Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

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• Get funding
• Funders & donors

g0v is a decentralized civic tech community from Taiwan, advocating transparency of information, building tech solutions for citizens to participate in public affairs from grass-roots. g0v’s biennial summits started in 2014, featuring open government, open source collaboration and civic participation.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The Open Cities Accra Project seeks to make Alogboshie and its environs resilient to natural disasters, especially flooding. The project will also involve the remote mapping of Nima, Akweteman and Alajo.

Join the movement to end online harassment! We’re fighting fire with water, and working step by step to assist people facing harassment, educate communities, and stop harassment online.

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

Growth Mosaic prepares small and growing businesses in Africa to access and manage growth investment.

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• Build something
• Accelerators

Generation Citizen believes all students have the right to civics education that prepares them to participate in our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech

Translators without Borders is a global community of over 100,000 members helping people get vital information and be heard, whatever language they speak.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

Break your echo chamber

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

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

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Автоматизированный мониторинг и аналитика по заключенным госконтрактам – инструменты для общественного анализа, выявления злоупотреблений, борьбы с коррупцией и неэффективным расходованием государственных средств.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe

• housing

• Media
• Working groups
• Solutions journalism

The blockchain-based land-titling project is being presented at both Harvard and the United Nations.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Amicable is a divorce app which helps couples close an amicable agreement. The chatbot, Alex, provides instant and real time support to users.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

IIT Institute of Design (ID) is a graduate design school with a history of innovation. ID pioneered the development and dissemination of modern design from its founding in 1937 as the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Today, our graduate design school focuses on global challenges. We prepare designers to take on the worlds complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable problems such as competitiveness, digital media and learning, health and wellbeing, and social innovation.

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• Toolkits

Helping recruit and support under-35 year old progressives running for down-ballot office to build a Democratic bench.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Turn helps social impact organisations have personal, guided conversations that improve lives at scale.

„АЗ ГЛАСУВАМ” е специално разработена платформа. С нейна помощ, лесно ще можете да се информирате за всички важни моменти от изборния процес в България.

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• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether they are overseas or just down the street.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Narrative tech
• Network visualizations

Each week we’ll examine a particular example of data use in government.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

a trade group representing peer-to-peer texting apps

• Graveyard
• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS

Spot the Surveillance is a virtual reality (VR) experience that teaches people how to identify the various spying technologies that police may deploy in communities.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Loup is a human-centered design and innovation consultancy that helps organizations listen to and learn from the people they serve.

• Social impact design firms

Through StimuLab, the Digitization Directorate and DOGA will stimulate public innovation from the users' perspective. We support state and municipal businesses that dare to rethink roles and systems and are willing to change these to provide better services to users.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Procurement

a citizen’s engagement platform that connects citizens to their government by allowing anyone to anonymously report an issue using their social media platforms.

Ruck.us can give you a high-powered, attractive political website in five minutes.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Citizenscape was a simple, manageable and cost-effective way for you to start getting involved in all the local social media conversation.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age, Citizenville reveals how ordinary Americans can reshape their government for the better.

• books

• Govtech

Factchecking Iranian public officials and media

• The Tech
• Media
• Factchecking

Are you a Democratic woman who wants to run for office? Our candidate training programs prepare women to run and win. Let us help you!

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

The Poverty Research Unit (PRU) of the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity has multiple openings for technical fellows in the area of developing and implementing measures of poverty, mobility, and medical care economic risks.

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

Edited by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider: Ours to Hack and to Own, the rise of platform cooperativism, a new vision for the future of work and a fairer Internet.

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

Community Leaders for Internet Advocacy builds upon the work of Open Internet for Democracy Leaders by engaging in the principles of a democratic internet and adapting the Open Internet for Democracy Advocacy Playbook. The Community Leaders for Internet Advocacy are young leaders from underrepresented communities who are using the internet for advocacy and democratic participation.

App that analyzes your public speaking style and offers tips on how to improve

• apps

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

If like us, you are inspired by the potential of people and technology to power a better society, then you might be interested in Jobs for Good.

• The People
• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

WAT IS JOUW POLITIEKE SMAAK?

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Learn about the air we breathe.

• air quality

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

• The Tech
• Reading lists

thirteen23’s digital strategy for Obama for America re-imagined grassroots campaigning, lowering the barrier of entry and empowering people to take action.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Access international case studies, research and innovation tools.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

Robota is a chatbot that guides workers to file a lawsuit against their current or former employers.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Cobi engages an entire academic community in planning a large-scale conference. Cobi elicits community members' preferences and constraints.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy