Fogo Cruzado (Cross-fire) is a laboratory of data on armed violence that aggregates and makes data and information available through an application for mobile technology combined with a database. It is a collaborative digital platform that aims to record the incidence of shootings and the prevalence of armed violence in the metropolitan region of Rio de Janeiro and Recife.

• apps
• gun safety

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Digital security and privacy
• Meet the others

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos. Our mission is to promote the principles of a free culture and defend civil rights on the Internet, fostering spaces for interaction and exchange of knowledge and developing Web tools with open code and design, supported by an alternative and innovative communication and advocacy work.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

NYPL Labs is an interdisciplinary team working to reformat and reposition the Library's knowledge for the Internet age.

• libraries

• The People
• Build something
• Graveyard

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We want to empower New Yorkers to advocate for ADSs that work to undo unjust systems instead of encoding inequality.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Join Boston Area Research Initiative for a public conversation centered on the opportunities and challenges of installing kiosks throughout the city.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

After finding a strong lack of artistic examples of data presentation, we decided to make some Data Murals of our own!

• Artistic interventions
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

When we talk about digital identity, digital ID and digital identification, we are really describing how digital technology is altering identification programs - programs that existed before in analogue ways.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Identity

Granicus empowers modern digital government with the latest in cloud technology that connects 160 million people with over 4,000 government organizations at the local, state and federal levels.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A tool that shows how MPs use Twitter

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement journalism

um laboratório que reunirá mandatos das casas legislativas de todo o país para que compartilhem e construam caminhos para a inovação nos parlamentos brasileiros

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Beslis samen beter Wij helpen jou om je doelgroep te betrekken. Simpel, interactief en toegankelijk.

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

Civis is a platform that enables citizens to understand and share feedback with the government on laws and policy decisions.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

a modified fork of the open source Discourse discussion platform meant to host general legislative conversations between citizens and representatives

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Omidyar Network is a social change venture that reimagines critical systems, and the ideas that govern them, to build more inclusive and equitable societies—for the benefit of the many, not just the few—across the globe.

• The People
• Funders & donors
• Get funding

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

Civic Quarterly is a publication about transforming government with digital tools & design thinking.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

a platform for collaboratively verifying news in real time

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

A “discovery sprint,” is a short, intense period of problem investigation.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

CryptoHarlem is a Digital Surveillance Clinic that has been meeting on a monthly basis since 2013 in the Harlem neighborhood of New York City. It is always open to the public and completely free of charge.

• workshops

• The People
• Digital security and privacy
• In-person meetings

A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

• The People
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The election is ours

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The aim of the Digital Ecosystem for E-Participation Linking Youth (DEEP-Linking Youth) project is to explore how e-participation can foster young people’s empowerment and active participation in democratic life.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We aim to deliver user experiences that are easily embraced by people in their everyday life.

• The People
• Digital security and privacy
• Build something

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

A collaborative tool to display data records on a map. Your data, Your control, Your options

• Digital security and privacy
• Data rights
• Digital rights

Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital participation platforms

Civic engagement tool, powered by algorithms

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital security and privacy

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The platform makes it easy for social workers and refugees to create and access digital records related to their settlement and integration into Germany, also supporting local labour market integration.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Working groups

An un-conference, one of the leading gatherings in the space, that brought together close to 1,000 attendees from 132 countries in 2018.

• Emerging Tech Conferences
• Digital security and privacy
• Conferences

coUrbanize is a community engagement platform that helps residents, real estate developers, city planners, and municipalities build better cities together.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Civocracy is fixing the relationship between citizens and their government using digital citizen participation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic forums

Across six sessions on March 7, 2019, we’ll look at how public interest tech is already changing the way power is distributed and decisions are made across public policy, philanthropic organizations, and Silicon Valley board rooms.

• The People
• Digital security and privacy
• Conferences

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Mapping platforms

Tinfoil is a place where we can talk about digital security, privacy, and journalism.

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Socialize online

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns
• Adjacent Fields

A la boîte à idées, on travaille en partenariat avec les collectivités, et on connecte tout l'écosystème local pour créer des communautés engagées.Vous voulez lancer une initiative ? Participer, à votre guise, sur votre commune ? Vous avez frappé à la bonne porte.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Dashboards

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Engagement tech