This tool allows researchers, watchdog organizations and investigative journalists to measure how countries are performing against each other in terms of public procurement transparency, to use it in further advocacy for more transparent procurement as well as to spot corruption using red flag indicators.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital participation platforms

UndocuHacks 2017 - the nation's first immigrant-youth-led hackathon. Hosted by UndocuMedia.org

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Code for America Brigade for Eugene, Oregon

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Govtech

A guide to engaging with your local civic tech community

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

MedAfrica is your direct access to health information and services

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Users can use the guided workflows to find legal assistance.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

City Innovate Foundation

• Hubs

ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to popular internet services

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Graveyard

The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Civic Innovation School is an International Extitution structured as a Distributed Network that promotes Collaborative Learning Environments focused on Civic Innovation, Collective Intelligence, Open Design, Civic Engagement.

• trainings

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Advancing an inclusive digital society

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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
• Courses

Search the list of progressive organizations to find the right opportunity for taking action based on your interests.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Are you a reporter interested in covering voting issue this election cycle? See our Electionland project.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

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

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support

• Govtech

New/Mode is putting the powerful tools used by the world’s leading campaigns into more political campaigners’ pockets.

• Organize campaigns
• Bots
• Petitions

This project explores the meaning of social justice in an age of datafication

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Using 311 Data to Drive Change and Manage Performance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Evaluate impact

Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Hardware
• Foundational layers

Connected technologies and always-on data flows are helping make today’s cities and communities more livable, productive, and sustainable. At the same time, these technologies raise concerns about individual privacy, freedom of choice, and institutional discrimination.

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital security and privacy
• Working groups

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings

The only solution designed to activate employees for good and maximize impact through workplace giving and volunteering.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The Hello Syracuse! app encourages you to get out and explore the City of Syracuse and your local community.

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Commercial law lookup tool

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Es un proyecto que nace desde la sociedad civil para fortalecer sus capacidades de incidencia en los procesos de toma de decisión política y en la generación de un debate público informado sobre la pobreza y la justicia social en España.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Good News Podcast is your daily reminder that not all news is bad, produced by Cards Against Humanity.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

An initiative that allows veterans to opt in to sharing their medical data with providers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Tell us about your collisions and near-misses, so we can build the evidence base for improvements, together

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

TaKaDu is a leading provider of Integrated Event Management solutions, enabling water utilities to improve efficiency and make smarter decisions.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Activism platform

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

• 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
• Crowdsourcing

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
• Civic data
• The People

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
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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
• Online 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