A cross-government programme to accelerate the release and reuse of open government data to maximise the value of that data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census
• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Civic literacy

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Teams of researchers will work with up to 350 partner organisations on a range of topics and themes, including how data-driven innovation can improve public services in the region, the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Trump's not very concerned about accuracy in his tweets — so we will be.

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The WeVote app is a one stop shop to learn about the candidates and your voting rights and responsibilities, act on Election Day by voting or volunteering and share events you plan to attend and materials you have read.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Ballot information

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

• labor
• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

• Access social benefits

The Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

MetroLab Network is a group of 35 city-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics, and innovation to city government.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

500+ design tools for public good, all in one place.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.

• APIs

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

45 actions to prepare for our 45th President

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

• videos

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Graveyard
• Civic maps
• Mapping

Bridge Figures is a human rights organization that scales the potential of artists, activists, journalists & other agents of social change to build bridges and break walls in a data-driven world

• The Tech
• Media
• Narrative tech

Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.

• Newspeak House
• CTFG partners

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

The Google.org Impact Challenge Bay Area is an open invitation to organizations across the Bay Area to submit their ideas to address some of the most challenging societal issues facing our community today

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Working groups
• Platform coops

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A PLATFORM FOR CITIES TO MANAGE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Lyft is offering free or discounted rides and bikes to the polls.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Evaluate impact
• Digital rights

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages. Last updated 2015.

• civic features
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data science for social good
• Data schemas and standards

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• ChatGPT

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

GitHub is where people build software. More than 28 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 85 million projects.

• Working groups

Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally accessible.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Make your city better

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• Consul

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

We have rated & reviewed over 75,000 products based on safety and health. See your favorite products reviewed and rated.

• Watchdogging and transparency

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

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

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

CODE, founded as the Center for Open Data Enterprise, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good.

• Roundtables