The Iraq Response Innovation Lab (IRIL) convenes actors around humanitarian problems faced locally through analysis and promotion of innovations and innovators.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Innovation teams and labs

The Future of Government Awards champions practitioners, teams and leaders who are transforming people’s lives by applying digital solutions and leveraging technology to reform the public sector for those it serves.

• Amazon

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes

Millions of refugees & people in need of humanitarian assistance struggle with language barriers. Help give them on-demand language access. Volunteer with Us

• refugees
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Translation and linguistic representation

UNICEF StartUp Lab is an accelerator programme for impactful businesses working to advance the SDGs for children and young people. The programme is led by UNICEF in Ghana, supported by KOICA and implemented by MEST Africa.

• youth
• United Nations

• Accelerators

Amnesty International is a global movement of more than 10 million people in over 150 countries and territories who campaign to end abuses of human rights.

• human rights

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Viral Spiral is an adaptive digital card game about sharing news on the Internet. The game reflects the ways and reasons misinformation is shared, letting players experience first hand the temptation to share fake news for their own gain and face the consequences of the harm it causes around them.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Leveraging digital data in ways that advance your mission and respect the rights of the people you serve is a core capacity of foundations and nonprofits in the 21st century

• Nonprofit tech
• Digital transformation
• Toolkits

Sinar Project is a civic tech initiative using open technology, open data and policy analysis to systematically make important information public and more accessible to the Malaysian people

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

An open source Android app to drive data donations to Mozilla's Common Voice project

• apps

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

Hacks/Hackers is an international grassroots community of people who seek to inspire and inform each other to build the future of media.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Non-profit news site serving Kyrgyzstan, including election monitoring

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

The Wikimedians of the Caribbean Usergroup is a Wikimedia user group focused on the peoples of the Caribbean and the Caribbean Diaspora, bringing together cultures and languages, and also the communities with their diasporas.

• diaspora

• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

Last articles published in 2024. A magazine established to provide people working in politics and the industry of Democracy Technologies with in-depth information about new developments and technologies in the field of digital participation and deliberation, electronic voting, and other digital tools that improve political organisations.

• Learn about civic tech
• Digital transformation
• Deliberation

At ClimateAction.tech, we meet, discuss, learn and take climate action together. We would love for you to join us on Slack.

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Latin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

How Conservative Elites Manipulate Search and Threaten Democracy, by Francesca Bolla Tripodi

• books

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Fight disinformation

Chiediamo dati aperti e machine readable sull’emergenza Covid-19

• Civic data
• Specific campaigns
• Open government data

We empower people to think critically about their relationship with technology and inspire a more socially responsible future.

• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

We help people publish and use open data

• coop

• Civic data
• Civic and social impact companies

A collection of essays edited by Ana Brandusescu and Jess Reia featuring essays from participants of the AI in the City: Building Civic Engagement and Public Trust symposium that took place remotely on February 10, 2022.

• city
• books

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Emerging tech

Mozilla Foundation is providing $258,300 to people and projects that reimagine the way data is governed

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A dynamic in-person conference on the people, technologies, policies, and cultures that make up the govtech ecosystem — brought to you by CivStart and e.Republic

• Govtech
• Conferences

A storyteller’s guide to reframing Africa

• guides

• Media
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Translation and linguistic representation

Democracy can work better than it does today, and we believe that starts with better human connections. Our online tools inspire people of all backgrounds and every political conviction to learn more about all sides of the conversation.

• Participatory democracy

YAI’s Center for Innovation and Engagement understands how technology can help people with intellectual and developmental disabilities better participate in their community.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Adjacent Fields
• Hardware
• Innovation teams and labs

Improve your team's data knowledge and skills

• guides
• toolkits

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Games and gamification
• Digital transformation

Volunteer part-time, full async and remote to contribute to Preptrack, the app that supports PrEP users. PrEP is a medicine that eliminates the risk of HIV when taken correctly.

• Good health and well-being
• HIV prevention and care

• The Tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

WeVis is a civic technology aiming to empower people to reclaim an active role in political life through technology and open data. We curate, analyze and visualize any relevant data to make democracy more open and more transparent, encouraging people to express their opinions and make better decisions.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Data visualization

We believe that it's never been easier to use digital technology to tackle some of the world's toughest social and environmental challenges.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

Do you want to join Africa's largest civic technology // open data // digital journalism community on Slack?

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

Bloom Works is a women-owned public interest technology company. We help our partners create elegant, accessible services that put people first.

• Govtech vendors

Resources for Open Source Intelligence and Social Media Investigations.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Investigative journalism tech

OSINT framework focused on gathering information from free tools or resources. The intention is to help people find free OSINT resources.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Online consult for abortion pills by mail

• women's health
• Good health and well-being
• health

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

An interactive scorecard where people can see if they would be flagged for social welfare fraud under the Netherlands' broken system

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Access social benefits

We’re here to help you understand how to get an abortion.

• Good health and well-being
• health
• women's health

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Pioneering Collaborative Journalism

• waste
• food
• migration

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Artificial Intelligence
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

OECD podcast episode

• Fight disinformation
• Podcasts

Design for Civic Change is a professional development program for government workers interested in implementing community-engaged design within their work.

• trainings
• coaching

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Civic maps
• Media and social media analysis
• Public sentiment tools

Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.

• Participatory democracy
• Fellowships

What the Future Wants is an interactive youth focused exhibition that presents different perspectives on technology from the personal, to the political, to the planetary.

• youth

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

• Facebook
• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech