Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• city
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital transformation

Korean app to match young people to politicians in their area and discussing their issues

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Communicating with the people

An open network for secure, decentralised communication

• Matrix

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization
• Internal communication and coordination

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram? Authenticate your preferred one with one click!

• commercial
• Discord

• Chat and messaging
• Internal communication and coordination

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Chat and messaging

"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu

• diaspora

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

A bold call to reexamine how our government operates—and sometimes fails to—from President Obama's former deputy chief technology officer and the founder of Code for America.

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.

• WhatsApp

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

• Hong Kong protests

• Graveyard
• Connectivity
• Chat and messaging

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.

• supply chain

• Watchdogging and transparency

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

US White House order including addressing AI generated public comments

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the government

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic apps outfits

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Digital security and privacy

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Emerging tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Mapping
• Specific campaigns
• Location

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Games and gamification

This [2023 Webby Award nominated] app allows current Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area to easily see their assigned routes, view customer stops, and navigate to each customer on the route.

• Zero hunger
• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Resource matching and sharing
• Manage volunteers

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

It’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.

• history
• racial equity
• apps

• Walking tours

Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.

• Civic data
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

CityBase technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. More than 100 government agencies, cities, counties, states, and utilities use the CityBase platform for hassle-free payments and digital services.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Grant management

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

OpenAerialMap is an open service to provide access to a commons of openly licensed imagery and map layer services. Download or contribute imagery to the growing commons of openly licensed imagery. Start Exploring

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Newspeak House

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Salesforce.org's own volunteer management app for the platform.

• extensions
• Salesforce

• Manage volunteers

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

We Use Technology, Research & Participatory Action to Unveil Corruption.

• People Powered

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• OpenStreetMap

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• city
• guides
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning