award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Afin de favoriser l’émergence de futurs champions de l’impact positif, GROUPE SOS Pulse participe à l a création, à l a cogestion ou au soutien de programmes d’accompagnement en France et à l’international. Belgique, Bénin, France, Hong Kong, Maroc, Tunisie…

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

una plataforma para activar y canalizar la participación de tu comunidad

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Fine Fixer provides a guided process for users who have been fined by local authorities. Based on the case, it guidespeople on how to fix a fine or determine a course of action in case of a fine.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

• Crowdsourcing

The Redirect Method is focused on reaching those who are actively looking for extremist content and connections. Rather than create new content and counter-narratives, our approach tries to divert young people off the path to extremism using pre-existing YouTube content and targeted advertising.

• extremism
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Protests for a kinder world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Data for Democracy is a community of data people volunteering on social impact projects.

• The People
• Civic data
• Graveyard

European Foundations And Journalists Working Together To Ensure More Effective And Impactful Funding Of Journalism.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Dear Landlord is an interactive app that helps tenants in privately-owned properties to understand their rights andeviction laws. It also helps users generate and review documents such as letters to their landlord or fill out a reviewapplication to the Civil Administrative Tribunal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

We forge partnerships between neighbors who use technology to improve interactions with, and access to, public services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Parcours interactifs, ateliers, conférences, hackathons, journée portes ouvertes etc. mettent en lumière des méthodes originales pensées par des acteurs locaux pour concevoir plus efficacement les politiques publiques et transformer l'administration.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Holidays

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

• framework

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Making innovation in philanthropy easier.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

To learning about current projects and initiatives and brainstorm practical applications or recommendations related to topics.

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

Visuals for Gender is an initiative that seeks to equip citizens, policy makers and Civil Society Organisations to understand gender-based issues using both dynamic and static data visualizations

• Gender Equality

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

• workshops

• Narrative tech
• Story tech

An Android game that provided users with an immersive role playing experience of the 2019 Hong Kong protests

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

We are a home, refuge and resource for people collaboratively shaping a kind, just, inclusive, and prosperous world.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Cloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.

• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Budget explorers

TheyWorkForYou is a website which makes it easy to keep track of your local MP's activities.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Forward is a web app that tracks civic engagement opportunities ranging from town hall meetings, to rallies, to civic art projects throughout the state of Wisconsin.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

Civitech builds solutions for non-profits, candidates, activists, and local/state governments to ultimately improve government services.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system

• land

• Predecessors

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the idea that voting should fit the way we live.

• Civic and social impact companies

The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech