Kijiji Yeetu is a smart village platform that offers a unique ecosystem for activating our villages’ resources, knowledge, inspiration into viable development opportunities in 47 counties in Kenya, East Africa and beyond the world.

• towns

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Board games

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Ideation

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard enables transparency by providing a solid conceptual and practical framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership data, resulting in data that is interoperable, more easily reused, and of higher quality.

• Data schemas and standards
• Consumer watchdogging

The Change.org Foundation oversees two mutually supporting organizations: (1) Change.org Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, and (2) Change.org Programs, the charitable activities of the Foundation.

• Organize campaigns

Founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, Unfinished "works to strengthen our civic life in the digital age."

• Decentralization

The easiest way to contact your government

• Govtech
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic tech catalogs

Easily bring people together for important, small-group conversations. Book a live demo!

• Group communication tools

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

"TechPresident was a nonpartisan political website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 2007 to monitor the United States presidential election of 2008." (Wikipedia)

• Graveyard
• News and blogs
• Predecessors

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government
• Activism aggregators

Alidade is an interactive tool that explains to social organisations what to look for when using technology for social change project, Alidade asks the user questions that can help them decide what kind of technology tool would fit with their project

In the spirit of Wikipatterns, this is a collection of patterns and anti-patterns for describing common practices that may help or hinder the conception or design of your civic technology.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

Public Good’s context and action-based approach is the most effective way to engage consumers in your brand.

• The Tech
• Advertising

If you have an interest in data and putting it into action for social good please join us at Data for Good - Calgary.Data For Good is a collective of volunteer do-gooders, who want to use their powers

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Browse resources, connect with other leaders and see practical examples of smart cities approaches that can help your community thrive.

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

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

The WeVote app is a one stop shop to learn about the candidates and your voting rights and responsibilities, act on Election Day by voting or volunteering and share events you plan to attend and materials you have read.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Ballot information

This interactive tool enables users to better understand arrests and the current footprint of policing in the United States.

• criminal justice

• Data visualization
• Justice tech

Even when we don’t know it, artificial intelligence affects virtually every aspect of our modern lives. Technology and commerce will ensure it will impact every society on earth. Yet, for something so...

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

• labor
• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Find Environmental Impact Assessments Near You. And register for alerts in your area.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Service alerts

The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.

• case studies

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Twaweza works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda.

• Budget explorers

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

• guides
• housing
• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital literacy

Beacon makes it easy for you to take action on the issues that you care about.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Hispanic Heritage Fun Fact: a huge chunk of America used to be Mexico, whose influence and contribution to the well-being of the U.S. can be felt everywhere. Which has the most impact?

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

To support the development of tools to study state and regional communication systems

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Oligrapher is a tool for visualizing networks of influence

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Digital Innovation for Social Impact

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Urban Interactive Studio helps communities engage more people in fun and effective ways

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The main goal of CiviCERT is to improve the incident response capabilities of NGOs, journalists and involved citizens all around the world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Trump's not very concerned about accuracy in his tweets — so we will be.

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Put technology at the service of the general interest

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Tech volunteers and activists.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Help out

RNW Media supports local media and impact organizations to master persuasive storytelling techniques and creative formats to create strong narratives on the world’s most pressing issues.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Tracked the first 100 day of Mohamed Morsi's presidency.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Change the face of social impact engagement globally

• maternal health
• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

The Citizen Lab Summer Institute (CLSI) provides a unique opportunity to meet a diverse group of researchers, practitioners, and advocates and develop new and exciting research that addresses pressing questions for the Internet.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

Mannahatta: The Game is a location-based game for the iPhone that maps Manhattan's historical ecosystem onto its modern day streets

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

digital für sozial

• Civic and social impact companies

A Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa

• WhatsApp

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Connecting people to power with their phones

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns