The Civic Commons Wiki was a collaborative encyclopedia documenting best-practices and open standards for file formats, APIs, agile development processes, open source software, and supporting policies and licenses in the civic sector.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Data Governance is an important component of enabling our mission because we believe that while the world needs better quality and more granular data to achieve its development goals, people’s rights must also be protected zealously. In partnership with Amnesty International, the Open Institute aims to bring together expertise in data for human rights and data for development towards strengthening data governance in Kenya and Africa as a whole

• Civic data
• Data governance

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

• Petitions

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the county, these awards are presented during NACo’s annual conference held each July.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

Smart donation form that embeds directly to your website or as a pop-up.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Nonprofit tech

Good Habit Lab is a web platform that will help people meet their health and wellbeing goals.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The online voting software used by millions around the world

• Bureaucracy tech

Emoji as public awareness

• Media and social media analysis
• Externalities of tech

Start where you are

• Graveyard
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Clear Ballot is re-imagining elections with the world's most innovative and transparent voting system.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

Skews towards fundraising, organizations pay to post jobs

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

Towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society Our journey began with Education. Over the years, our work has expanded to Grants, Health and Livelihoods Read more Towards a just, equitable, humane and sustainable society Our journey began with Education. Over the years, our work has expanded to Grants, Health and Livelihoods Read more What […]

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

This group is a place for those who facilitate online (or need to) can learn, share and make offers to the world as the Covid19 virus plays out.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Building a 21st century government, together. We’re working towards a government that is built by and made for everyone.

• The People
• Govtech
• Meet the others

Darcy will allow everyone to run their own federated social media instance – without having to worry about technology, moderation or legal compliance, because Darcy will take care of that for you – if you want!

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps

• Engagement tech

Our team spent two years listening to homeless New Yorkers. This website aims to summarize our findings and push forward sensible reforms that we developed alongside our homeless neighbors.

• homelessness

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Narrative tech

The Digital Connector is an open source piece of software, which allows data specialists to efficiently connect data sets into a common format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

We build software to help nonprofits and local government better serve their community.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• COVID
• Hardware

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Community Leaders for Internet Health spotlights internet issues in diverse local community contexts and creates collaboration among local leaders to engage with tools for open campaigning towards Internet Health

• Foundational layers
• Open internet

OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Flying High is a collaborative engagement with cities, technologists and researchers, regulators, government, public services and citizens to shape the future of urban drone use in the UK to meet local needs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

Open source and free software that enables the creation of anonymous and secure whistleblowing platforms

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The main goal of CiviCERT is to improve the incident response capabilities of NGOs, journalists and involved citizens all around the world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The WeVote app is a one stop shop to learn about the candidates and your voting rights and responsibilities, act on Election Day by voting or volunteering and share events you plan to attend and materials you have read.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Ballot information

Digital democracy platforms for citizens, organizations and institutions

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

This latest edition of the World e-Parliament Report follows up on previous findings and identifies major steps forward in how parliaments are using information and communication technologies (ICT) to engage with citizens.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

We develop software, and provide services, to help Municipal Governments do more with less.

• land

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

A Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa

• WhatsApp

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

OpenProcurement is an open source e-procurement toolkit.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory budgeting

Digital Innovation for Social Impact

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Change the face of social impact engagement globally

• maternal health
• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We hope these tools help you out in running your next election

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

RevUp Software is a Silicon Valley-based SaaS start-up that designs tools to help academic institutions, non-profits, and political organizations leverage data analytics and social media to meet and exceed their fundraising goals.

• Get funding
• Graveyard
• Fundraising tools

We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Pro bono and volunteer

The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer experience for people experiencing repressive information controls online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity