A public machine that would print out NY transit directions in 1961

• mass transit

• Predecessors

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

We were founded in the 1960s to deliver books between libraries. We still deliver books, and we also host digital collections, give out technology grants, house a digital media studio, and more. METRO is committed to supporting libraries, in whatever form that takes.

Design and deliver a digital government with and for the American public.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

The World Urban Campaign (WUC) is an advocacy and partnership platform to raise awareness about positive urban change in order to achieve green, productive, safe, healthy, inclusive, and well planned cities

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

• LINE

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

A network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The challenges of 21st century city-making require innovative methods that incorporate the complexity of today’s rapidly urbanising world. Traditional ways of urban planning and design — top-down and singlehanded — are already making way for a practice of city-making deeply rooted in the collective experience, creativity, and intelligence of growing and increasingly diverse groups of people. This will be crucial in building sustainable urban futures.

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City

Led by director Emily Bell since our founding in 2010, our team of researchers examines digital journalism’s industry-wide economic trends, its cultural shifts, and its relationship with the broader, constantly changing world of technology. Operating as an institute within Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the center provides journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of digital journalism and serves as a research and development center for the profession as a whole.

• Media
• Journalism
• Research and policy centers

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

• Digital literacy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Tech talent

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

Live news, investigations, opinion, photos and video by the journalists of The New York Times from more than 150 countries around the world.

• Media
• Journalism

Le collectif 24 est une plateforme des Organisations de la Société Civile congolaise créé en 2013 principalement en appui au plaidoyer pour la loi d’accès à l’information.

• Freedom of Information

As Sergey and I wrote in the original founders letter 11 years ago, “Google is not a conventional company. We do not intend to become one”

• Funders & donors

NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All

CITIES FOR ACTION is a coalition of over 100 mayors and municipal leaders fighting for federal immigration reform, and galvanizing the movement by launching inclusive policies and programs at the local level

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Open source networks
• Digital Public Goods

The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,408 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.

Our mission is to transform how government learns, builds, delivers, and measures digital services in the 21st century. And we do that by providing people in the federal government with the tools, methods, practices, and policy guidance they need to deliver effective and accessible digital services. It is our job to be the experts in the problems people in government face, and support them wherever they may be blocked.

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

The Coalition for Urban Transitions, active from 2016 to 2021, was the foremost initiative supporting national governments to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis by transforming cities.

• city
• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners. Share your work during Open Data Week 2021 or sign up for the NYC Open Data mailing list to learn about training opportunities and upcoming events.

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Graveyard
• Govtech vendors

We've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Citizen science

Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Benchmarks

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Fellowships
• Civic literacy

The firehose of global crisis data

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Democracy and participatory political group in Guayaquil

• Participatory democracy

Narrativa+Investigación+Datos

• Media
• Data science for social good
• Narrative tech

Donation service that holds your funds in an interest-earning FDIC-insured account until you donate them, at which point the receiving nonprofit gets 100% of your donation.

• Fundraising tools
• Fintech for good

The Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

• Civic data

Trainings and storytelling for open government in Latin America

• trainings

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Narrative tech

The Privacy Principles for Mobility Data are a set of values and priorities intended to guide the mobility ecosystem in the responsible use of data and the protection of individual privacy.

• mobility

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We work with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to shape a social opportunity system that supports and propels the 100 million economically insecure people in the US

• Access social benefits

Initiative by 18F to demonstrate the potential for API-enabled benefits eligibility logic services.

• APIs
• United States (federal government)

• Access social benefits
• Civic data APIs

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

• Fellowships
• Design

Estonian engagement platform with binding triggers for popular proposals to go before government, locally and nationally

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

Invites citizens to share how they'd vote on issues, and track how representatives did

• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

The 2021 SDI Digital Democracy Awards seek to recognise these achievements by awarding category winners across Inspiration, Innovation, Inclusion & Impact.

• Awards and prizes

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Help more people run for office