Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

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

Measures for Justice is on a mission to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform.

• racial equity
• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Civic literacy

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Mapping platforms
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Online political fundraising tools powered by artificial intelligence, automation, and analytics. Call Time provides online donor research and an automated fundraising platform.

• partisan

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding

A collaboration of government, nonprofits, and you to map all the trees of San Francisco's urban forest and understand the ecosystem services they provide.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Many communities use Facebook Groups as their online message board

• commercial
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Neighborhood forums

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

ID2020 is a global alliance committed to improving lives through digital identity.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Designed for public servants, this course helps government innovators learn how to lead digital-driven change in the public sector.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Impactive is an all-in-one digital organizing platform, offering texting (P2P and broadcast), phone banking, relational organizing, and voter registration tools for campaigns, advocacy orgs, nonprofits, unions, and more.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Sumbon is an online platform helping donors and non-profits manage their relationship and track the human impact of donations. Global giving just got easier!

• The People
• Graveyard
• Get funding

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Microsoft's academic relations program

• The People
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• Graveyard

Collect the place-based data you need using our easy mobile tools and web dashboard. Create your own survey or engage around community health, safety, commercial development, blight, historic resources, and more. Quickly export your data for Excel or as a Shapefile.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Anonymous Voting at Work, School, and Play :)

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

Transfer 10x more data for your video telematics, fleet operations, industrial IoT or connected vehicles.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

I'm Resistbot. Text RESIST to 50409 and I'll help you contact your officials.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Looking to transform public services and influence government? Grab a desk and join the startups and civic servants driving the govtech revolution.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Let’s work together on your broadband project.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

• The People
• Media
• Learn about civic tech

• Watchdogging and transparency

LABIC are a series of labs aimed at fostering civic innovation in Ibero-America, in order to boost social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Contains over 200,000 government financial documents

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

DebateWise.org is an online database of expert-curated debates on popular topics.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft
• blind

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A speculative story sprint collection

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Drones

Vote Compass is an award-winning application, showing you how your views align with those of the candidates running for election.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Online Lawyers is an online platform where individuals and businesses can connect with lawyers and seek legaladvice online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Collaborative writing of laws

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

• The People
• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields

It looks like the end of the road for a site that offered what was once cutting-edge access to Web-based data visualization.

• IBM

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

This Expert Network Accelerates The Search For Talent. Case study by GovLab

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Aristotle is the leading pioneer in political technology, servicing many of the largest grassroots organizations, PACs and political campaigns in the U.S. and abroad.

• Organize campaigns

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards

Google team focused on election information and civic features within Google products

• Google

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

We, the undersigned cities, formally come together to form the Cities Coalition for Digital Rights, to protect and uphold human rights on the internet at the local and global level.

• city
• manifestos
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

MeMeZa Shout Crime Prevention was started in 2012 and it specializes in providing affordable innovative Connected Community Safety Technology, with a special focus on the most vulnerable people in society.

The Veza online tool is an open data platform developed by Corruption Watch with the goal of improving transparency and accountability in the South African Police Service (SAPS).

Welcome, friends.

• Civic and social impact companies