First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Factchecking

Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.

• Good health and well-being

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

• civic features
• Apple

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Developing and sharing open source methodologies to safely test for the presence of SARS-CoV-2 using multiple approaches.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Cameras
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Restaurant hygiene scores from the City of San Francisco will be imported onto Yelp business pages

• civic features
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data science for social good
• Data schemas and standards

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

We have rated & reviewed over 75,000 products based on safety and health. See your favorite products reviewed and rated.

• Watchdogging and transparency

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

IIT Institute of Design (ID) is a graduate design school with a history of innovation. ID pioneered the development and dissemination of modern design from its founding in 1937 as the New Bauhaus in Chicago. Today, our graduate design school focuses on global challenges. We prepare designers to take on the worlds complex, fast-changing, and unpredictable problems such as competitiveness, digital media and learning, health and wellbeing, and social innovation.

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

Helping make the internet safer and more accessible

• research
• human rights
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Solidarity networks

Flowminder Foundation is a registered non-profit entity based in Stockholm, Sweden, Our mission is to improve public health outcomes by working with NGOs and government agencies with method development, capacity building, and implementation and scaling of processes relating to collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data and satellite data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• Digital fabrication
• Hardware

As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers. From Atlanta to Seattle and points in between, cities have begun seizing the initiative, transforming themselves into laboratories for progressive innovation. Income inequality, affordable housing, climate change, sustainable development, public health, participatory government—cities are tackling them all, bringing new urgency to some of the most vital questions of the day. Welcome to the age of big city progressivism! Cities Rising is The Nation’s contribution to the conversation.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Covers local mutual aid, self care, mental health, kids, funders, messaging, and relief funds

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

Radical Relay is your feisty aunty helping you ask those questions before, during, and after an appointment or ER visit.

• The Tech
• Bots
• Emerging tech

An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace

• labor

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation

• permits
• reports

• Procurement
• Regulation
• Reports

This extension filters through and hides all of the locations on the OK vaccine portal which currently don't have appointments.

• extensions

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Supporting public sector from outside government

CityScore is an initiative designed to inform the Mayor and city managers about the overall health of the City at a moment’s notice by aggregating key performance metrics into one number.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

We co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Help out

GiftedMom is a leading mobile health solutions provider in Africa. We leverage last mile technologies to provide pregnant women and new mothers access to health information and strengthen linkages to antenatal care.

Public Lab is an open community which collaboratively develops accessible, open source, Do-It-Yourself technologies for investigating local environmental health and justice issues.

• The Tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations
• Emerging tech

SONYC is currently seeking citizen scientists to help address NYC’s noise by annotating audio clips for our machine learning technology.

• cities
• noise

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Flare is an app that aggregates public and privately owned ambulance companies into an interface for patients and hospitals. It is a digitalized 911 system for the African context. With the Flare platform, ambulance companies use the browser dashboard to manage their fleet and the app in their vehicles to respond to patient and hospital requests. Healthcare professionals and patients also use the app or hotline to coordinate patient transfers and rescues.

• Emergency services

The Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit (PEU) proactively connects New Yorkers to key City services, like housing and healthcare.

• Good health and well-being
• housing
• translation

• Canvassing

We are a Tech & Innovation Hub located in Tunis and operating all over the world. Our aim is to create, and co-found ventures in E-Health, Gaming, Blockchain & Digital Transformation.

• The People
• Build something
• In-person meetings

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Building inside government

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

• Amazon

• The People
• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Good Habit Lab is a web platform that will help people meet their health and wellbeing goals.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

HUMAN-CENTERED TOOLS TO ADVANCE NEW YORKERS' MENTAL HEALTH

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

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
• Emerging tech
• Media

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

We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young mother in Nigeria, we are catalysts of human promise everywhere.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We’re here to protect democracy, defend people's dignity, and demand accountability from the powerful institutions who breach public trust.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Case management software for governments and nonprofits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Case management

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

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• COVID
• Digital fabrication

StepUp is a free habit building, science-based workout program developed by the Behavior Change for Good Initiative. The program is being launched in partnership with 24 Hour Fitness.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Challenges

Since 1989, CSDC has been fueling process performance through purpose-built, automation technology.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

• The Tech
• Bots
• Adjacent Fields

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

We are Digital Defense Fund, and we do digital security for the abortion access movement.

• guides
• trainings
• women's health

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Hotlines

Durban Answers is a city website where Durban citizens can information and services with a simple search. On the website you can find information about licencing issues, health information, public transport, universities, schools, libraries, metro fines etc.

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The People
• The Tech
• Find a job or hire someone

Collect the place-based data you need using our easy mobile tools and web dashboard. Create your own survey or engage around community health, safety, commercial development, blight, historic resources, and more. Quickly export your data for Excel or as a Shapefile.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing