a novel about democracy in the age of algorithms

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Illinois Legal Aid Online presents legal resources and information about legal aid in a simple and accessible manner.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

My Legal Briefcase helps individuals and businesses handle their legal cases with or without a lawyer. It also assistsusers in preparing simple legal documents.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

• COVID-19

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

It provides an easy to use, do-it-yourself like, Participatory Budgeting platform capable of adapting to the best practices as well as local specificities.

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

LinkNYC is a first-of-its-kind communication network, bringing the fastest free public Wi-Fi to millions of New Yorkers and visitors.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Digital Impact (formerly Markets for Good) is an initiative of the Digital Civil Society Lab to improve the data infrastructure for social good and help civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

The Ability Programme exists to advocate for the rights of Persons With Disabilities (PWDs) in line with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD), as well as SDGs 10 and 11

This dataset is part of an ongoing effort to inventory each dataset in the City of KCMO.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

People’s Press is a fictional community magazine exploring the use of digital social innovation in the year 2030

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• Civic imagination

Municipal Finance Data is a website tool which Municipal Money is built from.Current and historical Municipal budget and financial performance data from the National Treasury.

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam is one of the leading documentary events in the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Conferences

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
• Media
• The People

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Mapping 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
• Emerging tech

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.

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• 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
• Media
• The People

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
• Media
• The People

Microsoft's academic relations program

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• 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

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

• Media
• The People
• 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
• Civic fiction

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
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Collaborative writing of laws

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy