Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.

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

Take data from anywhere and turn it into anything - Namara's marketplace is one of the world's largest data repositories. Banks, government, and tech leaders rely on Namara to access and refine their data. Start getting more out of data; join Namara today.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

NYC Trees Count Data Jam

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

• research

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

Monitoreo ciudadano de datos sobre ciclismo urbano en Cochabamba

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was created in 1956 and aims to improve people's lives through art, charity, science and education.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

GDS is leading the digital transformation of the UK government.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

a user-friendly platform that centralizes data about all public services and facilities that can cater to the needs of vulnerable citizens, such as where to eat, to shower, to find shelter or get social welfare

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Carrotmob is a new way to influence businesses. We spend money as a group, and in return businesses take socially-responsible actions we care about.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Zgjidhni një nga Kuvendet në nivel kombëtar ose rajonal për t’u bërë pjesë e debateve publike mbi ligjet që janë në procedurë miratimi.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

How to get engaged in Paris

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Ask a favour, give a favour, earn a Fava Connecting to others in your neighbourhood by sharing time, skills, and everyday items...

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence

• harassment

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

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
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

• 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

Kickstart Accelerator bridges the gap between startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate deep tech innovation.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

StepUp is a free habit building, science-based workout program developed by the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. The program is being launched in partnership with 24 Hour Fitness.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.

• The People
• Digital participation platforms
• Organize campaigns

Watchdogging Czech Republic

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Infrequent podcast covering various tech for good ventures

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

To help level the playing field, CDM created Contratados, a platform launched last week to let migrant workers share Yelp-style ratings and reviews of their experiences with different recruiters and employers.

• labor
• migration

• Watchdogging and transparency

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Investing in transformative ideas in their earliest stages to promote breakthrough solutions to significant problems

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Safecity provides you with a collection of curated resources ranging from safety products, mobile applications, self defence classes and important legal information to help you stay safe and take necessary action in case you have been harassed

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

There is a universe of government records hidden away in file cabinets and offline databases. With FOIA Mapper, much of that information is now searchable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Uma aplicação portuguesa de entreajuda comunitária

• Graveyard
• Pro bono and volunteer
• COVID Engagement Projects

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

When you open government, what do you get in return? If you are asking this question, this guide is for you.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Help unearth some of the UK's earliest weather records for British Science Week

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

E.thePeople is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is the nation's leading provider of interactive voter guide software.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

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
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

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