The city of Seattle, Wash, has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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

• city
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Cities and towns across Massachusetts and few in other states have adopted Visual Budget, either the new WordPress plug-in or the original.

• Wordpress

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

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

Need answers to those sometimes awkward questions about sexual health, relationships, and growing up?

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Local governments working together to address the epidemic with data and maps

• opioids

• Civic maps

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic data

A PhD student's suite of apps for small group consensus-building and facilitation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Online fundraising software for nonprofit crowdfunding, peer-to-peer fundraising, and donation pages. Start taking donations online for free.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

OurGoods is a resource sharing network for the creative community. Our members trade skills, spaces and objects to get their work done without money. We run live events, a facebook group, and a newsletter.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

RyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Cartegraph makes modern operations management software for local governments.

• The Tech
• Govtech

Iran's first and only promise-tracker

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...

• Responsible consumption and production
• Life on land
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

• housing

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

Build SMS bots for remote surveys

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

Discover the web's most comprehensive professional resource on Congress. 2014 WebbyAward Winner. Vote on bills and send your message to Congress.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

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
• The People
• Civic data

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.

• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Texting large volumes of potential voters is possible while remaining compliant with TCPA rules thanks to new technology.

• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS
• Email campaign tools

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

BigQuery is a fast, economical and fully managed enterprise data warehouse for large-scale data analytics.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

By receiving, storing and analyzing flight data, the boards of the country's 17 airports and calculating flight delays help passengers make a data-driven choice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Citizens monitor. Everyone wins.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Emerging tech

Xcential provides SaaS-based solutions enable legislatures and regulatory to more efficiently create/publish legislation and regulations.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

KOITOTO adalah sebuah platform bandar togel online terbesar di Indonesia yang menawarkan berbagai layanan judi togel online terpercaya. Dengan pengalaman bertahun-tahun dalam industri ini.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Group communication tools

Participatory budgeting software for local government

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Digital participation platforms

Watchdogging Czech Republic

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Software that combines the power of AI with the most comprehensive source database in existence to bring our clients advanced media monitoring, social listening, social media management, PR Analytics and Influencer Engagement tools.

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

This is an open source hardware project to allow makers and the public to assemble mechanical respirators (aka. Ventilators, breathing machines) and/or intubation kits that could be used by medical professionals.

• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

CityBase is a gov tech platform that connects cities and citizens to make government more accessible and efficient.

• Govtech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Forms

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Bonayo is free user-supported software that helps San Francisco citizens see every 311 call in the City.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Tableau Public is free software that can allow anyone to connect to a spreadsheet or file and create interactive data visualizations for the web.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Trevor Project received a grant from Google AI Impact to do machine learning on incoming calls to route callers to FAQs or humans.

• LGBTQI
• suicide prevention

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Design the sustainable cities of tomorrow with the first end-to-end urban planning software. Discover the platform built for planners, by planners.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Sometimes, collaboration means an overt step forward. Other times it's a step to the side. With this in mind, we're bidding farewell to OpenCongress and redirecting users to GovTrack.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The ICRC responds quickly and efficiently to help people affected by armed conflict. We also respond to disasters in conflict zones, because the effects of a disaster are compounded if a country is already at war.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Secure messaging, anywhere

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Peer-to-peer texting enables real conversations at scale. Raise money, boost participation, mobilize your base with Hustle's best-in-class P2P SMS software.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Voix et Actions Citoyennes is a civic organization led by young people and oriented towards Beninese and African youth

MetroQuest is public involvement software with a track record of award-winning planning projects. Engage thousands, gain insight, build community support.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A show that takes the two dullest subjects in the world, government and technology, and makes them irresistibly relevant and undeniably fascinating. (Trust us!)

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech