Smell Something, Say Something

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

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

Ask Izzy helps people who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless to find the services they need, right now and nearby.

• homelessness
• housing

• Bots
• Access social benefits
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Designing a more equitable world

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Parks and trails are a cornerstone of public health and quality of life. The Open Trail System Specification (OpenTrails) helps citizens get outdoors to enjoy them.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

See if you qualify for support with food, cash & more. Answer a few questions and get help in under 5 minutes.

• Access social benefits

The Democracy Fund is a bipartisan foundation working to ensure that our political system is able to withstand new challenges and deliver on its promise to the American people.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A collectivized document of mutual aid projects and resources.

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

Gov Pod, a podcast series by Microsoft, takes us on a journey to understand how the cloud, AI and blockchain—among other technologies—simplifies the lives of citizens, first responders, and defense organizations while enabling more transparency in how governments provide their services.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

Visible Polls is a platform that curates election data across Africa

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Emerging tech

A través de SeamOS, podremos sentar un voto de opinión sobre las propuestas que se presentan en el Concejo de Bogota.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

• The People
• Evaluate impact

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

An Adhocracy-powered engagement campaign for Berlin. Kooperativer Ideenworkshop Zur Zukunft Des Wohnens

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

ODI Summit 2023, 7 November. Free and online. Join the global conversation about data and AI. Discover how data impacts technological developments.

• Civic data
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The most comprehensive visualization of U.S. public data. Data USA provides an open, easy-to-use platform that turns data into knowledge.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

From the federal to state to local government, the Books are Open… Search salary, pension and spending databases.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Given the volume of events being organized in the emerging field around Digital Disinformation, we are developing an events calendar to better track the timing and focus of these convenings.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Opportunity Awaits: Introducing (Port)Land of Opportunity, Our Newest Game

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Startups and social entreprises that are transforming cities around the world through technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

WoeLab is a grassroots network of inventors and entrepreneurs who want to build smart city projects or a digital democracy

Sie haben geholfen, Trump zum Präsidenten zu machen. Sie haben den Brexit befeuert. Jetzt spielen sie auch im deutschen Wahlkampf eine Rolle: sogenannte "Dark Ads". BuzzFeed News macht diese dunklen Anzeigen nun transparent.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

an action research laboratory

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Degree programs

The European Social Innovation Competition, launched in memory of Diogo Vasconcelos, is a challenge prize run by the European Commission across all European countries

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

'Find that Charity', developed by David Kane and supported by 360Giving, is a tool for finding data about non-profit organisations.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Open data publishing portals

Is the biggest public repository of Open Data in Colombia, created by the IT Ministry with the goal of fostering collaboration and the development of new applications and visualizations. (Socrata platform)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• The People

Be an SF Hero by being prepared for an emergency, getting involved in your community, learning new skills, and more...Your friends will be impressed!

• apps
• disasters

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Rebuilding Government is a podcast about the people, technology, and missions redefining government. From local officials to government technology founders, we're diving into how people are reinvigorating our public institutions. In collaboration with UNIT Innovations.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• Govtech
• The People

The U.S. Digital Registry served as a resource for agencies, citizens, and developers to confirm the official status of social media and public-facing collaboration accounts, mobile apps, and mobile websites. It was deprecated by M-23-22 - Delivering a Digital-First Public Experience.

• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Supporting platform co-ops.

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Obscuracam is a photo and video app for Android that keeps certain information private. Last updated 2017.

• apps

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

PeakMetrics tracks news and government action around the clock, so you save time and react faster.

• The Tech
• Media
• Participatory democracy

Hack Cleveland, also known as HackCLE, is a group of community leaders who are leveraging technology to unify Clevelanders and those responsible for their public safety

• The People
• Graveyard
• Meet the others

Code California is an open collaboration between agencies, industry technology partners and civic technologists working to code a more innovative, collaborative and effective government that best serves the people of California.

• state

• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Building inside government

These aren’t breaking news alerts—they’re on-your-block alerts.

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Journalism

Das CityScienceLab der HafenCity Universität Hamburg erforscht mit PartnerInnen aus der Zivilgesellschaft, Politik, Wirtschaft und Wissenschaft die Veränderung von Städten im Kontext der Digitalisierung

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

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

Our complete suite of listening, information, analysis, reporting and relationship management features enable you to mix and match precisely the right online tools for your community engagement objectives.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Reach Planetizen's massive audience of planners, designers, architects, developers, academics, and other professionals who are working with the built environment.

• urban planning

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

Political Change Starts Here

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Project Mobilize is a network of leaders working to create change both within the current systems and organizations that already exist as well as investing in new ideas on the local, state and national level that will break through the stagnate and partisan rhetoric in order to create a more unified, inclusive and forward-thinking nation.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Engine supports the growth of technology entrepreneurship through economic research, policy analysis, and advocacy on local and national issues.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

Learn about organizations in the region and the tools which they have developed.

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

HandUp makes giving to nonprofit organizations and their clients easy, secure and transparent -- and your donation goes directly to the cause. We partner with nonprofits whose mission is to serve those experiencing poverty. Every donation, small or large, can have a huge impact on a person's life.

• No poverty
• Partnerships for the Goals

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Municipal Barometer is a web-based portal that provides municipalities and people with local level data so municipalities can make informed and resolute decisions to deliver on their mandates

The Police Data Initiative promotes the use of open data to encourage joint problem solving, innovation, enhanced understanding, and accountability between communities and the law enforcement agencies that serve them.

• policing
• racial equity
• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals