We take risks, catalyze fresh thinking and test new approaches in order to creatively disrupt the status quo.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Civic literacy

Software for Political Campaigns, Nonprofit Donor Management, and PACs

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Fundraising tools

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Find news, appeals decisions & best practice for development management & strategic planners on PlanningResource

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

A PhD student's suite of apps for small group consensus-building and facilitation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Civic hackathons

Providing citizens, journalists, and civic activists with a practical and easy-to-use tool to understand the ownership structure of the world they live in, demonstrating the practical applications of open information for normal citizens

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

MedAfrica is your direct access to health information and services

FutureAir's first product, SAM™, is a Smart Air Manager that senses, manages and improves indoor air quality

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Penda is a mobile application for women who have experienced or are experiencing domestic violence or abuse. Theapp provides legal information and referrals.

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support

• Govtech

The Hello Syracuse! app encourages you to get out and explore the City of Syracuse and your local community.

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

An interactive website that asks residents to balance their city budget

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Mapping

Seattle has a lot of boundaries: city council districts, school districts, police beats, & a lot more. This tool makes it easy to know which boundaries you’re in so you can better understand how city services & policies affect you.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Story tech
• Cameras

This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.

• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy

Texting large volumes of potential voters is possible while remaining compliant with TCPA rules thanks to new technology.

• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS
• Email campaign tools

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Knomos employs modern app frameworks and design principles grounded in the user experience to deliver more powerful legal tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

OpenField is a canvassing application for more complex conversations that can push richer qualitative context back into a central repository of voter-insights.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Enable cities and companies to communicate clearly about curb regulations to enable better analysis, planning, and management of public space

• city
• streetscape
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Pocket Reporter is an mobile app that can be used as a personal news editor for journalists. The app is available in Afrikaans, English, isiXhosa, isiZulu, Portuguese and Spanish.

Justice Today is a mobile application that protects citizens from crime and utilizes artificial intelligence to educate citizens on the steps to take when victimized. The platform also allows citizens to report crime in real time

• Communicating with the government

A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Neocity est la référence des applications mobiles pour Villes, Communes et EPCI. Choisissez l'application mobile pour Maire la plus plébiscitée en

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

At Google, we believe that AI can provide new ways of approaching problems and meaningfully improve people’s lives. With AI, we have another tool to explore and address hard, unanswered questions.

• Google

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

• Playbooks and design principles
• Courses
• Innovation teams and labs

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

Given the transformative potential of technology, OpenSTL invites civic geeks of all stripes, from developers to community leaders, to come together to use technology and data to improve the lives of everyone in St. Louis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Helping communities use digital media, mapping, and open data tools for greater influence and representation in development and democracy.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

Dash makes any car a 'smart car'. Our app, for Android and iOS, connects to your car with a low-cost, easy to install device, called a ODB2. We use the information on your driving habits to make the roads smarter, safer, greener, more affordable and more social.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

BudgIT is a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Budget explorers

Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard