Yiaga Africa is a non-profit civic hub of change makers committed to the promotion of democratic governance, human rights and civic engagement.

The Anti-Defamation League is the world’s leading organisation fighting anti-Semitism through programmes and services that counteract hatred, prejudice, and bigotry.

Transparency International aims to stop corruption and promote transparency, accountability, and integrity at all levels and across all sectors of society.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Publish What You Pay is a global network of civil society organisations working to increase transparency and accountability in the extractive and government sectors.

• labor

• Graveyard
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Conferences
• Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency (FAT)

Accountancy is in crisis. The Corporate Accountability Network exists to identify the causes of that crisis and offer solutions to it.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

The World Wide Web Foundation was established by web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee to advance the open web as a public good and a basic right.

An open data standard for restaurant information

• food

• Data schemas and standards

The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa seeks to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

The United Nations Foundation is a charitable organization headquartered in Washington, DC, that supports the United Nations and its activities.

• United Nations

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.

Metta and Nest is a global partner for corporates, governments and entrepreneurs on their innovation journeys. Hatched in 2010, we create collaborative environments that help corporates, startups, and our investors scale and succeed.

Propuestas para la Nueva Venezuela.

The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ] is a non-governmental organisation, that was founded in 2014

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data schemas and standards
• Fundraising tools

The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Makhanda, South Africa)

• Journalism
• Conferences

NewsTrust enabled citizens to find and share trustworthy journalism online, promoting greater transparency in news reporting.

SERAP uses human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination through advocacy, research, education and litigation.

• human rights
• research
• No poverty

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.

• human rights

The Right2Know Campaign launched in August 2010 and has grown into a movement centred on freedom of expression and access to information

to assess the economic, environmental, social, and governance performance of 30 of the world’s largest mining companies.

The Center on Privacy & Technology at Georgetown Law Center is a think tank focused on privacy and surveillance law and policy.

The Global Data Justice project focuses on the diverse debates and processes occurring around data governance in different regions, to draw out overarching principles and needs that can push data technologies’ governance in the direction of social justice.

Tax Justice UK is a campaigning and advocacy organisation, working to ensure that everyone in the UK benefits from a fair and effective tax system

Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

• No poverty
• Reduced inequalities

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing

The New Venture Fund (NVF) works to achieve a healthier, more equitable world. Its work spans a range of issue areas to realise social and environmental change.

Directorio Legislativo is an Argentina-based research and advocacy organisation focusing on legislative transparency, consensus building and research on current regulatory affairs.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Fair Tax Mark certification scheme was launched in February 2014 and seeks to encourage and recognise organisations that pay the right amount of corporation tax at the right time and in the right place

• Consumer watchdogging
• Trustmarks

New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute runs the Membership Puzzle Project, which works to identify and incubate innovative early-stage membership models globally.

Korean online petition platform for citizen-driven campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Korean open civic data portal

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

빠띠 민주주의 활동가 커뮤니티

• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

팀과 커뮤니티를 위한 민주주의 플랫폼

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Organize campaigns

The ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings

• web app

• Participatory democracy
• Online forums
• Group decision making

A campaign by the Internet Archive to encourage support of internet freedom by showing a potential dystopian near-future

• Civic fiction
• Open internet

@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation

• Games and gamification
• Deliberation
• Group decision making

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Budgeting and planning, financials, citizen services, and reporting and transparency tool suite for local government

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

76engage is an online platform that strengthens the bonds between citizens and public institutions through meaningful public engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Public Sentiment helps decisionmakers solve local problems using genuine community engagement fueled by local community networks and powerful digital tools

• Digital participation platforms

Kijiji Yeetu is a smart village platform that offers a unique ecosystem for activating our villages’ resources, knowledge, inspiration into viable development opportunities in 47 counties in Kenya, East Africa and beyond the world.

• towns

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Makes digital democracy easy - for everyone no matter where.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.

• Consul

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Solutions exist. Let's make them a reality.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Foundation initiatives

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

Divao aims to build a CivicTech toolbox with a focus on public discourse, group decision-making, and civic collaboration.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms