Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Incubators
• Decentralization

This seminar by Jonathan Piron tackles the issues raised by digital technologies for political institutions, politics and policies, and more broadly for the evolution of what we call “democracy“.

• Courses

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A hardware table that lets people gather around it for collective decision-making processes

• Digital participation platforms
• Hardware

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks

Italian company offering services and projects to engage the public in decision-making

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

A Geolocation Technology Company

• Mapping tools

A project to create an index of democratic quality

• Evaluate impact

With thanks to financial support from the National Endowment for Democracy, TICTeC has expanded from an annual conference into a year-round programme of activities and events: TICTeC Labs. The aim of TICTeC Labs is to discuss and tackle some of the biggest challenges facing the global civic tech/digital democracy sector.  We want to grow the civic tech evidence base, address issues, and enhance the effectiveness and potential impact of civic tech projects.

• Conferences

Baltimore City Council Bill 19-0429 requires the Department of Housing & Community Development to post signage on vacant buildings that will identify owners so that they can be held accountable by the public.

• housing
• place-based

• Cameras

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Peer networks

People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs

• Climate action

• Courses
• Participatory budgeting

DATA Uruguay is a civil society organization founded in April 2012 that works on open government, open data, access to public information and participation through the use of civic technology. It is a horizontal organization based on consensus and the vast majority of the projects are co-created with expert partners on the subject (Government, Academia, Media, other Civil Society organizations) or with the community.

• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

PPDC is a non-governmental organisation created to increase citizens' participation in governance processes in a way that improves the integrity of public and private sector processes.

The Highway Africa Conference is a project of Rhodes University (Makhanda, South Africa). The 24-year old event is supported by a variety of partners including Government, corporate South Africa and development agencies. The key focus is the impact of digital technologies (internet and mobile) on journalism and the media and, by extension, society.

• Conferences
• Journalism

An open data standard for restaurant information

• food

• Data schemas and standards

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing. POGO champions reforms to achieve a more effective, ethical, and accountable federal government that safeguards constitutional principles.

Founded in 2005, Open Rights Group (ORG) is a UK-based digital campaigning organisation working to protect our rights to privacy and free speech online. Digital technology has transformed the way we live and opened up limitless new ways to communicate, connect, share and learn across the world. But for all the benefits, technological developments have created new threats to our human rights. ORG exists to raise awareness of these threats and challenge them through public campaigns, media commentary, legal actions, policy interventions and tech projects.

In 2010, Paweł Reszka, Wojciech Cieśla, Michał Majewski and Roman Daszczyński got together to support journalism in the Eastern Partnership countries and created Fundacja Reporterów – the Reporters Foundation, one of the first journalistic NGO’s in Poland. In 2010 they decided to help journalists from various post-soviet countries, from Ukraine to Azerbaijan. For the first few years they trained people, among those who joined the Foundation’s projects are leading journalists in their countries (Kristina Berdinskich, Anna Babiniec, Dymitr Gnap) who have worked on well-known publications, such as the award-winning Yanukovych Leaks project.

The California Immigrant Policy Center is managing a research project to gain a much deeper and broader understanding of how Americans think about immigrants.

Open Source Citizen Participation Platform in Korea

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Policy simulators

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Civic maps
• Narrative tech

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

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

Founded by billionaire Frank McCourt, Unfinished "works to strengthen our civic life in the digital age."

• Decentralization

The easiest way to contact your government

• Govtech
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic tech catalogs

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. If you don’t have a smartphone, you can find the same functionality on the website. Action for Transparency empowers citizens and government employees to act on corruption experienced in their everyday lives. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. By exposing which institutions and individuals are involved in corruption and providing the data to journalists and activist groups we hope we can make corruption less attractive.

#CreateYourKLA is a civic project that uses data artistry to empower citizens to seek better public services in their communities.

• Civic data

A specification of the civic.json metadata standard for civic technology projects

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

• youth
• Microsoft

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Organising community involvement with road safety on a grand scale

• road safety
• speeding
• Vision Zero

• Crowdsourcing
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Access this dataset to help with the fight against COVID-19

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

SAFETAG adapts traditional penetration testing and risk assessment methodologies to be relevant to smaller non-profit organizations.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

• COVID-19

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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 Tech
• The People
• Media

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• cities

• Support civic projects with tech

Let’s work together on your broadband project.

• The People
• Toolkits
• Adjacent Fields

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards