Send Texts, Make Change We leverage technology and our army of passionate, remote volunteers to help progressives run and win everywhere.

• partisan

• Peer to peer SMS

A prototype to display factchecks in real-time on live TV

• extensions

• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard
• Factchecking

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Civic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine

• Ukraine
• refugees
• racial equity

• Support civic projects with tech

Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

An experimental Boston Globe Lab geo-focused Twitter aggregator

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Alexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Tools to build a movement

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

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

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Smart Cities and sensors
• High-tech COVID Interventions
• Hardware

CommonVC is an impact innovation and startup studio that is run and funded by people passionate about a sustainable future.

• Social impact design firms

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

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.

• Open asks

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

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

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

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

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

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification

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

Dutch participatory engagement company

• Engagement tech
• Participation consultants

Project Isizwe works to extend free wifi across low-income communities in South Africa and runs the Tobetsa content portal.

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute runs the Membership Puzzle Project, which works to identify and incubate innovative early-stage membership models globally.

76engage is an online platform that strengthens the bonds between citizens and public institutions through meaningful public engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Finally. A platform made for Local Progressive Campaigns

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers
• Peer to peer SMS

Run your own Freedom of Information website

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Trusted by campaigns of every size, NGP VAN's award-winning websites and industry-leading organizing, fundraising, compliance, and digital tools have elected thousands of Democrats to local, state, and federal office. Nearly every Democrat running for office is powered by NGP VAN. 

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Fundraising tools

Fast, affordable, online permitting for governments

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Predictiv helps organisations make better and faster decisions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Analysen und Visualisierungen der Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Karlsruhe. Größte Änderungen, Wechselwähler, Erststimmen und mehr Statistiken.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Requesting data of public interest in just a few clicks: KiMitTud helps you to easily and transparently request data of public interest from any state, municipal or other public institution that participates in the running of the state or spends public money.

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie pentru telefonul mobil sau tabletă, gratuită, simplă şi intuitivă, care permite cetăţenilor cu spirit civic să transmită diverse sesizări şi incidente către Primăria Oradea şi operatorii serviciilor publice locale (Compania de Apă Oradea, Oradea Transport Local, Termoficare Oradea, Poliţia Locală Oradea, RER Ecologic Service).

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life on land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Services week is a nationwide, cross-government event that looks at how we can work together to deliver end-to-end, user-focused services.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Conferences
• Peer networks
• Building inside government

Finanzdaten aus dem öffentlichen Sektor in Österreich

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

• women

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Shared, open cross-government standards make services better for users and cheaper to run.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The encyclopedia of American politics

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections