The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Organize campaigns

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Visualizing Iran

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

I am Vigilant" is a Tunisian, non-profit, and independent monitoring organization that aims to combat financial and administrative corruption and enhance transparency

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

When the path to social impact is unclear…we help you measure it

• Evaluate impact
• Civic and social impact companies

Fluicity is a community engagement software for public and private entities

• apps
• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech

City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday to provide a framework for dealing with current and future technologies that impact privacy

• city

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Find a job or hire someone

Our mission is to support development actors to better collect, structure, use and open data, while respecting people's privacy and preserving the interests of the nation - through research, advocacy, training, tools and assistance

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

• indigenous

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Citizens creating solutions to improve cities and communities in Belgium

• The People
• Meet the others
• Open knowledge

Totem is an online learning platform on using digital security tools and tactics effectively for journalists, activists, and trainers.

• trainings

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Civic literacy

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Census Reporter provides useful facts about every place in America. Compare places using tables and maps, download data, and embed charts on your site!

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Weather or Not is a simple game designed to introduce the basics of forecast-based humanitarian decisions.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

The World's First Robot Lawyer

• apps
• LGBTQI
• refugees

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

• No poverty

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields

est une agence spécialisée en participation citoyenne basée à Paris, Bonn et Bruxelles. Depuis 1998, nous avons initié ou organisé plus de 1300 dialogues citoyens dans 125 pays

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Probleemgedreven innovatie voor overheden (enzo). Bedenkers van de Fixxx methode voor snelle innovatie die werkt!

• Social impact design firms

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of lobbying activities in the UK.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Detailed, up-to-date and accurate congressional contact and biographic data - and much more.

• Watchdogging and transparency

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

This year at PDF, we’re going to focus on meaningful action and collaboration. This year, PDF will be about plugging you into the process of change-making.

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

Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

A U.S.-based nonprofit, we are both a small, resourceful newsroom with our own reporting team, as well as a global network of reporters and media organizations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world.

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. The project also aims to strengthen the link between the municipality and citizens,

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

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

• User research
• Service delivery

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.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• 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

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