We are building the largest social accountability movement, empowering marginalized communities in Africa.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Public People makes news more effective at supporting accountability and democracy

• Media

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The mission of the Sobrato Family Foundation is to support low-income residents in Silicon Valley who seek stability and opportunities for upward mobility.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

More Donations. Less Work. Right Now.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Harnessing the power of data science in the service of humanity.

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Help out

Between 2015 and 2020, Doteveryone helped to provoke change in how tech is made and used so that it serves a fair, inclusive and sustainable democratic society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Celebrating Partnerships that Strengthen America

• youth

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

Using modern technologies will facilitate the possibility of public participation, and will provide a platform for people’s active presence in governance, which will lead into the improvement of governance quality

• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Tell us about your collisions and near-misses, so we can build the evidence base for improvements, together

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Heat Seek's sensors monitor heat for New York City tenants during heat season.

• housing

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital rights

Phandeeyar is a community tech hub that is fostering Myanmar’s technology & innovation ecosystem. We run an Accelerator, a Makerspace & a co-working facility.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital participation platforms

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

City Innovate Foundation

• Hubs

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Advancing an inclusive digital society

• The People
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Search the list of progressive organizations to find the right opportunity for taking action based on your interests.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

It is the strategic integration of arts, culture and community engaged design into comprehensive community planning and development.

• place-based

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Connected technologies and always-on data flows are helping make today’s cities and communities more livable, productive, and sustainable. At the same time, these technologies raise concerns about individual privacy, freedom of choice, and institutional discrimination.

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Working groups

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings

The Hello Syracuse! app encourages you to get out and explore the City of Syracuse and your local community.

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The Good News Podcast is your daily reminder that not all news is bad, produced by Cards Against Humanity.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

A map visualizing traffic in the city with incidents

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

An interactive website that asks residents to balance their city budget

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

The causes and effects of air pollution comprise a complicated chemical recipe that is all too easily reduced to superficial observation (the color of the sky) or an abstract statistical reading from static instruments

• air quality

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Beginning in January 2016, our team interviewed journalists and nonjournalists to get a sense of the elements that create trust and credibility between communicator and receiver. We read related academic research and industry best practices.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A global platform connecting physical places: a curated network for civic innovation, connecting local innovators with government, academia, business, and community both within their cities and around the world.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

A global nonprofit committed to shaping a better urban future.

• city
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

GOT Data is an annual international conference, formerly known as ODPA (Opening Data in Public Administration), which gathers public officials and other International open data and transparency stakeholders to discuss the importance and impact that open data has.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Talk London is City Hall’s online community. Have your say on big issues and help shape our plans and policies. Let’s make London better together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• partisan

• Conferences

DEET undertakes a number of evaluation and research activities that apply cutting-edge methodologies to examine the effects of technology on participation, transparency, accountability and government responsiveness.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Help out

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects