We support organizations by convening the nonprofit community, offering professional credentials and training, and facilitating community skill and resource sharing.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Our monthly newsletter is one of the ways we keep up with each other and share resources, funding opportunities and challenges. Now, we’re opening it up to our wider community.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Vote Forward volunteers encourage fellow citizens to participate in our democracy by writing and sending letters at their own expense. A diverse community of more than 150,000 volunteers from all over the country has written letters in 2020.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Beautiful Trouble exists to make nonviolent revolution irresistible by providing an ever-growing suite of strategic tools and trainings that inspire movements for a more just, healthy, and equitable world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

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

Système D propulse les projets innovants qui améliorent la démocratie grâce à un programme d'accompagnement gratuit de 6 mois.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

event aiming to further stimulate the use of open data issued by the European Union

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Governing.Digital is a clearinghouse for trustworthy information and analysis about digital governance for governments, technology companies, nonprofits, journalists, and the public.

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

Internet access in major global subway networks

• city
• mass transit
• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity
• Foundational layers

Visually explore, understand, and present data SandDance is a web-based application that enables you to more easily explore, identify, and communicate insights about data

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Your business is your livelihood and your reputation. Mind My Business™ sent you customized notifications to help you make more informed decisions that save you time and money.

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Daten der Verwaltung werden durch digitale Infrastruktur öffentlich verfügbar und nutzbar gemacht.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

three permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation

• youth

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

Startseite neu.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Deep canvassing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

When we talk about digital identity, digital ID and digital identification, we are really describing how digital technology is altering identification programs - programs that existed before in analogue ways.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Identity

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Rechtwijzer is an online dispute resolution site. It provides legal remedies and online tools to help parties settledisputes without a lawyer.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

handbook.opendata.swiss provides support for individuals and organizations wishing to publish open government data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data

The goal of OpenElections is to create the first free, comprehensive, standardized, linked set of election data for the United States, including federal, statewide and state legislative offices.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Voting and elections

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

A global nonprofit committed to shaping a better urban future.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Confident Commuter helps people deal with ticket inspectors and fines. The user follows a guided process of questions and answers to find a solution for their case.

• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Talk London is City Hall’s online community. Have your say on big issues and help shape our plans and policies. Let’s make London better together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• partisan

• Conferences

Original site for the Field Guides to Ensuring Voter Intent, which now live at https://civicdesign.org

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

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
• Help out

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
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

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

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

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
• Group decision making

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
• Adjacent Fields

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

Hope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Causes.com is the world's largest online campaigning platform. We connect people who support a common cause and empower them to run grassroots campaigns.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

A big 'Thank You!' to the hundreds of thousands of you who supported our two-month Kit Kat campaign by e-mailing Nestlé, calling them, or spreading the campaign message via your Facebook, Twitter and other social media profiles

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

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