Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

12-24 month startup accelerator at Cornell Tech

• Academia
• Accelerators
• Public Interest Tech

Gazettes are a critical record of South African history. They should be easy to find and use, and freely available to everyone. With nearly 40, 000 gazettes from between 1958 and 2020 available, Open Gazettes is the largest freely online collection of gazettes in South Africa.

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing portals

The United States Conference of Mayors (USCM) is the official non-partisan organization of cities with populations of 30,000 or more. There are 1,408 such cities in the country today. Each city is represented in the Conference by its chief elected official, the mayor.

On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This proposal offered cities a way to transcend national borders and work together to press for nuclear abolition. Subsequently, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on mayors around the world to support this program. The Mayors for Peace is composed of cities around the world that have formally expressed support for the program Mayor Araki announced in 1982. As of December 1, 2016, membership stood at 7,196 cities in 162 countries and regions. We were registered as a NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council in May 1991.

LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

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

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.

• Evaluate impact

Investing in education, training and skills development by ensuring that ICT is fully and appropriately integrated into education and training at all levels and also establishing educational networks for sharing educational resources and promoting e-learning at all levels; Building capacity of the youth to fully integrate them into the Country’s technological transformation;

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The Procurement Governance (PG) initiative seeks to improve the effectiveness of public sector processes by entrenching efficiency, accountability, and transparency within Nigeria’s public procurement landscape. With over 4 cardinal program areas of Access to Information, open contracting, procurement monitoring and FOI ranking, PG through strategic reform initiatives, overhauls Nigeria procurement system for improved governance and citizens satisfaction. Our PG initiative has successfully revamped public contracting conducts and access to information by improving disclosure practices of public institutions and their responsiveness to citizens demand; enhanced public service effectiveness in Africa and facilitated increased citizen participation in governance

• Procurement

Cette plateforme mise en œuvre par Bruitparif centralise les cartes stratégiques de bruit (CSB) disponibles au sein de la région Île-de-France dans le cadre de la mise en œuvre de la directive européenne 2002/49/CE.

• cities
• noise

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors

Tu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

Czech participatory engagement platform for towns, villages, schools, and non-profits (and NYC's participatory budgeting)

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.

• Open asks

The firehose of global crisis data

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Democracy and participatory political group in Guayaquil

• Participatory democracy

With data infrastructure purpose-built to deliver audience-based insights, narrative and network analysis, and empirical validation of cultural strategy and content, we help strategists and creative practitioners identify story opportunities and challenges across a range of social issues.

• Civic data
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Case Studies from Around the World

• Books
• Design

Join us as the 2022 Civic Design Fellow. In a 4-month program, from January to April, you’ll take your interest in democracy as a design problem to the next level, working with the Center for Civic Design team and completing an independent project exploring the intersection of language access and voting participation.

• Fellowships
• Design

Baltimore City Council Bill 19-0429 requires the Department of Housing & Community Development to post signage on vacant buildings that will identify owners so that they can be held accountable by the public.

• housing
• place-based

• Cameras

Covering data for social good, data governance, and societal-level data considerations

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data science for social good
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Makhanda, South Africa). The 24-year old event is supported by a variety of partners including Government, corporate South Africa and development agencies. The key focus is the impact of digital technologies (internet and mobile) on journalism and the media and, by extension, society.

• Conferences
• Journalism

The Fair Tax Mark certification scheme was launched in February 2014 and seeks to encourage and recognise organisations that pay the right amount of corporation tax at the right time and in the right place. It operates as a not-for-profit social enterprise and believe that companies paying tax responsibly should be celebrated, and any race to the bottom resisted. To date, the Fair Tax Mark have focussed on certifying businesses head-quartered in the UK, but a suite of global standards will be rolled out in 2021.

• Consumer watchdogging
• Trustmarks

The Premium Times Centre for Investigative Journalism [PTCIJ] is a non-governmental organisation, that was founded in 2014. PTCIJ] works to promote a truly independent media landscape that advances fundamental human rights, good governance and accountability in West Africa through investigative journalism, open data and civic technology.

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.

Kijiji Yeetu is a smart village platform that offers a unique ecosystem for activating our villages’ resources, knowledge, inspiration into viable development opportunities in 47 counties in Kenya, East Africa and beyond the world.

• towns

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. If you don’t have a smartphone, you can find the same functionality on the website. Action for Transparency empowers citizens and government employees to act on corruption experienced in their everyday lives. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. By exposing which institutions and individuals are involved in corruption and providing the data to journalists and activist groups we hope we can make corruption less attractive.

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

The WeVote app is a one stop shop to learn about the candidates and your voting rights and responsibilities, act on Election Day by voting or volunteering and share events you plan to attend and materials you have read.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Ballot information

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.

• case studies

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

• Access social benefits

Digital Innovation for Social Impact

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Resisting extremism in America, one phone call at a time. Text DAILY to 228466 (ACTION) or sign up on our site, you'll get one call action text every workday.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

45 actions to prepare for our 45th President

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

The Story of Stuff Project’s journey began with a 20-minute online movie about the way we make, use and throw away all the Stuff in our lives. Five years and 40 million views later, we’re a Community of 500,000 changemakers worldwide, working to build a more healthy and just planet.

• videos

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns

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 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
• Participatory democracy

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

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

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Mapping
• Civic maps
• 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

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

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

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