Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source

An aggregator of Black Lives Matter protests across the US

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators
• Direct action

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data
• Environmental data

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Peer networks

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

We are creating low-cost, easy-to-use deep-sea systems that gather the most critical data to inform environmental decision-making and deployment strategies.

• Life below water

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

Our mission is to accelerate deep ocean exploration by developing accessible systems to broaden the community of those who explore and understand the deep sea.

• Life below water
• sustainability

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Whistleblowing

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Internet governance, with and for citizens

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Internet governance

The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

UkraineTakeShelter.com is an independent platform helping to connect Ukrainian refugees with potential hosts and housing.

• housing
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

• videos

• Digital security and privacy

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Schmidt Futures is a philanthropic initiative of Eric and Wendy Schmidt.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

At ex/ante, we’ve created an experimental sandbox for inventive teams to build solutions that advance free societies and counter authoritarianism

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

Starshield leverages SpaceX's Starlink technology and launch capability to support national security efforts. While Starlink is designed for consumer and commercial use, Starshield is designed for government use, with an initial focus on three areas:

• Govtech
• Connectivity
• Govtech vendors

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Inactive -- Once you install the Android app, you can assign “trusted” status to your closest friends and family. Your trusted contacts will be able to see your activity status — whether you’ve moved around recently and are online — to quickly know if you're OK.

• apps
• civic features
• Android

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic features

Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Fieldwide resources
• Civic apps outfits

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Voter outreach
• Phone banking tools

You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.

• partisan
• courses

• Organize campaigns
• Online courses
• The craft of organizing

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Relational organizing

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Organize events
• Tech for your meetings

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.

• Awards and prizes

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports
• TICTeC 25

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Bots

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Ranking of countries by their open government data governance processes

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Bots

The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them

• Civic data
• Mapping

Post will be a civil place to debate ideas; learn from experts, journalists, individual creators, and each other; converse freely; and have some fun.

• Media
• Social networks

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Open social

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.

• Graveyard
• Meet the others
• Open social

eupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Open social

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Open justice

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools