"According to a release from the lawmakers, the legislation would “create a pathway for independent evaluators, with a function similar to those in the financial industry and other sectors, to work with companies as a neutral third-party to verify their development, testing, and use of AI is in compliance with established guardrails.”"

We are a group of security practitioners helping NGOs, human rights defenders, media outlets, and activists.

to conduct penetration testing of voting machines to identify new vulnerabilities and raise awareness with election officials nationwide who use the equipment.

Counting trucks for environmental justice

• air quality
• Reduced inequalities
• city

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Cameras

Launched by a collaborative effort between DataKind, Save the Children, and Microsoft, the Humanitarian Data Insights Project (HDIP) harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline data from multiple sources, making it accessible and interpretable for humanitarian workers at all levels of data maturity.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

An OECD global assessment of countries' implementation of its 2017 Recommendation on Open Government

• reports

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Evaluate impact

by Micah Sifry

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Citizens have a critical role to play in advancing transparency, accountability and effectiveness in the delivery of municipal services.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Digital participation platforms
• Issue reporting

Using GPS mapping technology, Nidoroualmewaafe identifies areas that do not have access to safe drinking water and shares this information with local authorities and communities to inform decision-making.

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

Esheria Lexchat simplifies legal research and guidance, providing seamless access to tools for navigating the complex legal landscape effectively.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech

AdvoKC is a dynamic, youth-led civic technology organization established with a steadfast commitment to fostering transparency, accountability, and positive change in governance.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Promise trackers

This project is using geospatial technology to solve the climate mobility data gap and inform required food security and planning interventions.

• migration
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

Increasing shared understanding of our world through community-led initiatives that make data easier to access and use.

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• Satellites

Need a logo designed, a usability study, or an interface-facelift? Our diverse community and extended network have got you covered.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Design

AI-powered chatbot for citizen information

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Clay is a nonprofit team on a mission to make Earth observation as useful and ubiquitous as a Google search. We believe in using open, responsible AI to make Earth observation a force for positive change.

• mining
• forests
• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

We seek to empower the poor to know their rights so they can receive justice and avoid exploitation and corruption in many areas of life.

• apps

• Legal tech
• Access to laws

The African Union Civic Tech Fund supports initiatives, particularly those led by or relevant to youth, that strengthen citizen engagement through the innovative use of data and digital technologies, or, in other words, that can support targeted civic technology solutions.

• Get funding

From Hasan Piker to Logan Paul, this interactive display maps how online personalities on the right and the left are using their massive followings to influence the US election.

• US Election 2024

• Media
• Organize campaigns
• Creators and Influencers

SmartRR is a virtual one stop shop for Gender Based Violence and Sexual Reproductive Health. We are committed to creating a safer, more supportive world for survivors and adolescent girls.

• Gender Equality
• Online Gender-Based Violence (OGBV)
• women

• Crowdsourcing

Can modern AI help solve today’s critical challenges of climate change and nature loss? The Grand Challenge will offer up to $100 million in total funding over three rounds.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Challenges

Arkam gathers, analyzes and presents relevant data on public policies in Africa to promote transparent and effective governance.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Access to laws

Digital Woman Uganda provides digital literacy skills to women and girls while advocating for gender-sensitive policies and digital rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• Digital literacy
• Interactive Voice Response (IVR)

The Cloud-Native Geospatial Foundation encourages adoption of highly efficient and accessible approaches to working with geospatial data over the Internet.

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

A comprehensive living database of over 700 AI risks categorized by their cause and risk domain.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Civic Tech in Africa with Nathi Mcetywa is a podcast by the Civic Tech Innovation Network. The podcast focuses on the profiling of civic tech initiatives, civic innovators, activists, researchers, social entrepreneurs and others working in the civic tech and other related fields in Africa.

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

This map...illustrates a [Congress] in a state of dysfunction, with growing dissatisfaction on the part of the public, waning trust in its ability perform, and -- most significantly -- large-scale disengagement from the system by the public.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Take selfies with surveillance!

• city
• surveillance
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artistic interventions
• Cameras

The Africa Innovation Mradi is a pan-Mozillian program that aims to leverage Mozilla’s role as stewards of the open web to promote models of innovation that are grounded in the unique needs of users in the African continent.

• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

We're a UK charity that uses data to highlight local and structural food insecurity then provides tools to help alleviate it.

• Zero hunger

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Our best-performing model can potentially help TSU find 59% more buildings where tenants face landlord harassment than the current outreach method using the same resources.

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Machine learning

Enter your UK postcode and see how your local area has changed over the past 14 years

• local

• Civic data

The Action for Accountability (A4A) project aims to support communities to organize and lead cooperation between our communities and local leaders.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Budget Justice Coalition (BJC) aims to collaboratively build people's participation in and understanding of South Africa's budget and planning processes.

• Participatory democracy
• Budget explorers

Civic tech accelerator hosted by the Scottish government. If you’re an ambitious and innovative individual, team or company, CivTech is an outstanding opportunity

• Accelerators
• Challenges

As well as your new MP, there are others who represent you in your area. We're working on a new experimental feature to explain who these people are and how everything from your council to your police force works.

• Civic literacy
• Find your representatives

Project to show how your local MP voted on a collection of issues selected by the designer.

• Civic literacy
• Matching views to votes
• Find your representatives

PSAM’s activities include research, monitoring, advocacy and capacity building. Working through southern Africa, PSAM generates and shares knowledge about social accountability and the monitoring and advocacy tools that can build more open, participatory and accountable governments.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Research and policy centers
• Government transparency

This site maps data about UK constituencies on hex maps (cartograms). We have created several themes (economy, energy, environment, health, society, and transport) and have filled those with separate pages for each data aspect.

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Imali Yethu is a coalition of civil society organisations working with the South African National Treasury to make budget information more accessible, user-friendly and empowering.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Government transparency
• Budget explorers

We begin the series with a video that explains what civic tech is and it’s potential impact in African regions.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films

The Advocacy People support people in advocating for themselves with the NHS, or who are in care, under section in a hospital, secure unit or in the community, among other self-advocacy groups.

• Good health and well-being

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Access social benefits
• Consumer watchdogging

Our mission is to provide accessible information and tools to help citizens make informed decisions and participate in the democratic process.

• Voter assistance tech
• Matching views to votes

We’re helping city dwellers measure, map, and manage street trees.

• trees

• Mapping
• Mapping tools

• WhatsApp

An Instagram filter that reminds you not to get too close to wild animals as you take your photo

• animals
• Instagram

• Cameras

How Member-Led Upgrades Are Optimizing Legislative Branch Capacity and Resilience

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Digital transformation