In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• books

• Mapping
• Books

Mapping the videos of the US Capitol building attack

• Civic maps

Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Cameras
• Ballot information

No code platform's solutions for gov

• state

• Govtech

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Issue reporting

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Civic data
• Evaluate impact
• Tools for Funders

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Mapping
• Data visualization

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Mapping

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

A mobile app making it easy to report on the work city government is and isn’t doing.

The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.

• Evaluate impact

Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).

• extensions

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A technical certification process for emergency response apps

• apps

• Data schemas and standards
• Emergency services

Rappler is an independent, digital-only social news network that leverages community and digital engagement to drive social change.

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Ideation

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Narrative tech
• Satellites

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations

Civic Tech Pitch during the 86th Annual Meeting of the United States Conference of Mayors.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Rappaport Family Foundation -

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Official campaign app

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Great America PAC is committed to bringing people together

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Connecting Expertise to Government

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Supporting Disaster Response. With a Single Click!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Inspired by the help that people give each other during hard times, we created an application that will allow anyone in need to find help in their daily duties.

• COVID
• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID Engagement Projects

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

This extension filters through and hides all of the locations on the OK vaccine portal which currently don't have appointments.

• extensions

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Started in 1970, GreenUp Day in Vermont has been a State

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Security First’s flagship Umbrella app gives you free digital and physical security advice when you need it most.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Haki Law App intends to make knowledge about laws easily accessible. The mobile application provides legalinformation and connects citizens to lawyers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...

• Responsible consumption and production
• Life on land
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

NYC BigApps is the premier civic innovation competition in New York City that challenges tech experts to apply their know-how to improve NYC.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Hände waschen, Abstand halten, Daten spenden - Ihr Beitrag gegen Corona

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Data to understand who is working in a given region and what are their assets; this can improve outcomes for many applications, at multiple scales.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Mapping

‎Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about EveryElection

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

A common EU approach for the use of mobile applications and mobile data in response to the coronavirus pandemic

• Mapping tools
• COVID
• COVID Government Projects

A project in the Netherlands to enable digital voting on the blockchain

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks

Open App Stack allows you to simply manage your own cloud applications

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

Local governments working together to address the epidemic with data and maps

• opioids

• Civic maps

thirteen23’s digital strategy for Obama for America re-imagined grassroots campaigning, lowering the barrier of entry and empowering people to take action.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

A platform for civic engagement and neighborhood impact.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Engagement tech

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles