Bringing sight to blind and low-vision people

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

See which American political parties, candidates, and ballot initiatives match your beliefs based on the 2018 issues that are most important to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Founded in 2008, the Sentinel Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that assists communities threatened by mass atrocities worldwide through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology.

• human rights
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

Across Green Country, from the Tulsa Zoo to ONEOK Field, education to health, assisting neighborhoods to assisting nonprofits, Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) is making a difference in Eastern Oklahoma. TCF is truly this community's foundation: a reflection of Tulsa's overwhelming philanthropic spirit and concern for the lives and well-being of others.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Ask Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology. This is done through an Android app, WhatsApp, calls, and SMS. Medical experts and counsellors are available 24/7 to assist users with the right information regarding sexuality at the fingertips of every youth from the age of 12 to 35 years without judgment or shame. Ask Without Shame aims to reach one million youth in East Africa by 2018, scale Ask Without shame in other African countries five years from then and eliminate sexual taboo Africa by 2050.

• WhatsApp

If knowledge is a door to information, data is the key. When you’re talking about politics and government, information is extremely important to those who are making decisions on who to vote for and what legislation to get behind or block.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

A comprehensive political database for modern day voters

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Experience the power of a nuclear blast in your area

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

707 Seiten Wahlprogramme werden geladen.

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Matching views to votes

We have developed the world's first internationally-approved standard for accessible audio navigation.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Data schemas and standards

Helping staff and volunteers make accurate referrals across the legal assistance sector in Victoria.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Hope is the assistant for the resistance. It’s the tool that will help you keep track of the news, and let you know what you can do to have an impact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Vote for Policies makes it easy to compare what the political parties are promising to do in the 2017 general election. It helps you decide who to vote for.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

My Legal Briefcase helps individuals and businesses handle their legal cases with or without a lawyer. It also assistsusers in preparing simple legal documents.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Procurements are often perceived as routine processes to obtain products and services while complying with regulatory requirements. Instead, major procurements should be regarded as opportunities to advance the government leaders’ strategic goals. As part of Bloomberg Philanthropies’ What Works Cities Initiative, the Government Performance Lab provides technical assistance to cities that seek to improve the results they achieve with their contracted dollars by employing results-driven contracting strategies, including:

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Political Change Starts Here

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Civic and social impact companies
• Voter assistance tech

Since you know yourself better than anyone, but don't know the candidates, answer a few questions about yourself and we'll match the right candidates to you.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

The Centre for Internet and Society (CIS) is an Indian, non-profit organization that undertakes interdisciplinary research on internet and digital technologies from policy and academic perspectives -- including hundreds of articles on Accessibility.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects

• apps

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

BallotReady is an online voter guide to local elections. We make it easy to vote informed on every candidate all across America.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

Our program mixes the best of both Washington and Silicon Valley, bringing together stakeholders in policy and technology to train the next generation of policy entrepreneurs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Its a free emergency app that connects South Africans to safety just by a press of a button which tells operators who you areand where you are. GPS technology means Namola can pinpoint your location to help emergency services reach you faster. It assists Neighbourhood Watches and Community Policing Forums keep their communities safe allowing them to receive alerts of incidents

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers. The brand was established in 2011 by the City’s Economic Development Unit. The Durban EDGE produces publications; economic info releases, as well as on-demand seminars; an annual release on the State of the Durban Economy; and topical research papers. Each release includes reliable data on the global, domestic, and local economy; designed to assist researchers, investors, business leaders, politicians and other key stakeholders.

It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Foundational layers

Voter assistance portal for Romanians

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The Human Utility provides assistance to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.

• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Der Wahlometer will den Datenschatz der Wahl-O-Maten heben, indem die Daten möglichst niederschwellig zugänglich gemacht werden.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

Over 1 million workers are using Organise to win better pay and conditions at work. Complete your confidential profile page to get started!

• employee organizing
• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Online forums

LawPadi started as an online legal advice system to provide information and resources to people in Nigeria.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

Legistify is a platform where people in need of legal assistance can find a lawyer.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Public Innovation

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Open innovation

The Smart City Digital Inclusion Maturity Model is a tool to help cities worldwide assess and benchmark their level of digital inclusion and ICT accessibility.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

A digital assistant for your child care business.

• Access social benefits

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

• indigenous

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Create modern web applications that evaluate household data against eligibility rules for 31 different City, State, and Federal benefits programs (including SNAP, Cash Assistance, WIC, HEAP, and more).

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits