Explore how cities around the world are applying innovation methods to tackle their tough challenges

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Public Data University is APDU’s signature education initiative, designed to develop the knowledge and skills of data users of every experience level.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Kumpulan cerita tentang orang, studi kasus, penelitian kami, dan wajah kota yang selalu berubah yang Anda jalani. // Qlue is a crowd-sourcing smartphone app where the users can report various incidents such as flooding, crime, fires or waste-related issues.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech

The CLARITY project brings together stakeholder networks across Europe into an engaged and mobilised community that supports innovation in open eGovernment applications.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Get funding

Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

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• Research and policy centers

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

COMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY

• No poverty

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Afterpattern app builder is now PatternBuilder, a capability within NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-based content management platform where legal professionals do work.

• commercial

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Air quality monitor Flow tracks pollutants PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and VOCs. Accurate sensors measure pollution in real time. Flow helps parents, cyclists, runners, commuters or people with asthma avoid pollution and breathe clean air.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Sketch City is an open community of 2,700+ technology and data advocates. We work on projects, share knowledge, influence tech policy, and produce events.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Crowdicity is an idea management software solution that can be used to harness the ideas of your employees, customers, and stakeholders to drive innovation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Citizen reporting platform

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Contests have a long history of driving innovation, and web-based information technology has opened up new possibilities for managing tournaments. One such poss

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• Challenges

City Tech transforms cities into testbeds for new ideas. With partners and people, City Tech remakes essential services and infrastructure.

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• Graveyard

Who's on that thing, and where are they going? The scooter company knows, but the city might, too!!

• mobility

• Data science for social good

The Poverty Research Unit (PRU) of the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity has multiple openings for technical fellows in the area of developing and implementing measures of poverty, mobility, and medical care economic risks.

• No poverty
• research

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Community Leaders for Internet Advocacy builds upon the work of Open Internet for Democracy Leaders by engaging in the principles of a democratic internet and adapting the Open Internet for Democracy Advocacy Playbook

• Foundational layers
• Open internet

Chicago Cityscape shows where development is happening by combining data from dozens of sources.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

• The People
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• Research and policy centers

The first-ever AI solution for thanking and cultivating donors.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

mySociety is a not-for-profit social enterprise that exists to invent and popularise websites and apps that enable citizens around the world to exert power over institutions and decision makers.

• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice
• CTFG partners

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Predecessors

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.

• racial equity

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

A report on innovations attempted by Mobile Network Operators following the major earthquake in Nepal

• earthquakes

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

The Human Utility provides assistance to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.

• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Citizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.

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• Graveyard

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Voluntary Sector Digital Maturity Matrix was a free tool provided by NCVO to assess the current maturity of a voluntary sector organisation's digital capability, compared with its desired target state

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

It explores how different stakeholders in the Smart City ecosystem can come together to build safer, more efficient and sustainable cities of the future.

• city
• podcasts
• Sustainable cities and communities

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• Podcasts

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

• urban planning

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"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

• Watchdogging and transparency

To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding

Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

• The People
• Digital rights
• Manifestos

AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

A social platform where you can grade your local government, start discussions, and collaborate together to improve your city.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Data 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.

• city

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Emanuel administration hoped to harness the city’s trove of digital data to improve Chicagoans’ health, safety, and quality of life.

As the largest community foundation in the nation, SVCF helps build and strengthen the community by bringing together people and organizations who want to strengthen the common good.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Scholars. Practitioners. Leaders.

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• Research and policy centers

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

crowdsourcing environmental data across Victoria.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• animals

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

OpenMobilityData will be the first data commons to fully integrate with transit data editors to update data automatically.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data

FixMyCommunity is a system for citizens to report problems in infrastructure or service delivery. FixMyCommunity was originally created by MySociety as FixMyStreet.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government