Congressional Research Service Reports for the People

• Watchdogging and transparency

Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Specific campaigns

We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Step into someone else's Twitter feed

• extensions

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

The system attaches to a drone, and drops small incendiaries known as “dragon eggs” from a safe height, at a much lower cost and personal risk than a helicopter.

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

I am Vigilant" is a Tunisian, non-profit, and independent monitoring organization that aims to combat financial and administrative corruption and enhance transparency. Anna Yazdat became the official contact point for Transparency International in Tunisia in November 2013 and since January 29, 2017 the branch is under construction for Transparency International in Tunisia. The organization aims at two main goals: transparency and fighting corruption

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Tech Solidarity was a 501(c)4 grass-roots organization with the motto 'technology serves people'. It represents a failed attempt in the period 2016-2018 to organize tech workers around an ethical agenda.

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

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• Reports
• Defining the field

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

• framework

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

A PhD student's suite of apps for small group consensus-building and facilitation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

We train nonprofits to expand their reach and influence so they can have maximum impact and achieve their goals.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Nonprofit tech

Enable cities and companies to communicate clearly about curb regulations to enable better analysis, planning, and management of public space

• cities
• streetscape

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

• Govtech
• Service delivery

g0vhk 受台灣「零時政府」（g0v.tw）的理念啟發。目的是透過技術解決社會問題，以項目形式推動社會進步。以開放數據為例，透過開放源碼程式編寫 (Open Source Program) 或群眾外包 (Crowd Sourcing) ，令不同範疇的數據透明化，解決資訊不流通問題，以擴大公民的知情權。

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

"Open Active Voting is an open-source, secure voting tool targeted towards citizen input during participatory budgeting processes."

• Participatory budgeting

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

• labor
• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

Open source and free software that enables the creation of anonymous and secure whistleblowing platforms

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

An example of an issue campaign app

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Predictive judicial analytics holds the promise of increasing the fairness of law.

• research

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Put technology at the service of the general interest

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible 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

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

Red Blue Voice was a social network providing users with tools to broadcast their social and political messages.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"We’ve made the difficult decision to sunset the Public Interest Tech Job Board."

• The People
• Graveyard
• Job boards

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

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Mapping
• Civic maps
• Open government data

MEMRIA uses the power of voice to help our partners further their missions.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

Digital innovation for citizens and for the development of the country. Replaced by the Department for Digital Transformation.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Working groups
• Platform coops

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy