Civic tech projects can aim at changing citizen’s behaviours. Zlato from South Africa is a digital platform which rewards positive behaviour inside communities thanks to a digital currency which can be used to purchase local products, from clothes to haircuts.

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

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

Towards better use of development resources. Find out, follow, press forward.

• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

Forward is a web app that tracks civic engagement opportunities ranging from town hall meetings, to rallies, to civic art projects throughout the state of Wisconsin.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Activism aggregators

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

Bot to help recruit recovered COVID-19 patients to help treat sick ones

• Microsoft

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our Citywide solution is designed for cities, counties, special districts, and regional commissions who want to administer multiple projects on one platform.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Leverages opt-in wearables health data to try to predict the spread of the pandemic

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Hack League is a friendly academic competition that invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community.

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

How do governments spend our taxes? Are the planned projects actually built? What contracts do governments make to sell their natural wealth? AfricanSpending looks at how we can use data to answer these questions. AfricanSpending maps out the ways in which public data can be used to improve the way we understand how governments spend our money.

This prototype is being developed as a Proof of Concept for the protocol the eVoting group of the BFH (Berner Fachhochschule) is working on, in partnership with Canton Geneva.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Open Seattle advocates for open data and civic technology projects that improve the lives of Seattle residents.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The purpose is to solve social problems through technology and promote social progress in the form of projects. Taking open data as an example, through the Open Source Program or Crowd Sourcing, data in different fields are transparent, the problem of information circulation is solved, and the citizen's right to know is expanded.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

A Project of The Annenberg Public Policy Center

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Factchecking

Delta.NYC is a pro bono tech program that bridges the digital divide between the technology and public interest sectors by bringing together teams of digital professionals to lend their services on meaningful projects for local NYC organizations working towards a more equitable, just and democratic society.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Help out

Crowdin is a localization project management platfom and translation tool for developers and website owners. We make it easy to work with content being translated using our collaboration platform.

• The People
• Tech translators and intermediaries
• Help out

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

• Meet the others
• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Open Google Doc resources

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

Project to create articles about notable women that do not currently exist on Wikipedia

• women
• Gender Equality
• Wikipedia

• Adjacent Fields
• Crowdsourcing
• Foundational layers

It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Foundational layers

the easiest way to find local freelancers

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

We have created and collected guidance to support accurate and responsible reporting on coronavirus, which will be regularly updated with new information.

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

D-CENT is a Europe-wide project creating open, secure and privacy-aware tools for direct democracy and economic empowerment.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Speculative Tourism is an international project that operates at the crossroads of science fiction, historical tourism, Augmented Reality and local action.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

Deze tool brengt alle onderwijs- en onderzoeksprojecten van de HvA in kaart en is een startpunt voor onderlinge samenwerking. Kijk, ontdek, deel en doe mee met HvA in de Stad!

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A map showing the width of sidewalks across Berlin using #OpenData

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Daily situation reports and data from the World Health Organization

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

Here's a list of actions, ideas, ways to help, volunteer and donation opportunities to help those impacted by the coronavirus (COVID-19).

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

A resource hub for responding to coronavirus, compiled from a massive organizers' call

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Luminate Group's daily email digest of findings across the following topics: Data platforms and privacy-preserved tracingNovel testing for both COVID-19 and antibodiesTreatments and vaccine developmentDecentralized supply chains and open-source hardwareVulnerable populations and protecting at-risk groupsStrengthening the safety net to deliver aid and preserve/create jobsHealth system and workforce protections and capacityPublic-private partnership opportunitiesOpen innovation initiatives

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Coordination of the bottom-up support for the hospitals

• COVID
• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID Engagement Projects

A new initiative from the Tech Talent Project and AnitaB.org to bring 10,000 technologists into the public sector across state, local, and federal government by the end of 2021

• Find a job or hire someone
• Recruitment campaigns
• Professional associations

Tech Community Incubator in Hudson Valley

• Decent work and economic growth
• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Livestream discussion on March 15th hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change

• Organize campaigns
• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

UN report of 200 mobile data for social good projects

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

Code for Tampa Bay is an official Code for America Brigade in Tampa, FL working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

• apps
• Climate action

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

a selection of guidelines and discussions produced by First Draft on reporting disinformation around coronavirus and other topics ethically and responsibly, as well as a curated list of other resources to help you navigate potential issues covering what the WHO has called an ‘infodemic’.

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

Safe, free deliveries for NYC’s most at-risk community members facing COVID-19.

• The People
• Help out
• COVID

Nameesa, which is an AI powered conversational and personal engagement platform that automatically responds to people inquiries about Coronavirus (COVID-19) with information from credible sources such as WHO and Ministry of Health.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech