Secure messaging, anywhere

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

We help governments, organizations and companies understand and navigate the increasingly complex urban landscape, and work together to create a sustainable and executable vision for the future, fast.

• Social impact design firms

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• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Mapping

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

• youth
• Microsoft

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

We partnered with the Ford Foundation to look at how civil society can strengthen their digital security, what and who is out there to support them, and how they can develop better digital security practices.

• research

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

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

A data collaborative company. Using open source tech & data trusts to enhance impact, inform decisions, & increase equity of opportunity.

• The Tech
• Civic data

Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

Civiciti is a participation platform for continuous democracy. We help citizens, public administrations and organisations around the world discover, discuss and decide on the issues they care about.

• Civic and social impact companies

Odekro began as an open data initiative but it has grown into a national platform which promotes transparency and citizen participation. The site says it sets out to improve social mobilisation, citizen action, and engagement using technology.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Government transparency

BriteHeart's mission is to ENGAGE, CONNECT and EMPOWER citizens for positive change through ARTIVISM. #getcivic

• Artistic interventions
• Organize events

Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

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

Sumbon is an online platform helping donors and non-profits manage their relationship and track the human impact of donations. Global giving just got easier!

• The People
• Graveyard
• Get funding

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Social impact design firms
• Civic apps outfits

Inside Airbnb is an independent, non-commercial set of tools and data that allows you to explore how Airbnb is being used in cities around the world.

• Airbnb

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

This book lists a number of different cases and explains the prospects and development of future platform cooperation ahead of the 2018 Platform Cooperativism Alliance Conference.

• books

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Platform coops

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

• road safety
• speeding
• Vision Zero

• Crowdsourcing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

In 2001, registering or transferring land in Jamaica was an uphill battle

• land

• The Tech
• Govtech

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards

BIG DATA + MAPS + EDITOR

• desktop apps

• Graveyard
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

We help impact ventures from CEE grow their business, providing them with knowledge, skills, access to investors and a pool of committed capital.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.

• The Tech
• Get funding
• Emerging tech

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

• COVID-19

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

It provides an easy to use, do-it-yourself like, Participatory Budgeting platform capable of adapting to the best practices as well as local specificities.

• Participatory budgeting

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

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

Measures for Justice is on a mission to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform.

• racial equity
• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Civic literacy
• Open data publishing portals

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Mapping platforms

Where news inspires social action

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Group leaders set the most important actions of the day, while members use the Amplify app to easily accomplish them and encourage others to do the same.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The PLP 2.0 mobile application allows victims of domestic violence to report violence

• apps
• domestic violence

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Vote at home? Or at uni? An election is coming and it matters where you register. Enter your home and uni postcodes to find out where your vote will make the biggest impact for Labour. Made by Momentum.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Now part of Tech Impact. Helping Nonprofits Make Smart Technology Decisions

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

• Participatory budgeting

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

• cities

• Support civic projects with tech

I'm Resistbot. Text RESIST to 50409 and I'll help you contact your officials.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft
• blind

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

A través de SeamOS, podremos sentar un voto de opinión sobre las propuestas que se presentan en el Concejo de Bogota.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

ODI Summit 2023, 7 November. Free and online. Join the global conversation about data and AI. Discover how data impacts technological developments.

• Civic data
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The Data and Statistics division of Seoul’s metropolitan government analyzed late night call records provided by the Korean telecom KT Company to plan bus routes in a more inclusive manner.

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

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech