We are Code for Newark, the local Newark brigade of Code for America. We are a diverse group of newbies, pros, developers, coders, data geeks, and designers who are interested in making ourselves and our world a better place.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Case management software for governments and nonprofits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Case management

Zapraszamy do korzystania z otwartych danych Miasta Gdańska. W serwisie publikujemy dane m.in. o miejskich finansach, rozkładach jazdy komunikacji miejskiej, demografii. Otwarte dane czekają na wykorzystanie przez Ciebie, Twoją organizację pozarządową lub firmę!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Forward is a web app that tracks civic engagement opportunities ranging from town hall meetings, to rallies, to civic art projects throughout the state of Wisconsin.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Open government data portal

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

The Innovations in American Government Awards is the nation's preeminent program devoted to recognizing and promoting excellence and creativity in the public sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Central repository of Polish open public data.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

By Joi Ito, Director, MIT Media Lab

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

The World Smart City Awards seek to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies that promote sustainable urban development around the globe.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Get funding
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

The project Towards Democratic Auditing will address these challenges by investigating how citizens can intervene into the development and implementation of scoring systems and other forms of data analytics, and how they can advance civic participation in an increasingly datafied society.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Procurement software

• Govtech
• Procurement

Open Google Doc resources

• COVID Organizing Projects
• COVID

For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Applications open on Tuesday, October 15 for the Coding it Forward Fellowship - a paid, 10 week summer fellowship that empowers early-career technologists to innovate in local, state, and federal government offices across the United States.

• youth
• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone

Health Care Foundation of Greater Kansas City (HCF) is a non-profit established in 2002 to eliminate barriers and promote quality health care for uninsured.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Serwis internetowy Urzędu Miejskiego w Starachowicach.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

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

Fast Forward — Accelerating technology nonprofits. Fast Forward provides funding, training, mentorship, and community for tech-based nonprofits.

• The People
• Build something
• Funders & donors

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

three permanent categories – cooperation, innovation and participation

• youth

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

Individuals and teams should demonstrate their ability to implement a great idea that improves public sector services and the communities they serve.

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

The Open Source Observatory (OSOR) serves as a place where the open source software community can come together to publish news, find out about events, find relevant open source software solutions and read about the use of free and open source in public administrations across and beyond Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

We believe in the power of individuals to advance science through research and science education, making discoveries that benefit humanity. Learn more about how we move science forward.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A powerful, user-friendly, interoperable GIS used by thousands of users worldwide.

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU)-led multi-stakeholder initiative on Open-Source Generative AI for Public Services aims to develop an end-to-end, open-source implementation framework that enables public sector stakeholders to easily build and deploy their own GenAI solutions using modular, open-source software blueprints.

• United Nations
• International Telecommunication Union (ITU)

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

BlueHats 🧢 is a worldwide community of public servants (teachers, researchers and other government workers, etc.) who promote Free and Open Source software in, by and for the public sector.

• Govtech
• Open source
• Open Source Program Offices (OSPO)

Signalen is the Open Source software of, for and by Dutch municipalities for receiving and processing reports from public spaces.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Issue reporting

RIPOTI is a platform developed by Paradigm Initiative to enable individuals, CSOs, human rights defenders, advocates, activists, and the general public to report and collaboratively address African digital rights violations.

• corruption
• human rights
• cyberwar

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Digital rights

The Digital Forensic Research Lab’s Democracy + Tech Initiative centers human rights and democracy in technology and policy debates.

• human rights

• Fellowships
• Civil society research outfits

Bolo Bhi is a civil society organization geared towards advocacy, policy, and research in the areas of digital rights and civic responsibility.

• Global South Alliance

• Freedom of Information
• Digital rights

You can't start early enough – that's why we have short Pixi books on the topics of privacy and transparency for kindergarten-age children.

• youth
• books

• Digital security and privacy
• Government transparency
• Civic literacy

• mobility
• commercial

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware

¡Atención, comunidad! 🎉 El Centro Latinoamericano de Investigaciones Sobre Internet (CLISI) celebra su 8º Aniversario y quiere festejarlo impulsando tus ideas. Por ello, lanza su Convocatoria Anual de Fondos para Eventos Comunitarios. Si tienes un proyecto para organizar una charla, un taller, un festival de cine o cualquier evento gratuito que beneficie a tu comunidad, ¡esta es tu oportunidad! La organización ofrece financiamiento de hasta 300$ y su asesoría para hacerlo realidad.

• Get funding

Tenant Watch is a mobile-first platform that empowers renters to report unsafe housing conditions and enables cities to monitor violations, enforce codes, and improve housing equity through data-driven oversight.

• housing

Gamifying Civic Engagement to Rebuild Community Wealth

• Games and gamification
• Economic development

Digital Democracy’s mission is to work in solidarity with frontline and indigenous communities to use technology to defend their environmental and human rights. We partner with environmental defenders to co-design and co-develop tools they can use to defend critical ecosystems and Indigenous cultures. Digital Democracy helps our partners achieve transformative change and works toward a world where all people can participate in decisions that govern their lives.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

MeshPoint One believes that access to Internet is one of basic human rights. Their mission is to enable Internet access and improve the quality of life for people in disaster struck areas. Also by empowering people in rural communities to take action to build their own village telecoms to address disadvantage, become more sustainable and increase local control. Currently, they are focused on Syrian refugees in Croatia.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware
• Connectivity

GeoMatch works in many settings, from refugee resettlement to immigration agencies and nonprofits that help aspiring immigrants. They tailor the software to the client’s needs.

• migration
• refugees
• immigration

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing

With wireless survey devices, we make it easy to gather the opinions of more and different people.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Hardware

Defensive Lab Agency is a French company founded in 2018 by Esther Onfroy with the objective of providing expert services on digital security and software development to civil society organizations.

• Build something
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Vom 20.-22. März haben in 48 Stunden 28.361 Menschen zusammen an über 1.500 Lösungen gearbeitet. Das war der #WirVsVirus Hackathon.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• COVID Engagement Projects

Crowdsourced project to collect data on sake and sake breweries from across Japan, integrates lost historical data, and utilizes digital technology to establish stronger connections between producers and consumers.

• culture

• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing
• Economic development

This training offers firsthand insight into the Flint Water Crisis—translating its failures into actionable, experience-based instruction to help regulators and public water system operators strengthen drinking water safety, public health protections, and infrastructure resilience.

• Clean water and sanitation
• lead replacement

• Internal government tech capacity

Guardoni is a free software automated web scraper, used to collect data about platforms as Youtube and Tik Tok.

• YouTube
• TikTok

• Media and social media analysis
• Research tools

A community of forward-thinking Local Planning Authorities working together to shape a more efficient, data-driven planning system.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Urban planning

A flood advocacy tool that uses generative AI to visualize photorealistic images of potential flood scenarios

• floods

• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech
• Civic maps

connecting the people who can help to the people who need help.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Resource matching and sharing
• Help out