Numina measures all kinds of curb-level activity. Anonymously and in aggregate, Numina delivers the volume counts, paths, and traffic behaviors of travelers and objects in streets.

• cities
• streetscape
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

A comprehensive look at the growing world of new mobility.

• mobility

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The new ReliefWeb Numbers site aims to deliver easily discoverable topline numbers on the world's most pressing humanitarian crises.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Evaluate impact

Monument Lab is a nonprofit public art and history studio based in Philadelphia. We cultivate and facilitate critical conversations around the past, present, and future of monuments.

• history
• place-based
• culture

• Artistic interventions

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

Grassroots fundraising with NFTs

• Fundraising tools
• Campaign tools
• Blockchain

Data Science Consulting for Smart Products and Effective Strategy

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

a blog on the data the government should collect, but doesn't

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Face à l’essoufflement des partis politiques, la défiance vis-à-vis des élus et l’abstentionnisme des jeunes, les outils numériques apparaissent comme salvateurs.

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

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Civil society research outfits

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Civic data APIs

Dieser Prototyp durchsucht die Schriftlichen Anfragen und die Hauptausschussvorgänge ("Rote Nummern") der Wahlperiode 19 des Berliner Abgeordnetenhauses und erstellt anhand eines Large Language Models Vorlagen für die Beantwortung der gestellten Frage.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The 2019 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) data and publication "Illuminating Inequalities" released on 11 July 2019 shed light on the number of people experiencing poverty at regional, national and subnational levels, and reveal inequalities across countries and among the poor themselves.

• No poverty
• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Reports
• Economic development

OffenesParlament.de sammelt Informationen über die Arbeit des Bundestages. Last updates 2017.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Freedom House's an annual global report on political rights and civil liberties, composed of numerical ratings and descriptive texts for each country and a select group of territories.

• free speech

• Indicators

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Crowdmatching for Public Goods

• coop

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

We partner with technologists & civic hackers practitioners on a number of open source projects:

• Meet the others
• Graveyard
• Civic hacking meetups

An opportunity for every conscious member of society to contribute to the elimination of the shadow economy.

• taxes
• illicit goods
• corruption

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps

It's an open source carbon footprint web application that enables users to approximate their annual carbon footprint.

• Climate action

• Carbon calculators

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

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

Développez votre engagement civique grâce aux outils numériques

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

Command Line Phone Number Buyer for Twilio

• Advocacy tech
• Peer to peer SMS

Nepalese government mobile app for citizens

• apps

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bureaucracy tech

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

This study by Yuya Shibuya empirically analyzes the impacts of open data on behavioral change by investigating the case of Taiwan.

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID

2022 book by Dan Bouk

• census
• books

• Civic data
• Books
• Predecessors

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Public Sector Budgeting Software

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Internal budgeting tools

In the municipal partnership program, ICLD offers local governments in a number of partner countries and Swedish municipalities and regions, the possibility to enter result oriented collaborations for exchange and peer learning.

• cities

• Govtech
• Peer networks

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits
• Communicating with the people

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

A new methodology to restore trust in digital media

• history

• Emerging tech
• Archives
• Blockchain

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Ranking of countries by their open government data governance processes

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Data governance

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Government Technology used the Socrata Open Data API to look at about 55,000 data assets published by 336 U.S. state and local governments — an average of 163 assets per publisher

• Civic data
• Open government data

Otevíráme, vizualizuje a analyzuje parlamentní, volební a rozpočtová data. Díky nám víte, kdo vás doopravdy zastupuje.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring