First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.

• Good health and well-being

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

The simple, most secure way to prove your identity online and in person.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Identity

This lab anticipates, assists with, and responds to various legal issues unique to internet freedom projects.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Boston Civic Media is a faculty-led network that aims to advance the transdisciplinary domain of civic media research and pedagogy in the Greater Boston Area.

• Conferences
• Peer networks

Our goal at Transitland is to make sense of the jumble here in the SF Bay Area. We're mapping those buses, trains, streetcars, ferries, and even cable cars.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Big Data from the South Initiative is a space for theoretical and empirical exchange on the challenges of datafication and massive data collection as they unfold in the plurality of South(s) inhabiting our increasingly complex world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

To raise a new set of civic tech leaders that transform governance

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Aclima announces a new partnership with Google Earth Outreach to map and better understand outdoor air quality.

• Google

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages. Last updated 2015.

• civic features
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data science for social good
• Data schemas and standards

We help people and organisations to benefit from personal data in a human-centric way. To create a fair, sustainable, and prosperous digital society for all.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Data governance

Wir erforschen und erproben digitale Werkzeuge um gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen, Verwaltung und Unternehmen die Zukunft Berlins zu gestalten.

• The People
• Build something
• Open data publishing portals

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

Design Action provides graphic design and visual communications for progressive, non-profit, and social change organizations

• partisan

• Civic and social impact companies

We provide an easy-to-use, modern-era database with voter files for each of the fifty states.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Organize campaigns

Trialling the involvement of citizens in decision-making at local government level through innovative models of deliberative democracy.

• United Kingdom (government)

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

DECODE es un proyecto europeo que pretende dar respuesta a la preocupación de las personas sobre la pérdida de control de su información personal en Internet.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report orgs

OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps.Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of f

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

OpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential. OpenGov is the first complete cloud solution for public sector budgeting, operational performance, and citizen engagement.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

CrisisCommons seeks to advance and support the use of open data and volunteer technology communities to catalyze innovation in crisis management and global development

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.

• commercial

• Engagement tech
• Civic and social impact companies
• Online forums

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• ChatGPT

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Learn about the issues that are important to New Yorkers in your Council District and across the city, from potholes to affordable housing to the immigrant experience and beyond.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Listening Post Collective provides journalists, newsroom leaders, and non-profits tools and advice to create meaningful conversations with their communities.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Rothamsted Research, a UK based research institution and one of the oldest agricultural research institutions in the world, is working to make the results and data from their experiments universally accessible.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

With Datasketch Apps you can create data visualizations in seconds and empower users to analyze data faster with access to open information repositories curated by journalists and researchers.

• Access to Information Community of Practice

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• Consul

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people