Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Journalism
• Local news

Transforming Narratives for Environmental Justice (TNEJ) seeks to advance environmental and climate justice through collaborative storytelling, design, and research.

• Climate action

• Media
• Graveyard
• Narrative tech

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.

• informal settlements
• housing

• Peer-reviewed research
• Smartphones

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence (TNGV) is a collaborative initiative which seeks to understand the impact of dominant narratives of gun violence on individuals, families, and communities most impacted, and aims to co-create interventions to change these narratives.

• gun safety

• Media
• Graveyard
• Narrative tech

presents the OECD Framework on the Governance of Digital Government and offers a toolkit for policymakers aiming to enhance digital government maturity

• handbooks

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

The Unfreedom Monitor, a project of Global Voices, is a project to analyze, document, and report on the growing use of digital communications technology to advance authoritarian governance around the world.

• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

The First AI Legal Assistant, Made for Lawyers

• commercial

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Graveyard
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

MANO BALSAS LT is a rational voting system on the internet. On this website, people are invited to take a short test and find out which politicians or parties align closest to their views.

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

"S.T.I.R.NA" is an initiative aimed at providing information about media owners and ad spending in a simple and convenient manner.

• private data public good

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advertising
• Media literacy

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• city

• Urban planning

The World Atlas of Participatory Budgeting represents the widest compilation of data, to date, on the situation of these processes on the planet.

• Participatory democracy
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• Consul
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

We also provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations take the right risks when supporting and resourcing grassroots change. We enhance your organisation’s security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Help out

"Voter Page" aims at providing electronic advanced services to voters.

• Voting and elections
• Open government data
• Voter assistance tech

Foros is a forest management and investment platform.

• forests
• Climate action
• Life on land

• Tech for public challenges
• Manage natural resources

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

• urban planning
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open innovation

This website provides data on the turnover of leaders in municipal and state-owned enterprises, and their connections with political parties or associations.

• Media
• Government transparency
• Media monitoring

Women at the Table breaks down barriers to systems change so that women and girls are able to fully and actively participate and influence the world’s social, political and economic spheres.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

Un consorcio de organizaciones de la sociedad civil conformado por Asuntos del Sur, Fundación Ciudadanía Inteligente, Extituto de Política Abierta e Instituto Pro Comum quienes tienen como misión conjunta impulsar formas innovadoras de gobernanza y acción colectiva en Ciudades del Sur Global.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Partner networks and coalitions

The Democracy Forum is a not-for-profit NGO which promotes ideals of democracy, pluralism and tolerance through public debate.

• Participatory democracy
• Debate

The Centre for Democracy was founded in January 2021 to develop the ecosystem of organisations working towards a better democracy in the UK

• Participatory democracy

A mailing list for the UK democracy space

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Americans Elect was a political organization in the United States known primarily for its efforts to stage a national online primary for the 2012 US Presidential Election

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Democratic Innovations

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

Supporting democracy activists from all over the world, organizing knowledge-sharing events and campaigning across countries...

• People Powered

Technology Consultancy and Meetups for Right-Leaning Organisations and Politicians

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic hacking meetups

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Service delivery

The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals

• indigenous
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits

Summer open data training and materials piloted in 2023

• trainings

• Civic data

This board contains various digital government roles from across the US and Canada public sectors, the different organizations that may be looking for talent, and resources to help you on your journey.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Exygy's collaboration with the CROP Organization and their work aggregating reentry data across the state of California.

• recidivism

• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Carbon calculators

Greenhost provides hosting for NGOs and businesses that take ethical issues and sustainability seriously.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Web hosting

Diaspora monitoring disinformation and hate speech in India and advocating for human rights.

• hate speech
• diaspora

• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis
• Media monitoring

The use of algorithms in public administration can make our public affairs more convenient, accurate and faster, but it is important to be aware of the limitations of these technologies. Report 2.0

CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Map of publicly available toilets of Budapest

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors

K-Monitor aimed to make Parliamentary data more accessible.

• Government transparency

Mediante el proyecto audiovisual Voces de una nueva generación, hemos recopilado testimonios de jóvenes nacidos a partir de los años 90, que han forjado sus opiniones a través de la memoria colectiva, historias familiares y documentos de la época.

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Digital literacy

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

• Media
• Evaluate impact
• Peer-reviewed research

"[A] nonpartisan source for news, resources, and commentary focused on state courts and state constitutional development. It’s the first and only website dedicated to covering state constitutional cases and trends in high courts across the 50 states."

• state

• Legal tech
• News and blogs
• Constitutions

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

• Climate action
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Courses
• Applied Learning

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

We're not a political party – we're building a movement and free tech to end America's two-party political dysfunction Learn how you can plug in to inspiring independent campaigns or get access to our free tools for people-powered candidates

• third party

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Organize campaigns

An AI startup's chatbots representing each of the 17 major US presidential candidates.

• US Election 2024

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Bots