The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

• mobility
• mass transit
• city

The challenges of 21st century city-making require innovative methods that incorporate the complexity of today’s rapidly urbanising world. Traditional ways of urban planning and design — top-down and singlehanded — are already making way for a practice of city-making deeply rooted in the collective experience, creativity, and intelligence of growing and increasingly diverse groups of people. This will be crucial in building sustainable urban futures.

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City

A mobile app making it easy to report on the work city government is and isn’t doing.

GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy

The Coalition for Urban Transitions, active from 2016 to 2021, was the foremost initiative supporting national governments to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis by transforming cities.

• city
• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners. Share your work during Open Data Week 2021 or sign up for the NYC Open Data mailing list to learn about training opportunities and upcoming events.

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities works to make urban sustainability a reality. Through global research and on-the-ground experience, our experts work with city and national leaders in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States to spur action and improve life for millions.

Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School

• Govtech

We collect and join datasets together to create a data-driven view of New York City government.

• Civic data

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• city
• United Nations
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Helping communities create and implement their open data, data governance, and open smart city initiatives

• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups
• Civic apps outfits

NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All

Investing in education, training and skills development by ensuring that ICT is fully and appropriately integrated into education and training at all levels and also establishing educational networks for sharing educational resources and promoting e-learning at all levels; Building capacity of the youth to fully integrate them into the Country’s technological transformation;

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Graveyard
• Govtech vendors

東京都オープン・ソース・ソフトウェア公開ガイドライン. Contribute to Tokyo-Metro-Gov/tokyo-oss-guideline development by creating an account on GitHub.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Playbooks and design principles

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• books
• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Books
• Urban planning

Cette plateforme mise en œuvre par Bruitparif centralise les cartes stratégiques de bruit (CSB) disponibles au sein de la région Île-de-France dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la directive européenne 2002/49/CE.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors

You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Games and gamification

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

The City of Warsaw's custom participatory budgeting platform

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Neighborhood forums

Chinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory budgeting

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Reports

ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

• Civic hacking meetups

Helsinki's Decidim instance used for participatory budgeting

• Decidim

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

Baltimore City Council Bill 19-0429 requires the Department of Housing & Community Development to post signage on vacant buildings that will identify owners so that they can be held accountable by the public.

• housing
• place-based

• Cameras

Express your opinion on social issues that matter to you by voting on our consultations. Together – citizens, organizations, companies – let's set our priorities to make a change through concrete actions!

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

"A collaboration among several street artists and Carol Ott, proprietor of the Baltimore Slumlord Watch blog, the group has painted murals on about a dozen vacant buildings in the city so far this summer."

• housing

• Artistic interventions

Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.

• Reduced inequalities

• Open data publishing portals

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

A campaign to name more of Montevideo's streets after women

• Gender Equality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Narrative tech

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Policy simulators

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Open data and civic tech can serve the public good, but they need to be understood in relation to underlying issues in the city.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The home for civic tech in New York City

• CTFG partners

• Hubs

It is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Holidays

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• city
• urban planning
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Emerging tech

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

For the first time, city leaders can track the real-time pulse of how every neighborhood feels about trust and safety, and develop strategies for their improvement.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard