San Francisco Digital Services works with other City departments to improve public services. We use technology to make it easier for people to get things done.

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Digital transformation

IBTYKAR, MOUVEMENT POLITIQUE & CITOYEN

• Graveyard

The IDB is the main source of financing for social, economic, and institutional development in Latin America and the Caribbean.

• Funders & donors

Consul is one of the leading open source citizen participation platforms. It's built on Ruby on Rails and deployed in dozens of cities around the world. It was originally built by the City of Madrid.

• CONSUL

Qri is builds software for dataset synching, versioning, storing and collaboration. We help solve super interesting data problems with individual data nerds (pro and not pro), non-profits, and commercial clients. Qri is led by a team in Brooklyn NY, and collaborators everywhere and anywhere.

The Global Parliament of Mayors is an unprecedented new democratic global governance body by, for, and of cities: a global megaphone for a common urban voice and a global platform for common urban action.

As an office within the General Services Administration, we know how to work with government. Partner with 18F to deliver projects that fulfill federal rules, stay within budget, and provide excellent value to the public.

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Digital transformation

Meedan is a team of designers, technologists and journalists crafting software and devising initiatives for newsrooms, NGOs and academic institutions.

• Media
• Civic apps outfits

IDEO.org is a nonprofit design studio. We design products and services alongside organizations that are committed to creating a more just and inclusive world.

• Design
• Social impact design firms

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

The challenges of 21st century city-making require innovative methods that incorporate the complexity of today’s rapidly urbanising world. Traditional ways of urban planning and design — top-down and singlehanded — are already making way for a practice of city-making deeply rooted in the collective experience, creativity, and intelligence of growing and increasingly diverse groups of people. This will be crucial in building sustainable urban futures.

Politicians, their financial disclosures and the organizations that endorse them. [Check it out.](http://endorsements.wegov.nyc/)

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City

scout is a new way to browse New York's open data portal.

The UK's innovation accelerator for cities, transport & place leadership.

• mobility
• mass transit
• cities

The Fiscally Standardized Cities (FiSC) database allows users to create a custom table with fiscal information for selected cities

Doublethink Lab was founded in 2019 to strengthen democracy through enhancing digital defenses. Our work focuses on researching malign Chinese influence operations and disinformation campaigns and their impacts via the digital tools and methodologies we have developed.

• LINE

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

Citiscope spurs innovations to help cities work better for all of their people through the power of independent journalism. We deliver: on-the-ground reporting by local journalists extensive coverage of global debates on the future of cities expert commentary and analysis

GovLab aims to strengthen the ability of institutions, including but not limited to governments, and people to work more openly, collaboratively, effectively, and legitimately to make better decisions and solve public problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

NYC Office of Technology and Innovation

• Govtech

Global Voices is an international, multilingual community of writers, translators, academics, and digital rights activists.

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

• g0v

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

CommonVC is an impact innovation and startup studio that is run and funded by people passionate about a sustainable future.

• Social impact design firms

NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All

United Cities and Local Governments (UCLG) represents and defends the interests of local governments on the world stage, regardless of the size of the communities they serve

CITIES FOR ACTION is a coalition of over 100 mayors and municipal leaders fighting for federal immigration reform, and galvanizing the movement by launching inclusive policies and programs at the local level

The Black Sash Trust is a 66 year old veteran human rights organisation advocating for social justice in South Africa.

This paper shares lessons from Nesta’s research into some of the pioneering innovations in digital democracy which are taking place across Europe and beyond

Muniphase research project exploring urban expansion and boundaries.

• cities
• United Nations

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Urban planning

• United Nations

WhoWasInCommand is our free to use, public database of military, police and other security and defense force units.

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

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives

Audrey will shares stories of the dramatic transformations underway to upgrade democracy in Taiwan: How they engaged thousands of citizens in bottom-up policy development to solve the Uber problem; A digital media channel where young people are engaging directly with politicians; And how virtual reality is shaping public policy.

AFRICA INTEGRITY IS THE LEADING PROVIDER OF INVESTIGATIVE DUE DILIGENCE, RISK MANAGEMENT AND ESG-ADVISORY SERVICES IN AFRICA

New here? geojson.io is a quick, simple tool for creating, viewing, and sharing maps. geojson.io is named after GeoJSON, an open source data format, and it supports GeoJSON in all ways - but also accepts KML, GPX, CSV, GTFS, TopoJSON, and other formats.

Helping communities create and implement their open data, data governance, and open smart city initiatives

• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups
• Civic apps outfits

Our first product, Action Button, empowers readers to impact news stories that inspire them—whether by donating, signing a petition or emailing a policymaker. Our users can do more than read headlines, they can change headlines.

• Media
• Graveyard
• News to action

• Parliamentary Monitoring Organizations Community of Practice

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge

Le collectif 24 est une plateforme des Organisations de la Société Civile congolaise créé en 2013 principalement en appui au plaidoyer pour la loi d’accès à l’information.

• Freedom of Information

X-Road, the data exchange layer for information systems, is a technological and organizational environment enabling a secure Internet-based data exchange between information systems.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Predecessors

We are the UK’s national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

Corruption Watch is a Transparency International chapter working to fight corruption in South Africa

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency