Spotlighting Illegal Transfers to Curb Corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Social and financial connections

This course will provide you with skills to develop an applied understanding of how to use technological platforms to enhance the interface between government and citizens in the delivery of services.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Courses

What is your city doing to upgrade informal settlements?

• informal settlements
• housing
• city

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

Civil society organization craving for improved government, political parties, CSOs and businesses accountability with the introduction of reliable and innovative civic engagement solutions.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media and social media analysis
• Government transparency

Voter information portal for the 2021 Ethiopian election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Villageois 2.0 est une association qui a pour objectif de sensibiliser les citoyens des différentes localités de la Guinée sur les avantages et risques des TIC.

• Citizen Engagement

Find Out Who You Can Vote For

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Find out who is contesting in your Ward

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

We are a civic tech organization fostering courtroom openness, social justice and citizen engagement in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

CheckIT is a flexible, event-based mobile inspection tool designed by VPUU to improve the delivery of essential services in Cape Town’s informal settlements.

• informal settlements

• Issue reporting

Maru is a chatbot that helps you tackle online harassment

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• city

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

The African League of Cyber-Activists and Bloggers for Democracy, commonly known as AfricTivistes, is the union of bloggers and web-activists from the continent and its diaspora to promote and defend democratic values, human rights and good governance through digital means.

• diaspora

• Peer networks

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

Hacking Social Justice Issues

• Civic hackathons

Providing Tools To Build Resilient Democracies.

• Participatory democracy

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

• No poverty
• Life on land

Highlighting modernization initiatives from legislatures around the world

• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Newsletters

New America Chicago is a nonpartisan policy innovation lab based at The Chicago Community Trust.

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Datamuse is a collection of websites, mobile apps, and APIs designed to help people create and communicate more effectively.

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.

Wholly embeddable voter registration, polling place lookup, reminders, absentee, and election date tools for your organization.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place
• Make a plan to vote

Bypass censorship by disguising web traffic. A feature in Tor Browser, Onion Browser, and Orbot.

• free speech

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Deliberation

Find when something was said in a video or podcast with AI-powered SayWhen.us

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

• Open knowledge

Citizen Connect is a non-partisan platform dedicated to helping Americans right, left and center find ways to heal our divides and strengthen this great nation.

• Polarization

This free app includes information on 100 Senators, 50 State Attorney Generals, 50 Governors, 426 Congressional reps by state. And 1,964 State Senators and 5,443 State House Reps.

Starting in the fall of 2023, this fellowship will empower student athletes from across the country to strengthen non-partisan civic participation on their teams, on their campuses, and in their broader communities.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

• students

• Media
• Journalism
• Polarization

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Bridge Alliance members work in diverse areas of practice, all serving the larger movement for healthy self-governance.

• Participatory democracy
• Polarization

We’re reimagining the supply chain of social care for the new era.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Access social benefits
• Bots

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

The Program for Public Consultation was established to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and to conduct public consultations.

Eyebeam artists fellowship

• Fellowships
• Artistic interventions

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

Civic X Syllabus is a roadmap to learning about civic research, civic data, civic tech, and civic design.

• Reading lists

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Civil society research outfits

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

Platform brings workers and communities together to create new, liberatory systems that tackle injustice and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Artistic interventions
• Campaign organizations

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

The Social Practice is an ideologically-driven consultancy based in the US and Europe. We help those working for big change to strategize, communicate, and organize at scale.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations