A startup developing an automated toolkit for energy monitoring and management

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

acquired by Airbnb and shut down

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Emerging tech

Publishing contracts data as open data

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open government data

The encyclopedia of American politics

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Civic Technology and Open Government - Global #civictech #opengov has 7,413 members. ‎Global exchange on civic technology, open government, open data,...

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Designing a more equitable world

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Open Data Barometer for Latin America and the Caribbean covers 24 countries and classifies governments according to readiness for open data initiatives, implementation of open data programs, and impact that open data is having on companies, politics and civil society.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Berlinweit gibt es ca. 84.000 Menschen die staatliche Unterstützung in Form von Grundsicherung zur Sicherung ihres Lebensunterhalts bekommen.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Le collectif Regards Citoyens est une association constituée de citoyens de tous âges et régions, tous bénévoles, qui se sont rencontrés sur Internet dans un désir commun de proposer un accès simplifié au fonctionnement de nos institutions démocratiques à partir des informations publiques.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Our software measures economic and infrastructure conditions across Africa, informing how capital can be deployed to drive forward economic progress.

• development

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Wetaase is an online and mobile platform serving high-risk individuals, victims and survivors of human trafficking in Uganda.

• anti-trafficking

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Peer networks

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Civic tech catalogs
• Socialize online
• Job boards

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

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.

Interactive Text’s web platform sends, receives, and analyzes text messages so you can reach the people you serve with the technology already in their pocket, 24/7.

• Campaign tools
• SMS tools
• Peer to peer SMS

The Ministry of Health (MISAU), in fulfilling its mandate to provide health services to all Mozambicans, has drawn up the Strategic Health Sector Plan (PESS) 2014-2019 with a view to “helping all Mozambicans, especially target groups vulnerable, to enjoy the best possible health, at an affordable cost. ” Despite the existence of a lot of health information available to help citizens to avoid contracting diseases as well as taking initial measures whenever symptoms arise, the segment of the population that most needs this information is often deprived of it, due to the means of communication. communication used. Email / Internet campaigns rarely reach hidden areas, and many citizens remain without the means to buy televisions or enough energy to power this device. It is for these reasons that we found a possible solution on mobile phones, and in particular the Educational Health Information Platform (PENSA).

• Access social benefits

Not accepting fellows as of 4/23/2020. The Compass Fellowship connects diverse changemakers with the tools, training, and jobs needed to build a career in the progressive movement.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

innovateAFRICA is the continent’s largest fund for supporting civic media experimentation and digital news startups in everything from data-driven journalism and investigative reporting, to newsroom management, audience engagement, digital convergence, and media business models.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

free public access portal to more than 6.4 million state and federal court decisions encompassing 360 years of American case law

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Legal tech

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

• apps
• police violence
• youth

• Civic data
• Communicating with the government
• Crowdsourcing

A card game for making suggestions on participatory budgeting

• The Tech
• Media
• Participatory budgeting

This map shows the combined areas forming a 10-minute "walkshed" around NYC's 470 subway stations.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Investigate how weather and climate change are impacting our communities and environment.

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

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

• cities

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

Predictiv helps organisations make better and faster decisions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

CIC St. Louis Schedule A Tour 314.615.6301

• Hubs

SindhupalCheck is an app for real-time citizen feedback on the effectiveness of constructing earthquake resilient homes in Nepal.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Emerging tech

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

• urban planning

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

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

Inspired by the help that people give each other during hard times, we created an application that will allow anyone in need to find help in their daily duties.

• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

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
• Graveyard

Tunabakonzi is not an official site of the Congolese Government. It is a site built with the support of OSISA by Collectif 24, a platform of Congolese civil society organizations that advocates for the transparency of public action, citizen participation through the promotion and protection of civil society. right of access to information and freedom of expression. The site is built to help anyone like you to have information held by the Congolese authorities at the local, provincial and national levels. No more traveling to access public information.

• Graveyard
• Freedom of Information

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

GotToVote started off as a simple experiment to make data otherwise locked in government, useful to the general public. When the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission released voter registration centres locations information in the 2013 Kenyan Elections, they made it available as a PDF on their otherwise always unavailable website. This unprecedented ease of finding your registration centre spurred adoption of GotToVote's simple code in Zimbabwe, Ghana and Malawi. Code4Africa continues to this day in ensuring citizens get to the ballot box prepared by adding more arsenal of what GotToVote can offer and has grown to include Peace Messaging, Polling Results and Voter Registration Confirmation (VRC). In Kenya GotToVote deployment that focussed on making it easy to find your nearest registration center; In Malawi - the Malawi Government as their official platform, GotToVote was used for voter registration confirmation

The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

• trainings

The Digital News Innovation Fund (DNI Fund) is a European programme that's part of the Google News Initiative, an effort to help journalism thrive in the digital age.

• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media