Think volunteer fire brigade for the 21st Century. We are a volunteer citizen brigade. We use technology and advocacy as a tool for open government, open data and civic engagement.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

Do Not Touch Your Face is a tool that helps you avoid touching your face using your webcam and machine learning.

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

• COVID
• Cameras
• COVID Engagement Projects

Project Management tool

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Tools

Public School empowers government organizations to become more impactful problem-solvers.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

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

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The Computer Science for All (CS4All) initiative offers a number of programs focused on helping schools to expand computer science (CS) exposure, offer access to robust CS experiences, and foster a sense of belonging in computer science for students.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Quand la technologie change la politique, les institutions et leur relation aux citoyens #CivicTech #GovTech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Opportunity Project helps teams use federal open data to build solutions to our nation’s toughest challenges.

• methodology
• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages. Last updated 2015.

• civic features
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data science for social good
• Data schemas and standards

We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Data governance

TOOLS TO POWER MOVEMENTS

• Organize campaigns

Ever wondered how you’d do as President of the United States? Find out with Executive Command!

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Expanding Training on Data and Technology to Improve Communities

• workshops

• Indicators
• Workshops

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Access social benefits
• Data schemas and standards

Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations

• partisan

• Civic and social impact companies

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…

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

Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A transparency initiative led by the California Department of Justice that publishes criminal justice data so we can understand how we are doing, hold ourselves accountable, and improve public policy to make California safer.

• state

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

MisinfoCon is a global movement focused on building solutions to online trust, verification, fact checking, and reader experience in the interest of addressing misinformation in all of its forms.

• Fight disinformation
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

We provide an easy-to-use, modern-era database with voter files for each of the fifty states.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

TraceMap is an open source web tool that allows you to visualize the spread of a Tweet, analyze its trustworthiness and to engage with others in fighting misinformation.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Legislation and regulations that impact your life are written every day. With Madison, you can work directly with the sponsors of these documents.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

DECODE es un proyecto europeo que pretende dar respuesta a la preocupación de las personas sobre la pérdida de control de su información personal en Internet.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

Communicate your stance on issues you care about directly to your congressperson

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Everyone is empowered to build and preserve resilient democratic systems in which all people’s rights are protected.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We transform conflict in the digital age

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

BillToText.com turns PDFs of federal legislation into text files. It provides a formatted document that you can download and edit with a word processor program.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Transformative Media Organizing Project links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States.

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Du hast Ideen, die unser Land in eine bessere, gerechte Zukunft führen. Mutig und klar. Mit Lust auf morgen?

• Debate

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Social impact design firms

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process