Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

As the winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Smart City Challenge, we’ve been offered a unique opportunity: $50 million in grant funding from the USDOT and Paul G. Allen Philanthropies to discover how we can accelerate human progress through open mobility.

• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Artistic interventions

Our simple tool allows anyone to generate a public records request with all the necessary legal boilerplate, all for free.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

CUTgroup gives residents the opportunity to be a part of the design process for emerging civic technology initiatives through user testing and focus groups

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Medialab Prado es un laboratorio ciudadano que funciona como lugar de encuentro para la producción de proyectos culturales abiertos.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Clear My Record is a free, non-profit service to help you dismiss or reduce old convictions on your criminal record.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Justice tech

Review submissions together.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Forms

The HANSHEP Health Enterprise Fund was created with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and is funded by USAID and DFID. It is implemented by the USAID-funded SHOPS project, and aims to uncover innovative and replicable solutions that address critical health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Race to the White House was a program that used GPS technology and Geocaching to create a game to engage the public in a conversation about the presidential election and to discuss issues that were important to participating youth and their community.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Promptable helps students in further education (FE) to succeed in their courses by helping colleges to deliver a proven support programme to their students.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Sarkozy's official app

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view

• Service delivery
• User research

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

CivicWomen is a collaboration of technologists, entrepreneurs, politicos, dreamers and more who believe the Internet and technology can make the world a better place for everyone.

• women

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Believing that technology provides endless opportunity, Microsoft Philanthropies works in creating a future where everyone has access to endless possibilities.

• Microsoft

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The election is ours

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

GL is well known for championing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, and coordinating an Alliance of over 40 women’s NGOs that campaigned for the adoption and implementation of the Protocol, following its 2016 revision that was adopted by the SADC 36th Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mbabane, Swaziland

Our nation, in numbers. USAFacts provides a comprehensive, nonpartisan view of the state of our union.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Produced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.

• heat

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A platform that brings together non-governmental organizations committed to improving the human rights situation in Europe, Eurasia and North America

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The opencivicdata organization on Github is the home to a collaborative effort to define common schemas and provide tools for gathering information on government organizations, people, legislation, and events.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

An Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

RePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

A 'big data for innovation' competition using telecom data

• The People
• Get funding
• Data science for social good

Measured Voice was a social media management tool for government.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Lab for open citizen Science and tech

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A youth initiative to increase digital citizenship in local communities

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

As the biggest single buyer of palm oil in the world, Unilever has a special responsibility to help clean up the industry that's behind so much forest destruction

• Life on land

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

questions-and-answers with elected officials, candidates, media, and more public figures

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

A “discovery sprint,” is a short, intense period of problem investigation.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data

GSBI Online Accelerator provides transformative mentorship, for transformative impact

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

A PhD student's suite of apps for small group consensus-building and facilitation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We’re defining an API and data structures to enable true interoperability among products for organizations with progressive values.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

• COVID
• Civic hackathons
• COVID Engagement Projects