Communicate impact correctly.

• Mapping tools
• Open civic data

Are you working on social change issues in Sub-Saharan Africa? Do injustice, corruption and inequalities in your community motivate your work? Do you use data and technology in your daily work?Apply to be The Engine Room's Matchbox partner!(Lire cet article en français)What is Matchbox?M

• Mapping tools
• Taxpayer receipt
• Fight disinformation

The Political Ad Collector is a tool you add to your Web browser. It copies the ads you see on Facebook, so anyone, on any part of the political spectrum, can see them in our public database.

• extensions
• Facebook

• Whistleblowing
• Benchmarks
• Speech recognition

The Solutions Story Tracker® is a curated, database of rigorous reporting on responses to the world's most pressing social problems.

• Peer networks
• Benchmarks
• AI Auditing

Lifiled offers access to lighting, high-speed internet and educational content using a LED light bulb and Light Fidelity (Lifi) technology

• Data science for social good

Start where you are

• Community-building resources
• Voting and elections
• Maturity Assessment

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

Work4Germany is a 6 months full-time fellowship program for private / non profit sector talents who will work for a German ministry with the goal of modernising working methods and digitising the government from within.

• Circumvention tech
• Incubators
• Data schemas and standards

TICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.

• Social impact design firms
• The People
• Social networks

Formerly Code for San Francisco, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.

• Social networks
• Mapping tools
• Political parties

Benetech Service Net is an open standards data exchange platform that makes it easier to share and maintain information on local social and human services.

• Benchmarks
• Digital Government Units (DGUs)
• Voting and elections

Demo data visualization of an election held with liquid democracy in place

• Phone banking tools
• Benchmarks
• Organize campaigns

Case management software for governments and nonprofits

• Benchmarks
• In-person meetings
• Socialize online

What if Tech said

• campaigns

• Dashboards
• Filter bubble poppers
• Resource matching and sharing

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

• youth
• workshops

• Dashboards
• Tech translators and intermediaries
• Child safety

Today, Seabourne is advancing the state of the art for data integration, consolidation, and visualization tools.

• In-person meetings
• Voting and elections
• Infographics

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Digital peacebuilding
• Benchmarks
• Communicating with the people

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!

• Dashboards
• Filter bubble poppers

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Voting and elections
• Trade groups
• Story tech

Defend Our Movements is a web based clearinghouse of the most up-to-date and useful information about protecting your devices and data—whether on the Internet, through cell phone communications, or in your home or office.

• guides

• Dashboards
• Tech translators and intermediaries
• Watchdogging the media

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• Mapping tools
• Open source developer networks
• Emerging Tech Report Fellowships

The Incidental Emergency Grants respond to urgent needs such as a website or email being hacked, or the theft or loss of sensitive data and equipment.

• Dashboards
• Tech translators and intermediaries
• Mapping tools

Enigma is an operational data management and intelligence company. We place data into the context of the real world and make it connected, open, and actionable.

• Benchmarks
• Mapping tools
• Emerging Tech Report Conferences

Select your state, make sure you're registered to vote, then choose how you're going to vote this year. Built by the Democrats.

• US Election 2020
• partisan

• Benchmarks
• Organize campaigns
• Data integration

Variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa) and the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.

• Mapping tools
• Open civic data

The sustainable foundation for the modern Smart City: Munsoft Spatial ensures that our municipalities have an up-to-date list of all properties keeping the Property Register, Deeds Database, Valuation Roll and Registered Land Parcels in sync automatically, giving you a bird's eye view of the completeness of revenue.

• Whistleblowing

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

• Peer networks
• Dashboards
• Benchmarks

this Slack has over 200 members who identify as “lonely coders,” technologists who are alone or one of just a few folks in their newsroom who work with tech and data.

• Peer networks
• Benchmarks
• Organize campaigns

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• Benchmarks
• Tech talent
• Archives

Meeting people where they already are

• Facebook

• Digital peacebuilding
• Benchmarks
• Courses

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• In-person meetings
• Benchmarks
• Learn about civic tech

Create campaign websites and embed email, call-in, fundraising and social network actions targeting politicians and decision makers anywhere in the world.

• Benchmarks
• Public Interest Tech
• Archives

Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

• research

• Mapping tools
• The craft of organizing
• E-voting and I-voting

Civicbudget is an open source participative platform enabling any organization, public or private, to launch a consultation process.

• Phone banking tools
• Benchmarks
• Constitutions

When conversations are held in public, everyone’s accountable

• Benchmarks
• Archives
• Building in the private sector

A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData

• Whistleblowing
• Benchmarks
• Community-building resources

Global Fishing Watch is a collaboration among SkyTruth, Oceana, and Google to map and measure fishing activity worldwide using data from the Automatic Identification System (AIS), a ship-tracking system used by large fishing vessels.

• Mapping tools
• Media
• Public Private Partnerships

The United States Digital Service is transforming how the federal government works for the American people. And we need you.

• United States (federal government)

• Mapping tools
• The craft of organizing
• E-voting and I-voting

innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

• Mapping tools
• Open source developer networks
• Boycott or buycott

Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization

• Trade groups
• Policy simulators

free public access portal to more than 6.4 million state and federal court decisions encompassing 360 years of American case law

• Whistleblowing
• Benchmarks
• No-code

A new initiative from the Tech Talent Project and AnitaB.org to bring 10,000 technologists into the public sector across state, local, and federal government by the end of 2021

• Incubators
• User research groups
• Environmental data

A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting

• Peer networks
• Benchmarks
• Constitutions

Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

• Gender Equality
• women's health

• Phone banking tools
• Machine learning analytics

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

• Social networks
• Mapping tools
• Political parties

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

• Your Priorities

• Digital peacebuilding
• Phone banking tools
• Benchmarks

Code for Nashville is Nashville's Code for America Brigade. We are volunteers who collaborate with Metro government to promote open data and build civic apps.

• Social networks
• Mapping tools
• Political parties

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Voting and elections
• Newsletter tech

Data to understand who is working in a given region and what are their assets; this can improve outcomes for many applications, at multiple scales.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Election oversight

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• In-person meetings
• Benchmarks
• Organize campaigns