Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Budget explorers

A transportation operating system for orchestrating, governing, and powering modern mobility.

• streetscape
• mobility

• Govtech
• Urban planning

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Research tools
• Investigative journalism tech

JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

London School of Economics’ media think-tank in collaboration with the LSE’s Department of Media and Communications.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Free online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.

• trainings

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

An AI tool that detects cyber harassment of journalists journalists and environmental activists in Mexico and Brazil on Twitter

• anti-harassment

• Media
• Solidarity networks
• Media and social media analysis

The JournalismAI Fellowship Programme is a free online initiative that brings together journalists and technologists from media organisations worldwide to explore innovative solutions to improve journalism via the use of AI technologies.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Journalism

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

A game where players help researchers map the human brain

• Media
• Games and gamification
• Open science

In an era of corporate surveillance, artificial intelligence, deep fakes, genetic modification, automation, and more, law often seems to take a back seat to rampant technological change.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.

• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

Website that shows you all the information other websites can glean when you visit them

• Adjacent Fields
• Cybersecurity
• Digital literacy

In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.

• cities

• Govtech
• Peer networks

This toolbox provides support to local governments that are interested in creating a Citizens Budget. It contains the basic steps in the process and inspiring examples, which fully equips the reader to start developing their own Citizen Budget.

• Govtech
• Budget explorers

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

Welcome to NYC Government’s home for filing Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

This library of final reports from grant funded projects in the deep tech and research space is a great place to find relevant information without having to write it all yourself!

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• cities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

Find your next full-time job or short-term opportunity at a nonprofit or other organization using technology for social change.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

We curate the best technology roles in impact-led organisations across Europe.

• Graveyard
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Peer-reviewed research
• Urban planning
• Satellites

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Salesforce.org's own volunteer management app for the platform.

• extensions
• Salesforce

• Manage volunteers

Salesforce.org provides powerful CRM technology for a global community of nonprofits and educational institutions to help them operate effectively, raise funds, and build more meaningful relationships with those they serve.

• CRM
• Civic teams at tech companies

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• State and regional government technology

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

A guide to comparing data

• guides

• Civic data
• Data visualization

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

PARTIMAP is a free, easy to use and customizable map-based survey for those who believe that affected citizens should have a say in public development projects.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."

• reports

• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

The certificate in Smart Cities is an interdisciplinary program designed for working or aspiring professionals and upper-level students interested in expanding their knowledge-base in the fields of emerging urban technologies, data science, sustainable design, and public-private partnerships.

• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Online courses

Do you have a passion for ensuring technology and innovation benefit society? Join this unique program and become a leader in examining and using technology for social good, whether in the public or private sector or in nonprofit organizations.

• Academia
• Public Interest Tech
• Academic programs

Tecnologies obertes, democràcia participativa i cultura digital

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people
• Hubs

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people
• Academia

A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

• hate speech
• X (Twitter)

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

In this groundbreaking work, Haochen Sun analyzes the ethical crisis unfolding at the intersection of technology and the public interest.

• books

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Books

LocalView is a database co-created by Soubhik Barari and Tyler Simko to advance the study of local government in the United States. It is the largest dataset of local government public meetings — the central policy-making process in American local government — as they are captured on video.

• YouTube

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people
• Archives