CommonVC is an impact innovation and startup studio that is run and funded by people passionate about a sustainable future.

• Social impact design firms

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

• peace
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• human rights

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives

Audrey will shares stories of the dramatic transformations underway to upgrade democracy in Taiwan: How they engaged thousands of citizens in bottom-up policy development to solve the Uber problem; A digital media channel where young people are engaging directly with politicians; And how virtual reality is shaping public policy.

This paper shares lessons from Nesta’s research into some of the pioneering innovations in digital democracy which are taking place across Europe and beyond

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• city
• United Nations
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Our first product, Action Button, empowers readers to impact news stories that inspire them—whether by donating, signing a petition or emailing a policymaker. Our users can do more than read headlines, they can change headlines.

• Media
• Graveyard
• News to action

시민 참여, 협력, 자치를 확대하는 시민 플랫폼 (Citizen Platforms)

• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy
• Organize campaigns

Design and deliver a digital government with and for the American public.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

• LINE

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

The challenges of 21st century city-making require innovative methods that incorporate the complexity of today’s rapidly urbanising world. Traditional ways of urban planning and design — top-down and singlehanded — are already making way for a practice of city-making deeply rooted in the collective experience, creativity, and intelligence of growing and increasingly diverse groups of people. This will be crucial in building sustainable urban futures.

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City

Fundraising pages targeted at universities, nonprofits, and civil society orgs

• Fundraising tools

Apax the global private equity advisory firm that owns Bonterra, the umbrella company holding many of the political organizing and fundraising tools in the US.

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

BuzzFeed News has breaking stories and original reporting on politics, world news, social media, viral trends, health, science, technology, entertainment, and LGBTQ issues.

• Media

GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Consul is one of the leading open source citizen participation platforms. It's built on Ruby on Rails and deployed in dozens of cities around the world. It was originally built by the City of Madrid.

• Consul

Municipality & Town Government WordPress Theme

• Wordpress
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Website builder

"I WATCH" is a non-profit and independent Tunisian watchdog organisation that aims to combat financial and administrative corruption and enhance transparency.

We build power for people who want to change the world

• Campaign organizations
• Social impact design firms

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

• Digital literacy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)
• Tech talent

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Open Data is free public data published by New York City agencies and other partners. Share your work during Open Data Week 2021 or sign up for the NYC Open Data mailing list to learn about training opportunities and upcoming events.

L’ESJ Lille, centenaire en 2024, première école de journalisme reconnue par la profession, propose des formations au journalisme de qualité.

• Journalism
• Research and policy centers

The Coalition for Urban Transitions, active from 2016 to 2021, was the foremost initiative supporting national governments to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis by transforming cities.

• city
• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge

• Drones

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities works to make urban sustainability a reality. Through global research and on-the-ground experience, our experts work with city and national leaders in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States to spur action and improve life for millions.

Meeting of the Minds is a global thought leadership network and knowledge sharing platform focused on urban sustainability. Meeting of the Minds brings together leaders from multiple sectors and diverse geographies to share ideas and work together to shape a common agenda

A collection of data-enriched NYC maps for election results, mutual aid groups, official city boundary data, and more.

The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

• mobility
• mass transit
• city

Investing in education, training and skills development by ensuring that ICT is fully and appropriately integrated into education and training at all levels and also establishing educational networks for sharing educational resources and promoting e-learning at all levels; Building capacity of the youth to fully integrate them into the Country’s technological transformation;

• Information & Communication Tech for Development (ICT4D)

Budeshi is a dedicated web platform that links budget and procurement data to various public services using the Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS)

• Open data publishing portals
• Procurement oversight

東京都オープン・ソース・ソフトウェア公開ガイドライン. Contribute to Tokyo-Metro-Gov/tokyo-oss-guideline development by creating an account on GitHub.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Digital transformation

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

• YouTube

• Civic fiction
• Shows and films

Coworking space, accelerator, and economic engine in Lilongwe

• development

• Hubs
• Accelerators

Pew Trusts report: What the changes mean for the millions of people who interact with the civil legal system each year—and what remains to be done

• reports

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Dataphyte is a media research and data analytics organisation with the mission to deploy data tools and technology for the socio-economic development of Nigeria.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Data science for social good

The Nigeria Integrity Film Awards (HomeVida) is a unique platform that provides incentives for young scriptwriters and filmmakers to promote integrity values using film while influencing the wider public.

• Narrative tech
• Awards and prizes
• Story-based campaigns

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Govtech vendors

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• books
• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Books
• Urban planning

We create data and technology solutions for better health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. By working alongside health advocates, governments, local communities, donors, and manufacturers, we provide reliable

• health
• vaccines
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors