An academic and practitioner-focused journal on all aspects of technology and communities.

• Academia
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Journals

Democracy Pioneers is an award for innovations that are experimenting with ways to re-energise civic participation and everyday democracy in the UK.

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

The Institute for Rebooting Social Media is a three-year, “pop-up” research initiative to accelerate progress towards addressing social media’s most urgent problems, including misinformation, privacy breaches, harassment, and content governance.

• Research and policy centers
• Social media

Community engagement and organising in the rural wards of Swansea

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Participatory budgeting

Using integrated sensors and artificial intelligence, Livio AI enhances your listening experiences, proactively manages your health and provides access to information to simplify your life.

• Deaf

• Artificial Intelligence
• Hardware

Solar Ear manufactures low cost, solar rechargeable and environment friendly hearing aids so you can hear perfectly again. Our products are manufactured by deaf workers with high quality components. FIND YOUR HEARING AID

• Deaf

• Hardware

The hearing aid that tracks body and brain health.

• Deaf

• Hardware

Government software that streamlines land, permitting, asset, licensing, right-of-way, legislative management, and resource and recreation management processes.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

A £100,000 prize fund to help bring Scotland’s innovative uses of AI for social good to life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Better government software. Services that work, for people.

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Using synthetic media to make satirical videos spreading awareness about climate change

• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Analyzes satellite imagery to detect on the ground conflict and/or human rights violations using remote sensing and digital forensics.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

We create free language-learning software for Indigenous communities around the world.

• Decade-Plus Club

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Tools to build a movement

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Let's co-create a more thoughtful future towards technology.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Accelerating new, clean and safe infrastructure models

• The Tech
• The People
• Meet the others

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

E-scooter company

• mobility

• Hardware

Reporting management software for municipal technical services

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

• books
• city

• Books
• Smart Cities and sensors

Our resource for the types of voting equipment we use to cast — and count — our votes by type and vendor.

• Voting and elections
• Hardware
• Election administration

Each will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support

• Funders & donors
• Academia

Drive climate action and earn rewards with a carbon-backed, algorithmic digital currency.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

EarthFund is using 15% of its equity (plus contributions and LP rewards) to build a planet-saving treasury, controlled by you.

• Climate action

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Transforming corrections with technology

• recidivism
• criminal justice

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Hardware

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Social Media Management Software for Politics

• Organize campaigns
• Social media

An open-source software service for stitching together systems of modular agreement systems,

• Decentralization

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

• Slack

• Adjacent Fields
• Group decision making
• Community-building resources

A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.

• Civic data
• Procurement
• Open government data

We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation.

• Access social benefits

Meedan is a team of designers, technologists and journalists crafting software and devising initiatives for newsrooms, NGOs and academic institutions.

• Media
• Civic apps outfits

Qri is builds software for dataset synching, versioning, storing and collaboration. We help solve super interesting data problems with individual data nerds (pro and not pro), non-profits, and commercial clients. Qri is led by a team in Brooklyn NY, and collaborators everywhere and anywhere.

On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

FedScoop is the leading tech media brand in the federal government market

Our mission is to drive a giant leap forward in the way DoD builds and deploys technology and digital services. We work alongside our public servants and service members, empowering them to incorporate private sector best practices and talent to build a better future now.

Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School

• Govtech

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge

• Drones

Working towards a corruption-free society

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Technology Transformation Services (TTS) applies modern methodologies and technologies to improve the lives of the public and public servants

• United States (federal government)

The World Urban Campaign (WUC) is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive urban change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well planned cities

The Nigeria Integrity Film Awards (HomeVida) is a unique platform that provides incentives for young scriptwriters and filmmakers to promote integrity values using film while influencing the wider public.

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns
• Awards and prizes

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Graveyard
• Govtech vendors

Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies

• guides
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Consumer watchdogging

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers