With the Beta launch of the Angeleno Account, the City of Los Angeles is building the foundation for a common account to access your City apps.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Identity
• Official Digital Identity Systems

Take on Fake debunks claims you’ve seen or shared online to show you how to stay informed. Host Hari Sreenivasan follows the Internet rabbit hole of misinformation, reading beyond a single headline to find credible sources to uncover the truth.

• Fight disinformation
• Shows and films

A first-of-its-kind effort for community, non-profit, and private organizations to share data with the City to aid in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• COVID Data Projects
• Public Private Partnerships

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

An Airtable of over 200 social change design firms led by BIPoC. Curated by George Aye.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Social impact design firms
• Design

This page provides an overview of open source projects that are developed, commissioned or funded by public administrations in the state of Berlin

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic tech catalogs

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

This powerful tool allows viewers to donate directly on YouTube through the live chat donations or the Donate button, and it’s now available to all YouTube Partner Program channels with more than 10,000 subscribers in the United States, United Kingdom and Canada.

• YouTube

• Civic features

Low cost, mobile air quality and other environmental sensors installed on City vehicles. The City Scanner is a low-cost alternative to traditional methods of collecting environmental data

• air quality
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

The leading news platform on urban mobility and innovation, reaching an international audience of city leaders.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• News and blogs

An ad hoc mission to get American citizens and Afghan allies safely out of Kabul before the American airlift ends.

• Participatory aid

Circular City Studio, a program established with support from NYCEDC, encourages entrepreneurs to reimagine urban environments and help New York City address short, medium, and long term challenges facing our city.

• Climate action

• Incubators

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

Volunteer lawyers and legal aid advocates increasing access to justice From connecting attorneys to those most in need, to creating legal tools to help individuals advocate for themselves, we make the law work for the many and not the few.

• Legal tech
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Resource matching and sharing

OneCity allows developers and businesses to identify, evaluate and compare investment opportunities that align with official spatial strategies.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Urban planning

Documenting the use of defensive urban design in the Greater Toronto Area and beyond.

• city
• place-based
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Archives
• Artistic interventions

A self-directed learning program, adapted from a selective executive education course, intended to support data stewards in creating public value through data collaboration

• trainings

• Civic data

Fielded every two to three years, Listening to Leaders survey captures perceptions and experiences from policymakers in 140 low- and middle income countries over time on a series of topics such as development priorities, donor performance and data uptake.

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Benchmarks

Turkopticon adds functionality to Amazon Mechanical Turk as you browse for HITs and review status of work you've done.

• labor
• Amazon

• Crowdsourcing

Distributing air sensors to volunteer cyclists to map pollution data throughout Lisbon Sensores distribuídos. Cinco dezenas de ciclistas vão andar a medir a poluição atmosférica – Lisboa Para Pessoas

• cycling
• air quality

• Specific campaigns
• Smart Cities and sensors

A Sustainable Internet for All

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• News and blogs

Vote Lab is the innovation and research arm of When We All Vote. It was built to ensure that our voter engagement programs are informed by the best available research and evidence and creates opportunities to drive new experimentation and learning. 

• Voting and elections
• Research and policy centers

Interference Archive is a volunteer-run library, gallery, and archive of historical materials related to social and political activism and movements.

• Archives
• Specific campaigns

Filter and aggregate data to provinces or districts without code or mapping software

• Mapping tools

ADL H.E.A.T. Map is the first-of-its-kind interactive and customizable map detailing hate, extremist and antisemitic incidents by state and nationwide.

• anti-harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• Civic maps

Guatemalan collaborative fact-checking platform with digital training and educational courses, through which journalists can educate themselves on open source intelligence (OSINT), disinformation analysis and digital safety.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Yearbook of International Organizations includes detailed information on c. 73,000 international organizations from 300 countries and territories, c. 41,000 of which are active organizations. Coverage includes intergovernmental (IGOs) and international non-governmental organizations (INGOs). Approximately 1,200 new organizations are added each year.

• Civic tech catalogs

Providing solutions to respect and protect your Digital Rights

• Digital rights

Mozilla Rally is aimed at rebuilding your equity in your data. We allow you to choose how to contribute your data and for what purpose.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Don’t let your opposition take you by surprise. View broadcast data from all 210 media markets and monitor creative messaging and trends in real time. by Advertising Analytics

• Organize campaigns
• Advertising

an AI-powered scientific paper search engine. It provides a one-sentence tl;dr (too long; didn’t read) summary under every computer science paper (for now) when users use the search function or go to an author’s page.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools

An interactive reconstruction of the destruction of a thriving, Black-owned neighborhood that reconstructs a sense of place

• history
• city
• racial equity

• Media

NewsMatch is the largest grassroots campaign to support nonprofit news in the U.S. Since 2016, the campaign has helped raise over $100 million to jumpstart emerging newsrooms and support independent media outlets that produce fact-based, nonpartisan news and information.

• Media
• Get funding
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Deliberation
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Tracking the development and thinking of the newest undergraduate program at UM's Taubman College of Architecture & Urban Planning

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Newsletters

Our accelerator program provides 24 months of customer development, product development, network building, and expert guidance for startups, all in preparation for securing state & local contracts. 

• Govtech
• Accelerators

Access Now defends and extends the digital rights of people and communities at risk. By combining direct technical support, strategic advocacy, grassroots grantmaking, and convenings such as RightsCon, we fight for human rights in the digital age.

• Advocacy tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Campaign organizations

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Issue reporting

A website platform for progressive campaigns.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Website builder

A feminist review of AI, privacy and data protection to enhance digital rights

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Brown Institute’s Local News Lab is a new team of engineers, designers, data scientists, and journalists, working to build AI-powered, open-source products to help support local newsrooms and their businesses.

• Media

Safeguard voters’ rights with data-driven insights. Alloy Protect is an email report that helps election protection groups defend voter rights through transparent, timely access to voter file insights and data.

• Crowdsourcing
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Together we convert your audience into your own community, which supports you to finance your creations sustainably.

• Media
• Fundraising tools
• Creators and Influencers

We are a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative in New York City.

• mobility
• gig workers

• Platform coops

Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Poynter's Factually helps fact-checkers, educators, journalists and citizens get at the truth

• Factchecking
• Newsletters

97th Floor pulled thousands of digital ads, reviewed millions of dollars in ad spend, poured over scores of landing pages, read hundreds of emails, and spent entire days looking at websites, mobile apps, and social media accounts — they even donated $100 to both campaigns to see emails and ad retargeting strategies first-hand.

• US Election 2020

• Specific campaigns
• Advertising

UnBias aims to provide policy recommendations, ethical guidelines and a ‘fairness toolkit’ co-produced with young people and other stakeholders that will include educational materials and resources to support youth understanding about online environments as well as raise awareness among online providers about the concerns and rights of young internet users.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Down for the Cause works to unpack various social issues and highlight the work that is being done by incredible people and organizations. DFTC aims to create a community committed to sustainable social change.

• Podcasts