The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Every year, we track innovations and changes across the political tech space, recognizing the need to capture the developments in this fast-changing industry. This report focuses on the historic 2022 midterm cycle.

• reports
• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Fieldwide resources

Join an expert-led community of 500k purpose-driven escapees and progressive employers. Events, courses and resources to help you find your next exciting opportunity.

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

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

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

• hate speech
• X (Twitter)

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.

• Preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people
• Access social benefits

2023 applications for digital equity grant opportunities from the City of Seattle are now open for organizations and community groups looking to help close the digital divide. This year, the City is offering $545,000 for qualifying projects with Technology Matching Fund (TMF) grants.

• Get funding
• Connectivity

Ahbap crowdfunding page with over 57,000 donations

• earthquakes

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

See both sides of important issues— in 5 minutes a day.

• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Narwhal is a discussion community for curious people of any viewpoint

• Online forums
• Civic forums
• Social networks

Informed Giving = More Effective Relief

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Activism aggregators

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

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

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Communicating with the people

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

• Get funding
• Investors

Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.

• racial equity

• Media
• Games and gamification

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A 501(c)(3) non-profit creating modern digital solutions for real-world, physical problems.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

The Grants have two goals – to contribute to a more equal Europe, both socially and economically – and to strengthen the relations between Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and the 15 Beneficiary States in Europe.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

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

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Behavioral economics programs
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects

The time for theorizing is coming to an end. The need for action has arrived.

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Launched in 2005, Voice of San Diego was the first digital, nonprofit news organization in the country to serve a local community.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

MinnPost is an independent, nonprofit newsroom that produces thoughtful, in-depth journalism about civic and cultural affairs impacting Minnesota.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Government Technology used the Socrata Open Data API to look at about 55,000 data assets published by 336 U.S. state and local governments — an average of 163 assets per publisher

• Civic data
• Open government data

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Connect and live more safely. Citizen is a personal safety network that empowers you to protect yourself and the people and places you care about. Download for COVID-19 contact tracing, access to real-time 911 alerts, instant help from crisis responders, and safety tracking for friends and families. https://www.vice.com/en/article/7kv88q/citizen-los-angeles-car-private-security https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/18/business/citizen-app-arson-wildfire-devin-hilton.html

• apps
• crime

deepfakes How good are you at spotting political deepfakes? Test yourself with the latest version of Detect Fakes, featuring a series of both real videos and deepfakes of the two most recent US presidents. The goal of this work, developed by researchers in the Affective Computing and Viral Communications research groups, is to "prebunk" deepfakes—videos manipulated by neural networks—by

From 2005-2017, CeRI was a multidisciplinary group of Cornell University researchers engaged intheoretical and applied research, in partnership with government agenciesand civil society groups, to discover how the design and process of online engagement can support public discussion that is informed, inclusive and

• Engagement tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

El Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, IIDH/CAPEL, es un programa especializado del Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH).

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Ma Dada est un site associatif qui vous aide à faire des demandes d’accès aux documents administratifs communicables.

สำนักข่าวออนไลน์ไทยพับลิก้า ThaiPublica.org ก่อตั้งในเดือนกันยายน 2554 นำเสนอข่าวสืบสวนสอบสวน เน้นประเด็นตรวจสอบความโปร่งใสภาครัฐ ความโปร่งใสภาคเอกชน และการพัฒนาที่ยั่งยืน ดำเนินงานโดยทีมงานนักข่าวอาชีพที่มีประสบการณ์ในวงการรวมกันกว่า 60 ปี

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

A public grant opportunity open to registered 501(c) nonprofit organizations in the United States who are using cloud technology to solve the world's most pressing challenges

• Amazon

• Get funding
• Build something

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on. This will prevent 50 states from buying 50 versions of near-identical, overpriced software, and instead allows them to procure high-quality, fair-priced software just once, and share it amongst themselves.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Peer networks

The Journalism Development Network, inc. (JDN) is a Maryland-based 501©3 non-profit journalism organization dedicated to improving investigative reporting and newsroom management around the world.

• Journalism
• Investigative journalism tech

ParityBOT is a Twitter bot that spins the abuse and toxicity directed at women in politics into positive, uplifting and encouraging messages. The artificial intelligence technology that powers ParityBOT detects and classifies hateful, harmful and toxic tweets directed at women in leadership or public office. For every toxic tweet that passes a certain threshold, the bot posts a “positivitweet.” ParityBOT has been deployed in Canada during the federal election in 2019, and the Alberta election in 2019. During this time: +245,000 tweets were processed 393 candidates were tracked +20,000 positive tweets sent

• Gender Equality
• women

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Bots

The Los Angeles Reforms for Equity and Public Acknowledgment of Institutional Racism (L.A. REPAIR) is L.A.'s first participatory budget pilot program. L.A. REPAIR will distribute roughly $8.5 million directly to nine L.A. City neighborhoods, called REPAIR Zones.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

A RCT on government staff customer service reps found that providing information on organ donor registration rates led to a 25% increase in signups

• health

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Como ya hicimos en anteriores legislaturas, vamos a monitorizar toda la actividad legislativa y parlamentaria de la Cámara baja para ayudar a la institución y a nuestros diputados y diputadas a cumplir con valores de gobernanza imprescindibles en nuestros días como la transparencia y la rendición de cuentas.

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech