Collaborating with Philadelphians to design better City policies and services.

• city

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

Social Media Management Software for Politics

• Organize campaigns
• Social media

We help shape the future of technology and society to advance equity, expand opportunity and protect basic rights and liberties.

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs

The largest civic literacy network in Brazil

• students

• Civic literacy

Korean participatory policymaking platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Through public reports and briefings with policymakers, business leaders, and civil society organizations, the Initiative will highlight digital platform reform options, as well as offer expertise on legislative reform proposals and platform self-governance options.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

In partnership with researcher Dr Jun-E Tan, EngageMedia has produced research that aims to provide an understanding of AI and its governance from the perspective of civil society in Southeast Asia.

• Artificial Intelligence

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Archives

South Africa's Online Budget Data

• Budget explorers

MPR can be used to find out what you can expect when your doctor prescribes you something; find out if there are cheaper generics that you can use instead; and make sure that you aren't being overcharged.

• health
• Responsible consumption and production
• Good health and well-being

• Civic data

The Affidavit Assistant helps you collect information for your case

• apps
• housing

• Legal tech

A community of organisers across the UK and Ireland supporting each other to fuel the tech for good movement

• Partner networks and coalitions

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

• Slack

• Adjacent Fields
• Group decision making
• Decentralization

Kybern is a website which helps communities explore new, non-hierarchical forms of governance and manage their resources in collaborative ways.

• Decentralization

A free e-book covering common patterns in open project governance

• books

• Books
• Group decision making
• Community-building resources

The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

An open-source software service for stitching together systems of modular agreement systems,

• Decentralization

A video series promoting public literacy of tech in public spaces

• public space

• Digital literacy
• Shows and films

Beat the supply-chain blues with our staff picks for affordable alternative presents — plus toys, treats and tools for the holiday season.

• Civic tech gifts

Join a worldwide movement to catalog every open source civic tech project

• Github

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

Start using Engage today and be part of the discussion! Vote and comment on proposals from your local government.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Standardized data on historical general election polling places in the United States.

• Voting and elections
• Open civic data
• Find your polling place

Report by EngageMedia

• Digital rights

The EMPATIA platform has developed and integrated a number of digital and non digital tools that can support the design, implementation and evaluation of complex participatory systems.

• Ideation
• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy
• Algorithmic transparency

Executive Order to streamline the process of obtaining public benefits across 17 federal agencies

• United States (federal government)

• Civic tech legislation and policy

A public machine that would print out NY transit directions in 1961

• mass transit

• Predecessors

A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Procurement

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Design

We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation.

• Access social benefits

The New York Times on civic tech for social benefits

• Access social benefits

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

Communication gateway for municipalities

• Surveys & polling
• Communicating with the people
• Issue reporting

CivicTech Lab at National University of Singapore is a research hub led by Dr. Weiyu Zhang. We are a team of social scientists, computer scientists, and digital cultural analysts.

• Research and policy centers

Our team makes sure the networks, computers, and systems that support the City are secure and effective. We also manage the City’s websites and technologies focused on service delivery.

• Govtech
• Public sector innovation labs

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Berlin-based digital participation organization

We promote a right to democracy at all levels, global institutions that are democratic and effective, and equal global citizenship.

• Participatory democracy

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

Qri is builds software for dataset synching, versioning, storing and collaboration. We help solve super interesting data problems with individual data nerds (pro and not pro), non-profits, and commercial clients. Qri is led by a team in Brooklyn NY, and collaborators everywhere and anywhere.

The Global Parliament of Mayors is an unprecedented new democratic global governance body by, for, and of cities: a global megaphone for a common urban voice and a global platform for common urban action.

The National League of Cities is a resource and advocate for the nation's cities and their leaders.

• Media

a research and teaching cooperative

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Peer networks