WhatsApp, chatbots, and other chat-based development and social good products

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Chat and messaging

Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.

• Mapping tools

All-in-one resident engagement suite in Czechia

• apps

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Mapping tools

Map-based surveys with sentiment visualization

• place-based

• Mapping tools
• Surveys & polling

Digital participation platform built for village-level opinion-sharing, discussion, and decision-making

• apps

• Digital participation platforms

The firehose of global crisis data

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Mapping solution for municipalities

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

SMSsync is a simple, yet powerful SMS to HTTP sync utility that turns any Android phone into a local SMS gateway by sending incoming messages(SMS) to a configured URL (web service).

• apps

• SMS tools

a laboratory for digital governance

• Emerging tech
• Civic apps outfits
• Blockchain

The ODI's white paper on ethical data policies

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Polish issue-reporting app

• Issue reporting

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

• Fellowships
• Design

ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

VividMaps allowed you to engage your community by mapping local assets, special places, or respond to place-based surveys. Build a collaborative map that anyone can easily access with their smartphones on-the-go, or online from home or work.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms
• Mapping tools

location analytics: pinpointing the vital information, connections and patterns you need to make better, more insightful decisions

• Graveyard
• Mapping tools

Engage residents with mapping and commenting

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Transit app for Mexico, WhereIsMyTransport instance

• mass transit
• mobility
• apps

• Mapping tools

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Civic features
• Help more people run for office

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks and coalitions

A Geolocation Technology Company

• Mapping tools

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation's compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation, curated by OPSI and our partners around the world

• Civic tech catalogs
• Playbooks and design principles
• Fieldwide resources

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Procurement

Across Maps, Search, Nest, Flights, and Shopping

• Climate action
• Google

• Civic features

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

DATA Uruguay is a civil society organization founded in April 2012 that works on open government, open data, access to public information and participation through the use of civic technology. It is a horizontal organization based on consensus and the vast majority of the projects are co-created with expert partners on the subject (Government, Academia, Media, other Civil Society organizations) or with the community.

• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

An open data standard for restaurant information

• food

• Data schemas and standards

Making All Voices Count was a programme that supported the development and spread of innovative approaches to fostering accountable, responsive governance – many of them using tools and platforms based on mobile phone and digital technologies.

Founded in 2020 in response to COVID

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The ultimate real-time discussion platform for all-inclusive events and meetings

• web app

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Online forums

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Solutions exist. Let's make them a reality.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Foundation initiatives

A campaign to convince US Congress to adequately fund election administration

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

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

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Sanctions Tracker 2013

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps.Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of f

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

Volunteer with us and use your research, mapping and digital skills to support humanitarian agencies in crisis response.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Online forums

Master Directory for OpenMapKit

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies