The Ontario Digital Service (ODS) is a hub of technologists, designers and digital government experts who deliver user-centred products and digital policies using agile processes and data-driven methods.

• Govtech
• Graveyard

Pew Trusts report: What the changes mean for the millions of people who interact with the civil legal system each year—and what remains to be done

• reports

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

Research into whether legislation achieved its policy goals

• Evaluate impact

Budeshi is a dedicated web platform that links budget and procurement data to various public services using the Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS)

• Open data publishing portals
• Procurement oversight

The Procurement Governance (PG) initiative seeks to improve the effectiveness of public sector processes by entrenching efficiency, accountability, and transparency within Nigeria’s public procurement landscape

• Procurement

We create data and technology solutions for better health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. By working alongside health advocates, governments, local communities, donors, and manufacturers, we provide reliable

• health
• vaccines
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

Tu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

Planning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting

• Participatory budgeting
• Civic and social impact companies

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Work with maps like never before. Build your structure, visualise data and let people interact. Use maps to get you mission fullfiled.

• Mapping tools

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

Korean tech and design firm

• Social impact design firms

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

a laboratory for digital governance

• Emerging tech
• Civic apps outfits
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Narrativa+Investigación+Datos

• Media
• Data science for social good
• Narrative tech

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Media
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

Social and open participation consultancy in Colombia

• Civic and social impact companies

The Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships

The United Nations, Australia Post, and governments in the UK, Finland, Taiwan, France, Brazil, and Israel are just a few of the organizations and groups utilizing design to drive social change.

• books

• Books
• Design

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

• Civic data

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Reports
• Urban planning

The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses

Web design company

• Social impact design firms

The 2021 SDI Digital Democracy Awards seek to recognise these achievements by awarding category winners across Inspiration, Innovation, Inclusion & Impact.

• Awards and prizes

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Bots

aula is a completely new way of thinking about what participation means, offering young people the chance to play an active part in shaping the world around them

• students

• Graveyard
• Civic literacy

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Incubators

Platformable supports the development of open ecosystems

• Civic data
• Open knowledge
• Civic and social impact companies

Somos un grupo de ciudadanos que colaboramos para trabajar temas de caracter civico mediante la implementación de la tecnologia.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Reimagining Caribbean Society in the Digital Age

• Civic and social impact companies

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks and coalitions

Our mission is to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations
• Civic and social impact companies

A project to create an index of democratic quality

• Evaluate impact

The All-In-One platform for citizen-centric campaigns

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• SMS tools

With thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, TICTeC has expanded from an annual conference into a year-round programme of activities and events: TICTeC Labs

• Conferences
• Socialize online

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation's compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation, curated by OPSI and our partners around the world

• Civic tech catalogs
• Fieldwide resources
• Design

Express your opinion on social issues that matter to you by voting on our consultations. Together – citizens, organizations, companies – let's set our priorities to make a change through concrete actions!

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making