The California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

• STEM

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

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

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

A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Civic Commons Wiki was a collaborative encyclopedia documenting best-practices and open standards for file formats, APIs, agile development processes, open source software, and supporting policies and licenses in the civic sector.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

Applying Bain Capital’s value-added approach to impact investing by building great companies, maximizing their financial potential, and scaling their social and environmental impact.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.

• Wikipedia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Plattform für Social-Media-Benchmarking und Social-Media-Analyse von gemeinnützigen Organisationen (NPOs), Politik, Kultur und Verwaltung.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

The Digital Service Standard is a set of best-practice principles for designing and delivering government services. It helps digital teams to build services that are simple, clear and fast.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

SeeSay2020.com was an online tool that allowed voters to report instances of misinformation, voting machine issues, polling place wait times, and more, with the goal to attract media and legal attention to verified, ongoing issues in real time.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

It tells of the global impact of online censorship and shows how fake news and hatred are disseminated and strengthened by the social networks.

• films
• free speech

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Smart donation form that embeds directly to your website or as a pop-up.

• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech
• Fundraising tools

Create your own (fake) news empire by playing Fake It To Make It, a simulation-style, social-impact game about how fake news is created and distributed for a profit.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Building Free Technology Tools for We, The People

• apps

• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

An easy-install kit to help commercial buildings cut energy costs.

• buildings
• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Graveyard
• Smart Cities and sensors

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

• curricula
• women
• Gender Equality

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

Unlock Collective Action

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

The European AI Fund is a philanthropic initiative to shape the direction of AI in Europe

• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding
• Emerging tech

Demagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

• Petitions

The Democratic Principles for an Open Internet have been primarily designed for citizens and civil society organizations in fragile and emerging democracies, who are new to the digital rights space, are beginning to engage more regularly online, and who may be more likely to encounter deliberate internet disruptions as a result of government interference.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Subscribe to curated findings and actionable knowledge from The Living Library, delivered to your inbox every Friday

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Newsletters

Formerly Code for San Francisco, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Robot Lawyer Lisa works with you and another party to generate a mutually-satisfactory Non-Disclosure Agreement without involving human lawyers

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Design

Fathom text analysis has transformed 25M+ open ended responses into actionable insights for leading agencies and brands.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Surveys & polling

De Blasio Administration Launches NYCx to Stimulate Economic Growth, Create Jobs and Solve Big Challenges Through New Technologies

• Adjacent Fields
• Challenges
• Foundational layers

O Nossas impulsiona o ativismo solidário e democrático no Brasil

• Participatory democracy
• Organize campaigns
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The conference will connect leaders and practitioners to explore how non-profits are adapting and excelling in an increasingly data-driven world.

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

What if Tech said

• campaigns

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing

Alaveteli instance for Romania

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

At the Data DiscoTech young people learned about what data is, unique ways to create data visualizations, and how to collect and analyze data.

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Today, Seabourne is advancing the state of the art for data integration, consolidation, and visualization tools.

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

The BU/MIT Student Innovations Law Clinic (SILC) is a free and confidential legal service for students at MIT and BU who seek legal assistance related to their research, advocacy, and creative projects.

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Forms
• Civic and social impact companies

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies

If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech