Engaged Cities is a community of practice for news organizations with engagement-first approaches to serving U.S. cities.

• cities

• Media
• Peer networks
• Journalism

CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

Drawing on literature from multiple disciplines, we propose a multi-faceted metric which future researchers, journalists and news agencies will be able to use when analysing media impact.

• Media
• Peer-reviewed research
• Investigative journalism tech

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

• Climate action
• cities

• Applied Learning
• Courses

The Impact Job features handpicked social impact jobs across the fields of nonprofits, climate change, and mission-driven businesses.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.

• guides

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Supporting public sector from outside government

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

We combine media, data and behavior science to motivate action.

• Media
• News to action
• Creators and Influencers

EUfactcheck, an initiative of the European Journalism Training Association (EJTA) fights misinformation about European policies and topics. Journalism students from all over Europe factcheck claims made by politicians and others and rate them.

• students

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Gather user-generated content for powerful testimonial campaigns. Volunteers can share a personal video (or photo) about why they support your cause, laying the foundation for engaging digital content pushes or lobbying efforts.

• Narrative tech
• Story tech
• Organize campaigns

PowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks
• Campaign organizations

A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims

• civic features

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

At AI Impact Labs, we are dedicated to helping nonprofits and mission-driven companies stay ahead of the curve by providing comprehensive support and training on using generative AI in their workflows.

• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Did you know hundreds of scientists have researched what makes activism effective?

• guides

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

.ORG Impact Awards (OIAs) recognizes and rewards those who have achieved meaningful success, often overcoming difficult challenges with few resources. These people and organizations work tirelessly – together –  in pursuit of their missions – not for recognition or financial gain, but to simply make the world a better place.

• Nonprofit tech
• Awards and prizes

We are excited to invite you to cast your vote for this year's awards, where we celebrate exceptional work in fact-checking.

• Fight disinformation
• Awards and prizes

The Fractional CxO program helps NGOs meet technology and data needs by providing access to a seasoned tech professional for 3 to 9 months.

• Nonprofit tech
• Tech talent
• Find a job or hire someone

Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.

• No poverty

• Access social benefits

ProgressiveActs is a start-up that supports grassroots civic and political mobilization through a package of services and advanced technological tools.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Messaging

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022. Additionally, a dedicated factsheet for the EU which focuses on all the matters related to digital public administration and interoperability at the European Union level is also available."

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Legislation introduced in the 117th Congress, "To establish a new Federal body to provide reasonable oversight and regulation of digital platforms."

• Govtech
• Tech or Digital Policy

Guide that "seeks to explain what disclosure logs are, how to manage them efficiently and why, although they are not a legal requirement, local authorities should seriously consider using one for the benefit of your FOI teams and, more importantly, for citizens."

• guides

• Govtech
• Open government data
• Freedom of Information

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The bill’s sponsor, Representative Ro Khanna, summed it up by saying, “Government exists to serve citizens, and this bill ensures government leverages available technology to provide cohesive, user-friendly online service that people around this country expect and deserve.”

• Govtech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Digital transformation

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Factchecking

A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

An award for the best games for social impact of the year

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Games and gamification
• Awards and prizes

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Research tools

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences and the Case School of Engineering, two of Case Western Reserve University's top schools, have developed a Certificate in Data Sciences for Social Impact.

• Data science for social good
• Academia
• Academic programs

Founded in 2018, Cooperative Impact Lab is a space to experiment with approaches and strategies to build progressive power.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Armed with user research and no-code tools, we strive to make the world a better place.

• Webflow

• Build something
• Social impact design firms
• No-code

With this mapathon, the UN Mappers community wants to join the efforts of the NGO Yer Çizenler and the OpenStreetMap community to map buildings and roads in the area.

• Mapping
• Civic maps
• Crowdsourcing

"Documents put together by university departments that attempt to explain the reach of their research beyond academia."

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

A 12 hour asynchronous online “base” program to help you launch your practice

• courses

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Online courses

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

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

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

Inactive -- Once you install the Android app, you can assign “trusted” status to your closest friends and family. Your trusted contacts will be able to see your activity status — whether you’ve moved around recently and are online — to quickly know if you're OK.

• apps
• civic features
• Android

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic features

The Hub for Civic Tech Impact at Boston University convenes many of the research and educational programs that focus on the design, analysis, and development of computing and data science methods and systems operating within the context of legal, societal, economic, and public policy frameworks.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

While each organization is responsible for its own data, humanitarians under the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) – which brings together United Nations (UN) entities, Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) consortia and the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement – need common normative, system-wide guidance to inform individual and collective action and to uphold a high standard for data responsibility in different operating environments.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

"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

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

Connecting Carbon Markets Through Open Data

• Climate action

• Blockchain

Open spreadsheet to calculate the carbon benefits of protected bikelanes

• cycling
• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

We envision a world in which people with diverse forms of expertise seamlessly learn from each other, particularly those working to understand and solve complex social problems.

• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity - we believe in media and communication for good. Last year, we reached more than 130 million people in some of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries. Our projects and programmes save lives, protect livelihoods, counter misinformation, challenge prejudice and build democracy.

• Media