GovRight provides citizens the opportunity to understand and contribute to government and legislation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

• books

• Books
• Connectivity

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

• methodology
• reports

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Building inside government

Code for Tucson is the Tucson chapter of the Code for America Brigade. We are a group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

In a world in which fear and insecurity are being twisted into hate, and inequalities, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise, a renewed municipalist movement is emerging to defend human rights, democracy and the common good. Fearless Cities is the first book written by and for the global municipalist movement.

• books
• city

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

What Works Cities Certification Is The National Standard Of Excellence For Well-managed, Data-driven Local Government.

• city

• The People
• Evaluate impact
• Certifications

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

• city
• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Through this City of Pittsburgh and Urban Redevelopment Authority initiative, we hope to celebrate, showcase and connect individuals, organizations and businesses working to make Pittsburgh an innovative place for all.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Bus Turnaround Coalition is a diverse group of New Yorkers determined to turn around the poor service that plagues the city’s bus system and the more than 2 million rides taken on it every weekday.

• mass transit

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Report cards and audits

The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers

The First Hackathon Inside the historic New York City Hall

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

We are focused on leveraging leapfrog technologies and an ecosystem of partners to offer rural, underserved communities affordable and holistic solutions for their basic needs. Our data insights revealed that families in Buikwe spend up to $20 a month to access unclean energy (charcoal), unclean water, limited healthcare, and no electricity

The commission shall publish annually a directory of the computerized information produced or maintained by city agencies which is required by law to be publicly accessible.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Encounters in Citizen Science The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 in Trieste, Italy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Municipalities across the country have joined together to create a new global non-profit organization called the Open Mobility Foundation to support the development of open-sourced software that provides scalable mobility solutions for cities.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions

The sustainable foundation for the modern Smart City: Munsoft Spatial ensures that our municipalities have an up-to-date list of all properties keeping the Property Register, Deeds Database, Valuation Roll and Registered Land Parcels in sync automatically, giving you a bird's eye view of the completeness of revenue.

• Civic data

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

See contact information and details about Social Coin.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

It is a competition designed to help city leaders think big, be bold and uncover inventive – and, ultimately shareable – ideas that tackle today’s toughest problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The Global Laboratory of Future Mobility

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

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

Luminate Group's daily email digest of findings

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Civic I/O is a network of innovators and instigators committed to the hard work of progressing their cities. United by a common drive and ambition, civic leaders join together to help each other imagine and realize what is truly possible, altering the course of their city’s future and making a lasting impact.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

"Google.org and Boulder, Colorado, are teaming up to create a new eligibility calculator, which residents of that city will be able to use to determine if they qualify for public programs, discounts or rebates"

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The Integrated Technology Platform for Local Government

• city
• local
• towns

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Creating a system that makes it easy to store, manage, and search for public records.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Bureaucracy tech

NYC BigApps is the premier civic innovation competition in New York City that challenges tech experts to apply their know-how to improve NYC.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Cleveland Park Listserv

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Helping makers and doers work together to upgrade our city

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Urban Archive is a technology nonprofit that creates new connections between people, places, and historical institutions.

• apps
• history
• place-based

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Civic teams at tech companies

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

It's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

BERiDE is where people can share their ideas to develop the city in any way. / Ide Anda dapat Menjadikan Jakarta Lebih Baik, Ayo Kolaborasi Bersama

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This searchable database indexes visual and geospatial solutions to critical urban problems.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Mannahatta: The Game is a location-based game for the iPhone that maps Manhattan's historical ecosystem onto its modern day streets

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

MetroLab Network is a group of 35 city-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics, and innovation to city government.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Fast, affordable, online permitting for governments

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Conversation AI is a collaborative research effort exploring ML as a tool for better discussions online.

• harassment

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Municipal Money is a web-based mobile responsive tool developed to provide the public with municipal financial data.

• Budget explorers

Change by Us is a place for citizens to put ideas into action to make their city a better place to live.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy