Research with Code for America on CalFresh, by Donald Moynihan, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, and Julie Sutherland finds "hard evidence on the barriers administrative burdens pose."

• research

• Peer-reviewed research
• Access social benefits

Solar Ear manufactures low cost, solar rechargeable and environment friendly hearing aids so you can hear perfectly again. Our products are manufactured by deaf workers with high quality components. FIND YOUR HEARING AID

• Deaf

• Hardware

Grassroots fundraising with NFTs

• Campaign tools
• Fundraising tools
• Blockchain

The public-private initiative supports Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New York City.

• Govtech
• Fellowships

Was peer to peer SMS

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Reporters’ Lab is a center for journalism research in the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University. Our core projects focus on fact-checking, but we also do occasional research about trust in the news media and other topics.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• city
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

• resources

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Our goal is to provide multiple independent data sources allowing everyone to reach their own conclusions on what will happen in the 2020 elections.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

At Nava, we work with government agencies to provide digital services that are simple, accessible, and effective for all. Now, a supermajority of eligible employees have come together to form our union, Nava United, which is affiliated with the Office and Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU) Tech Workers Union Local 1010.

• labor

• Civic tech unions

We're a nonprofit fundraising platform for campaigns and organizations and the small-dollar donors who support them

• Decade-Plus Club

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Turn your online outrage into offline action

• resources
• trainings

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• The People

We, the workers of Code for America, are proud to announce that we are unionizing.

• labor

• Civic tech unions

4Facts is a tool that allows you to easily evaluate the credibility of your posts by commenting and flagging problems encountered in various articles. Check the facts, compete with the pros, and raise your media literacy!

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A community of experienced Americans determined to change the world for the better.

• seniors

• Campaign organizations

Ghidul complet al alegerilor parlamentare din 11 decembrie. Compară aici candidații la alegerile parlamentare, programele de guvernare si orientarile ideologice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Tools to build a movement

• Decade-Plus Club

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• The People

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Civil society campaign to discuss ethical limits in the use of new technologies for electoral purposes.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

A Feminist AI Research network that gathers a cohort of social scientists, economists, and activists, side by side with data, machine learning and computer scientists to discuss how to fix the system and leverage AI for women’s rights.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

The Floods Alert is a pilot platform currently available only in Portuguese that informs on the risks of flooding of rivers in the Amazon region.

• floods

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Tech for public challenges

A2J Author aims to improve access to justice for people who represent themselves. The service hosts simplified legal information and resources created by legal professionals.

• The Tech
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

La Academia de Innovación Política es una plataforma que busca generar espacios de formación virtuales y presenciales para la transferencia y co-construcción de conceptos, prácticas, metodologías y herramientas de gobernanza democrática en los escenarios actuales.

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

• The People
• Graveyard
• Meet the others

Start a petition with one of the UK's largest campaign organisations. People power change

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Resources and leads for investigating algorithms in society

• guides

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Govtech

This tool kit, developed by a national workgroup of civic data stakeholders, aims to support data sharing and integration done well.

• guides
• racial equity
• toolkits

• The Tech
• Civic data

#SelfCare is a free, simple, and beautiful AI companion for joy, self-connection, and hope.

• apps

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

ActionSprout makes it easy to find curated content, schedule posts, manage Facebook ads, and create donations and petitions to grow your following!

• commercial

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

We want AI to benefit the world, so we must be thoughtful about how it’s built and used

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Tactical voting against the Tories.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Weil Transparenz Vertrauen schafft

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Govtech

Build your virtual foundation. Support the causes you care about.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

committed to fact-checking in a fair, transparent and non-partisan manner.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

An independent research institute with a mission to ensure data and AI work for people and society.

• The People
• Research and policy centers

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

• apps
• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Single Stop is an online screening tool that can quickly link students to federal, state, and local aid, with questions about household size, income, and location.

• Decade-Plus Club
• Robin Hood Foundation
• students

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

• Gender Equality
• trainings
• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

A Freedom of Information conference hosted by mySociety

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• The People

This site is an effort of City of Paris to provide a budgetparticipatif.paris-like website to help other cities to get their own participatory budgeting process.

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting tools

Focuses on the topics of “digital transformation” and “innovation for democracy”

• Funders & donors

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

A bold reassessment of "smart cities" that reveals what is lost when we conceive of our urban spaces as computers, by Shannon Mattern

• books
• city

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Books

This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.

• guides
• urban planning

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech