Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs

Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE) is a network of individuals and organizations committed to instituting a culture of good governance and public accountability in Nigeria through active citizenship

• Watchdogging and transparency

Croatian media specializing in fact checking, that is, verifying the factual accuracy of claims in public space.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Shared Nation is a new form of civic engagement that allows thousands of people to pool resources and make collective decisions in order to have a big impact on global issues.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

makesense inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build an inclusive and sustainable society together.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Was a global federation for civic tech with reusable components for projects

• Graveyard
• Partner networks and coalitions

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Parlamento 2030 es una innovadora herramienta que rastrea, reúne y ofrece la información sobre la actividad del Congreso de los Diputados español relacionada con los Objetivos de Desarrollo Sostenible.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Code for Jersey City is a nonpartisan, civic-tech, volunteer community group that collaborates with local government and community partners

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

a data-driven online tool that to allows us to quickly and easily estimate the economic cost of Internet disruptions

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Purpose is a global social impact agency and social movement incubator - advancing the fight for an open, just, and habitable world.

• Civic and social impact companies

The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

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

Tracking French Presidents' promises.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

Our pro bono teams of data scientists and engineers harness the power of data and technology to help nonprofits, government agencies, and academic institutions have greater impact on the communities they serve

• Civic data
• Pro bono and volunteer

This ICT4D Guide is a free and open guide to help anyone who wants to make a positive social impact with technology's help.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

• Data schemas and standards

The Center for Civic Education is a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational corporation dedicated to promoting an enlightened and responsible citizenry committed to democratic principles and actively engaged in the practice of democracy in the United States and other countries.

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Changing how public value is imagined, practiced and evaluated to tackle societal challenges.

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

Instituto Update is an institute of intelligence and technology that works to strengthen the ecosystem of political innovation in Latin America.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.

• Climate action
• research

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Facebook’s new “proactive detection” artificial intelligence technology will scan all posts for patterns of suicidal thoughts, and when necessary send mental health resources to the user at risk or their friends, or contact local first-responders.

• civic features
• suicide prevention
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Evaluate impact

Progressive HackNight is a bi-weekly gathering of coders and creatives, makers and doers, to foment and inspire action. We use our collective talents and abilities to push forward pro-social change in benefit of the common good.

• partisan

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Preteckt studies vehicle data from buses to predict system failures at least 48 hours before the Check Engine light is activated and the bus must be removed from service. Preteckt’s insights have the potential to reduce time spent on maintenance, prevent service disruptions and reduce fleet costs.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

crypto governance

• Blockchain

Tracking Donald Trump's Campaign Promises. It is a project by the fact-checking organization Politifact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

IDEO is a global design company. We create positive impact through design.

• Civic and social impact companies

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

O Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio estuda o impacto e o futuro da tecnologia no Brasil e no mundo.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Get the facts before you vote.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Our trusted network of actions makes it easy for users to find great content that is personalized to their interests, and for them to track the impact they have made.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

To raise a new set of civic tech leaders that transform governance

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

The Transformative Media Organizing Project links LGBTQ and Two-Spirit organizers, media makers, and tech-activists across the United States.

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Social impact design firms

Responsible Innovation COMPASS is an EU-funded project that supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from emerging technology industries to manage their research, development and innovation activities in a responsible and inclusive manner.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Public School empowers government organizations to become more impactful problem-solvers.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Aspiration’s mission is to connect nonprofit organizations, free and open source projects, philanthropic funders and activists with strategic frameworks, technology solutions, digital practices and data skills that help them more fully realize their missions.

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

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

A game of forecasts and action

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification