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

The Evaluation of Humanitarian Action Guide supports evaluation specialists and non-specialists in every stage of an evaluation, from initial decision to final dissemination.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Baobab.law attempts to remove barriers to legal assistance by providing DIY legal solutions in the form of videotutorials. Videos are recorded with professional lawyers, and are available in multiple languages.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Psiphon is a free and open-source internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, providing open access to the internet for millions of citizens around the world.

• apps
• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Learn how to run powerful campaigns this Autumn! Applications are due 9am on Tuesday 21 August.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Ted Cruz's official presidential campaign app

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

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

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Bureaucracy tech

Acquired by Causes. Countable was a citizen’s dashboard to democracy, combining a decoder for Washington policymaking with civic action in one place.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Uses machine learning to track legislation and predict the best methods of advocating for them

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Every year, Access Now celebrates the heroes of human rights in the digital age, and we’re looking for nominations!

• human rights

Smart Cities

• Graveyard
• Hubs

Astraea’s CommsLabs is a radical global movement-building initiative that equips LGBTQI activists with the tools, skills and knowledge they need to securely organize and advocate in online spaces.

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Open government data portal

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

“Big data” will not change the world unless it is collected and synthesized into tools that have a public benefit.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Sign up to have your daily NYC protest update texted and emailed to you.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Send a better message

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Nova-Ideo collects ideas and transforms them into implementable proposals

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Last updated 2017

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

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

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Sentry is an investigative and policy team that follows the dirty money connected to African war criminals and transnational war profiteers and seeks to shut those benefiting from violence out of the international financial system.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

HSDS is designed to support the publication of open, interoperable community resource directory data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

VentureWell is on a mission to cultivate a pipeline of inventors, innovators, and entrepreneurs driven to solve the world’s biggest challenges.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

IdeaScale is the leading innovation management software platform for the enterprise, government, and education. Gather ideas and implement them.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Leader in recreation management software for local government parks and recreation departments

• parks

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Mulika allows users to annoymously report corruption by government officials and other crimes through SMS. Userscan report a case by sending a text message, which is forwarded to relevant officials.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

A dedicated section on Facebook that connects people to news and information about their community, called Today In.

• civic features
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Procurement oversight

This article is my attempt to create and maintain a comprehensive list of projects attempting to address the misinformation and disinformation problem in a scalable, systemic fashion. Efforts which…

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Open Toledo focuses on civic technology and government technology, technologies that enhance civic engagement and help government run efficiently.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Digital literacy

We The People is the best place for politics, debate, news & your vote to count.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Supernormal explored an algorithm that integrates social equity as a key variable in prioritizing infrastructural replacements and repairs.

• Reduced inequalities
• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Oakland Fence Project is a public art experience with three primary components: an interactive documentary installation, an A/R mobile cinema app, and a participatory photo exhibit online

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Topul instanțelor din România, conform indicelui de performanță

• Graveyard
• Justice tech

Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.

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

Democracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

DebateWise.org is an online database of expert-curated debates on popular topics.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

• air quality
• radiation

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech