The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

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

Beckton is an open source tool for creating a new group of paying members, but only if enough people agree to join to make it worth while.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Meditect offers an innovative mobile solution which combines blockchain and artificial intelligence to allow pharmacists and patients to scan their medicines and thus ensure their authenticity.

• Good health and well-being

• Tech for public challenges

DonorsChoose.org connects teachers in high-need communities with donors who want to help.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Detailed, up-to-date and accurate congressional contact and biographic data - and much more.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

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

RideShare2vote provides full training for drivers regarding voter laws as well as implementing CDC guidelines regarding masks, sanitizing before and after completing rides and social distancing with only one rider in the back seat.

• US Election 2020
• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Open Data portal for the City of Ghent

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

• mental health
• youth
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

A U.S.-based nonprofit, we are both a small, resourceful newsroom with our own reporting team, as well as a global network of reporters and media organizations who work together to investigate the most important stories in the world.

• Media
• The People
• Meet the others

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. The project also aims to strengthen the link between the municipality and citizens,

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A simple citybuilder

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

A vision for unlocking the eastern waterfront’s potential.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view

• User research
• Service delivery

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

• air quality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

A group for civic hackers, innovative government employees, and concerned citizens for the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and Saint Paul) metro area

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Geoidea.ro stands for GEodata Openness Initative for Development and Economic Advancement in ROmania and started in January 2013. It aims at improving the scientific basis for open geodata model adoption in Romania

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A 1 billion euro national innovation fund

• The People
• Get funding
• Build something

Tech Solidarity was a 501(c)4 grass-roots organization with the motto 'technology serves people'. It represents a failed attempt in the period 2016-2018 to organize tech workers around an ethical agenda.

• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard

Fogo Cruzado (Cross-fire) is a laboratory of data on armed violence that aggregates and makes data and information available through an application for mobile technology combined with a database

• apps
• gun safety

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Applications open on Tuesday, October 15 for the Coding it Forward Fellowship - a paid, 10 week summer fellowship that empowers early-career technologists to innovate in local, state, and federal government offices across the United States.

• youth
• students

• The People
• Meet the others
• Fellowships

Uwajibijaki Pamoja (Accountability Together) is an integrated complaints referral mechanism operated by Transparency International Kenya in collaboration of more than 40 service providers including government and development aid agencies

Turning Everyday Consumer Purchases Into Fundraising and Charitable Contributions

• Graveyard
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

Somos la comunidad mexicana de reportes ciudadanos que se preocupa por tu bienestar y el de toda tu ciudad.

• apps
• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Learn about and give to any of Canada's 85,000 charities online.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.

• The People
• Journalism
• Get funding

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Data visualization

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

• Crowdsourcing

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A well-designed, simple page to help direct action against racism (using Carrd)

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

we provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

• Adjacent Fields
• Artistic interventions
• Digital literacy

Building 21st Century Government with Technology Talent

• The People
• Fellowships
• Building inside government

The HANSHEP Health Enterprise Fund was created with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and is funded by USAID and DFID. It is implemented by the USAID-funded SHOPS project, and aims to uncover innovative and replicable solutions that address critical health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Sarkozy's official app

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard
• Official campaign apps

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Open By-laws South Africa is a project to help South Africans be more informed about the legislation that governs them.

• Civic data
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech