DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Pro bono and volunteer

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

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

Charitable giving on the blockchain - revolution.eth

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Archive of the civic tech manifesto

• Hubs

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

Techtopia is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative that brings together Harvard students and faculty around the biggest issues in tech today.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Participatory budgeting

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Discover the web's most comprehensive professional resource on Congress. 2014 WebbyAward Winner. Vote on bills and send your message to Congress.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Experience Matters Helps Older Adults Share Insights and Skills

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research groups

A list of digital standards used by governments around the world

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The original online petition site. 20+ million signatures. Unlike others, we are non-partisan, non-ideological. Just the best tools for your campaign.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Mapping

Seattle has a lot of boundaries: city council districts, school districts, police beats, & a lot more. This tool makes it easy to know which boundaries you’re in so you can better understand how city services & policies affect you.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Tinfoil is a place where we can talk about digital security, privacy, and journalism.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Direct action
• Story tech

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Journalism

NowPow connects people to high quality community resources to help address their chronic health and social conditions or just stay well.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

Civil is building the new economy for journalism.

• The Tech
• Media
• Blockchain

The outdoors brand takes on climate deniers

• US Election 2020
• civic features

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Datos abiertos y tecnología cívica para Cuba

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Investigative journalism tech

This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.

• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic tech catalogs

In partnership with municipal crowdfunding platform Neighborly and the Berkeley Blockchain Lab, Berkeley City Council is planning on issuing municipal bonds on the blockchain.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We aim to improve how standard-setting bodies, data producers and data users collaborate to join-up their data to make it interoperable and comparable.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Tech for public challenges
• Government transparency

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Nonprofit tech
• Tech for public challenges

Texting large volumes of potential voters is possible while remaining compliant with TCPA rules thanks to new technology.

• Campaign tools
• Email campaign tools
• SMS tools

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

The aim of the Easy Voter Guide project is to make nonpartisan information about why vote, how to vote and what’s on the ballot accessible to as many

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

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• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Chicago's weekly event to build, share, and learn about civic tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

• Open internet
• Foundational layers

a Code for America brigade

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups