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

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

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

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

The Trustable Technology mark empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

Citizens Monitor. Everyone wins. We empower citizens to demand integrity from the institutions they rely on.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity.

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Pro bono and volunteer

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

• coop
• partisan

• The People
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Digital literacy
• Hardware

Connecting people and power

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

We are a collective of passionate socially minded people who are empowering social change makers to be better by allowing their data to speak to them.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The data flow layer for political tech. Making data accessible to progressive tools has never been more important.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

RankedVote is the easiest way to create ranked-choice voting polls on any device.

• Voting and elections
• Surveys & polling
• E-voting and I-voting

Training and empowering young people to help them run for office

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Eticas teams up with organizations to identify black box algorithmic vulnerabilities and retrains AI-powered technology with better source data and content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• AI Auditing
• Civic and social impact companies

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• city

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Ruck.us can give you a high-powered, attractive political website in five minutes.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Our Mission is to empower people through inclusive economies by conducting & supporting various academic research & strategic philanthropic investments.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Tumml empowers entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. A nonprofit, Tumml's goal is to support the next generation of Zipcars and Revolution Foods.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• Media
• The People
• Meet the others

LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Narrative tech
• Network visualizations

Realize an Emissions Free World by 2040

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Tech for public challenges
• Carbon calculators

The fastest way for local governments to discover, test, and share innovative solutions.

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bureaucracy tech

DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Center for Information and Communication Technology for Development ICT for Empowerment and Development​

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Digital Woman Uganda is a Civic-tech and Digital Rights Advocacy organization – operating an ICT powered model to extend the literacy and skills of an eco-system economy that the world currently operates in to a woman/ girl child

These events join New Yorkers of all ages to test and give feedback on technologies aimed at improving quality of life and City services.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Open source platform for collaborative decisions and e-democracy applications.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Research and policy centers

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Courses

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

• apps
• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

Debate platform powered by reason

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

If like us, you are inspired by the potential of people and technology to power a better society, then you might be interested in Jobs for Good.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

thirteen23’s digital strategy for Obama for America re-imagined grassroots campaigning, lowering the barrier of entry and empowering people to take action.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

We partner with organizations that seek to empower lower income individuals through creative and interactive programming.

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Accelerating Civic Innovation

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

We’re the Web Foundation’s Open Data Labs. We empower people through data.

• guides

• The People
• Civic data
• Build something

Predictwise is a powerful data, analytics, research, and survey platform that can generate customized, granularized insights on any voter in any district in the country.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We're the UK's leading public participation charity, on a mission to put people at the heart of decision-making

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Our mission is to make disciples and alleviate poverty through the power of entrepreneurship.

• No poverty
• Decent work and economic growth

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

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
• Civic apps outfits

Solutions Through rigorous research and strategic partnerships, the Institute empowers media makers, studios, and industry leaders

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Ushahidi powered tool allowing citizens to report cases of corruption via SMS, twitter or web. The website allows users to view reported cases on the site

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

The Citizens' Watch is a promise tracker that is designed to empower citizens with the digital tools and information that enables them to track, rate and publish the most significant promises of politicians, in a bid to promote public accountability and participatory governance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

RumbleUp is an easy yet powerful P2P texting platform trusted by hundreds of campaigns and organizations to quickly engage any size audience via SMS or MMS

• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS