Resources & activities for multi-stakeholder groups to design data strategies

• Civic data
• Data governance

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• cities

• Urban planning

Peticijos.lt is a Lithuanian website that serves as a platform for creating and signing petitions.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Petitions

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Open government data

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

• Media
• Games and gamification

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• Govtech
• Service delivery

The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Individuals is designed to assess an individual’s level of development in understanding critical elements of cultural safety and working to create culturally safe experiences with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander individuals. The Cultural Safety Audit Tool for Organisations is designed to assess an organisation’s commitment to a level of development in embedding cultural safety.

• indigenous
• racial equity

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Report cards and audits

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Service delivery

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

We connect volunteers (developers, graphic designers, marketing specialists) with impactful social good projects to help them with tech.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats. Most people are never targeted by attacks of this nature.

• Apple

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• cities

• Govtech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

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

• Climate action
• cities

• Courses
• Applied Learning

The European Democracy Hub acts as a hub for expertise on European democracy support, bringing together analysts and policymakers. 

• Participatory democracy
• Foundation initiatives

NoKunda was a pioneering civic tech initiative designed to catalyze a civic movement in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, enabling citizens to report instances of electricity theft to the relevant authorities.

• electricity

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

IFES’s Election Cyber Readiness Network (ECRN) is designed to bring together key technology partners, election commissions, and other stakeholders to form regional and national strategies to protect elections from digital threats and support long-term electoral integrity.

• Voting and elections
• Cybersecurity
• Election administration

A dynamic, open-source reference library for practitioners who are working through complexity to improve access to public benefits and services.

• Access social benefits

Elker is an anonymous reporting platform that allows people to speak up about workplace issues such as harassment, discrimination, and misconduct.

• anti-harassment
• labor
• Gender Equality

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Whistleblowing

With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.

• Identity

Solving technological problems in the legislative process for House of Representatives Members, Committees, and staff.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

We build and maintain data systems designed for the specific data needs of progressive organizations.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Our mission is to radically improve policy making through design, innovation and people-centred approaches.

• Govtech
• Innovation teams and labs
• Co-design

A taxonomy of deceptive design patterns, laws, cases, reading list, hall of shame, and Deceptive Patterns book

• guides

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Design

The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Legal tech

A collection of approachable but well-researched primers on emerging tech and potential benefits and risks

• Partnerships for the Goals
• development
• guides

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Emerging tech

Ubunge is Kenya's pioneer County Assembly parliamentary monitoring project, designed and implemented by The Demography Project, to open public participation and citizen engagement in the 47 County Assemblies and the defunct Local Authorities.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• State and regional government technology

debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Boonmee Lab is a design, data, and technology company who will bring meaningful innovation with excellence to the society.

• Social impact design firms
• Civic apps outfits

We create meaningful conversation with data + design + story.

• Civic data
• Build something
• Data visualization

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology experiences for everyone.

• cities

• Govtech
• Design

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities

• Playbooks and design principles

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

Vetted methods, key principles, inspiring stories and experts from around the world

• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles
• Collective intelligence

The discussion list has over 3,800 members from all over the world, from a wide range of disciplines including: campaigners, designers, content creators, fundraisers, academics, agencies, vendors and much more. It is a friendly, supportive, highly knowledgeable community where you can receive and share advice about best practice for digital campaigning.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

With unparalleled voter data, a powerful canvassing app, and easy-to-use contact tools, this all-in-one campaign solution packs a punch. Designed to scale with you from city council to Congress and beyond, our platform offers all the features you need to run smoother and smarter campaigns.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Fundraising tools

Capulet is a digital marketing and communications agency that works exclusively with nonprofits and companies that care about people and the planet.

• Nonprofit tech
• Campaign organizations
• Social impact design firms

A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase the efficiency of the city operations.

• cities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Urban planning

Penpot is the Open-Source Design & Prototyping Tool for Product Teams (Figma alternative)

• Design
• General purpose open source tools

Collective creativity for the common good

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

A tool designed for organizers on the go, giving them needed information at their fingertips to grow power and win real change.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• CRM

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

We are the ProPublica union. We are reporters, editors, designers and business and communications staff across the entire workplace who are dedicated to investigative reporting in the public interest.

• labor

• Media
• Journalism
• Civic tech unions

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.

• local

• Neighborhood forums