"a platform where citizen activists and other stakeholders, such as app developers and large non-profits, can actively engage on a range of social issues."

• Graveyard
• Civic forums

Southeast Asia Technology and Transparency Initiative (SEATTI) established to hold its key purpose to support civil society organizations that use or intend to use technology and media platforms to empower citizens in their respective countries to hold their public institutions transparent and accountable

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Foundation initiatives

The Panoptykon Foundation arose from the belief that negative social phenomenon should not be ignored, along with the belief that – thanks to knowledge, commitment, and determination – we can change the world around us and make sure that surveillance is curtailed.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Participatory democracy
• Public Private Partnerships

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• United Kingdom (government)

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Co-design

Nesta and Newspeak House announce the Civic AI Observatory (civicai.uk), an initiative to support civic organisations plan and adapt to the rapidly evolving field of Generative AI.

• Newspeak House

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

All about information controls in Azerbaijan

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

We empower changemakers with the knowledge, skills and resources to hold power to account.

• Media
• Funders & donors
• Artistic interventions

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.

• Research and policy centers
• Legal tech
• Academia

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

MAPLE makes it easy for anyone to view and submit testimony to the Massachusetts Legislature about the bills that will shape our future.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Communicating with the government

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) works in more than 100 countries to develop long-term relationships with civil society, governments, and the international community to strengthen civic space.

• Legal tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Nonprofit tech

FHI 360 is a nonprofit human development organization dedicated to improving lives in lasting ways by advancing integrated, locally driven solutions.

debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

An interactive game presenting scenarios to learn about existing and emerging digital safety issues

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Games and gamification

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

Horizontal works with human rights defenders and frontline activists in highly repressive environments–in places where dissent is a crime, where basic freedoms are routinely trampled on. But developing technology that is genuinely empowering is about more than tech, it's about who develops and how.

• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights
• Civic apps outfits

เว็บไซต์ม็อบดาต้าไทยแลนด์ (Mob Data Thailand) พัฒนาขึ้นโดย แอมเนสตี้ อินเตอร์เนชั่นแนล ประเทศไทย และโครงการอินเทอร์เน็ตเพื่อกฎหมายประชาชน (ไอลอว์) เพื่อให้เป็นฐานข้อมูลการชุมนุมสาธารณะที่เกิดขึ้นในประเทศไทย โดยเริ่มบันทึกข้อมูลตั้งแต่เดือนมกราคม 2563 และเปิดให้ทดลองใช้งานตั้งแต่วันที่ 7 สิงหาคม 2563

• Advocacy tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

We create Sustainable Social Impact with Technology

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field.

• racial equity

• Meet the others
• Peer networks
• Merchandise

Boonmee Lab is a design, data, and technology company who will bring meaningful innovation with excellence to the society.

• Social impact design firms
• Civic apps outfits

Développez votre engagement civique grâce aux outils numériques

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Civic data
• Build something
• Data visualization

The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) is a group of leading cybersecurity companies, former U.S. government officials, and top U.S. cyber defense leaders who came together to provide operational cyber defense assistance to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion.

• Ukraine

• Cybersecurity
• Public Private Partnerships

an open-source tool that allows individuals and organizations to centralize and manage reports sent by Tella users, including photos, videos and audios

• Digital security and privacy

Biden-Harris Administration Announces Cybersecurity Labeling Program for Smart Devices to Protect American Consumers

• United States (federal government)

• Hardware
• Regulation
• Trustmarks

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

Ampliando Democracia, un podcast para los que el voto les sabe a poco.

• podcasts

• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

A game to arm people against disinformation

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

Though Black women are at the forefront of some of the most important social justice movements of our time, leading extraordinary initiatives with commitment and creativity, most of the time they are doing so with limited funding.  Recognizing this, we are extending a targeted offer of free tech and data support to Black feminist organizers.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Build something
• Pro bono and volunteer

The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.

• guides

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

The Municipalism Cohort Fellowship is a 12-week online program, beginning on September 16th 2023 and ending December 2nd, that presents radical municipalist theory and practice to grassroots organizers trying to reclaim the right to their cities and self-organize as rebel cities.  

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Fellowships

O coletivo delibera trabalha com uma forma inédita e democrática de atuação da sociedade nas decisões de pautas políticas do país, de comunidades, de cidades e até mesmo de bairros.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Deliberation

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• United States (federal government)

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

Consumer Reports's add-on to the White House's "cyber trust mark" for consumer connected devices

• Digital security and privacy
• Hardware
• Trustmarks

Peer 2 Peer fundraiser for individuals, teams & supporters

• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

A powerful & impactful software that helps manage volunteers and their impact. Signup for a Demo

• Manage volunteers

La solución gratuita e intuitiva para que des tus primeros pasos en la gestión de contactos y donantes

• Nonprofit tech
• CRM

A state-of-the-art, white-labeled, job marketplace solution for governments and nonprofits. Visit Commons.Jobs

• Job board software

The Purpose Platform is a global open source project committed to building multilingual campaigning and organizing tools for social good. Last updated 2015.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Command Line Phone Number Buyer for Twilio

• Advocacy tech
• Peer to peer SMS

Built by experts from the Bernie 2020 campaign, Spoke Rewired is the lowest cost peer-to-peer texting tool on the market.

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Long-running progressive digital organizing group based in the US

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

UN-OCHA's Peer-2-Peer (P2P) Support Project is a tool of the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC)

• United Nations

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Peer networks

Hundreds of campaigns ⁠— from city council races to Bernie 2020 ⁠— rely on Rewired technology and expertise to build political power from the bottom up.

• partisan
• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools