The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

An Icelandic game for creating a constitution

• Games and gamification

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Games and gamification

"Democracy as a service" voting app

• apps

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

A booklet documenting the use of legislative theater by Smes, a Belgian civil society organization focused on mental health and social inclusion.

• resources

• Artistic interventions

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

A World Bank working paper (2016)

• reports

• Evaluate impact

The City of Warsaw's custom participatory budgeting platform

• Participatory budgeting
• Participatory budgeting programs

The Deliberatorium is a web-based system that combines ideas from argumentation theory and social computing to address this critical challenge

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Deliberation

DevCa is the Caribbean's leading platform for exploring the intersection of digital technologies, today's biggest challenges and the future of the region. The two day Conference and Code Sprint provides a unique opportunity for technologists, organizations, researchers and entrepreneurs across the region to network while using tech innovation to solve some of the region’s biggest challenges.

• Conferences

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

Clean and user-friendly public participation platform to increase citizen engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Neighborhood forums

Chinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices

• WeChat (Weixin)

• Participatory budgeting

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

A dissertation by Lindsay Cole at the University of British Columbia

• Public sector innovation labs

SMSsync is a simple, yet powerful SMS to HTTP sync utility that turns any Android phone into a local SMS gateway by sending incoming messages(SMS) to a configured URL (web service).

• apps

• SMS tools

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

Online check-in style meetup, plus document-based format to support remote and asynchronous gatherings

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Meeting tech

a laboratory for digital governance

• Emerging tech
• Civic apps outfits
• Blockchain

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

The Social Science Research Council's Just Tech Fellowship supports and mobilizes diverse and cross-sector cohorts of researchers and practitioners to imagine and create more just, equitable, and representative technological futures.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Fellowships

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

• Civic data

ODI & ARUP report and call to action

• Climate action
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Reports
• Urban planning

We work with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to shape a social opportunity system that supports and propels the 100 million economically insecure people in the US

• Access social benefits

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Association Civic Tech Europe

• Govtech
• Bots
• Bureaucracy tech

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

• Fellowships
• Design

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

We'll be looking at ways to visualise air pollution in situ and in real time, so people can see the pollution levels on their streets.

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

ZoningHub gives municipalities a new way to post their #zoning regulations online. Big cities or small villages, ZoningHub is easy and accessible. #civictech

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

NewsScore worked as a Browser extension, providing you with context on the news you consume online, as you scroll through your feed. Whether that’s on social media, newsfeed, or any type of online environment.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

VividMaps allowed you to engage your community by mapping local assets, special places, or respond to place-based surveys. Build a collaborative map that anyone can easily access with their smartphones on-the-go, or online from home or work.

• Digital participation platforms
• Graveyard
• Mapping tools

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Incubators
• Decentralization

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

Utility that generates a namecard containing your pronouns and how to pronounce your name

• Diversity & Inclusion

​Democracy Without Borders campaign

• United Nations

• Participatory democracy

Reimagining Caribbean Society in the Digital Age

• Civic and social impact companies

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Transit app for Mexico, WhereIsMyTransport instance

• mass transit
• mobility
• apps

• Mapping tools

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

A Geolocation Technology Company

• Mapping tools

Translated: We, "Civic Tech Saitama," also want to make use of the knowledge and wisdom of "Ichi-dwellers" living in Saitama City to create services necessary for the region and make public services easy to use. To that end, we will make it possible for governments and companies to provide the data and resources necessary for creating services, create a place where various people can gather, and make us "Civic Tech" interesting.

• Civic hacking meetups

A project to create an index of democratic quality

• Evaluate impact

"A collaboration among several street artists and Carol Ott, proprietor of the Baltimore Slumlord Watch blog, the group has painted murals on about a dozen vacant buildings in the city so far this summer."

• housing

• Artistic interventions