City of Austin, TX program

• city

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

• Media
• The People
• Meet the others

A dynamic platform for online gatherings

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Meeting tech

Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

• Media
• The People
• Fight disinformation

• Watchdogging and transparency

LABIC are a series of labs aimed at fostering civic innovation in Ibero-America, in order to boost social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Contains over 200,000 government financial documents

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

DebateWise.org is an online database of expert-curated debates on popular topics.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft
• blind

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A speculative story sprint collection

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Drones

Vote Compass is an award-winning application, showing you how your views align with those of the candidates running for election.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Online Lawyers is an online platform where individuals and businesses can connect with lawyers and seek legaladvice online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Collaborative writing of laws

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

• The People
• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields

It looks like the end of the road for a site that offered what was once cutting-edge access to Web-based data visualization.

• IBM

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

This Expert Network Accelerates The Search For Talent. Case study by GovLab

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Aristotle is the leading pioneer in political technology, servicing many of the largest grassroots organizations, PACs and political campaigns in the U.S. and abroad.

• Organize campaigns

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

Generamos nuevas formas de participación ciudadana a través de la tecnología.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

NPP Off The Record ist ein Podcast zu unseren Reportagen und Recherchen, der einen Einblick in die redaktionelle Arbeit gibt. Er erscheint regelmäßig am 1.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

BIG DATA + MAPS + EDITOR

• desktop apps

• Graveyard
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement and governance in the digital age that will help leaders link important breakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessons of small-group community input to create more agile, competitive, and economically resilient cities.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Map of Open Data, Civic Technology and social innovation in Latin America

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Using the Behavioral Sciences to Fight Global Poverty and Reduce Inequality

• No poverty

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

A map of local restaurants offering pick-up and delivery

• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Local Law 49

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Data and Statistics division of Seoul’s metropolitan government analyzed late night call records provided by the Korean telecom KT Company to plan bus routes in a more inclusive manner.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Emerging tech

Campaign platform for nonprofits, brands, advocacy groups

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The leading nonprofit defending digital privacy, free speech, and innovation.

• Digital rights
• Emerging Tech report orgs
• Predecessors

Pioneering microinfluencer campaigns for cause and political advocacy

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

Rights x Tech is a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, products and power.

• racial equity
• human rights

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

A national, nonpartisan group of LGBT organizations, academics, and high technology companies whose mission is to engage with critical technology and public policy leaders for strategic discussions at all levels.

• LGBTQI

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Fundraising tools

Where news inspires social action

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Group leaders set the most important actions of the day, while members use the Amplify app to easily accomplish them and encourage others to do the same.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Education innovation has found a new home - Nairobi! There is so much exciting work being done and we're all learning so much - let's find a way to share and support one another! The purpose of the gr

• Quality education

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence