We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Help out

This playbook is a crash course on service design. It works alongside the 13 points set out in the Digital Service Standard to provide the basics needed to get started on a digital service.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital standards

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

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

• Budget explorers

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

The Public Engagement Strategy Lab will provide you with the tools and resources you need to authentically engage stakeholders in thoughtful, democratic processes. Registration closes June 16th. Frontiers of Democracy registrants and students enjoy a discounted rate. **NOTE: Door payments must be paid by check only.**

• workshops

• Workshops

Qriously has reimagined polling through the use of programmatic survey methodology and has achieved far more representative and accurate samples than traditional polling.

• Surveys & polling

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
• Graveyard

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Civic maps

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

Who was nominated for the 2018 ranking - and who will you vote for?

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

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

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

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

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

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Civic maps
• Mapping
• Open government data

Bridge Figures is a human rights organization that scales the potential of artists, activists, journalists & other agents of social change to build bridges and break walls in a data-driven world

• The Tech
• Media
• Narrative tech

In a cross-sector partnership led by the International Center for Tropical Agriculture (CIAT) and the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, The Clima y Sector Agropecuario Colombiano (Colombian Climate and Agricultural Sector; CSAC) provides meteorological data to farmers along with data on the economics and agronomy of rice cultivation.

• agriculture
• Climate action
• Zero hunger

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

The Self-Quarantine Manifesto

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

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

Lyft is offering free or discounted rides and bikes to the polls.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Founded in 2012, BBC News Labs is an innovation incubator charged with driving innovation for BBC News.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

makesense inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build an inclusive and sustainable society together.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

• 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
• Graveyard

Hong Kong's Neighborhood forum //「我地.市正」(Ourland Searching) 係一個街坊媒體。 用家可以查詢即時位置或選擇位置附近 1 公里內發生的社區事件: 公共設施 社區活動 社區議題 街坊可以隨時隨地「報料」: 匯報社區問題，仲可以一直跟進事態發展。

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

A PLATFORM FOR CITIES TO MANAGE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This Slack has over 1,300 members of the journalism-tech community from around the world, who chat in over 40 topical and geographic channels.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

• Data schemas and standards

Open San Mateo County, aka OpenSMC (http://opensmc.org/), is a Code for America (http://www.codeforamerica.org/) Brigade serving the County of San Mateo and its 16 cities, 4 towns and unincorporated communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

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

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
• Graveyard

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
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

See Liberal Facebook and Conservative Facebook, Side by Side. Last update 2019

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Started in 1970, GreenUp Day in Vermont has been a State

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Report Civic & Social Issues through our Artificially Intelligent chat & voice interfaces integrated onto all the major social media channels

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic data

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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process

Think volunteer fire brigade for the 21st Century. We are a volunteer citizen brigade. We use technology and advocacy as a tool for open government, open data and civic engagement.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Cameras

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fight disinformation

(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
• Graveyard

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