Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities

• anti-trafficking

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Concise civic engagement research summaries

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• News and blogs

76engage is an online platform that strengthens the bonds between citizens and public institutions through meaningful public engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Narrative tech

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Ideation

Participatory budgeting platform in Ukraine

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

Divao aims to build a CivicTech toolbox with a focus on public discourse, group decision-making, and civic collaboration.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation

• Games and gamification
• Group decision making
• Deliberation

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!

• Artificial Intelligence
• Accelerators
• Machine learning

A campaign to convince US Congress to adequately fund election administration

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The Beneficial Ownership Data Standard enables transparency by providing a solid conceptual and practical framework for collecting and publishing beneficial ownership data, resulting in data that is interoperable, more easily reused, and of higher quality.

• Data schemas and standards
• Consumer watchdogging

The Change.org Foundation oversees two mutually supporting organizations: (1) Change.org Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a wholly owned corporate subsidiary, and (2) Change.org Programs, the charitable activities of the Foundation.

• Organize campaigns

Founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, Unfinished "works to strengthen our civic life in the digital age."

• Decentralization

Finally. A platform made for Local Progressive Campaigns

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers
• Peer to peer SMS

Greenfly is the leader in digital media monetization. The Greenfly software platform empowers organizations to collect, organize and distribute digital media to partners and advocates to build awareness on social media, increase loyalty and drive revenue growth.

• Organize campaigns
• Social media
• Creators and Influencers

Our online self-service platform helps campaigns maximize the fundraising & visibility benefits of a merch store, without incurring any of the hassles or costs of existing solutions.

• Organize campaigns
• Fundraising tools
• Merchandise

"TechPresident was a nonpartisan political website founded by Andrew Rasiej and Micah Sifry with the idea of tracking how the Internet is impacting U.S. political campaigns. It was launched on February 12, 2007 to monitor the United States presidential election of 2008." (Wikipedia)

• Graveyard
• News and blogs
• Predecessors

The U.S. Digital Corps is a two‑year government fellowship to launch your career at the intersection of technology and public service.

• United States (federal government)

• Govtech
• Fellowships

Trusted by campaigns of every size, NGP VAN's award-winning websites and industry-leading organizing, fundraising, compliance, and digital tools have elected thousands of Democrats to local, state, and federal office. Nearly every Democrat running for office is powered by NGP VAN. 

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Community is about trust and sharing. Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.

• The People
• Get funding
• Nonprofit tech

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Data map of Uber and Lyft in San Francisco

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Maldita.es presenta la primera aplicación móvil capaz de avisarte cuando entras en una web con desinformación // a mobile application to fight against misinformation and promote transparency through the confirmation of facts and journalistic techniques

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Basic 'About' page pointing to the network's mailing list and events and Slack

• g0v

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Support your favorite cause or campaign Anytime, Anywhere

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Machine learning software that scans Ukrainian government procurement contracts for signs of corruption

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Advocacy tech

Grab, a ride-hailing platform in Southeast Asia, and the World Bank are developing free, open-source tools that translate Grab’s driver GPS data into traffic statistics, including speeds, flows, and intersection delays.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Ezolwaluko is a provincial Web platform that serves as database for initiates

This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

It provided an easy way for constituents to sign up to hear from their MPs, and a simple online forum for discussion.

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic tech catalogs
• Socialize online

Smart growth is a way to build cities, towns, and neighborhoods that are economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable.

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

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware

Our vision is to transform the way we learn, play, work, and live to create the society in which we want to live.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

a civic technology platform, which aims to raise awareness and sensitize citizens to play their roles well in the promotion of Peace, Union and Social Cohesion.

• Citizen Engagement

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Soofa makes smart, social, and sustainable technologies for cities and communities. We’re revolutionizing the way we communicate in cities.

• public space

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Incidental Emergency Grants respond to urgent needs such as a website or email being hacked, or the theft or loss of sensitive data and equipment.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

CIGI builds bridges from knowledge to power by conducting world-leading research and analysis to offer innovative policy solutions for the digital era.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Emerging tech

The Ministry of Health (MISAU), in fulfilling its mandate to provide health services to all Mozambicans, has drawn up the Strategic Health Sector Plan (PESS) 2014-2019 with a view to “helping all Mozambicans, especially target groups vulnerable, to enjoy the best possible health, at an affordable cost

• Access social benefits

CivVic Labs brings government and startups together to solve public sector challenges and deliver better outcomes for Victorians.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

RightsCon is the world's leading event on human rights in the digital age.

• human rights

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

ePaństwo Foundation's aim is to develop democracy, open and transparent authorities and civic engagement.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The commission shall publish annually a directory of the computerized information produced or maintained by city agencies which is required by law to be publicly accessible.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Nyaaya’s platform provides comprehensive information on various legal topics in an accessible and simple language,covering aspects of the law that the public interact with in their daily lives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy