Using software, policy and data to empower activists and end oppression

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits
• Govtech vendors

How do governments spend our taxes? Are the planned projects actually built? What contracts do governments make to sell their natural wealth? AfricanSpending looks at how we can use data to answer these questions

What Works Cities Certification Is The National Standard Of Excellence For Well-managed, Data-driven Local Government.

• city

• The People
• Evaluate impact
• Certifications

Open Government initiative by the Nariño department in Colombia, combining approaches in collaborative economy and social innovation.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

DeedsWeb is a website that uses Internet Explorer to provide people with a web-based interface to up-to-date land registration information located on the Deeds Registration System database.

The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers

Data map of Uber and Lyft in San Francisco

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Leverages opt-in wearables health data to try to predict the spread of the pandemic

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

We are focused on leveraging leapfrog technologies and an ecosystem of partners to offer rural, underserved communities affordable and holistic solutions for their basic needs. Our data insights revealed that families in Buikwe spend up to $20 a month to access unclean energy (charcoal), unclean water, limited healthcare, and no electricity

ePaństwo Foundation's aim is to develop democracy, open and transparent authorities and civic engagement.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Civic literacy

Teams of researchers will work with up to 350 partner organisations on a range of topics and themes, including how data-driven innovation can improve public services in the region, the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of data.

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

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

The Incidental Emergency Grants respond to urgent needs such as a website or email being hacked, or the theft or loss of sensitive data and equipment.

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

Enigma is an operational data management and intelligence company. We place data into the context of the real world and make it connected, open, and actionable.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic and social impact companies

Create greener communities and explore our urban forests, together.

• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Municipalities across the country have joined together to create a new global non-profit organization called the Open Mobility Foundation to support the development of open-sourced software that provides scalable mobility solutions for cities.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Partner networks and coalitions

The sustainable foundation for the modern Smart City: Munsoft Spatial ensures that our municipalities have an up-to-date list of all properties keeping the Property Register, Deeds Database, Valuation Roll and Registered Land Parcels in sync automatically, giving you a bird's eye view of the completeness of revenue.

• Civic data

School Finder is an online tool for parents or guardians to find the right school for their kids.

• Quality education

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

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

this Slack has over 200 members who identify as “lonely coders,” technologists who are alone or one of just a few folks in their newsroom who work with tech and data.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A collection of national and regional-scale layers related to weather, hazards, and emergency preparedness and response, mostly for the US.

• crisis
• Google
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Explore the far reaches of the world, right in your browser.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

• research

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Deze tool brengt alle onderwijs- en onderzoeksprojecten van de HvA in kaart en is een startpunt voor onderlinge samenwerking. Kijk, ontdek, deel en doe mee met HvA in de Stad!

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration among SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google to map and measure fishing activity worldwide using data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a ship-tracking system used by large fishing vessels.

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

innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

free public access portal to more than 6.4 million state and federal court decisions encompassing 360 years of American case law

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Legal tech

PFIF is a data model and an XML-based exchange format for sharing data about people who are missing or displaced by natural or human-made disasters.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Luminate Group's daily email digest of findings

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Create, edit, visualise, analyse and publish geospatial information on Windows, macOS, Linux, BSD and mobile devices For your desktop, server, in your web browser and as developer libraries

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Citymart transforms the way cities solve procurement problems. Citymart is a platform for city government employees to deliver better services, connecting them to urban solutions, projects and peers across departments and around the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Procurement

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

Giving Balkans is a first-of-its-kind database on philanthropy in the Western Balkans.

• The People
• Civic data
• Fundraising tools

Maps and inventory status of masks to help reduce the spread of Coronavirus in Taiwan

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Civic teams at tech companies

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Welcome to TV NEWS Archive! This research library service enables you to: Search more than 1,666,000 U.S

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Microsoft and the Clooney Foundation for Justice have teamed up to create TrialWatch, an app designed to help human rights advocates more easily monitor legal proceedings around the world.

• apps
• human rights

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data