Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

A Global Network of People Using Mobile Technology for Social Impact

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

Horizon State is about unlocking the power of communities to drive organisations forward.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections

Avaaz mobilizes instant campaigns to address crises happening anywhere on earth, and to close the gap between the world we have the world most people everywhere want. Join the movement now.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

Tired of media reports of fundraising and poll results instead of policy issues? At OnTheIssues.org, you can see the view of every candidates on every issue.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

A compendium of companies focused on, making a difference in, and selling to state and local government agencies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

From websites, meetings, to online forms and payments, the easiest, most cost-effective way to launch and manage all aspects of your digital government operations.

• city
• Wordpress
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system

• land

• Predecessors

Mic covers news, opinion, reviews and analysis around arts, entertainment, celebrity, LGBTQ, social justice, police brutality, dating, sex, feminism, body positivity, space, innovation, climate change.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Hiring people from the bottom of the pyramid to complete digital work - SamaHub is Samasource’s training data annotation platform used to manage the entire annotation lifecycle. The platform ensures high-quality, human-powered training data and validation for world leading AI teams.

• Decent work and economic growth

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Smarter choices for a better world

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Digital Trust for Places & Routines (DTPR) is an open-source communication standard to increase the transparency, legibility and accountability of digital technology in the built environment.

• place-based
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

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

Awethu puts power in your hands. This is your space to run campaigns about issues affecting the Black majority of South Africa, particularly women. If you have an idea to make your community or the world, a better place for Black women, awethu can help you make it a reality.

• Advocacy tech

Civic tech projects can aim at changing citizen’s behaviours. Zlato from South Africa is a digital platform which rewards positive behaviour inside communities thanks to a digital currency which can be used to purchase local products, from clothes to haircuts.

Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed for the Taiwanese government to demonstrate its emphasis on open-source data, data utilization, and practice innovation to address the needs of the country in social innovations

• g0v

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The Rules have developed a method and toolkit to help social movements bring about narrative and structural change. We call it Culture Hacking.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

#WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes

• diabetes

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Voting works wants to restore trust and faith in the electoral process while also battling the risk of election interference from hackers

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

By using the power of Ethereum, distributed networks and crowdfunding, we are building a system that will reward people who help surface the truth.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Make a small donation and this group will mail voter registration forms to unregistered voters in that state.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Personal Democracy Forum CEE is a unique space where the enthusiasm for technology is supported with meaningful debates on its role in the contemporary world.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Helping people raise their voice and those who serve them to listen and respond better

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The wiki for local government innovation ✨

• wikis

• Peer networks
• Socialize online
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

At TargetSmart, we make data better every day. And making better data helps our clients make the right decisions, define their audiences more intelligently, and communicate in a more impactful and cost-effective way.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Impact Hub Harare prides itself for being a catalyst of social impact.

• Hubs

WeVolunteer is for DOers who want to change the world!

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Astrea Justice is human rights remedy mobile app that is being used in Zimbabwe and has the potential of being scaled into other countries. It comes along with functions aimed to empower citizens to demand good governance, observance of human rights, accountability, inter alia.

• human rights

• Justice tech

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

• methodology
• reports

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Building inside government

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Somos uma união de coletivos formados por mulheres, pessoas negras e LGBT+ com o objetivo de diminuir a distância entre eleitoras/es e candidatas/os comprometidas/os com os direitos sociais, civis e políticos da população.

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A cross-government programme to accelerate the release and reuse of open government data to maximise the value of that data.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Peer networks

Where journalism meets data

• guides
• handbooks
• trainings

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Below is a listing of all the public mailing lists on lists.hackerspaces.org. Click on a list name to get more information about the list, or to subscribe, unsubscribe, and change the preferences on your subscription. To visit the general information page for an unadvertised list, open a URL similar to this one, but with a ‘/’ and the list name appended.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A collaborative that will provide an active, authoritative resource for municipal leaders to navigate emerging privacy issues, share practical guidance, and promote fair and transparent data practices

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

To strengthen the topic of freedom of information as a whole by transparently depicting the inquiry and response process.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Best in class P2P texting and calling tools to help you reach your audiences at scale.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Communicate with your supporters, constituents, parishioners or customers where they want to hear from you: text.

• The Tech
• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS

Watchout is dedicated to lower the threshold of civic participation so that more can understand and engage in our political processes to make Taiwan a better nation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

• racial equity
• trainings

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

• city
• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

El programa per a la Digitalització Oberta: Programari Lliure i Desenvolupament Àgil de Serveis de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona defineix el procés de canvi profund i progressiu de la manera en que la ciutat oferirà els seus serveis a la ciutadania en els propers anys.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Build With is a training, facilitation, and consulting practice led by Laurenellen McCann.

• trainings
• workshops

• Civic and social impact companies
• Co-design