MapChecking calculates the size of an area, and then calculates how many people may be standing in it - based on how thick the crowd is.

• Mapping tools

From bikes to scooters and everything in between, dockless mobility offers cities a range of new options and challenges. Ride Report is your comprehensive toolset to manage emerging mobility services.

• apps
• cycling

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

See what's happening in Right Wing media from the safety of your inbox.

• newsletters

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Paint the Town is a collaborative data art project. It allows anyone to paint a New York City tax lot to any color they choose.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

L’application ExtraPol les a transformées en média d’un nouveau genre. Un projet conçu par Wedodata.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

• Data schemas and standards

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Michael Knapp is the CEO and founder of Green River, a software design and development firm that has worked extensively with local governments

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

Our trusted network of actions makes it easy for users to find great content that is personalized to their interests, and for them to track the impact they have made.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• High-tech COVID Interventions

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

an initiative of UNDP and the Slovak Ministry of Finance, to support cities in the application of innovative approaches

• United Nations
• United Nations Development Programme

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The easiest way to keep track of what’s happening on social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Social impact design firms

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

Sexist Apps, Biased Algorithms, and Other Threats of Toxic Tech by Sara Wachter-Boettcher

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

• books

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields

Radical Relay is your feisty aunty helping you ask those questions before, during, and after an appointment or ER visit.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Placemark Story was a way to create and share interactive map stories.

• Graveyard
• Narrative tech
• Mapping tools

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Zuela is a civic engagement, social networking platform aimed at promoting good governance. We are committed to creating a good community that is free from major issues affecting our society today.

• apps

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

RHoK Australia runs weekend hackathons in summer and winter every year

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation

• permits
• reports

• Procurement
• Reports
• Regulation

I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Build apps that issue and verify blockchain-based credentials for academic credentials, professional certifications, workforce development, and civic records.

• Quality education

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Social Maps is a tool that allows citizens to express their opinions about the city and its urban environment.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Une discipline nouvelle, Interdisciplinaire, Aux finalités multiples, A l’approche territoriale, Par une stratégie adaptative.

• Graveyard
• Courses
• Civic and social impact companies

Global leaders and pioneers in applied behavioural science

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

the City’s first public-private NYC Blockchain Center

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Axon Vibe provides smartphone app technology that enables public transport operators to deliver personalized communications based on users’ commuting behavior.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Stig est une application gratuite qui permet aux citoyens de construire ensemble la volonté générale à l'échelle de la France ainsi qu'à l'échelle locale.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This collaboration between Feeding America and Nielsen in 2014 collected and mapped data about food insecurity across America to aid research and advocacy efforts.

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

Resident feedback

• apps

• Graveyard
• Neighborhood forums
• Ideation

Illinois allocates an incredible amount of money to incarcerate people from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods — sometimes millions for residents on individual city blocks. There are more effective ways to invest public dollars.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

• democracy
• free speech

• Media
• Civic maps
• Mapping

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Based on the idea that if more people start taking action when sexual harassment happens in their presence, we can end this epidemic.

• apps
• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Il sistema digitale gratuito per la gestione delle segnalazioni di corruzione nella Pubblica Amministrazione

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

At Organizer, we strive to build the tools you need to make canvassing and field outreach efficient, effective, and accountable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

A single platform to design for multiple transportation modes to thrive in your city.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

CityGML is an open data model and XML-based format for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields