The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Games and gamification
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

A Steward of the Internet of Education, Web3, Blockchain, Digital Wallets, Crypto, DOAs, and Verifiable Credentials for Learning

• Quality education

• Open knowledge

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The CDEI is a UK government expert body enabling the trustworthy use of data and AI.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Supporting Indigenous land and data stewards for community centered science

• indigenous
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Solidarity networks

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Peer networks

Our mission is to accelerate deep ocean exploration by developing accessible systems to broaden the community of those who explore and understand the deep sea.

• Life below water
• sustainability

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• United States (federal government)

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental data

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Fieldwide resources
• Civic apps outfits

Improve the productivity of your phone bank volunteers with this free online training

• partisan
• guides

• Voter outreach
• Phone banking tools

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing
• Peer to peer SMS

Free teleprompter to make more persuasive presentations and share your script with supporters to amplify your message.

• Campaign tools
• Organize events
• Meeting tech

You'll learn how to structure and tell your own personal story in a way that's compelling and engaging, allowing you to be an effective organizer.

• partisan
• courses

• Organize campaigns
• Online courses
• The craft of organizing

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Reports
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Benchmarks

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Deliberation

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

eupolicy.social is a Mastodon instance for the EU policy bubble. Its aim is to provide a friendly and respectful discussion space for people working in the field of EU policy and to contribute to the health, diversity and growth of the fediverse.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Mastodon

We support communities and organizations in adopting available technologies to collect data that is important to them

• Civic data
• Mapping

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• city
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

112 job boards, Maintained by Ted Fickes & Edward Saperia

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

An annual feature by a technology columnist in the New York Times

• Media
• Awards and prizes
• Mainstream media coverage

We’re looking beyond fake news to examine how manipulation of narratives, rewriting of history and altering our memories is reshaping our world.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsletters

Our mission is to advance, defend, and sustain the right to ethically study the impact of technology on society.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

SMEX is launching the inaugural SMEX Fellowship Programme to bring new minds and voices to the digital rights field, raise innovative solutions to the many-layered issues that govern use and access to the internet, and expand research on emerging topics within digital rights in the MENA region.

• Fellowships
• Digital rights

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

Giving Gap exists to advance racial equity in giving and mobilize positive action for Black lives by connecting people to causes they care about.

• racial equity

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

To address ethics and social responsibility in technology, we believe it is important to honor the expertise of many disciplines: anthropology, computer science, critical race and gender studies, data science, design, history, human rights, law, philosophy, political science, science technology & society studies, sociology, and so much more.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Working groups

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Peer networks

The Change Network is a self-paced, 12-month online program that provides structure, tools, coaching, and community to accelerate your goals toward becoming more equitable and inclusive.

• coaching

• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard
• Nonprofit tech

Get real-time 3D content creation software for your nonprofit or public library through Unity for Nonprofits at TechSoup.

• Games and gamification
• Nonprofit tech

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy
• Access to Information Community of Practice
• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Justice Media co-Lab at Boston University provides the programmatic structure to train a new generation of computational investigative journalists equipped to leverage the power of computing and data science to advance justice and transparency.

• Media
• Academia
• Courses

Reforesting after wildfires with drones

• sustainability
• forests
• fires

• Drones

The Data Responsibility Working Group (DRWG) is a global coordination body working to advance data responsibility across the humanitarian system.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Data governance