Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

This coming week, the New Public Festival will kick off with a phenomenal group of participants examining better, less commercialized, public spaces on the internet.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Decolonize This Place is an action-oriented movement centering around Indigenous struggle, Black liberation, free Palestine, global wage workers and de-gentrification.

• racial equity

• Cameras

The main purpose of DTL is to support the development of software on data transparency & privacy

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Axon Vibe provides smartphone app technology that enables public transport operators to deliver personalized communications based on users’ commuting behavior.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

We co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

Hack Michiana is a Code for America brigade and an opportunity for individuals to be engaged citizens and take an active role in our community.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

This collaboration between Feeding America and Nielsen in 2014 collected and mapped data about food insecurity across America to aid research and advocacy efforts.

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

THE CITY’s year-long project with Brooklyn Public Library to explore how to make local news more collaborative

• The Tech
• Media

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

• books
• city

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

DigitaleBox CRM is a CivicTech, SaaS Software, a communication CRM for institutions, local & federal governments, candidates and political organizations.

• Organize campaigns
• CRM
• Internal communication and coordination

Security First’s flagship Umbrella app gives you free digital and physical security advice when you need it most.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

• videos

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

Municipal Money is a web-based mobile responsive tool developed to provide the public with municipal financial data.

• Budget explorers

Investigative Dashboard makes public documents (such as financial or property records) searchable and more useful for journalists investigating money laundering or corruption.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Get ready to ride the best motorized skateboard when you buy a Onewheel today! Designed and made in California from the highest quality components.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

The Internet Master Plan is a new vision for broadband infrastructure and service in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

This Citizen Budget eDemocracy tool can show where tax dollars are spent, and allow the public to provide feedback more easily. With the Citizen Budget, you can cut or increase spending in various categories, and see how your choices would raise or lower taxes.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

The Legislative Monitor is a user-friendly interactive tool that provides a unique insight into the adoption of legislation in Slovenia and a review of the activities of Members of the National Assembly.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Amandla.mobi is a platform that aims to "turn every cellphone in South Africa into a democracy tool" by using Whatsapp, SMS, USSD, Web and social networking to run multi-issue and multilingual campaigns so that people can connect and call for accountability on various matters.

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

Factcheck.me tracks bot activity, amplified images, and viral links.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Graveyard
• Civic maps
• Mapping

Une application performante (utilisée notamment par la campagne présidentielle de Donald Trump) pour la mobilisation des Français de droite.

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

We invest in evidence-informed public policies & strategies to advance racial equity & economic mobility for the next generation in the Great Lakes Region.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Learn to make apps for Android devices by doing projects that can help people in your community.

• Android
• apps

• Emerging tech
• Smartphones

Data analysis and visualization of Hong Kong's legislative activity

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Rarenet runs joint activities that aim to improve coordinated response, education and advocacy in cyber security threats affecting civil society and activism online.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

A source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Camouflage from face detection

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Google.org Impact Challenge Bay Area is an open invitation to organizations across the Bay Area to submit their ideas to address some of the most challenging societal issues facing our community today

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Barefoot Law offers free legal information and assistance to people through social media, SMS, Skype calls, andcommunity engagement.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

Was a global federation for civic tech with reusable components for projects

• Graveyard
• Partner networks and coalitions

University of Chicago's Office for Civic Engagement is committed to building community relationships.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

The Open Internet for Democracy Playbook serves as a companion piece to the Democratic Principles for an Open Internet, which is a framework for understanding what principles must be upheld in order for the internet to foster democracy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Merged into https://firstdraftnews.org. Was a directory of tools for verifying, fact checking and assessing the validity of eyewitness reports and user generated content online. Managed by Josh Stearns.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Organised by PUBLIC and supported by French President Emmanuel Macron, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo and the European Commission, the GovTech Summit gathers European leaders and innovators to explore how new technologies can improve public services and democratic practices.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

To improve the study of the impact of the internet on democracy by increasing the scale, quality and availability of social media data

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis
• Data science for social good

The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

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

Open App Stack allows you to simply manage your own cloud applications

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

A privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled

• Digital security and privacy

At the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Mark Zuckerberg and Priscilla Chan seek to advance human potential and promote equal opportunity.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

AN INDEPENDENT, NON-PROFIT INTERNET AND SOCIETY RESEARCH THINK TANK BASED IN HONG KONG

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Newspeak House is an independent residential college founded in 2015 to study, nurture and inspire emerging communities of practice across civil society and the public sector in the UK.

• Newspeak House
• CTFG partners

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Hubs