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.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

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

• Access social benefits
• Data schemas and standards

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

MEGAPHONE is a community of activists working on issues such as the environment, women's rights, LGBTQ right, transparency and accountability and civic engagement

• LGBTQI
• women

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• CONSUL

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

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

A 2012 white paper from Pro Publica by Richard J. Tofel

• The People
• Media
• Evaluate impact

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

• The People
• Conferences
• Meet the others

Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

14 immersive weeks of product development, punctuated by trips to Munich and Shenzhen. Learn more about what URBAN-X has to offer your early-stage comany.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

A collaborative fact-checking project for the Philippines’ 2019 elections bringing together 11 news organizations and 3 universities to counter disinformation and provide the public with verified information

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Media

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch. In this dynamic environment, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been a field leader, investing over $25 million since 2010 in projects […]

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Mapping platforms
• Story-based campaigns