the home of online investigations

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Impact investors embracing more responsibility to a society bring innovations in investing values, assets and practices, and awakens the financial world that the real role of money is to contribute to the humanity and a sustainable world.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Design the sustainable cities of tomorrow with the first end-to-end urban planning software. Discover the platform built for planners, by planners.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Sometimes, collaboration means an overt step forward. Other times it's a step to the side. With this in mind, we're bidding farewell to OpenCongress and redirecting users to GovTrack.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Register to vote. Check your registration status. Get your absentee ballot. Fast, free, easy, secure, nonpartisan.

• US Election 2020
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

We have developed a data visualisation app which enables you to upload and visualise exports from both the Tombolo Digital Connector and your commonly used GIS systems online.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Reach for Change is a non-profit organisation founded by the Kinnevik Group to improve the lives of children and youth.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Cityx is a two-day expo organised by Connected Places Catapult taking place at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 13th – 14th November 2019.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

It gives you the free tools you need to analyse data for your business in one place, so you can make smarter decisions.

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

In the IBM Center’s new book, Government For The Future: Reflection and Vision for Tomorrow’ Leaders, Part Two of the book looks twenty years ahead – to 2040 -- offering perspectives on the future.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

The Dispute Finder Firefox Extension helped you know when information you read is disputed by highlighting snippets if they make a disputed claim

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The easy and powerful solution for creating meaningful change in your community. Anywhere, anytime.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Huduma Kenya Programme is a Government of Kenya initiative whose aim is to turn around public service delivery by providing efficient and accessible Government services at the convenience of citizens through various integrated service delivery platforms

• Service delivery

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

NYPL Labs is an interdisciplinary team working to reformat and reposition the Library's knowledge for the Internet age.

• libraries

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.

• The People
• Get funding
• Journalism

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

Search New York City parking & camera violations

• mobility

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Open Budget este o platformă care îţi permite să vizualizezi bugetul statului român şi să modifici felul in care sunt alocate fondurile publice.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Holopolis HiFi uses the High Fidelity VR platform to create a virtual commons. It imagines a far future in which we can all connect to and immerse in public policy deliberation anytime we choose. This may be h…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Deliberation

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Redirect Method is focused on reaching those who are actively looking for extremist content and connections. Rather than create new content and counter-narratives, our approach tries to divert young people off the path to extremism using pre-existing YouTube content and targeted advertising.

• extremism
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Protests for a kinder world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

The COVID Memorial is a place to share remembrances of loved ones lost to the coronavirus pandemic, and to encourage public health measures that can prevent more deaths in the future.

• Narrative tech
• COVID
• Story-based campaigns

Parliamentary Initiative to open the National Assembly to citizens and the civic tech community

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

A tool that shows how MPs use Twitter

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement journalism

Nextdoor is the free private social network for your neighborhood community.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A global volunteer-run project crowdsourcing resources on the web to address gender-based violence

• domestic violence
• Gender Equality

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

um laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Développer ensemble des solutions open source pour la démocratie.

• Working groups

Cities and towns of all sizes are struggling to ensure compliance, safety, and efficiency along the curb. Coord makes it easy to collect, manage, and share curb data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

a modified fork of the open source Discourse discussion platform meant to host general legislative conversations between citizens and representatives

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Smart City Expo World Congress is the world's biggest and most influential event on urban innovation.

• city
• commercial
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

ProspectSV is a nonprofit cleantech innovation hub driving the adoption of sustainable solutions in advanced mobility, energy and the built environment.

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

European Foundations And Journalists Working Together To Ensure More Effective And Impactful Funding Of Journalism.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

• The Tech
• Games and gamification
• Building inside government

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

• landlord

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Plateforme ouverte des données publiques françaises

• France (national government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals