's data usage

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

An Airtable with thousands of climate tech products, services, capital sources, and networks

• Climate action

• Civic tech catalogs

The Data Nutrition Project aims to create a standard label for interrogating datasets.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data schemas and standards

Humanity Innovation Labs is an agile consultancy that offers Mixed Methods Research, UX/UI, and Industrial Design services for emerging technologies within wearable computing (e.g. physical devices and digital experiences).

• Civic and social impact companies
• Design

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

A free online course offered by The GovLab on: How to take advantage of technology, data and the collective wisdom in our communities to design powerful solutions to contemporary problems.

• Courses
• Online courses

The SPP Accelerator is a learning and coaching program to source and develop promising projects designed to improve education, learning, and development using data.

• coaching

• Accelerators

Campax is a Swiss campaign and mobilization organization.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Where ideas and action intersect to create real social impact.

• Research and policy centers
• Academic programs

We connect and support national digital campaigning organizations around the world which provide opportunities for activists to influence national and international politics.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Partner networks and coalitions

An engagement program

• homelessness
• crime
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The International Journalism Festival and members and partners of the Global Forum for Media Development call for increased support of independent media and journalists in Ukraine.

• Ukraine

• Media
• Solidarity networks

Transparency and accessibility in council action; videos, transcripts, voting records, and legislation -- all searchable under a single website.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital Public Infrastructure

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• city
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Housed at TED, The Audacious Project is a funding initiative that encourages the world’s greatest changemakers to dream bigger.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Mayor's Office of Data Analytics (MODA) works with City agencies and their data to help serve New Yorkers more equitably and effectively.

• Govtech
• Civic data

Bringing organizations in Detroit together for cross-sector collaboration on urban innovation.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech vendors

A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Peer networks

The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Supporting public sector from outside government

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

Ideas worth spreading

• Media

Terreform ONE is a nonprofit architecture and urban design research group. We endeavor to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.

• buildings
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Design

Over the next seven years, building on the work we’ve already done to reimagine safety net services, we will partner with 15 states to reach 13 million people and unlock $30 billion in benefits in the areas of food assistance, health care, and other basic needs through our new Safety Net Innovation Lab.

• Access social benefits
• Supporting public sector from outside government

We are a digital agency focused on innovative work for social good.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

A platform to help social good outfits import, visualize, and analyze impact data

• Evaluate impact

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Feminist.AI works to put technology into the hands of makers, researchers, thinkers and learners to amplify unheard voices and create more accessible AI for all.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.

• Microsoft
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Justice tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

We’re a new agency working across the world to shape, apply and enforce data rights. We have lawyers, policy experts, technology analysts and applied ethicists working out of offices in London, Brussels and Paris.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

The NoC a collaborative initiative among academic institutions with a focus on interdisciplinary research on the development, social impact, policy implications, and legal issues concerning the Internet.

• Research and policy centers
• Partner networks and coalitions

Fakten für die Demokratie

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

We’re a collection of agile technology and design firms that serve—or aspire to serve—the government.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Partner networks and coalitions

We are environmental charity with a unique approach - we use the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Legal tech

The right's answer to ActBlue, ActRight aggregates actions and donations to conservative causes

• partisan

• Activism aggregators

Public Agenda's Healthier Democracies project studied public engagement systems from 15 locations around the world, and, accordingly, each study has its own report with key learnings and takeaways.

• case studies
• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Reports

A collection of open source digital public goods sorted by Sustainable Development Goals

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital Public Goods

The Digital Public Goods Standard is a set of specifications and guidelines designed to maximise consensus about whether a digital solution conforms to the definition of a digital public good: open-source software, open data, open AI models, open standards, and open content that adhere to privacy and other applicable best practices, do no harm by design and are of high relevance for attainment of the United Nations 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Data schemas and standards
• Taxonomies
• Digital Public Goods

Publish and preserve your data

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing platforms

GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Bureaucracy tech

The EU Whistleblowing Monitor was created by the Whistleblowing International Network to track the progress of transposition of the EU Directive on Whistleblowing across all 27 Member States over the next 18 months.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Report cards and audits

WIN connects and strengthens civil society organisations that defend and support whistleblowers.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging
• Whistleblowing

ENCO (European Network of Corporate Observatories) is a network of European civic and media organisations dedicated to investigating corporations and corporate power.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

A US-based campaign

• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

La coalición Acción por la Justicia Algorítmica (AxJA) se crea para desafiar la falta de control democrático, transparencia y rendición de cuentas en el uso y adquisición de sistemas de toma de decisiones automatizadas e inteligencia artificial en España.

• Digital security and privacy

An activist project working and proposing advanced solutions in fields related to digital rights and democracy

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital rights
• Consumer watchdogging