NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Digital security and privacy
• Adjacent Fields
• Consumer watchdogging

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

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

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

• Life below water

• Artificial Intelligence
• Machine vision
• Environmental data

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.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

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

• Media
• Whistleblowing
• Investigative journalism tech

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

• Direct action
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

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

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
• Artistic interventions

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Civic apps outfits
• Fieldwide resources

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

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

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

• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

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

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

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• Emerging Tech report (2020)

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
• Deliberation

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

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

• Mastodon
• Meet the others

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

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports
• hurricanes

• Social media
• Public media

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.

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

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

“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

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

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

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• 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 Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

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

• indigenous

• Co-design
• Research and policy centers

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• COVID Media Projects

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

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

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

A practical toolkit for the global civic tech community

• guides

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

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
• Graveyard
• Diversity & Inclusion

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

• CTFG partners

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The data analytics platform for impact-driven organizations.

• Evaluate impact
• Nonprofit tech

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

• Nonprofit tech
• Games and gamification

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 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.

• Evaluate impact
• Get funding
• 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 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

A new professional learning certificate program for Congressional staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Certifications
• Supporting public sector from outside government

An annual survey and report by Data Foundation

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Improving government, business, and society through open data and evidence-informed public policy

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Open government data