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

Most Powerful Way to Advocate for Your Community

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Petitions

Participatory budgeting platform in Ukraine

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Ideation

Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities

• anti-trafficking

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Concise civic engagement research summaries

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• News and blogs

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Board games

Want to improve our tech future? Work in it!

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

A campaign to convince US Congress to adequately fund election administration

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Making Smart Cities Open

• Govtech vendors

Search over 12 million beneficial ownership records

• Open data publishing portals

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard enables transparency by providing a solid conceptual and practical framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership data, resulting in data that is interoperable, more easily reused, and of higher quality.

• Data schemas and standards
• Consumer watchdogging

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

The Change.org Foundation oversees two mutually supporting organizations: (1) Change.org Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, and (2) Change.org Programs, the charitable activities of the Foundation.

• Organize campaigns

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Election observation

The easiest way to contact your government

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Communicating with the government

Founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, Unfinished "works to strengthen our civic life in the digital age."

• Decentralization

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

Finally. A platform made for Local Progressive Campaigns

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Manage volunteers

Our online self-service platform helps campaigns maximize the fundraising & visibility benefits of a merch store, without incurring any of the hassles or costs of existing solutions.

• Organize campaigns
• Fundraising tools
• Merchandise

The 2021 NYU Public Interest Technology (PIT) Convention and Career Fair is a virtual hands-on event for professionals, researchers and students interested in creating a better world through technology.

• Conferences
• Find a job or hire someone

Easily bring people together for important, small-group conversations. Book a live demo!

• Group communication tools

Greenfly is the leader in digital media monetization. The Greenfly software platform empowers organizations to collect, organize and distribute digital media to partners and advocates to build awareness on social media, increase loyalty and drive revenue growth.

• Organize campaigns
• Social media
• Creators and Influencers

のびしろ、おもしろっ。シビックテック - シビックテックの3つのアプローチ

• videos

• Learn about civic tech

"TechPresident was a nonpartisan political website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 2007 to monitor the United States presidential election of 2008." (Wikipedia)

• Graveyard
• News and blogs
• Predecessors

The U.S. Digital Corps is a two‑year government fellowship to launch your career at the intersection of technology and public service.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Fellowships

The UK government's design principles and examples of how they've been used.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Digital standards

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens

Run your own Freedom of Information website

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government
• Activism aggregators

Trusted by campaigns of every size, NGP VAN's award-winning websites and industry-leading organizing, fundraising, compliance, and digital tools have elected thousands of Democrats to local, state, and federal office. Nearly every Democrat running for office is powered by NGP VAN. 

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

It provided an easy way for constituents to sign up to hear from their MPs, and a simple online forum for discussion.

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

We hope the project will arm activists, advocates, journalists, policy makers, and elected officials with relevant, timely information about how government functions—so we can fix it when it doesn’t.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

UI LABS is an innovation accelerator that brings Universities, Industry, and Government together to deliver solutions to tomorrow’s challenges.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Innovation teams and labs

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Socialize online
• Civic tech catalogs
• Partner networks and coalitions

Propose bold ideas that solve for real urban needs, improve the way we live, support a thriving economy, and create good-paying jobs.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

DataViva is opening up data for the entire formal sector of the Brazilian economy through more than 1 billion interactive visualizations.

• The Tech
• Data visualization

Building mission critical maps in the open

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Crowdsourced examples of private sector data for public good

• private data public good

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Media and social media analysis
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Through this City of Pittsburgh and Urban Redevelopment Authority initiative, we hope to celebrate, showcase and connect individuals, organizations and businesses working to make Pittsburgh an innovative place for all.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Smart growth is a way to build cities, towns, and neighborhoods that are economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable.

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

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware

Decidim instance for Barcelona. Benvingut/da a la plataforma de participació de Barcelona.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Our vision is to transform the way we learn, play, work, and live to create the society in which we want to live.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

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

Delta.NYC is a pro bono tech program that bridges the digital divide between the technology and public interest sectors by bringing together teams of digital professionals to lend their services on meaningful projects for local NYC organizations working towards a more equitable, just and democratic society.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Pro bono and volunteer

Where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers

• The People
• Build something
• Design

a civic technology platform, which aims to raise awareness and sensitize citizens to play their roles well in the promotion of Peace, Union and Social Cohesion.

• Citizen Engagement