Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Life on land
• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

• youth

• Media
• Games and gamification

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Games and gamification
• Civic teams at tech companies

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine vision

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

An aggregator of Black Lives Matter protests across the US

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators
• Direct action

Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.

• Media
• Solidarity networks
• Investigative journalism tech

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

• videos

• Digital security and privacy

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Playbooks and design principles

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Democratic Innovations

Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Fieldwide resources
• Civic apps outfits

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• Emerging Tech report

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Benchmarks
• Open government data

It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.

• Awards and prizes

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Justice tech

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports
• hurricanes

• Social media
• Public media

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

“Projection bombing”, a technique pioneered by marketing agencies and more recently embraced by activists where a message is projected onto a building.

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Direct action

The Catalog of Digital Solutions is an interactive online tool providing data and resources for donors, governments, procurers, and implementers to support their digital initiatives.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Academia

The European Centre for Algorithmic Transparency (ECAT) will contribute to a safer, more predictable and trusted online environment for people and business.

• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Regulation

The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

Giving Gap exists to advance racial equity in giving and mobilize positive action for Black lives by connecting people to causes they care about.

• racial equity

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Foundational layers

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

• Games and gamification
• Nonprofit tech

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy
• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

• Learn about civic tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Diversity & Inclusion

Superbloom leverages design as a transformative practice to shift power in the tech ecosystem, because everyone deserves technology they can trust.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The data analytics platform for impact-driven organizations.

• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

We’re a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits and enterprises with a social-impact mission.

• Social impact design firms
• Govtech vendors

​​The Data for Good Fund, a single-entity fund, was established in partnership with the Tides Foundation. With donations from mission-aligned donors, the Data for Good Fund will allow nonprofits to leverage UpMetrics tools and services at no cost for 1-2 years.

• Get funding
• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance