See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.

• Github

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

"From the historian Dan Bouk, a lesson in reading between the lines of the U.S. census to uncover the stories behind the data."

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors & Pioneers

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• city

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

Теплица.Курсы помогает городским активистам и сотрудникам общественных организаций профессионально развиваться и получать современные разносторонние знания, чтобы успешно добиваться изменений

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

A list of Substack newsletters covering civic tech

• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Теплица Социальных Технологий— это 5000+ полезных практических статей, чек-листов и видеоуроков, которые восполнят пробелы в знаниях и расширят набор инструментов для решения повседневных задач

• Civic tech catalogs
• Digital literacy

Join the 100,000+ WordPress Fundraisers using GiveWP to raise more money online

• Wordpress

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Ask and answer the questions that matter to you as a public servant. Learn, share and connect.

• Govtech
• Civic forums
• Celebrating public service and public servants

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Get funding
• Build something
• Fieldwide resources

Rightly is all about helping you control your data so that it’s kept safe and you get to use it in ways that help you every day. As well as keeping it away from hackers and spammers, you can use your data to help stay on the best deals for insurance and, in the future, utility renewals.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Drones
• Emergency services

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Access to information

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Open data publishing portals

Agami is a movement of ideas and people seeking to transform the experience of Justice in India

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open justice

A space for policymakers, tech companies and web users to shape a safer, more empowering web.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech or Digital Policy
• Policy

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Digital security and privacy

The Guardian Project Podcast

• podcasts

• Digital security and privacy
• Podcasts

Case studies, blog posts, and Airtables with examples

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

ReclaimYourName.dic is the first custom dictionary to normalize thousands of Asian names in the world’s most popular word processing software, where non-English identities are arbitrarily targeted as errors.

• 2023 Webby Awards
• campaigns
• Asian and Pacific Islander

• Specific campaigns
• Translation and linguistic representation
• Civic features

This narrative experience explores how poverty has been criminalized across Tennessee, what this means for people who live in communities in the state, and practical steps to build a better future.

• No poverty
• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Podcast of the Campaign Legal Center

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic literacy
• Podcasts

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Cameras

DataMéxico permite la integración, visualización y análisis de datos públicos para fomentar la innovación, inclusión y diversificación de la economía mexicana.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open data publishing portals

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions
• Algorithmic transparency

News site that ranks news organizations with its algorithm's partisanship score, and allows users to filter sources accordingly

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

The Social Network for E-Democracy

• Issue reporting
• Social networks
• Civic forums

Mozilla's Common Voice Project seeks to be a part of the solution. It's a platform where anyone can donate their voice to an open source data bank.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing

Meedan's Health Desk provides on-demand and on-deadline science information to users seeking to quickly communicate complex topics to audiences.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Games and gamification

In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Cybersecurity

An award for the best games for social impact of the year

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Awards and prizes
• Games and gamification

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.

• Ukraine
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Participatory memorials

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Community management platform

• Online forums
• Social networks

We think our kids are safe in school online. But many of them are being surveilled, and parents have often been kept in the dark. Kids are priceless, not products.

• campaigns
• youth
• students

• Specific campaigns

The Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced learning experience designed to increase mental health literacy and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to safely support anyone who may be struggling with their mental health.

• mental health
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Online courses

A cannabis brand that comes in the exact amounts for which others are still in prison

• criminal justice
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artistic interventions

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

Defending Human Rights Worldwide

• Digital rights

This [2023 Webby Award nominated] app allows current Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area to easily see their assigned routes, view customer stops, and navigate to each customer on the route.

• Zero hunger
• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Resource matching and sharing
• Manage volunteers

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

A CSR project by Vaseline that created a database to "search conditions on skin of color"

• Good health and well-being
• racial equity
• commercial

• Diversity & Inclusion

A campaign website nominated for a 2023 Webby Award

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

Computer scientists for e-democracy Facebook Group

• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Users choose which resources they want to "consume", or load, to reduce the website's footprint

• Climate action
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Design
• Social impact design firms

Code and other resources to help businesses create more inclusive web forms and collect fewer data in general

• LGBTQI
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy