The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

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

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The California Public Technology Roundtable is a volunteer, informal group of civic techology leaders and practitioners coming together to support digital innovation at and across the state.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

EveryAction offers a best-in-class Digital, Fundraising and Organizing SaaS products, with a unified customer relationship management (CRM) platform that is able to effectively serve large and small nonprofits, as well as campaigns through its NGP VAN brand.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Get funding

Todas las peticiones llegarán a los candidatos presidenciales y podrán adoptarlas dentro de sus planes de gobierno.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Helping small businesses sell online

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

OTF maintains a helpful list of alternate funding sources and services that support efforts relevant to the fields of Internet freedom, software development, journalism, and human rights.

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

The Civic Commons Wiki was a collaborative encyclopedia documenting best-practices and open standards for file formats, APIs, agile development processes, open source software, and supporting policies and licenses in the civic sector.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Civic tech catalogs

Digital security training and resources in Colombia

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

• workshops
• Minecraft

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

With local journalism in crisis, Northwestern University has assembled a team of experts in digital innovation, audience understanding and business strategy. The goal: reinvent the relationship between news organizations and audiences to elevate enterprises that empower citizens.

• The Tech
• Media

Developed by the non-profit Cortico, the Local Voices Network (LVN) is a unique physical-digital network designed to bring under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories to the center of a healthier public dialogue.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

This wiki is dedicated to document initiatives around gender and tech, privacy and digital security that are organised by participants to the trainings and activities related to the program “Securing Online and Offline Freedoms for Women: Expression, Privacy and Digital Inclusion”.

• curricula
• women
• Gender Equality

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Gavel is a not-for-profit organization focused on improving the pace of justice delivery in Nigeria through digital technology and citizen engagement.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

At the crossroads of digital technology and social justice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Change Research provides fast, affordable and accurate public opinion polling at 80 to 90 percent less than traditional polls with the goal of ensuring that every forward-thinking candidate and campaign has access to the actionable insight they need to win

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018

• The People
• Digital rights
• Manifestos

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées

• urban planning

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Co-constructing territories by mobilizing citizen intelligence

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization

It’s not just for financial institutions; government agencies can use this digital ledger technology to protect trusted records and simplify interactions with citizens.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Collab is a prototype built by Sidewalk Labs and Digital Public Square to help break through barriers and help people participate from anywhere, at anytime

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

Promoting innovation and data literacy through a premier center of excellence

• trainings

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Psiphon is a free and open-source internet censorship circumvention tool that uses a combination of secure communication and obfuscation technologies, providing open access to the internet for millions of citizens around the world.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Every year, Access Now celebrates the heroes of human rights in the digital age, and we’re looking for nominations!

• human rights

The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

The CityLAB is an experimental laboratory for the city of the future.

• cities

• The People
• Meet the others
• Build something

Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

This edited volume collects current research by academics and practitioners on playful citizen participation through digital media technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Calgary’s LoRaWAN — a long-range, low power digital wireless network — sensors will be used to categorize noises like gun shots, trains, construction and road noise through the work of a government partnership.

• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Protecting democratic elections through secure, verifiable voting

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

How can technology make people in the world safer?

• Google

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

SUPPORTING INTERNET FREEDOM WORLDWIDE Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.

• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization
• Digital participation platforms

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Hardware
• Digital literacy

Gauge the values, priorities, and prefrences of the crowd

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century. By exploring emerging digital technology solutions with rising start-ups and experienced professionals from private and academic sectors, we enable city governments to test and learn while minimizing risk.

• The Tech
• Govtech

The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Did Facebook ads win the presidency for Donald Trump? Did they cause Brexit? Are they changing the way democracy works? Install Who Targets Me to find out who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how they’re doing it.

• extensions

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Advertising