Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

• resources

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Providing real-time Air Quality Index & Allergy Pollen & Weather Data, as well as Protection Recommendations and Forecast.

• air quality
• apps
• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

See how cloud-based and on-premise civic engagement software creates a dynamic ecosystem between government agencies, citizens, developers and partners.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

En 2015, Transparencia Mexicana (TM) y el Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) lanzaron la plataforma independiente #3de3 para promover y recibir las declaraciones de situación patrimonial, de intereses y fiscal de quienes competían por un cargo de elección popular.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Hayat Technologies is a specialised health-tech analytics and digital solutions provider

• health
• Good health and well-being
• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.

• The People
• Research and policy centers

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)

• books
• city

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

A mobile app to report sexual harassment. The collected data can be used as evidence to support preventive measures. Last updated Nov 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Este observatorio de compras públicas en Salud recopila datos sobre los precios que pagan diferentes organismos estatales por medicamentos para permitir su análisis y transparentar la información gubernamental.

• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This popular education-inspired guide breaks down and contextualizes artificial intelligence technologies within structural racism — and provides hands-on exercises to help us imagine beyond, and dream up alternate and ideal futures with AI.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

ad.watch breaks open the machine of political advertisements on Facebook and Instagram with data of more than 150 parties in 34 countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

A new kind of public institution, the world’s first data utility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

This site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

two new Impact Fellowships for S&T experts seeking to advance smart education policy: The Learning Acceleration Fellowship at the Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences and the Data Science Impact Fellowship within the Office of the Under Secretary at the Department of Education.

• Quality education

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

• books
• city

• Books
• Smart Cities and sensors

This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.

• guides
• urban planning

GovSight is a 501(c)(3) US nonprofit that is building a comprehensive civic information platform to help make citizenship simplified for all.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic literacy

Compare and visualize voting count data across many levels of US elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

The only comprehensive data set of voting equipment down to the precinct level of the United States, going back to 2006.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

We help government teams gather & analyze inclusive data to achieve equitable outcomes. Get actionable insights faster with our cloud-based solution.

• Govtech
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.

• Communicating with the government
• Campaign tools
• Open asks

Collaborating with Philadelphians to design better City policies and services.

• city

• Govtech
• Design
• Co-design

South Africa's Online Budget Data

• Budget explorers

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Archives

MPR can be used to find out what you can expect when your doctor prescribes you something; find out if there are cheaper generics that you can use instead; and make sure that you aren't being overcharged.

• health
• Responsible consumption and production
• Good health and well-being

• Civic data

Standardized data on historical general election polling places in the United States.

• Voting and elections
• Open civic data
• Find your polling place

Join a worldwide movement to catalog every open source civic tech project

• Github

• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy
• Algorithmic transparency

A volunteer-led, public, historical analysis of Canadian federal government contract spending at a whole-of-government level, based on scraping work to unify data from numerous departmental websites.

• Civic data
• Procurement
• Open government data

The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Design

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

Community Initiatives is a dedicated fiscal sponsor whose sole purpose is to provide best-in-class infrastructure for nonprofit leaders.

• Civic data
• Build something
• Nonprofit tech

NYC’s social services in an open format and accessible via RESTAPI. [Check it out.](http://services.wegov.nyc/)

• Civic data APIs

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• city
• United Nations
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

New here? geojson.io is a quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing maps. geojson.io is named after GeoJSON, an open source data format, and it supports GeoJSON in all ways - but also accepts KML, GPX, CSV, GTFS, TopoJSON, and other formats.

Helping communities create and implement their open data, data governance, and open smart city initiatives

• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups
• Civic apps outfits

We are the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

X-Road, the data exchange layer for information systems, is a technological and organizational environment enabling a secure Internet-based data exchange between information systems.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Predecessors

GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• human rights

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives

ENABLING SECURE CONNECTIVITY AND DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN GOVERNMENTAL AND PRIVATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS.