• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Online platform for civic participation

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

AID:Tech was established in 2015 and was the first company in the world to deliver international aid over blockchain technology.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Blockchain
• Fintech for good

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

This website provides data on the turnover of leaders in municipal and state-owned enterprises, and their connections with political parties or associations.

• Media
• Government transparency
• Media monitoring

Advocacy Assembly is a free e-learning platform featuring dozens of courses for human rights activists, campaigners and journalists.

• trainings
• courses

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

The Purpose Platform is a global open source project committed to building multilingual campaigning and organizing tools for social good. Last updated 2015.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Its over-arching goal is to reinforce trust in public institutions and to unleash multiple measurable positive impacts in terms of efficiency gains and reduction of current administrative burden and costs, rooted on a Toolkit for extended semantic interoperability and on secure, privacy-preserving and trustworthy realisation of fundamental once-only, relevant-only and digital by default principles, through state-of-the-art, usable and high-quality fully online procedures accessible through the Single Digital Gateway (SDG).

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

Deutschlands Nr. 1 Consul-Anbieter. Consul is the world's most successful platform for citizen participation.

• CONSUL
• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The SaveTheInternet campaign is a volunteer led effort to uphold a fair and open Internet. Over 1 million Indian citizens have participated at one point or another in the campaign that was started by a group of like minded individuals across India in May 2015.

• Adjacent Fields
• Net neutrality

El Centro de Transferencia de Tecnología publica un directorio general de aplicaciones o/y soluciones cuyo objetivo es favorecer la reutilización de soluciones por todas las Administraciones Públicas en España.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Media Bias/Fact Check (MBFC), founded in 2015, is an independent online media outlet.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

• Media
• Fight disinformation

EUvsDisinfo is the flagship project of the European External Action Service’s East StratCom Task Force. It was established in 2015 to better forecast, address, and respond to the Russian Federation’s ongoing disinformation campaigns affecting the European Union, its Member States, and countries in the shared neighbourhood.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

In 2017, Media Democracy Fund launched a pilot for PhDX, a fellowship program designed to pair graduate or PhD level university students with a background in technology with DC-based public interest technology policy organizations for an immersive fellowship experience over two consecutive summers.

• students

• Fellowships

Civic Tech Book Club is a virtual book club that meets sporadically to discuss readings related to civics and technology.

• Socialize online
• Reading lists

Recognizing the significance of access to information, the 74th UN General Assembly proclaimed 28 September as the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) at the UN level in October 2019.

• Holidays

En 2015, Transparencia Mexicana (TM) y el Instituto Mexicano para la Competitividad (IMCO) lanzaron la plataforma independiente #3de3 para promover y recibir las declaraciones de situación patrimonial, de intereses y fiscal de quienes competían por un cargo de elección popular.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

• Digital literacy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Tech talent

Launched by Bloomberg Philanthropies in April 2015, What Works Cities is a national initiative to help 100 mid-sized American cities enhance their use of data and evidence to improve services, inform local decision-making and engage residents. We are the nation’s most comprehensive philanthropic initiative helping local leaders identify and invest in what works. Applications have now closed to be considered as one of our first 100 cities, but check back soon for new opportunities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Govtech vendors

The GFF (Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte / Society for Civil Rights) is a Berlin-based non-profit NGO founded in 2015. Its mission is to establish a sustainable structure for successful strategic litigation in the area of human and civil rights in Germany and Europe.

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Hardware
• Digital literacy

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

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Mapping
• Civic maps
• Civic features

The city of Seattle, Wash, has been changing the way they deal with homeless populations, and gathering data to drive some evidenced-based solutions. Now, with clear incentives and data collection, employees have a path forward for helping the homeless. But will it work? Journalist Rebecca Gale investigates. Homelessness was on the rise in Seattle. In 2015, Read More

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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

City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday to provide a framework for dealing with current and future technologies that impact privacy. This is a major step with the adoption of six privacy principles guiding the actions the City will take when collecting and using information from the public. The Council also established an August 2015 reporting deadline […]

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Original Version of govwiki - May 2015

• Watchdogging and transparency

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
• Organize campaigns
• Emerging tech

Teheca helps connect new & expectant parents to nurses for in home & hospital postnatal care services and support. Its origin dates back to 2015, Teheca has evolved to focus on increasing uptake of postnatal care services for mothers not only in Uganda but the whole of sub Saharan Africa through education of mothers via mobile applications like SMS, USSD, smartphone application and social media about its importances as well as coming up with new and convenient ways for mothers to access postnatal care services.

• Govtech

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

FixMyTransport was a mySociety project running from 2011 to 2015. It allowed passengers to send complaints directly to transport operators.

• mass transit
• mobility

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Between 2015 and 2020, Doteveryone helped to provoke change in how tech is made and used so that it serves a fair, inclusive and sustainable democratic society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

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
• Fight disinformation

The map shows the transfers from the Government to the municipalities and county councils from the Reserve Fund (15%), Local Development National Program (65%) and other programs managed by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration that sum up to 7.5 billion lei

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Mapping
• Civic maps

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

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

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

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

The Civic Commons Wiki was a collaborative encyclopedia documenting best-practices and open standards for file formats, APIs, agile development processes, open source software, and supporting policies and licenses in the civic sector.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs