The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.

• People Powered

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

BoardTrack is a community board attendance tracking tool and data standard that helps community board staff submit attendance records to the Manhattan Borough President’s community board liaisons. In turn, liaisons can quickly analyze attendance history. By BetaNYC

• templates

• Communicating with the people
• Public meetings

Plan✕ is a platform for creating and publishing digital planning services. It aims to make planning less hard work, for everyone.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Urban planning

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers

FOSS, govtech, and open data.

• Govtech
• Procurement
• News and blogs

Baltimore Mayor Brandon M. Scott created an open source tool to track progress made during his administration’s first 100 days.

• Promise trackers

The Creative Bureaucracy Festival celebrates outstanding innovation in the public sector and its contribution to a better, more sustainable, and more just world.

• Govtech
• Conferences
• Bureaucracy tech

An internship program that supports diversity in free and open source software.

• Find a job or hire someone

Paid directory listing site that organizes tech solutions by UN Sustainable Development Goals. Data points:

• Sustainable Development Goals

• Civic tech catalogs

Connecting NGOs with Tech. A voluntary movement of tech companies to help non-governmental organizations around the world implement digital solutions to scale up their activities.

• Nonprofit tech
• Resource matching and sharing

The We Be Imagining Podcast examines the intersection of race, tech, surveillance, gender and disability in the COVID-19 era.

• Podcasts

Explore data on refugee community locations and resources in the United States. Built by Graphicacy with UNHCR.

• refugees

• Civic maps

Twitter bot that tweets RFPs from US legislative branch agencies. This is a public interest bot and a project of Demand Progress.

• X (Twitter)

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bots

Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) is the first research and innovation laboratory operating as a distributed, open and massive mobilisation platform for collaborative task solving.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out
• Challenges

Most tech is designed with the best intentions. But once a product is released and reaches scale, all bets are off. The Risk Mitigation Manual presents eight risk zones where we believe hard-to-anticipate and unwelcome consequences are most likely to emerge.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Build something

CivStart is a nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for underserved and unconnected communities through startups that build with local governments. Our goal is to help impactful innovations quickly enter the state & local market. [email protected] 80 M St. SE, Washington, DC 20003

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Govtech vendors

A suite of govtech products mostly tailored toward local government websites.

• Govtech
• Public meetings
• Forms

the largest gathering of black women data leaders and professionals

• racial equity

• Peer networks
• Conferences

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight

• census

• Bots

Advancing the responsible adoption of Artificial Intelligence and other emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital literacy
• Tech or Digital Policy

We are campaign workers from across the United States who are committed to improving our work conditions, empowering organizers, and promoting healthy career longevity.

• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Civic tech unions

PLACE is a non-profit data trust that creates and stewards hyperlocal mapping data for a membership community that is open to all and serves the public interest.

• Data schemas and standards
• Mapping tools

The citizens agenda is a way for news organizations to ensure that voters get the information they need from the politicians competing for their votes, in order to make the best decisions they can

• guides

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Interactive online courses for 21st century public servants. Master essential skills and earn a certificate of completion.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Online courses

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic and social impact companies

To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Awards and prizes

Soils Revealed is a platform that visualises how soil organic carbon stocks have changed globally, and how they might change in the future.

• soil
• Climate action

• Civic maps

The ODK-X community produces free and open-source software for collecting, managing, and using data in resource-constrained environments.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

UNI Global Union's Top Ten Principles for Workers' Data Rights fills an enormous gap with regards workers' rights in the new world of work.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

It educated policymakers and the public on a wide range of issues.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Peer networks
• Predecessors & Pioneers

We co-create and facilitate a network of local knowledge hubs in Africa, Asia and Latin America to build on existing expertise in drones, data and AI, the “Flying Labs®” network.

• Drones

The Council’s vision is to improve government mission achievement and increase the benefits to the Nation through improvement in the management, use, protection, dissemination, and generation of data in government decision-making and operations.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Civic data

The Digital Lab Fellowship is a paid, non-resident opportunity to uncover and address emerging consumer harms in the digital world

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships
• Consumer watchdogging

Now available at https://hansard.parliament.uk/

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and legislative tech
• Archives

Non-profit organization focused on developing and supporting civic technology projects for public good.

• Graveyard
• Innovation teams and labs

You want to tell great stories? You’re not alone. Hostwriter powers the collaborative future of journalism.

• Media

The Day One Project is launching its Technology Policy Accelerator to identify, develop, and publish a set of technology policy ideas that could be implemented by Congress or the Biden-Harris Administration.  The accelerator is a nine-week process, designed to guide each participant as they develop an initial idea into a tailored, actionable set of policy recommendations

• Tech or Digital Policy
• Accelerators

Social media platforms have a growing influence on American life. Unchecked, these networks can distort reality, fuel discrimination, and undermine elections. With stronger accountability, new technology can instead strengthen civic participation while safeguarding civil rights.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Judgment Call is an award-winning game and team-based activity that puts Microsoft’s AI principles of fairness, privacy and security, reliability and safety, transparency, inclusion, and accountability into action.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Media
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We explore societal perspectives surrounding the development and application of digital technology, focusing on ethics, policy, politics, and quality of life. 2017

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Resident Fellows seek to advance society's understanding of surveillance capitalism and change the way Reset works by embedding within Reset to produce creative research and technology outputs.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Fellowships

The full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.

• Parliamentary and legislative tech

DSFSG aims to enable collaboration within the data software for social good ecosystem and welcome a diverse and independent set of member projects.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Data science for social good

Urban Impact Lab excels at strategy development, research and analysis, program development, implementation, creative placemaking, and community engagement.

• Govtech vendors

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

Congress.gov is now OCRing the official Statutes at Large compilation, covering Congress's Generation X era of 1973-1994.

• guides
• United States (federal government)

• Parliamentary and legislative tech

We're looking for tech workers, researchers, journalists and content creators who want to tell the stories of collective action in tech in the Global South.

• labor

• Get funding
• Fellowships

We’re imagining, studying, and building public spaces and public goods on the internet.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

In 2019, Executive Order 50 created the Algorithms Management and Policy Officer (AMPO) role. This role is unique in urban governance and is intended to help provide protocols and information about the systems and tools City agencies use to make decisions.

• Govtech

City Possible™ is a new model for urban innovation in which a global network of cities, businesses, academics and communities work together to make the world’s cities more inclusive and sustainable.

• Consumer watchdogging