Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

• biome
• city
• Climate action

• The People
• Get funding
• Research and policy centers

Sketch City is an open community of 2,700+ technology and data advocates. We work on projects, share knowledge, influence tech policy, and produce events.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

How can today’s public servants use technology and design to deliver high-quality public services and engagement opportunities?

• Courses

To advance research and engagement around the misinformation, disinformation, propaganda and other challenges to discourse fueled by our evolving media and technology ecosystem

• research

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Accelerating Civic Innovation

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

data.org brings together philanthropy, private sector technology, academia, and social impact organizations to build the field of data science for social impact.

• Data science for social good

This project was born at LocalGov Camp 2014, during a session on common technology standards for local government services.

• waste

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Contests have a long history of driving innovation, and web-based information technology has opened up new possibilities for managing tournaments. One such poss

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Factchecking Iranian public officials and media

• The Tech
• Media
• Factchecking

If like us, you are inspired by the potential of people and technology to power a better society, then you might be interested in Jobs for Good.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Build a modern movement with The Groundwork, a community engagement platform for nonprofits and social enterprises.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Tumenye is a civic technology and open data company in Rwanda building tools to help citizens.

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

The Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) is the can’t-miss technology event for the nonprofit sector.

• The Tech
• Meet the others
• Emerging tech

Create right from your phone with Google

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

RHoK Australia runs weekend hackathons in summer and winter every year

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

Participation, organisational change, community development, and social technology

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation

• permits
• reports

• Reports
• Procurement
• Regulation

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

the City’s first public-private NYC Blockchain Center

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Asia's First Ever Civic Technology Festival with a week-long Collection of Events.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Axon Vibe provides smartphone app technology that enables public transport operators to deliver personalized communications based on users’ commuting behavior.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The civic tech meetup for people working on civic technology, empowering citizens, and government transformation.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things for the (probably) upcoming general election

• 2024 elections

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

To bring together civic-minded software developers to use technology to innovate in public services, by creating open source solutions to address the needs of citizens

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Civic Tech Toronto is a vibrant and diverse community of Torontonians engaged in understanding and creating solutions for civic challenges through technology, design, and other innovative means.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

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

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

EveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

• WhatsApp
• COVID-19
• Good health and well-being

• Bots
• COVID Engagement Projects

Protecting and advancing freedom of expression and privacy in information and communications technologies.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation focusing on EBT Food Stamps.

• apps

• Access social benefits

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Building inside government

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

What happens when you mix technology with the strategic board game of Risk? For those unfamiliar with the game, the basis is world domination. Players roll dice and place tiny plastic soldiers and […]

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Go Code Colorado is a statewide apps challenge to bring developers and entrepreneurs together to build better business apps with public data.

• state

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

Building Free Technology Tools for We, The People

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Get funding

Organization working on strenghtening citizen participation by using technology for offering quality information on public administration. Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency