Spark Eco will invest in solar energy projects, fund non-profits working on solar projects in developing communities, and support land preservation efforts.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Drive climate action and earn rewards with a carbon-backed, algorithmic digital currency.

• Climate action
• Responsible consumption and production

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.

• Communicating with the government
• Campaign tools
• Open asks

We help government teams gather & analyze inclusive data to achieve equitable outcomes. Get actionable insights faster with our cloud-based solution.

• Govtech
• Data visualization
• Surveys & polling

Transforming corrections with technology

• recidivism
• criminal justice

• Legal tech
• Justice tech
• Hardware

The Disinfo Defense League (DDL) is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that deliberately target Black, Latinx, Asian American/Pacific Islander and other communities of color.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

We utilize radical imagination, art and culture to communicate ideas, connect brands with causes and advance social change.

• Social impact design firms

Ocean Protection, Decentralized

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life below water

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

SPE is developing the first-ever Gold Standard certified carbon credit NFTs, a green blockchain entirely powered by renewable energy, and a carbon credit exchange that will use $SPE as the exclusive currency.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy
• Responsible consumption and production

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)
• NFTs

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Hardware
• Smart Cities and sensors
• High-tech COVID Interventions

The Engine Room's project with Open Society Foundations to reimagine what digital ID systems rooted in justice can look like.

• Identity

Games and gamification for local engagement

• Games and gamification

Korean participatory policymaking platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The Affidavit Assistant helps you collect information for your case

• apps
• housing

• Legal tech

Collaborating with Philadelphians to design better City policies and services.

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Archives

South Africa's Online Budget Data

• Budget explorers

Kybern is a website which helps communities explore new, non-hierarchical forms of governance and manage their resources in collaborative ways.

• Decentralization

The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

An open-source software service for stitching together systems of modular agreement systems,

• Decentralization

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

• Slack

• Adjacent Fields
• Group decision making
• Decentralization

Start using Engage today and be part of the discussion! Vote and comment on proposals from your local government.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Beat the supply-chain blues with our staff picks for affordable alternative presents — plus toys, treats and tools for the holiday season.

• Civic tech gifts

Report by EngageMedia

• Digital rights

Standardized data on historical general election polling places in the United States.

• Voting and elections
• Open civic data
• Find your polling place

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to reporting on algorithmic tools used by city agencies

• Govtech
• Civic tech legislation and policy
• Algorithmic transparency

Executive Order to streamline the process of obtaining public benefits across 17 federal agencies

• Civic tech legislation and policy

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

We build software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation.

• Access social benefits

The Civic Design Library is a crowdsourced data set of civic design resources created by global practitioners working at the intersection of design and the public sector.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Design

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

Communication gateway for municipalities

• Surveys & polling
• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Seoul's digital participation website, operated on DemosX platform

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

a research and teaching cooperative

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Peer networks

Berlin-based digital participation organization

We promote a right to democracy at all levels, global institutions that are democratic and effective, and equal global citizenship.

• Participatory democracy

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons

We are a non-profit research group that analyzes thousands of public records to create a simple searchable database of the commanders and the command structures, locations, and areas of operations of security force units and investigate their potential connections to alleged human rights violations.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace
• human rights

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

The Digital Public Goods Alliance is a multi-stakeholder initiative to accelerate the attainment of the sustainable development goals in low- and middle-income countries by facilitating the discovery, development, use of, and investment in digital public goods.

• Partnerships for the Goals

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Open source networks

The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,408 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.

Code for All’s new program brings people together who work similar civic tech roles, but at different organizations and in different parts of the world.

• Peer networks

The Coalition for Urban Transitions, active from 2016 to 2021, was the foremost initiative supporting national governments to secure economic prosperity and tackle the climate crisis by transforming cities.

• cities
• Climate action

Information about Astoria Food Pantry in Astoria, Queens, NY. We are a mutual aid group and provide food, clothes, books, diapers and more, as well as community events and a space where artists and organizers can work.

• Mutual aid

Through art, research, investigation and actions, the lab explores new ways of making issues around propaganda in the digital age better known. Persuasion Lab is a project by Manuel Beltrán and Nayantara Ranganathan.

• Artistic interventions
• Advertising

Kibera in Nairobi, Kenya, was a blank spot on the map until November 2009, when young Kiberans created the first free and open digital map of their own community. Map Kibera has now grown into a complete interactive community information project. We

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

By developing and equipping a global network of investigative journalists and publishing their stories, OCCRP exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism