Welcome to the Garfield Weston Foundation. We are a family-founded, grant-making trust which has been supporting charities across the UK for over 50 years.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Governor's Budget Summary 2020-21

• state

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A professional development course for election officials

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

This is an assessment of efficiency and functioning of asset disclosure systems in 18 CEE countries.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Investigates the impact of Civic Technology tools: those we produce ourselves, and those from the wider community.

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

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

“FOIA Data Mining” is a FOIA service that enables watchdog organizations to organize volunteers in retyping and structuring responses to FOIA requests.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Uptake.org leverages Uptake's people, technology and expertise to address the world's most pressing problems.

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

Take data from anywhere and turn it into anything - Namara's marketplace is one of the world's largest data repositories. Banks, government, and tech leaders rely on Namara to access and refine their data. Start getting more out of data; join Namara today.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

NYC Trees Count Data Jam

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The Public Impact Observatory Welcome to our Public Impact Observatory, a unique database of public policy case studies. Using our Public Impact Fundamentals we have analysed hundreds of examples of public policy succeeding or failing, drawing out the key lessons for future policy work

• research

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

Monitoreo ciudadano de datos sobre ciclismo urbano en Cochabamba

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation was created in 1956 and aims to improve people's lives through art, charity, science and education.

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• Funders & donors

GOV.UK Verify was a secure way to prove who you are online. Once you had proved your identity to access a service once, you could use your identity account to access certain other services.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Organización de la sociedad civil que trabaja en la promoción de los derechos humanos en el mundo digital

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

a user-friendly platform that centralizes data about all public services and facilities that can cater to the needs of vulnerable citizens, such as where to eat, to shower, to find shelter or get social welfare

• homelessness

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Carrotmob is a new way to influence businesses. We spend money as a group, and in return businesses take socially-responsible actions we care about.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• The People

Password Alert is a Chrome extension that alerts you if a website is trying to steal your password.

• extensions

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

PublicInput.com connects organizations with the communities they serve.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Civic Tech for Thailand’s Democracy

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Participatory budgeting software for local government

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Neighborland was a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way. Acquired by Nextdoor in 2019 and shut down.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Kickstart Accelerator bridges the gap between startups, corporates, cities, foundations and universities to accelerate deep tech innovation.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

StepUp is a free habit building, science-based workout program developed by the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. The program is being launched in partnership with 24 Hour Fitness.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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
• Govtech
• Civic data

Infrequent podcast covering various tech for good ventures

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

To help level the playing field, CDM created Contratados, a platform launched last week to let migrant workers share Yelp-style ratings and reviews of their experiences with different recruiters and employers.

• labor
• migration
• human rights

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Watchdogging government

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Investing in transformative ideas in their earliest stages to promote breakthrough solutions to significant problems

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• Funders & donors

Safecity provides you with a collection of curated resources ranging from safety products, mobile applications, self defence classes and important legal information to help you stay safe and take necessary action in case you have been harassed

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

There is a universe of government records hidden away in file cabinets and offline databases. With FOIA Mapper, much of that information is now searchable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Access to information

Uma aplicação portuguesa de entreajuda comunitária

• Graveyard
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

When you open government, what do you get in return? If you are asking this question, this guide is for you.

• guides
• Open Government Partnership (OGP)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Help unearth some of the UK's earliest weather records for British Science Week

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

E.thePeople is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that is the nation's leading provider of interactive voter guide software.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

A world where knowledge creates power for the many, not the few.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

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

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• COVID

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

It deals with central issues such as location factors and potential of urban production, future-oriented ideas for logistics in urban areas and the opportunities of additive manufacturing in urban areas.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The impact of the digital information environment — especially the influence of social media

• Media
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

We create survey-based applications that organize information in ways which are easily accessible, scientifically rigorous, and profoundly personalized. In so doing, we offer compelling online experiences that promote civic engagement and informed dialogue.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

GSBI Boost packs core business lessons into a powerful 3-day workshop. We help local, early-stage social entrepreneurs learn business fundamentals, improve their strategic thinking, and articulate a business plan

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

The Going Digital Toolkit helps countries assess their state of digital development and formulate policy strategies and approaches in response. Data exploration and visualisation are key features of the Toolkit.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Technical.ly grows local technology communities by connecting organizations and people through news, events and services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

The “Digital Policy Playbook 2017” is designed to help leaders understand the complex dynamics and difficult decisions they will face in managing their transition into the digital domain

• Playbooks and design principles
• Regulation