The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

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

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

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
• Ballot information
• Voter assistance tech

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

• labor
• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

MetroLab Network is a group of 35 city-university partnerships focused on bringing data, analytics, and innovation to city government.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Partner networks and coalitions

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

• Access social benefits

The Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

500+ design tools for public good, all in one place.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Constitute offers access to the world’s constitutions so that users can systematically compare them across a broad set of topics — using an inviting, clean interface.

• APIs

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

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

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

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Open government data
• Civic features
• Civic maps

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

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

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Google.org Impact Challenge Bay Area is an open invitation to organizations across the Bay Area to submit their ideas to address some of the most challenging societal issues facing our community today. The 5 boldest and brightest ideas will be selected to receive $1 million in funding and support from Google.

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Working groups
• Platform coops

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

A PLATFORM FOR CITIES TO MANAGE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits
• Evaluate impact

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
• Bots

We pioneer solutions to end global homelessness.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

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
• Factchecking

San José’s ambitious goal is to bring broadband connectivity and digital skills to 50,000 households over the course of the next decade - and this initiative explicitly earmarks funding to achieve this goal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media
• Emerging Tech Projects

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

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
• Voting and elections

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

GitHub is where people build software. More than 28 million people use GitHub to discover, fork, and contribute to over 85 million projects.

• Working groups

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• CONSUL

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

In March, we hosted an international conference bringing together leaders from 18 countries and 75 cities who participated on behalf of their communities, their work reshaping democracy through participation.

• The People
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Climate Change AI aims to facilitate work at the nexus of climate change and machine learning.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

We have rated & reviewed over 75,000 products based on safety and health. See your favorite products reviewed and rated.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch. In this dynamic environment, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been a field leader, investing over $25 million since 2010 in projects […]

• The People
• Evaluate impact

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Helping recruit and support under-35 year old progressives running for down-ballot office to build a Democratic bench.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

This corpus contains emails from candidates running for state and federal office, political parties, and other political organizations like PACs. As of Sun Oct 18 23:52:25 EDT 2020, the corpus contains 286,576 emails from 3,071 senders.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

The District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, DC Code §§ 2-531-539, provides that any person has the right to request access to records.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

Girls Not Brides is a global partnership of more than 1500 civil society organisations committed to ending child marriage and enabling girls to fulfil their potential

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

Air quality monitor Flow tracks pollutants PM10, PM2.5, NO2 and VOCs. Accurate sensors measure pollution in real time. Flow helps parents, cyclists, runners, commuters or people with asthma avoid pollution and breathe clean air.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware