A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

GL is well known for championing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, and coordinating an Alliance of over 40 women’s NGOs that campaigned for the adoption and implementation of the Protocol, following its 2016 revision that was adopted by the SADC 36th Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mbabane, Swaziland. The revised SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the Beijing Declaration and its Platform of Action, The Maputo Protocol and the Agenda 2063 among other gender norms and standards.

Tech Solidarity was a 501(c)4 grass-roots organization with the motto 'technology serves people'. It represents a failed attempt in the period 2016-2018 to organize tech workers around an ethical agenda.

• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard

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
• Adjacent Fields

Ciklograd je web servis kojim želimo dapovećamo informisanost, bezbjednost i brojnost učesnika u biciklističkom saobraćaju u Podgorici.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Sarkozy's official app

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard
• Official campaign apps

The World's First Robot Lawyer

• apps
• LGBTQI
• refugees

• The Tech
• Bots
• Artificial Intelligence

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

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

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

• US Election 2020

• The People
• The Tech
• Build something

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Platform coops
• Working groups

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

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

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

• criminal justice

• The People
• The Tech
• Govtech

Omegle meets politics. Listenr connects people with opposing political views anonymously through existing messengers (currently FB messenger).

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

• The Tech
• Activism aggregators
• Advocacy tech

We play a unique role, experimenting with injecting conservation messaging into online conversations about the ocean. We do this through “attention campaigns.”

• Life below water

• The Tech
• Media
• Big listening

Bayes Impact builds citizen-led public services to create a fairer and inclusive future for our societies

• The Tech
• Emerging tech

This catalog highlights examples of training courses from around the country that advance data and technology literacy.

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Reported.ly wrapped up in August 2016 but during its brief yet impactful run, its international team of journalists surfaced breaking news and reported on human rights and social justice issues through the expansive lens of social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Une discipline nouvelle, Interdisciplinaire, Aux finalités multiples, A l’approche territoriale, Par une stratégie adaptative.

• Civic and social impact companies
• Courses
• Graveyard

A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

The 2016 ONA Conference & Awards Banquet, Sept. 15-17

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

TICTeC is an annual milestone in the Civic Tech world, bringing together researchers, practitioners, and all those with an interest in how technology is changing the way we engage with society.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings
• Evaluate impact

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Digital rights

Watchdogging Czech Republic

• Watchdogging and transparency
• The Tech
• Civic data

The Municipal Barometer is a web-based portal that provides municipalities and people with local level data so municipalities can make informed and resolute decisions to deliver on their mandates. The portal provides people information on local demographic trends, social development, economic growth and development, environment and municipal finances graphs and tables from 1996 to 2016. The information provided is from government categories including districts, local municipalities, provinces and metros.

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

• The People
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Trump's not very concerned about accuracy in his tweets — so we will be.

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

cases of democratic technology in Latin America from eighteen countries in a twenty-six year period (1990-2016)

• The People
• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech

[C]ivil servants at the provincial Ministry of Consumer and Commercial Relations led a groundbreaking effort to form a public–private partnership to convert millions of property records—both from paper to digital and in some cases from a deeds system to titles—and create the world’s first electronic land registration system

• land

• Predecessors

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

DataFirst provides easy online access to survey and adminstative microdata from South Africa and other African countries to researchers. DataFirst also offers training to African data managers and researchers.The data the Open Data Portal provides datasets, studies and surverys carried out by universities, private organisations and government departments. In 2016 UCT Data First had about 37 047 online usage.

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

• apps
• police violence
• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

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
• Matching views to votes
• Advocacy tech