FedScoop is the leading tech media brand in the federal government market

Was "a community of non-profit, IT, and media organizations that use technology for better transparency, accountability, and governance in the Central and Eastern Europe region."

• Graveyard
• Civic apps outfits

We use Slack for real-time communication about issues related to Open Referral and associated projects.

• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate is a major international initiative to examine how countries can achieve economic growth while dealing with the risks posed by climate change

There is always a way. We build innovative solutions to advance human rights and civil liberty in Iran.

• Government transparency

Led by director Emily Bell since our founding in 2010, our team of researchers examines digital journalism’s industry-wide economic trends, its cultural shifts, and its relationship with the broader, constantly changing world of technology. Operating as an institute within Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, the center provides journalists with the skills and knowledge to lead the future of digital journalism and serves as a research and development center for the profession as a whole.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Journalism

ENABLING SECURE CONNECTIVITY AND DATA EXCHANGE BETWEEN GOVERNMENTAL AND PRIVATE INFORMATION SYSTEMS.

We build power for people who want to change the world

• Campaign organizations
• Social impact design firms

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge

• Drones

parCitypatory is a blog, but also a consultancy happy to advise you on urban planning and citizen participation issues

Shareable is an award-winning nonprofit news, action and connection hub for the sharing transformation. What’s the sharing transformation? It’s a movement of movements emerging from the grassroots up to solve today’s biggest challenges, which old, top-down institutions are failing to address.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities works to make urban sustainability a reality. Through global research and on-the-ground experience, our experts work with city and national leaders in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Turkey, and the United States to spur action and improve life for millions.

L’ESJ Lille, centenaire en 2024, première école de journalisme reconnue par la profession, propose des formations au journalisme de qualité.

• Research and policy centers
• Journalism

Investing in education, training and skills development by ensuring that ICT is fully and appropriately integrated into education and training at all levels and also establishing educational networks for sharing educational resources and promoting e-learning at all levels; Building capacity of the youth to fully integrate them into the Country’s technological transformation;

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

A Twitter bot to tweet out procurements on SAM.gov occurring for the legislative branch

• X (Twitter)

• Bots
• Procurement oversight

Procurement is complex, but finding great suppliers shouldn’t be. Join thousands of public procurement professionals rating and reviewing suppliers on Procurated.

• Crowdsourcing
• Procurement
• Govtech vendors

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

Dataphyte is a media research and data analytics organisation with the mission to deploy data tools and technology for the socio-economic development of Nigeria.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Media
• Data science for social good

The Nigeria Integrity Film Awards (HomeVida) is a unique platform that provides incentives for young scriptwriters and filmmakers to promote integrity values using film while influencing the wider public.

• Narrative tech
• Awards and prizes
• Story-based campaigns

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Govtech vendors

Budeshi is a dedicated web platform that links budget and procurement data to various public services using the Open Contracting Data Standards (OCDS)

• Open data publishing portals
• Procurement oversight

The Procurement Governance (PG) initiative seeks to improve the effectiveness of public sector processes by entrenching efficiency, accountability, and transparency within Nigeria’s public procurement landscape

• Procurement

Branch makes it easy to quickly prepare for your next election

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Ballot information

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• books
• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Books

東京都オープン・ソース・ソフトウェア公開ガイドライン. Contribute to Tokyo-Metro-Gov/tokyo-oss-guideline development by creating an account on GitHub.

• cities

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Digital transformation

Now-defunct citizen reporting platform

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Mozilla Foundation's annual naughty and nice list of consumer tech's privacy policies

• guides
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

A Ford Foundation memo sharing lessons learned from public interest law for their work in Public Interest Tech

• Public Interest Tech

Digital, tech, design, and data projects for social impact

• Social impact design firms

Northwestern University has launched the Medill Subscriber Engagement Index, a tool that allows local news organizations to see what content encourages subscribers to stick around and lets publishers benchmark their performance against outlets in comparable markets.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Benchmarks

Banking as a public utility is a proven model worldwide. Public banks keep money local and cut costs by eliminating middlemen, shareholders and high-paid executives.

• Specific campaigns
• Fintech for good

PITcases.org is a university platform to help students and faculty find the best ways to make a positive difference in their communities. The website gives detailed information about projects that have come out of PIT classes, as well as reading lists for those interested in teaching such courses.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Public Interest Tech

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Connectivity
• Fellowships

An Icelandic game for creating a constitution

• Games and gamification

citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

J++ is an international team of data journalism specialists, with offices in Stockholm and Porto. The team integrates experts in research, data analysis, data-driven storytelling, newsroom programming and full-stack design.

• Media
• Data visualization
• Engagement journalism

You're the general manager of a large city. Balance ethics and corruption to keep your position and get things done. Whatever happens, don't get caught!

• cities

• Games and gamification

Online collaboration, discussion & consensus. For institutions, organisations & groups.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"Democracy as a service" voting app

• apps

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

A small static website gathering open data from Decidim platforms around the world.

• Decidim

• Engagement tech
• Evaluate impact

An interactive visualization of the relationships between members of Portuguese governments and companies for the period of 1975 to 2013.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization
• Network visualizations

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

Planning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting

• Civic and social impact companies
• Participatory budgeting