Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media
• Journalism

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

• labor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Pledge and training materials on how to resist a coup

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Public.Ideavibes gives you the power to engage your community or participate in what matters to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Change.org is the web's leading platform for social change, empowering anyone, anywhere to start petitions that make a difference.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

NationalField was acquired by and folded into NGP VAN

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Open Source Politics is a company that builds participatory democracy open source tools and hosts collective inteligence workshops for private or public stakeholders willing to engage in a public consultation or a participatory budgeting process.

• Association Civic Tech Europe
• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The USC Annenberg Innovation Lab and Wise Entertainment have assembled a powerful coalition of experts in media, communications, data, technology and journalism to ensure everyone knows how much census participation benefits their community.

• census

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Esri's GIS mapping software is the most powerful mapping and spatial data analytics technology available. Unlock the full potential of your data and improve operational & business results with our location platform.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Everyone a humanitarian

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Empowering designers within government

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

To create a software platform that aggregates consumer buying power and lets them direct it toward businesses that behave in socially responsible ways

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Enexis, a Dutch energy company, makes anonymized data about residential gas and electric energy use publically available via its website.

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

Uber's open-source, WebGL-powered visualization frameworks

• mobility
• Uber

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

Step into someone else's Twitter feed

• extensions

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

A lightweight, backend-free open data portal, powered by Jekyll

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

A HUB OF FUNDING TOOLS MADE WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN MIND

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

We pursue our mission largely through our award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, which is the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere

• Watchdogging and transparency

Using the power of #AI for social good - Infectious diseases, Agriculture, Maternal & child health.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A U.S.-based nonprofit, we are both a small, resourceful newsroom with our own reporting team, as well as a global network of reporters and media organizations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world.

• Media
• The People
• Meet the others

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open science

Applications open on Tuesday, October 15 for the Coding it Forward Fellowship - a paid, 10 week summer fellowship that empowers early-career technologists to innovate in local, state, and federal government offices across the United States.

• youth
• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• Fellowships

It empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

The easy and powerful solution for creating meaningful change in your community. Anywhere, anytime.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

The prices of basic necessities (e.g., maize flour) are very important

• Govtech

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• city
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

• framework

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Knoema’s database features more than 2.4b time series from 1k+ sources.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

engage2 is a boutique public participation and stakeholder engagement consultancy based in Sydney. We design and facilitate stakeholder and community engagement for social impact.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

We are a new publication illuminating how powerful institutions are using technology in ways that impact people and society.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

The aim of the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-Linking Youth) project is to explore how e-participation can foster young people’s empowerment and active participation in democratic life.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard

Learn to design creative, people-powered advocacy campaigns that transform systems

• trainings
• coaching

• Organize campaigns

The prices of basic necessities (e.g., maize flour) are very important

From fake news to chaos! How bad are you? Get as many followers as you can.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech