Annual awards program recognizing cities and communities worldwide for excellence in digital innovation and community development.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The bank you choose can make a big difference in terms of the social and economic impact created by your money.

• banking

• Boycott or buycott

How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.

• city
• podcasts
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

The OGP Toolbox was a free software initially developed by Etalab, the Prime Minister taskforce in charge of open data and open government French policy, on behalf of the Open Government Partnership community.

• Open Government Partnership (OGP)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

A platform for running online participatory budgeting elections

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Observatoire citoyen de l'activité parlementaire au Sénat

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and legislative tech

Tool for creating small online group discussions around an issue, originally created for political campaigning in the US

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

A 2018 initiative to organize American voters around the midterm elections

• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

The conscious company accelerators

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

All

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The Cities, Government & Politics track focuses on innovative city planning and development, privacy and policy issues, and how politics plays a role in shaping policy in government.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Analysen und Visualisierungen der Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Karlsruhe. Größte Änderungen, Wechselwähler, Erststimmen und mehr Statistiken.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

To allow low-powered devices to communicate with Internet-connected applications over long range wireless connections.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

It refers to the study and application of technology expertise to advance the public interest/generate public benefits/promote the public good.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Learn about civic tech

Google shares aggregate location data with public officials to show where stay-in-place orders are being followed

• civic features
• mobility

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel

• The People
• Media
• Evaluate impact

News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

• Graveyard
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

A digital hub where people determined to change the world can find a job, discover workshops and courses, locate funding, hire the right team, connect with mission-driven companies, share best practices, or learn from others who are using their careers to make an impact.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Our mission is to monitor changes to government websites, holding our government accountable by revealing shifts in public information and access to Web resources, as well as changes in stated policies and priorities.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

TIRE SUA CAUSA DO LUGAR

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Based at the General Services Administration (GSA), OES is a team of interdisciplinary experts that works across government to help agencies build and use evidence.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Direct Democracy Database allows users to explore the different ways direct democracy is used in different countries.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

CO/COUNSEl making the law accessible through crowdsourced legal maps. Browse the law in a map or in the easy-to-use columns. Contribute and be recognized. Become a thought leader in your field. Be a hero! Free the law and help make the nation a fairer place.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.

• youth

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Better walking, biking, and transit

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

A maneira fácil de participar nas consultas públicas lançadas em Portugal

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Entrepreneurs, sign up for our Abaca platform to get notified when a relevant accelerator opens up

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

This tool helps predict the choices of mobility modes made at the individual level throughout the entire Boston Metro area.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

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

CODE, founded as the Center for Open Data Enterprise, is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization whose mission is to maximize the value of open and shared data for the public good.

• Roundtables

The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch

• The People
• Evaluate impact
• Fieldwide resources

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Media Research & Action Project’s (MRAP) mission is to strengthen progressive social movements working toward social justice and inclusive, participatory democracy.

• partisan

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

Supply chain mapping software that enables companies to trace products to the source – tracking social, financial, and environmental risks every step of the way

• supply chain

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Design and build fast, accessible, mobile-friendly government websites backed by user research.

• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Govtech
• Build something

We solve your toughest challenges with expert data science – for businesses, campaigns, and government.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

We analysed people’s public discussions about refugees as the crisis started and high influx of refugees fled into Uganda in mid July 2016.

• United Nations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Access to information

The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

An online forum for community discussion

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online