Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School

• Govtech

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge

• Drones

Qri is builds software for dataset synching, versioning, storing and collaboration. We help solve super interesting data problems with individual data nerds (pro and not pro), non-profits, and commercial clients. Qri is led by a team in Brooklyn NY, and collaborators everywhere and anywhere.

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The Ontario Digital Service (ODS) is a hub of technologists, designers and digital government experts who deliver user-centred products and digital policies using agile processes and data-driven methods.

• Govtech
• Graveyard

We are a non-profit research group that analyzes thousands of public records to create a simple searchable database of the commanders and the command structures, locations, and areas of operations of security force units and investigate their potential connections to alleged human rights violations.

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

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Advancing the power of data to improve the social and economic lives of all people

• Citizen science
• Open science

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• books
• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Books
• Citizen Engagement

Budeshi is a dedicated web platform that links budget and procurement data to various public services using the Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS)

• Open data publishing portals
• Procurement oversight

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

Digital, tech, design, and data projects for social impact

• Social impact design firms

We create data and technology solutions for better health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. By working alongside health advocates, governments, local communities, donors, and manufacturers, we provide reliable

• health
• vaccines
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

J++ is an international team of data journalism specialists, with offices in Stockholm and Porto. The team integrates experts in research, data analysis, data-driven storytelling, newsroom programming and full-stack design.

• Media
• Data visualization
• Engagement journalism

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.

• Mapping tools

The firehose of global crisis data

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Narrativa+Investigación+Datos

• Media
• Data science for social good
• Narrative tech

Govbase is the most comprehensive database of projects and organizations in online governance.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Group decision making

a laboratory for digital governance

• Emerging tech
• Civic apps outfits
• Blockchain

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Media
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

• Civic data

Open Path is a platform to help care providers, governments, hospitals, and insurance companies better serve people experiencing homelessness.

• Access social benefits

Initiative by 18F to demonstrate the potential for API-enabled benefits eligibility logic services.

• APIs
• United States (federal government)

• Access social benefits
• Civic data APIs

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

mySidewalk gives you the tools and insights you need to build a better world.

• local

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Platformable supports the development of open ecosystems

• Civic data
• Civic and social impact companies
• Open knowledge

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

a newsletter about how local governments use data and technology to shape our communities

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Newsletters

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

Appgree is the only technology that can sift through the hundreds or thousands of opinions a group might have and find common ground among such a vast array of data. What’s more, it does all this in a matter of minutes.

• Graveyard
• Group decision making

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

• Civic hacking meetups

The All-In-One platform for citizen-centric campaigns

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• CRM

A technical certification process for emergency response apps

• apps

• Data schemas and standards
• Emergency services

Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.

• Reduced inequalities

• Open data publishing portals

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

The Indicator Library is a key resource for our work to accelerate country demand for digital transformation and responsible data use.

• Digital transformation
• Indicators

An integrated mass transit solution for emerging markets, focused on providing public transport data and technologies that enrich services, empower people, and enable innovation.

• mass transit

medConfidential defends the confidentiality you desire for your medical records. Every use of data should be consensual, safe, and transparent. In matters of health and care, your relationship with your doctor is based on a very human spirit of confidentiality. Not the cold law of data protection.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Digital security and privacy

FixMyStreet instance for Montevideo

• Issue reporting

El Catálogo Nacional de Datos Abiertos es una herramienta que permite acceder a datos abiertos de organismos públicos, academia, organizaciones de sociedad civil y empresas privadas.

• Open data publishing portals