“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

• books
• city

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Huffington Post, owned by AOL, acquired the grassroots-engagement website Localocracy and plans to launch four more sites this week.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We are a community group of journalists and others who work in the media, or are planning to in the future.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

• racial equity

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

To aggregating data and driving analysis to provide solutions for water management that secure the future prosperity of California and its citizens.

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Data science for social good

Un mapa del poder en España, con fuentes verificables y listo para investigar y compartir

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Based on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this epidemic.

• apps
• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

an ingenious tool that lets Zambian citizens participate in the country’s ongoing constitution-drafting process—effectively allowing almost any Zambian adult to help forge the nation.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• United Nations

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

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

• 2024 elections

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Was an observatory of information disorder in Latin America

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Il sistema digitale gratuito per la gestione delle segnalazioni di corruzione nella Pubblica Amministrazione

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Building on over 5 years of work supporting PB processes across North America, the Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) has created this toolkit to help organizers and advocates start new PB processes.

• toolkits

• The People
• Build something
• Participatory budgeting

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of the lobby meetings, EU Lobbyists, MEP incomes, and Revolving Doors at the EU Institutions level.

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

An overview of the civic tech landscape, including 125+ active companies and organizations.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

In this Playbook, we explore the evolution of the procurement function’s missions, from its original cost reduction role to risk management and to contribution to growth as a strategic partner.

• The People
• Build something
• Procurement

A Distributed Network of Institutions for Peer to Peer Public Deliberation

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• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Decolonize This Place is an action-oriented movement centering around Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification.

• racial equity

• Cameras

Decoding media's social effects to put their power to good use

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

ClickLaw provides legal information and a map of legal support services in British Columbia.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Cette plateforme permet d'adresser des pétitions à l'Assemblée nationale et de signer des pétitions déjà enregistrées. Les pétiti

• Decidim

• Govtech
• Petitions

Europe's largest association of hackers.

• Predecessors & Pioneers

The main purpose of DTL is to support the development of software on data transparency & privacy

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

CityGML is an open data model and XML-based format for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

CITRIS (The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society) and the Banatao Institute create information technology solutions for society’s most pressing challenges.

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

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Maidan Monitoring Information Center is a non-government non-profit civic organization that cares for societal security in Ukraine, which is achieved through public dialogue, improving the culture of communication and reducing the level of violence in society.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation

Zilino is the web-based solution for hosting deliberative online forums and other types of well structured, well facilitated participatory processes.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

EGAP is a cross-disciplinary network of researchers and practitioners that is united by a focus on experimental research and is dedicated to generating and disseminating rigorous evidence on topics of governance, politics, and institutions.

• guides

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

We play a unique role, experimenting with injecting conservation messaging into online conversations about the ocean. We do this through “attention campaigns.”

• Life below water

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

The platform behind today's most effective mobile campaigns - acquired by Upland

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• SMS tools

Democracy only works when we vote. But voter laws are different in every state in America, so the process for registering to vote, checking your registration...

• state

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Inactive Projects Archive

Mouwatana.tech is a CivicTech innovation Hub (our website is currently under construction) launched and supported by IBTYKAR a citizen and non-partisan political movement for a democratic Algeria.

Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

MIT Solve is now going to start backing small, for-profit ventures taking on global issues, from access to clean water to the need for a circular economy.-

• Get funding
• Competitions

See which American political parties, candidates, and ballot initiatives match your beliefs based on the 2018 issues that are most important to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

• Watchdogging and transparency

Placemark Story was a way to create and share interactive map stories.

• Graveyard
• Narrative tech
• Mapping tools

aims to promote fact-based information consumption and sharing through the development of design prototypes, design guidelines, and empirical research that explores the landscape of ways to signal the credibility of information to everyday users.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A group for people critically following the Aadhaar/UID project in India.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

A multi-million dollar ongoing survey contract to understand New Yorkers' sentiment toward the NYPD. Built by Elucd and shut down by the City.

• police violence
• policing

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government

New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.

• partisan

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Zuela is a civic engagement, social networking platform aimed at promoting good governance. We are committed to creating a good community that is free from major issues affecting our society today.

• apps

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

FakeNews Tragač vaš je saveznik u borbi protiv lažnih vesti. Čitajte o najnovijim dezinformacijama i prijavite lažne vesti za dalju analizu.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online