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.

Operational Excellence in Government is led by Stephen Goldsmith, Director of the Innovations in American Government Awards program and Professor at Harvard Kennedy School

• Govtech

San Francisco Digital Services works with other City departments to improve public services. We use technology to make it easier for people to get things done.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Service delivery

We collect and join datasets together to create a data-driven view of New York City government.

• Civic data

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• city
• United Nations
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

FedScoop is the leading tech media brand in the federal government market

Skaidresnės Lietuvos link! Esame viešosios politikos organizacija, kurios tikslas – įgyvendinti skaidrumo bei antikorupcines iniciatyvas.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

A Open Knowledge Brasil (OKBR), também chamada de Rede pelo Conhecimento Livre, é o capítulo da Open Knowledge Internacional no Brasil.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge

Helping communities create and implement their open data, data governance, and open smart city initiatives

• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups
• Civic apps outfits

NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Open knowledge

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.

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map until November 2009, when young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. We

• Mapping
• Crowdsourcing

• racial equity

Was "a community of non-profit, IT, and media organizations that use technology for better transparency, accountability, and governance in the Central and Eastern Europe region."

• Graveyard
• Civic apps outfits

Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

A mobile app making it easy to report on the work city government is and isn’t doing.

Working towards a corruption-free society

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

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

Citizens Network Watchdog Poland is an independent, apolitical and non-profit organization in the form of a watchdog and think-do-tank organization for the public benefit.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

Located in Los Angeles at the University of Southern California, the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism is a national leader in education and scholarship in the fields of communication, journalism, public diplomacy and public relations.

• Journalism

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

• mobility
• mass transit
• city

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

scout is a new way to browse New York's open data portal.

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

• g0v

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

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

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.

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

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)

We've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Citizen science

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

The Procurement Governance (PG) initiative seeks to improve the effectiveness of public sector processes by entrenching efficiency, accountability, and transparency within Nigeria’s public procurement landscape

• Procurement

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

• books
• city

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Books

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

• Graveyard
• Govtech vendors

Nigerian internet safety project

• anti-harassment

• Graveyard
• Digital literacy

The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.

• Evaluate impact

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
• Digital transformation
• Playbooks and design principles

Now-defunct citizen reporting platform

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies

• guides
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Research into whether legislation achieved its policy goals

• Evaluate impact

by Pew Charitable Trusts

• state

• Connectivity

Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Benchmarks

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

Cette plateforme mise en œuvre par Bruitparif centralise les cartes stratégiques de bruit (CSB) disponibles au sein de la région Île-de-France dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la directive européenne 2002/49/CE.

• city
• noise
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors

PITcases.org is a university platform to help students and faculty find the best ways to make a positive difference in their communities. The website gives detailed information about projects that have come out of PIT classes, as well as reading lists for those interested in teaching such courses.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Public Interest Tech

Banking as a public utility is a proven model worldwide. Public banks keep money local and cut costs by eliminating middlemen, shareholders and high-paid executives.

• Specific campaigns
• Fintech for good