The Open County Initiative is a project within the Devolution Programme implemented by Open Institute together with the Council of Governors

An online meeting place to discuss how to use civic technology to improve peoples' lives.

• Meet the others
• Graveyard
• Socialize online

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

A guide to Colombia's Digital Government initiatives (PDF)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Legal tech

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media
• Journalism

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

• labor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Make a Difference (MaD) is a regional think-and-do collaborative platform – where you can explore creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and synergize across sectors for innovative solutions to social challenges.

• Hubs
• Working groups

Better walking, biking, and transit

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

A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Entrepreneurs, sign up for our Abaca platform to get notified when a relevant accelerator opens up

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

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

CODE, founded as the Center for Open Data Enterprise, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good.

• Roundtables

The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch

• The People
• Evaluate impact

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Media Research & Action Project’s (MRAP) mission is to strengthen progressive social movements working toward social justice and inclusive, participatory democracy.

• partisan

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

Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way

• supply chain

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Govtech
• Build something

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

An online forum for community discussion

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A now-defunct app that let you find US nonprofits to donate to

• apps

• The People
• Get funding
• Graveyard

Vilsquare strives to achieve digital transformation in different communities across Nigeria and all Africa, through use of open science technologies and methodologies

• Digital transformation
• Open science

Design the sustainable cities of tomorrow with the first end-to-end urban planning software. Discover the platform built for planners, by planners.

• Bureaucracy tech

A major integrated research programme with a goal to deploy AI and data science in priority areas to support the UK economy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our Launchpad is a month-long, hackathon-inspired event that facilitates citizen volunteers working together on civic-focused, open source projects.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.

• city
• podcasts
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

Our mission is to reduce poverty by ensuring that policy is informed by scientific evidence. We do this through research, policy outreach, and training.

• No poverty

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

Build Peace is a conference that brings together practitioners, activists, artists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas.

• peace

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

SmartProcure is a procurement database company for businesses and government agencies.

• Govtech
• Procurement

We enable leading organisations working in the peace, justice and humanitarian sector to spearhead digital innovations to increase their impact on society.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Explore what the world is searching

• commercial
• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

• state

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.

• fintech

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots

• g0v

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Open Cities Accra Project seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters, especially flooding. The project will also involve the remote mapping of Nima, Akweteman and Alajo.

The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech