This lab anticipates, assists with, and responds to various legal issues unique to internet freedom projects.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The Transformative Media Organizing Project links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States.

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Data Science Consulting for Smart Products and Effective Strategy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

The Digital Integrity Fellowship Program (DIFP) provides fixed monthly stipends to individuals capable of addressing short-term and long-term threats to freedom of expression online.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Responsible Innovation COMPASS is an EU-funded project that supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from emerging technology industries to manage their research, development and innovation activities in a responsible and inclusive manner.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Get unprecedented access to thousands of databases. It's called Open Data, and it's revolutionizing business.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Think volunteer fire brigade for the 21st Century. We are a volunteer citizen brigade. We use technology and advocacy as a tool for open government, open data and civic engagement.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Public School empowers government organizations to become more impactful problem-solvers.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Quand la technologie change la politique, les institutions et leur relation aux citoyens #CivicTech #GovTech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Pentagon's humanitarian satellite imagery competition for object detection in overhead imagery

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding

The Opportunity Project helps teams use federal open data to build solutions to our nation’s toughest challenges.

• methodology
• United States (federal government)

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Join the movement. Sign up to join us on the Road to Change, where we'll be registering people to vote across the country and demanding change to save lives.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

Everyone is empowered to build and preserve resilient democratic systems in which all people’s rights are protected.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Strong evidence on the long-term impact of open data is scarce, so we're developing a body of research to better evaluate the impact of digital transparency initiatives.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

The Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Create a charitable gift registry with your favorite nonprofits and invite your friends and family to donate.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

To use science, technology and innovation to support the Government of Sierra Leone to deliver on its national development plan effectively and efficiently; and to help transform Sierra Leone into an innovation and entrepreneurship hub.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Refreshingly easy-to-use fundraising software and tools for nonprofits looking for a complete fundraising solution to support their mission. Cultivate donor relationships and generate new supporters, while saving time and raising more money. Network for Good makes fundraising simple for you.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

A metadata description standard for public software

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A resource from Joinup

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

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

MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement

• LGBTQI
• women

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

The SAFElab is a research initiative focused on examining the ways in which youth of color navigate violence on and offline.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

The James Irvine Foundation

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Jefferson Center is a nonpartisan organization committed to advancing democratic, citizen-driven solutions to community and public issues.

• methodology

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Co-design

Sphaera is a systems design firm that conceptualises, designs and develops legal, financial and technical infrastructure that supports connecting, collaborating and sharing resources across disparate organisations, networks and communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

Announcement & Call for Submissions

• women

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good