Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

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

Measures for Justice is on a mission to make accurate criminal justice data available to spur reform.

• racial equity
• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Civic literacy

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

ID2020 is a global alliance committed to improving lives through digital identity.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Impactive is an all-in-one digital organizing platform, offering texting (P2P and broadcast), phone banking, relational organizing, and voter registration tools for campaigns, advocacy orgs, nonprofits, unions, and more.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Annenberg Innovation Lab is a curious, creative and committed Think & Do Tank at the University of Southern California’s Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Collect the place-based data you need using our easy mobile tools and web dashboard. Create your own survey or engage around community health, safety, commercial development, blight, historic resources, and more. Quickly export your data for Excel or as a Shapefile.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft
• blind

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Foundational layers

We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone

Using the Behavioral Sciences to Fight Global Poverty and Reduce Inequality

• No poverty

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Lilly Endowment Inc., is a private philanthropic foundation supporting the causes of religion, education and community development. We afford special emphasis to projects that benefit young people and that strengthen financial self-sufficiency in the charitable sector.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Rights x Tech is a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, products and power.

• racial equity
• human rights

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Education innovation has found a new home - Nairobi! There is so much exciting work being done and we're all learning so much - let's find a way to share and support one another! The purpose of the gr

• Quality education

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

An investigative series deploying algorithms to detect copy-paste legislation

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The Langeloth Foundation supports health and racial equity outcomes in order to foster and sustain safe and healthy communities.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

• city
• mobility
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Civic Tech Sweden is a network of people working with technology for the common good and digital tools for community, democracy, and transparency.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Support civic projects with tech

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

The aim of this document is to provide a running record of ‘data harms’, harms that have been caused by uses of big data. The goal is to document and learn from where things have gone wrong.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

Check out the world leading Air Pollution API.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Let’s work together on your broadband project.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

We bring the best of Google to help solve some of humanity’s biggest challenges — combining funding, innovation, and technical expertise to support underserved communities and provide opportunity for everyone.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Startups and social entreprises that are transforming cities around the world through technology.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

WoeLab is a grassroots network of inventors and entrepreneurs who want to build smart city projects or a digital democracy

This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

This site tracks COVID-19 testing data and hospital bed availability over time in the city of Chicago.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• COVID Data Projects

User-friendly justice. With data and technology we co-create high quality justice based on what we need now.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Local Law 49

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Data and Statistics division of Seoul’s metropolitan government analyzed late night call records provided by the Korean telecom KT Company to plan bus routes in a more inclusive manner.

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

ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Be an SF Hero by being prepared for an emergency, getting involved in your community, learning new skills, and more...Your friends will be impressed!

• apps
• disasters

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

We provide software that ensures free speech online

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

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

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Fellowships

We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.

• racial equity

• The People
• Campaign organizations

See contact information and details about Social Coin.

• The Tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Graveyard

Transparencia is a platform for access to administrative documents (subsidies, public markets, etc.) developed by Anticor Belgium

• Alaveteli
• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy

The media platform for the global development community

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards