The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

• videos

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

Municipal Money is a web-based mobile responsive tool developed to provide the public with municipal financial data.

• Budget explorers

MobLab enables global campaigners to build a more just, peaceful, and sustainable world by equipping them with strategies, tools, tactics, and partners.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Digital literacy

The Lab uses scientific insights and methods to test and improve policies and provide timely, relevant, and high-quality analysis to inform the District's most important decisions.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Qriously has reimagined polling through the use of programmatic survey methodology and has achieved far more representative and accurate samples than traditional polling.

• Surveys & polling

The Tea Party movement was an American fiscally conservative political movement within the Republican Party that began in 2009.

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Civic maps

Amandla.mobi is a platform that aims to "turn every cellphone in South Africa into a democracy tool" by using Whatsapp, SMS, USSD, Web and social networking to run multi-issue and multilingual campaigns so that people can connect and call for accountability on various matters.

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

One of South America's leading campaign and tech organizations

• trainings
• People Powered

• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits
• Campaign organizations

We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Pro bono and volunteer

Heatmap of partner and peer networks across the US

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Data governance

TOOLS TO POWER MOVEMENTS

• Organize campaigns

Expanding Training on Data and Technology to Improve Communities

• workshops

• Indicators
• Workshops

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Die Petitionsplatform von Campact

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The New York Times asked officials in every state and the District of Columbia about their reporting processes and what share of votes they expect to be counted by noon on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Here’s what they said to expect.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

Fund projects that make local places better. Millions in matchfunding available. Crowdfund a project idea on Spacehive now.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"A tool to help Democratic campaigns sift through data on hundreds of millions of people across the U.S....It will help campaigns decide who to call, text, email and target with digital advertisements during this contentious and unprecedented election year and beyond."

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Preteckt studies vehicle data from buses to predict system failures at least 48 hours before the Check Engine light is activated and the bus must be removed from service. Preteckt’s insights have the potential to reduce time spent on maintenance, prevent service disruptions and reduce fleet costs.

• mass transit
• mobility

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

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

We provide an easy-to-use, modern-era database with voter files for each of the fifty states.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Social impact design firms

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Refreshingly easy-to-use fundraising software and tools for nonprofits looking for a complete fundraising solution to support their mission. Cultivate donor relationships and generate new supporters, while saving time and raising more money. Network for Good makes fundraising simple for you.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations

• partisan

• Civic and social impact companies

Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants…

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

Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally accessible.

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

Make your city better

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

The aim of the tool is to help Lithuanian citizens to understand how courts and judges work in their country. Transparency International chapter

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

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

An anthology of visionary science fiction and speculative fiction written by organizers and activists.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Create a charitable gift registry with your favorite nonprofits and invite your friends and family to donate.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Caminos de la Villa es una plataforma de acción ciudadana que permite acceder de manera sencilla a la información vinculada con los procesos de urbanización en las villas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y ver de qué manera se están llevando adelante. ¡Sumate!

• Engagement tech
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Örömmel tudatjuk, hogy – a K-Monitor webes felületének közelgő megújulásával szinkronban – a mai naptól elérhető a K-Monitor új okostelefonos alkalmazása

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency