An award-winning campaign promoting the low-lying nation of Tuvalu's transition to a digital nation in the face of rising sea levels

• Climate action
• 2024 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Digital transformation

Founded by America Ferrera, Wilmer Valderrama, and Ryan Piers Williams following the 2016 presidential election, HARNESS is a community of activists, artists, and entertainment and media industry leaders who believe that storytelling shapes our world.

• culture

• Narrative tech
• Artistic interventions

The platform for buying and selling proxy voting rights

• commercial

• Consumer watchdogging

A way for the public to gain the very basic (and essential) knowledge about their elected representatives.

• Communicating with the government
• Social networks
• Find your representatives

We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. 

• Reduced inequalities
• electricity
• housing

A toolkit for impact practitioners to build products, services & systems that center women.

• toolkits
• women

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design
• Visual Design

A comprehensive platform designed to enhance public safety and community engagement by revolutionizing civic communication and emergency notification systems, empowering individuals and government agencies to interact seamlessly and effectively.

Ajudamos organizações sem fins lucrativos, não governamentais e governamentais a aproveitar o poder dos seus dados, para melhorar o seu impacto na comunidade.

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Connectivity
• Hardware

The Wales Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Welsh Government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The UK Open Government Civil Society Networks are coalitions of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making government work better for people through transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

The Scotland Civil Society Open Government Network is a coalition of active citizens and civil society organisations committed to making Scottish government work better for people through enhanced transparency, participation and accountability.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

Online education platform: "Learn new ways of working at the intersection of innovation, business, and geopolitics, and discover the role you or your organization can play in a future where technology advances freedom."

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses
• Diplomacy

The only solution that combines an AI grant-writer, a case management system, a CRM, a booking platform and impact reporting — so you can get more funding, keep costs low, and keep all your information in one place.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Fundraising tools
• Nonprofit tech

Political monitoring. Set apart by heritage, personal touch and breadth of coverage.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Predecessors

MyCandidate South Africa presents electoral candidate data in an accessible and reliable way so that you can make an informed decision at the polls. You can play an active role in South Africa's democracy!

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Adopting AI Responsibly: Guidelines for Procurement of AI Solutions by the Private Sector

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

In order to help election practitioners and stakeholders to better understand the use of ICTs in elections, International IDEA has conducted a global comparative study to learn how ICTs are being used in several stages of electoral process.

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Coming Soon: Your virtual philanthropy assistant to maximize the impact of your giving in line with your goals.

• Get funding
• Tools for Funders

TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Civitech’s campaign management platform, RunningMate, is the affordable solution for campaigns of all sizes and budgets.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voter outreach

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wants your ideas to develop a Federal framework, guidelines, and leading practices for public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities to help Federal agencies more broadly and meaningfully engage with you and your communities.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), in partnership with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Cyber Policy Awards—an annual gathering of the U.S. cyber policy community to honor and celebrate those who drove significant progress in the preceding year, and to make resolutions for the new year.

• Cybersecurity
• Awards and prizes

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

A global nonprofit publication covering the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble.

Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.

• Build something
• User research
• User research groups

The Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academic programs

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

Use the Guide Finder to explore proposed approaches to common data for social impact challenges.

• guides

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs
• Data science for social good

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

6-month pilot of three pole-mounted static air quality machines

• air quality
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

Data for Judicial Transparency

• Civic data
• Justice tech

Developed out of NYU’s Tandon School of Engineering, Building Diagnostic Robotics (BDR) created robotics tools and AI analytics to aid in assessing building envelope efficiency.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities
• buildings

• Emerging tech
• Drones

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• diaspora

• Peer networks

Maru is a chatbot that helps you tackle online harassment

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Social and financial connections

From the upheavals of recent national elections to the success of the #MyDressMyChoice feminist movement, digital platforms have already had a dramatic impact on political life in Kenya – one of the most electronically advanced countries in Africa.

• books

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

• Participatory democracy
• Polarization