The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The Cities, Government & Politics track focuses on innovative city planning and development, privacy and policy issues, and how politics plays a role in shaping policy in government.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Analysen und Visualisierungen der Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Karlsruhe. Größte Änderungen, Wechselwähler, Erststimmen und mehr Statistiken.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

To allow low-powered devices to communicate with Internet-connected applications over long range wireless connections.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

It refers to the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest/generate public benefits/promote the public good.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Google shares aggregate location data with public officials to show where stay-in-place orders are being followed

• civic features
• mobility

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel

• The People
• Media
• Evaluate impact

News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Business intelligence for the public sector

• Civic and social impact companies

TAFTIE is the European Association of leading national innovation agencies

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

IVOW (Intelligent Voices of Wisdom) is an early stage startup ​focusing on cultural intelligence in AI.

• culture

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Action Button lets you instantly #TakeAction on news that matters. Don’t just read the headlines, change them.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.

• The People
• Fieldwide resources
• Awards and prizes

Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

We are a research center, premised on the observation that what we seek to learn is not already recorded. Our method is to build out into cyberspace, record data as we go, self-study, and share. Our mode is entrepreneurial nonprofit.

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

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Gifts that give Back

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Community Arts is a program of the Zellerbach Family Foundation and a vital part of the foundation’s mission to serve as a catalyst for constructive social change.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Another Google Doc: a growing list of mutual aid pandemic disaster care

• The People
• Help out
• COVID

#MineAlert allows you to track and share mining applications and licences

• mining
• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency

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

As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers

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

Forwarding the interest of Awesome in the universe, $1,000 at a time.

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

減少盲目投票，讓民主社會的台灣更進步

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

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

• Bureaucracy tech

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

This is an open document for developing a media analysis toolkit.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Tech startups typically avoid government agencies like the plague but startup Homejoy is working with the public sector to find people to clean homes on its service.

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

COMBINING SATELLITE IMAGERY AND MACHINE LEARNING TO PREDICT POVERTY

• No poverty

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Latvian "civic-initiatives platform ManaBalss.lv (MyVoice), developed and run by an NGO Foundation of Public Participation, MyVoice."

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

As a Code for America Brigade, we're part of a national network of civic-minded volunteers using technology for the public good.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Report by the International Committee of the Red Cross

• cyberwar
• reports

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Theorizing the Web is an inter- & non-disciplinary DIY conference on tech & society. #TtW18 is April 27 & 28 at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Assess Where To Participate

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

The Information Controls Fellowship Program (ICFP) cultivates research, outputs, and creative collaboration on topics related to repressive internet censorship and surveillance.

• free speech

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Debate platform powered by reason

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Mostly fundraising and roles that support fundraising in large organizations, education, foundations.

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

The Digital Democracy project has been one of the earliest and most ambitious projects of the IATPP, being almost continuously worked on for over ten years.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

Activists from 15 countries taking on kleptocracy, political violence, technology, and environmental crisis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings