Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally accessible.

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

Österreichs erfolgreichste Politik-Orientierungshilfe im Internet

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.

• city
• podcasts
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

A platform for running online participatory budgeting elections

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Tool for creating small online group discussions around an issue, originally created for political campaigning in the US

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

Analysen und Visualisierungen der Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Karlsruhe. Größte Änderungen, Wechselwähler, Erststimmen und mehr Statistiken.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• city

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Latvian "civic-initiatives platform ManaBalss.lv (MyVoice), developed and run by an NGO Foundation of Public Participation, MyVoice."

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Air quality monitor Flow tracks pollutants PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and VOCs. Accurate sensors measure pollution in real time. Flow helps parents, cyclists, runners, commuters or people with asthma avoid pollution and breathe clean air.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

New American Leaders is leading a movement for inclusive democracy by preparing first and second generation Americans to run, win, and lead.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Open source platform for collaborative decisions and e-democracy applications.

• People Powered

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Are you a Democratic woman who wants to run for office? Our candidate training programs prepare women to run and win. Let us help you!

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Build a modern movement with The Groundwork, a community engagement platform for nonprofits and social enterprises.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Requesting data of public interest in just a few clicks: KiMitTud helps you to easily and transparently request data of public interest from any state, municipal or other public institution that participates in the running of the state or spends public money.

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

Reported.ly wrapped up in August 2016 but during its brief yet impactful run, its international team of journalists surfaced breaking news and reported on human rights and social justice issues through the expansive lens of social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Startnext ist die größte Crowdfunding-Plattform in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz für Projekte von Gründern, Erfindern und Kreativen. Entdecke neue Ideen oder finanziere dein Projekt!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial entities was to go to a special reading room in Washington, DC, or to pay private information services.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Legal tech

Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

RHoK Australia runs weekend hackathons in summer and winter every year

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Oradea City Report este o aplicaţie pentru telefonul mobil sau tabletă, gratuită, simplă şi intuitivă, care permite cetăţenilor cu spirit civic să transmită diverse sesizări şi incidente către Primăria Oradea şi operatorii serviciilor publice locale (Compania de Apă Oradea, Oradea Transport Local, Termoficare Oradea, Poliţia Locală Oradea, RER Ecologic Service).

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

CITE in Zimbabwe and Code for Africa have partnered to make Outline from Jigsaw available to news organisations and CSOs. It means VPN can be rolled out on their own servers to connect to the internet and keep communication private and safe.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

Our goal is to bring our diverse networks into more effective coordination, for the duration of this crisis and beyond.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Start a new political campaign and begin crowdfunding in minutes. Support candidates and causes you agree with. Crowdpac is your home for impacting politics.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Building Free Technology Tools for We, The People

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

The Civic Commons Wiki was a collaborative encyclopedia documenting best-practices and open standards for file formats, APIs, agile development processes, open source software, and supporting policies and licenses in the civic sector.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

• Petitions

The online voting software used by millions around the world

• Bureaucracy tech

The knowledge hub for start-ups and SME’s

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Darcy will allow everyone to run their own federated social media instance – without having to worry about technology, moderation or legal compliance, because Darcy will take care of that for you – if you want!

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps

• Engagement tech

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• COVID Media Projects
• COVID

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

TLC Data Hub offers users a new and convenient location to access and visualize taxi and for hire industry data.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We convene, connect, and support the next generation of civic leaders.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

The basic idea of the game is to end the monopolistic practices of the 3-company-combinations of the game board.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Finanzdaten aus dem öffentlichen Sektor in Österreich

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

• women

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Shared, open cross-government standards make services better for users and cheaper to run.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

Many communities use Facebook Groups as their online message board

• commercial
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Support civic projects with tech

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy