We help social change leaders understand what tech can and can’t do, and build the tech solutions behind solving a social problem.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Nonprofit tech

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

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

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

• Advocacy tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Organize campaigns

We’re a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies, nonprofits and enterprises with a social-impact mission.

• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

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.

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

CLD works collaboratively with NGOs around the world, on a consultancy or small project basis, to carry out projects aimed at boosting respect for key human rights.

• human rights

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

Transparencia, para que conozcas los datos más relevantes de los proyectos ganadores de la consulta del Presupuesto Participativo en la Ciudad de México, a lo largo del tiempo.

The Disinformation Action Lab (DAL) at Data & Society forges new approaches to address the complex dynamics underpinning the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Last publication December 2020.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Online consult for abortion pills by mail

• women's health
• Good health and well-being
• health

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

The Advocacy Hub is a community of consultant campaigners, evaluators, facilitators and strategists who support and advise civil society organisations to become more effective and have greater impact.

• Organize campaigns

The Magnifier is the first news agency in Brazil to specialize in journalistic technique known worldwide as fact-checking and was founded on November 1, 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a volunteer-run educational nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting science-based truth-seeking, rational thinking, and wise decision-making.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Manifestos

Animal Político is a digital native medium that brings together journalists, designers, programmers and video editors to create content with rigor, precision and thought to serve citizens.

• Media
• Journalism

Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

The Facebook Digital Literacy Library is hosted by Facebook and currently includes learning resources made available by Youth and Media at the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license.

• Facebook
• youth

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

This Code of Conduct was published to address the issues of election transparency and disinformation in the digital sphere.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Voting and elections

470 tech policy resources

• Tech or Digital Policy

Data consultancy and a digital platform to improve the results of your development programme

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

A platform built for accessible and consensus-driven public consultation, harnessing machine learning to derive quality insights. Cornell Tech Studio project

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

We work with state and local governments to help with prototyping and procurement for federally-funded digital public services, using agile acquisition consulting services.

• local
• state

• Govtech

Civic Bridge recruits private sector professionals to volunteer their time to work alongside government employees on critical City issues. Pro-bono, private-sector support can increase the City’s capacity to identify and analyze pain points, provide agile and iterative solutions, as well as increase interest in cross-sector collaborations. Civic Bridge is a cohort-based program, the program builds off of the example set by a number of Cities such as Chicago’s Civic Consulting Alliance and San Jose’s Silicon Valley Talent Partnership .

• Pro bono and volunteer

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services.

• trainings

• Procurement
• Govtech vendors

Research ICT Solutions Ltd. is a boutique consultancy based in Canada and South Africa. Started in 2013, we have built a select list of clients who need simple but effective tools to make better decisions. RIS targets the policy and regulatory intersection between policy makers, regulators and the private sector. Our clients range from country regulators, international donor organisations to multi-national companies like Facebook.

• guides

• Connectivity

The adoption of policing technologies must be guided by democratic legitimacy and an imperative to minimize harm.

• police violence

• Justice tech

Humanity Innovation Labs is an agile consultancy that offers Mixed Methods Research, UX/UI, and Industrial Design services for emerging technologies within wearable computing (e.g. physical devices and digital experiences).

• Design
• Civic and social impact companies

We are a hands-on, empathy-guided consultancy agency. Our projects help start-ups, corporates, and administrations navigate city ecosystems and deploy impactful urban tech solutions globally.

• cities

• Govtech vendors

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

NYC Open Data’s mission is Open Data for All. In order to meet that goal, we must examine our Data Dictionaries— the metadata we provide to all Open Data users. Well-written, user-friendly data dictionaries help users to become self-reliant, able to answer their own questions about a dataset without needing to contact an Open Data Coordinator for clarification. NYC Open Data partnered with the Metropolitan Library Council (METRO), Pratt Institute, Sloan Foundation, The Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York City, Tiny Panther Consulting, New York Public Library, Queens Public Library and Brooklyn Public Library to implement an initiative called Metadata for All in the Summer of 2018.

On June 24, 1982, at the 2nd UN Special Session on Disarmament held at UN Headquarters in New York, then Mayor Takeshi Araki of Hiroshima proposed a new Program to Promote the Solidarity of Cities toward the Total Abolition of Nuclear Weapons. This proposal offered cities a way to transcend national borders and work together to press for nuclear abolition. Subsequently, the mayors of Hiroshima and Nagasaki called on mayors around the world to support this program. The Mayors for Peace is composed of cities around the world that have formally expressed support for the program Mayor Araki announced in 1982. As of December 1, 2016, membership stood at 7,196 cities in 162 countries and regions. We were registered as a NGO in Special Consultative Status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council in May 1991.

parCitypatory is a blog, but also a consultancy happy to advise you on urban planning and citizen participation issues. I organise workshops with participatory methods, help you with the project management of urban planning programmes and support the communication of your and your community’s idea. To hire me as a consultant, please get in touch with [email protected]! And if you like my writing, hire me as a writer on all things urban via Texts and the City.

Design and deliver a digital government with and for the American public.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Govtech vendors

citizink es una plataforma de participación creada con tecnologías de código abierto

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

Planning and participatory democracy consultancy out of Portugal that also publishes books about participatory budgeting

• Participatory budgeting
• Civic and social impact companies

Social and open participation consultancy in Colombia

• Civic and social impact companies

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Govtech
• Surveys & polling
• Bureaucracy tech

Polish public consultation platform

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Donnez votre avis sur des sujets de société qui vous tiennent à coeur en participant à nos consultations citoyennes. Ensemble, citoyens, associations et entreprises, définissons nos priorités et réalisons des changements concrets.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

French association of consultation professionals for an innovative public debate.

• Engagement tech

Lateral Economics do things differently so that their clients reap the rewards. Policy consultants and lobbyists who simply advocate their clients’ interests achieve limited results. Influencing policy outcomes requires more than advocacy. It requires an understanding of how a complex jigsaw of interests and ideas fit together. The key is understanding the goals of a business or government agency, understanding the principal drivers of policy and the public interest, and finding new ways to fit them together.

Digital platform and methodology to open local governments. Powered by CONSUL.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Consultez différemment.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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
• Digital security and privacy

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

• place-based

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy