MSc Media and Communications (Data and Society)

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

An online forum for community discussion

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A common EU approach for the use of mobile applications and mobile data in response to the coronavirus pandemic

• Mapping tools
• COVID
• Location

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Apptorney is a platform agnostic mobile application that uses natural language processing and content indexing and categorization to provide user friendly search functionality to its users

18 - 20 November 2019 in Rotterdam

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The BlocPower Smart Cities platform connects investors and community members to green building projects that save energy and improve health outcomes in financially underserved communities.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

MZALENDO.NET ni blogi inayokuletea habari na mutikio muhimu kutoka visiwani Zanzibar..

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

Impact Engine is an investment firm with a mission to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Tracks progress on all of the government’s manifesto promises, includes explainers and ways to get more involved.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Seattle's Civic Tech Advocate Promotes Innovation, Engagement

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Gov tech accelerator

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Ideas and perspectives you won’t find anywhere else.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Learn about civic tech

How Congress learns about Congress

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

livestreams video from the committee debates in Brasilia, and includes a chat window designed to let citizens ask questions, vote on others' questions, and generally chat about the proceedings with other viewers

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Moonsheep is a technological framework that allows organizations to conduct crowdsourcing campaigns, in which volunteers are transcribing online massive collections of scanned documents. The end effect is the structured data available in spreadsheets, CSVs, or JSON APIs.

• Crowdsourcing

We’ve taken the work out of launching a compliant federal website.

• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• Govtech

E-Court specialises in private and civil online dispute resolution. It aims to provide administrative justice at low costs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Password Alert is a Chrome extension that alerts you if a website is trying to steal your password.

• extensions

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

PublicInput.com connects organizations with the communities they serve.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Civic Tech for Thailand’s Democracy

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Participatory budgeting software for local government

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Neighborland was a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way. Acquired by Nextdoor in 2019 and shut down.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We are a community of volunteers who develop open-source projects as a Code for America Brigade by focusing on open government, open data, great design, and social good in Baltimore.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

CityBase is a gov tech platform that connects cities and citizens to make government more accessible and efficient.

• Govtech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Forms

This weekly digest email helps you more efficiently manage your portfolio so you prioritize the right donors at the right time and raise more

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

• youth

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

See what your representatives in Congress say and do.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• city
• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy

• state

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A team at Facebook that builds products around election and voting

• Facebook

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Challenges

Invest in women who improve the world.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Browse and download over 1,600 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers’ markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage.

• state

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Promise Tracker is a collaborative data collection platform that allows communities to better understand and transform their social reality.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Bonayo is free user-supported software that helps San Francisco citizens see every 311 call in the City.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

our mission We dream of an equitable world where the poor and marginalised can lead lives that are empowered and just

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Championing London’s civil society through insight, influence and powerful connections

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

A comprehensive political database for modern day voters

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.

• Predecessors

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Mapped: The innovation labs transforming government — and how to get in touch

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

As part of its comprehensive fact-checking efforts, The Associated Press announced that it will work with Facebook to identify and debunk false and misleading stories related to the U.S. midterm election that are circulating on the platform.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design

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

Seneca Systems was founded to strengthen the vital bond between government and people. Its Constituent Services Platform, Romulus, enables government workers to get more done in less time, with less overhead, and to more constituent applause.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Code for Kenya uses data to give citizens hyper-local and hyper-personal information to make better informed decisions about bread & butter issues. Code for Kenya also builds technology tools to amplify citizen voices.

• Civic hacking meetups

Digital Attack Map visualizes the most powerful DDoS attacks happening in the world right now

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields