The GSBI Accelerator is Miller Center’s signature program and is for the highest potential social enterprises we can find. Participating organizations have proven traction and potential to scale their impact dramatically

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

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

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Observatoire citoyen de l'activité parlementaire au Sénat

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

The CYRILLA Collaborative is a global initiative that seeks to map and analyze the impacts of legal frameworks in digital environments by aggregating, organizing, and visualizing distributed legal data through open research methodologies, data models, taxonomies, and databases.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

A digital hub where people determined to change the world can find a job, discover workshops and courses, locate funding, hire the right team, connect with mission-driven companies, share best practices, or learn from others who are using their careers to make an impact.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

TIRE SUA CAUSA DO LUGAR

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Based at the General Services Administration (GSA), OES is a team of interdisciplinary experts that works across government to help agencies build and use evidence.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Open County Initiative is a project within the Devolution Programme implemented by Open Institute together with the Council of Governors

#CredCon is an ongoing two-day hackathon that considers the impact of technology on news and information sources online and explores themes such as trust, reliability, accuracy and credibility.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Climate and social justice movement

• Climate action

• Specific campaigns

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

A collaborative fact-checking project for the Philippines’ 2019 elections bringing together 11 news organizations and 3 universities to counter disinformation and provide the public with verified information

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science

• cities
• mobility

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

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

An online forum for community discussion

• Climate action

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

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
• Funders & donors

The OGP Toolbox is a free software initially developed by Etalab, the Prime Minister taskforce in charge of open data and open government French policy, on behalf of the Open Government Partnership community.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

by @authoritycollective. Do No Harm

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Build Peace is a conference that brings together practitioners, activists, artists and technologists from around the world to share experience and ideas.

• peace

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

We enable leading organisations working in the peace, justice and humanitarian sector to spearhead digital innovations to increase their impact on society.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.

• fintech

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Established in 1993, Joint Venture Silicon Valley provides analysis and action on issues affecting our region’s economy and quality of life.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Loup is a human-centered design and innovation consultancy that helps organizations listen to and learn from the people they serve.

• Social impact design firms

The District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, DC Code §§ 2-531-539, provides that any person has the right to request access to records.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Ruck.us can give you a high-powered, attractive political website in five minutes.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

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
• Civic data
• Govtech

We have compiled and organized more detailed information on specific topics to help operationalize recommendations in the guides and provide links to useful articles, examples and existing evaluation reports we found in our research.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

The Data Justice Lab examines the intricate relationship between datafication and social justice, highlighting the politics and impacts of data-driven processes and big data

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

We’re an ever-expanding and increasingly diverse group of co-conspirators who, mainly, partner with activist groups on creative tactics to further campaigns.

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort to respond to a White House call-to-action to provide electricity, natural gas, and water customers with easy access to their energy- and water-usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Business intelligence for the public sector

• Civic and social impact companies

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Greenpeace activists protest Coca-Cola’s use of climate-changing chemicals at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Brand organizing

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

To specifically break through online rumors, restore the truth, and urge everyone to continue to enjoy life.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Turn helps social impact organisations have personal, guided conversations that improve lives at scale.

City Bureau is a nonprofit civic journalism lab based on the South Side of Chicago. We bring journalists and communities together in a collaborative spirit to produce media that is impactful, equitable and responsive to the public.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

Activists from 15 countries taking on kleptocracy, political violence, technology, and environmental crisis.

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