Infonet develops technology platforms that enable information-sharing and promote government transparency in Kenya.

News Deeply is a media and technology firm that aims to elevate the user experience of complex global news issues, primarily through the creation of rich, single-subject news platforms.

Seedstars is a Swiss-based private group of companies with a mission to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship.

The Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS) is a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change.

• Academia

InternetLab is an independent research center that aims to foster academic debate around issues involving law and technology, especially internet policy

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Want to improve our tech future? Work in it!

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

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

• Decentralization

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

Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Xcential provides SaaS-based solutions enable legislatures and regulatory to more efficiently create/publish legislation and regulations.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Civic Tech for Thailand’s Democracy

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Watchdogging and transparency

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Evaluate impact

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Code for Kenya uses data to give citizens hyper-local and hyper-personal information to make better informed decisions about bread & butter issues. Code for Kenya also builds technology tools to amplify citizen voices.

• Civic hacking meetups

Technical.ly grows local technology communities by connecting organizations and people through news, events and services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

Simply Secure supports practitioners in putting people at the center of trustworthy technology.

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

• Emerging tech
• In-person meetings
• Smart Cities and sensors

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Blockchain

• Blockchain
• Internal government tech capacity

Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy

• state

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

m-Omulimisa is an agriculture technology company that leverages ICT tools especially mobile phone technology to improve the livelihoods of small holder farmers in Uganda.

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Our mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more accessible to everyone.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity

Since 1989, CSDC has been fueling process performance through purpose-built, automation technology.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Experience the power of a nuclear blast in your area

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

the home of online investigations

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

The Metropolitan Area Planning Council is the regional planning agency serving the people who live and work in the 101 cities and towns of Metro Boston.

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

A powerful investigative look at data-based discrimination—and how technology affects civil and human rights and economic equity

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

El Programa de Derechos Humanos busca, desde su creación en el año de 1998, contribuir a la plena vigencia de los derechos humanos en México a través de la investigación con pertinencia social, la incidencia en el contexto político y social y la promoción de la justicia.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

a newsletter about languages and tech

• indigenous

• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields
• Newsletters

A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census

• census

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

We are San Diegans who believe data and technology can better serve citizens, sparking a more vibrant democracy and civic life. We treasure our communities and work together to bolster our public experience. We are a brigade of the national, non-partisan Code for America, leveraging their resources, but keenly focused on our improving local issues here at home.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The goal of the program is to promote developments in transparency, open data, and civic technology.

• The Tech
• The People
• Meet the others

A show that takes the two dullest subjects in the world, government and technology, and makes them irresistibly relevant and undeniably fascinating. (Trust us!)

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

It is a platform that will innovate technology to increase access to the Malawi story, including access to the historical manuscripts at the National Archives of Malawi, and other well-researched content authored by ‘Logos – Open culture’, and other producers

Iowa is known around the country for its abundance of corn, soybeans, and pork. Code for Iowa is about leveraging our lesser-known abundance of technology talent to spur civic innovation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit that helps residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Civic Innovation Challenge aims to leverage social science, data, and technology to address complex community challenges, enhance job growth and economic competitiveness, and address equity in our communities.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Connecting people & data for good

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A specification of the civic.json metadata standard for civic technology projects

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

• youth
• Microsoft

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

• women

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

In 2001, registering or transferring land in Jamaica was an uphill battle

• land

• The Tech
• Govtech

Join leading charities and unions in Europe and use our powerful technology platform to increase your impact.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

Odekro began as an open data initiative but it has grown into a national platform which promotes transparency and citizen participation. The site says it sets out to improve social mobilisation, citizen action, and engagement using technology.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

The Hive Chicago Fund for Connected Learning (Fund) at The Chicago Community Trust is a funder collaborative that empowers educators to use connected learning principles, including the thoughtful integration of digital media and technology, to help engage youth in meaningful 21st Century learning experiences.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We train youth to produce high quality data about community assets that everyone can use to improve the human condition.

• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science