Standardized data on historical general election polling places in the United States.

• Voting and elections
• Open civic data
• Find your polling place

自由微博 (FreeWeibo.com)，匿名和不受屏蔽的新浪微博搜索，于 2012 年 10 月 11 日由 GreatFire.org 建立。

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Circumvention tech

Americans Elect was a political organization in the United States known primarily for its efforts to stage a national online primary for the 2012 US Presidential Election. Although it was successful in obtaining signatures to get on the ballot in a majority of states, the process set up by the organization did not select a candidate.

• Voting and elections
• Graveyard
• E-voting and I-voting

Engaging Local Government Leaders (ELGL) is an “accidental professional association” that began in Portland, Oregon in 2012 with a 16 member dinner group. Today, ELGL has grown to over 4800 members from all 50 states plus Canada, UK, Israel, and Australia.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

"Bringing local context to our global standards...Our network of Trusted Partners includes over 400 non-governmental organizations, humanitarian agencies, human rights defenders and researchers from 113 countries around the globe."

• Social media
• Civic teams at tech companies

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

Opening in early 2012, The Social Media Listening Center at Clemson University is an interdisciplinary, cutting-edge laboratory that seeks to monitor, measure, and engage in social media conversations from across the web.

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Global community measuring Internet censorship since 2012

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech

Outfit that organized digital volunteer deployments around humanitarian crises. No longer active in this regard, but still publishing reports.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

GivingTuesday is a global generosity movement unleashing the power of radical generosity. GivingTuesday was created in 2012 as a simple idea: a day that encourages people to do good.

• Get funding
• Holidays

Nous sommes l’Open Knowledge Foundation France, un groupe local de l’Open Knowledge Foundation (OKF), créé en décembre 2012.

• culture

• Open knowledge

Factly strives to cultivate civic participation and engaging citizens in accessing, understanding, and using important government data/information at various levels

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Served as a center for clarification of issues suspected to be hoaxes.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Since 2012, the Programme on Democracy & Technology has been investigating the use of algorithms, automation, and computational propaganda in public life.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

We've been organising a programme of citizen science to measure air pollution since 2013

• air quality

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Citizen science

DATA Uruguay is a civil society organization founded in April 2012 that works on open government, open data, access to public information and participation through the use of civic technology. It is a horizontal organization based on consensus and the vast majority of the projects are co-created with expert partners on the subject (Government, Academia, Media, other Civil Society organizations) or with the community.

• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

Founded in 2012, Code for DC is a non-partisan, non-political group of volunteer civic hackers working together to solve local issues and help people engage with the city.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

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

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Sarkozy's official app

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard
• Official campaign apps

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

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

• The People
• Media
• Evaluate impact

We collect nationwide datasets of who and what is on the ballot for each election.

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Absența la votul electronic a deputaților României

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Partner networks

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Die Oö. Landesregierung unterstützt durch ihren Beschluss vom 29. Oktober 2012 die nachhaltige Entwicklung der Informationsgesellschaft und Bürgerbeteiligung nach den Grundsätzen Transparenz, Partizipation und Zusammenarbeit.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

This training prepares teams of community organizers, people with construction skills, and techies to design and deploy communications infrastructure with a commitment to the Detroit Digital Justice Principles.

• Adjacent Fields
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app

• cities

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

• apps
• police violence
• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

Find low-cost internet and affordable computers in your area.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Cleveland Park Listserv

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

OpenCounter builds tools to help applicants understand the costs and requirements of their projects—before they start pulling permits.

• land
• permits

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Bureaucracy tech

MeMeZa Shout Crime Prevention was started in 2012 and it specializes in providing affordable innovative Connected Community Safety Technology, with a special focus on the most vulnerable people in society.

CitySDK is a “service development kit” for cities and developers that aims at harmonizing application programming interfaces (APIs) across cities.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Report street-fixing issues in Hungary

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

ILDA was founded in 2012 as a research program that sought to promote and understand the use of open data in Latin America.

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

A topic modeling study of the Indian media’s reporting of rape post the 2012 Delhi gang-rape

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The ODI startup incubator ran from 2012 to 2017 as a 9-12 months programme supporting early stage startups that used open data as part of their business model.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Our crowdsourced localization results in more accurate and timely translations, and unlocks access to the internet for users all over the world

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Help out

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media