Municipalities across the country have joined together to create a new global non-profit organization called the Open Mobility Foundation to support the development of open-sourced software that provides scalable mobility solutions for cities.

• cities
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions

The sustainable foundation for the modern Smart City: Munsoft Spatial ensures that our municipalities have an up-to-date list of all properties keeping the Property Register, Deeds Database, Valuation Roll and Registered Land Parcels in sync automatically, giving you a bird's eye view of the completeness of revenue.

• Civic data

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

"To my mind, the ANES has been the single most important resource in my career in political psychology."

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

The Voting Information Project helps voters find information about their elections with collaborative, open-source tools.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

• Watchdogging and transparency

• Watchdogging and transparency

In the midst of an immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border, Code for America, Codeando México, and The GovLab organized online listening sessions to help determine areas of need and where the civic tech community might help.

• immigration

• Needs assessment

At Mikva Challenge, we challenge high school students, teachers, and schools across Chicagoland to be active participants in the political process.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We’re excited to share that over the next year, we’ll be carrying out a new research initiative looking at how UK charities re-use existing digital tools for service delivery.

• reuse

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

The Open Data Barometer for Latin America and the Caribbean covers 24 countries and classifies governments according to readiness for open data initiatives, implementation of open data programs, and impact that open data is having on companies, politics and civil society.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

As the largest community foundation in the nation, SVCF helps build and strengthen the community by bringing together people and organizations who want to strengthen the common good.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Digitale Projekte auf ihrer Learning Journey

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

• Adjacent Fields
• Mapping tools
• Digital security and privacy

Participation Factory is a social enterprise that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

GovRight provides citizens the opportunity to understand and contribute to government and legislation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

cases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

First Draft is maintaining a database of expert sources on coronavirus for journalists to contact for up-to-date information on the outbreak.

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects
• COVID Media Projects

Visit the post for more.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Mapping

The Open Society Foundations work to build vibrant and tolerant democracies whose governments are accountable to their citizens.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system

• land

• Predecessors

​Implementing Innovation: A User’s Manual for Open Government Programs is a hands-on resource that provides practical advice and guidance for government changemakers as they navigate the specific challenges of implementing innovative programs in the public sector.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Code for America partnered with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Nava Public Benefit Corporation to conduct pilots in Michigan (in partnership with Civilla), Colorado, Alaska, Vermont (led by Nava PBC) and Louisiana.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Georgia Berry, Communications Officer for GVEP International, reports back on the Partner workshops. Launching a new programme of activities in East Africa, GVEP International Team members were in Uganda and Kampala in March to meet with some GVEP

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Pears Program believes in the transformative power of values-driven innovation to improve the lives of people all over the world.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

An online forum for community discussion

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

At the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, we work together with communities in education and entrepreneurship to create uncommon solutions that empower people to be uncommon, take risks, achieve success and give back to society.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

• methodology
• reports

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Building inside government
• Playbooks and design principles

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

• books

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

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

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Mapped: The innovation labs transforming government — and how to get in touch

• The People
• Build something
• Civic tech catalogs

As part of its comprehensive fact-checking efforts, The Associated Press announced that it will work with Facebook to identify and debunk false and misleading stories related to the U.S. midterm election that are circulating on the platform.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Our objective is to promote and advance sustainable democracy and to improve and consolidate electoral processes world-wide.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

To enable all people to exercise their rights and access services, ID4D helps countries realize the transformational potential of inclusive, robust, and responsible digital identification systems.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

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

A Simple Solution for Modern Voter Registration

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Data reporting standards for audited government financial statements

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• cities
• research

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Government in which the public is fully served through business innovation and the efficient and effective use of technology policy

• state

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

À l'initiative du Président de la République, le Gouvernement engage un Grand Débat National permettant à toutes et tous de débattre de questions essentielles pour les Français.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Find out more about Data City | Data Nation, a global data sharing initiative between Singapore and London.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Inclusive Business starts here

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

November 14th: A holiday invented to encourage more people to run for local elected office

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Holidays

Digital organizing training

• Organize campaigns

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

Research and survey on social innovation labs in Canada.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs