The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages. Last updated 2015.

• civic features
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data science for social good
• Data schemas and standards

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

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• Accelerators

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process

An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Sanctions Tracker 2013

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

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

OpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential. OpenGov is the first complete cloud solution for public sector budgeting, operational performance, and citizen engagement.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• ChatGPT

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement 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

Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally accessible.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Make your city better

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• Consul

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

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

Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

14 immersive weeks of product development, punctuated by trips to Munich and Shenzhen. Learn more about what URBAN-X has to offer your early-stage comany.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement

• LGBTQI
• women

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

A 2018 initiative to organize American voters around the midterm elections

• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

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

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

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

• The People
• Media
• Evaluate impact

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

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

A collaborative fact-checking project for the Philippines’ 2019 elections bringing together 11 news organizations and 3 universities to counter disinformation and provide the public with verified information

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

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

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

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

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

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots

• g0v

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Established in 1993, Joint Venture Silicon Valley provides analysis and action on issues affecting our region’s economy and quality of life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe

• housing

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms
• Working groups

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides
• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, DC Code §§ 2-531-539, provides that any person has the right to request access to records.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Lou Downe, Director of Design and Service Standards for the UK Government opens #ServicesWeek 2019

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Omegle meets politics. Listenr connects people with opposing political views anonymously through existing messengers (currently FB messenger).

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers