To help level the playing field, CDM created Contratados, a platform launched last week to let migrant workers share Yelp-style ratings and reviews of their experiences with different recruiters and employers.

• labor
• migration

• Watchdogging and transparency

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• Hardware
• COVID

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

• city
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

The Land Access Neighborhood Development (LAND) mapping tool visualizes the distribution of local institutional and government-owned vacant, as well as underused properties.

• housing
• public space
• land

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

BLACK AND LATINX WOMEN FOUNDERS + THEIR BIG IDEAS AND HIGH GROWTH COMPANIES + OUR TRAINING, NETWORK, AND ACCESS TO FUNDING = SOMETHING THE STARTUP WORLD HAS NEVER SEEN BEFORE

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• COVID
• Open internet

Citizens monitor. Everyone wins.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

WindyGrid is a computer application, designed for City personnel, that makes Chicago’s big data easily and strategically accessible in one place.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This project maps and measures the geographies of information on the Internet.

• Adjacent Fields
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Report Projects

At the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation, we work together with communities in education and entrepreneurship to create uncommon solutions that empower people to be uncommon, take risks, achieve success and give back to society.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A biotech makerspace located in a rural community.

• Hubs
• Citizen science
• Open science

Front Porch Forum is a free community-building service in Vermont.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government

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

Code for Tucson is the Tucson chapter of the Code for America Brigade. We are a group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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
• Meet the others
• Adjacent Fields

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

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

• books

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic 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

The Datathon, a unique collaboration between nonprofit researchers and data scientists, brought together individuals from the Aspen Institute, Charity Navigator, GuideStar, Urban Institute, Syracuse University, Johns Hopkins University, George Washington University, and American University.

• 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
• Data science for social good

#WeAreNotWaiting to reduce the burden of Type 1 diabetes

• diabetes

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We help residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Holidays

Vote Match is an online voter quiz which matches users to the political party that best represents their views in an election, based on the issues which they select as most important.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census
• United States (federal government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

10 tips to help hiring managers recruit employees

• The People
• Build something
• Find a job or hire someone

An API standard for ride hailing services

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

In a world in which fear and insecurity are being twisted into hate, and inequalities, xenophobia and authoritarianism are on the rise, a renewed municipalist movement is emerging to defend human rights, democracy and the common good. Fearless Cities is the first book written by and for the global municipalist movement.

• books
• city

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

PDX Women in Tech exists to encourage women to join tech and support and empower women so they stay in tech.

• women

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

If you're doing work in technology and development, submit an opportunity or ask how we can help connect you with top candidates.

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

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

• methodology
• reports

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

This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

What Works Cities Certification Is The National Standard Of Excellence For Well-managed, Data-driven Local Government.

• city

• The People
• Evaluate impact
• Certifications

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
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

• city
• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Find great local banks and invest in growing your community. Our interactive map and bank report cards arm you with knowledge you need to make the right choice.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

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

• trainings
• workshops

• Graveyard
• Civic and social impact companies
• Co-design