Chronicles surprising and inspiring climate initiatives in communities across the U.S. through stories of cities leading the way

• Climate action

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Nonprofit newsrooms

An upskilling initiative "to equip 1,000 adults from low-income backgrounds with the tools and skills they need to become software engineers and thrive in tech careers."

• Decent work and economic growth

• Find a job or hire someone
• Upskilling
• Economic development

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

Code for Dallas is an official Code for America Brigade in Dallas, TX working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Bringing together democratic organisations and sharing non-partisan resources for teachers to support young people to engage in elections.

• students

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Gas Leaks is exposing the truth about dirty, dangerous, deadly gas disinformation

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

This Coursera course aims to help learners understand how inequity and injustice can become embedded in technology, science, and associated policies, and how this can be addressed.

• racial equity
• Reduced inequalities

• Courses
• Tech or Digital Policy

An 8-week program for current undergraduates to learn how to use data science and AI for social impact

• students
• trainings

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses

The Starling Lab, a research center anchored at Stanford University’s School of Engineering and the University of Southern California’s Shoah Foundation, has developed a ground-breaking framework to combat mis/disinformation by tracking the provenance of digital content through the use of open-source tools, best practices and case studies designed to help reduce information uncertainty.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Fellowships

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Blockchain
• Archives

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

A coalition working against ShotSpotter's "harmful impacts on the Black, brown, and poor people that the company surveils."

• criminal justice
• noise

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Specific campaigns
• Justice tech

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Courses
• Data science for social good

Book edited By Adrian Bua and Sonia Bussu

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Awards and prizes

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Automated data gathering, simple ESG frameworks & actionable insights for venture capital investors and portfolio companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Evaluate impact
• Fintech for good

The gaming giant is making its accessibility-related patents royalty-free

• Reduced inequalities

• Civic teams at tech companies
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Games and gamification

SuperSkills! is a learning ecosystem, developed by Learning Economy and LEGO Foundation. Children ages 4-12 embark on quests to help save a league of super heroes by participating in learning-through-play activities that send them out into the world of discovery and away from their devices.

• youth

• 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

It’s a more-effective twist on list growth that consists of two parts: our activist network and custom petition platform that helps you reach them.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

• videos

• Digital security and privacy

NOYB enforces your right to privacy everyday

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Consumer watchdogging

Lioness helps everyday people bring forward stories in the public interest.

• Media
• Whistleblowing
• Solidarity networks

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source supply chain

Consolidation of underwater video data will catalyze a new era of discovery.

• Life below water

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Environmental data

At www.mta.me, Conductor turns the New York subway system into an interactive string instrument.

• mass transit

• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

An aggregator of Black Lives Matter protests across the US

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators
• Direct action

Misinformation exposure scores measure how much the politicians and public organizations you follow tend to lie (based on fact-checking their claims by PolitiFact).

• X (Twitter)

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Taking care of the world's civic infrastructure

• Climate action
• humanitarian

• Civic apps outfits
• Fieldwide resources

Relational organizing app to build support for your campaign through friends and family

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Relational organizing

DemLabs works with campaigns to understand their needs, finds the best free/affordable apps that meet it and then freely shares how others can use the solution as well.

• partisan
• US Election 2020

• Learn about civic tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Measuring the state of data for the public good

• reports

• Civic data
• Benchmarks
• Open government data

It is intended to reward on an annual basis individuals or groups who have particularly distinguished themselves in strengthening European integration by the expression of European cooperation, openness to others and practical involvement in the development of mutual understanding.

• Awards and prizes

Research Methods in Deliberative Democracy is the first book that brings together a wide range of methods used in the study of deliberative democracy.

• methodology
• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report
• Reports

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Book edited By Baogang He, Michael Breen, James Fishkin (2021)

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books

The Justice Innovation Fellowship program places technologists and designers in state, local, and tribal courts to improve the public’s access to justice.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Justice tech

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports

• Social media

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

The Catalog of Digital Solutions is an interactive online tool providing data and resources for donors, governments, procurers, and implementers to support their digital initiatives.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D