Over a thousand cities and other public sector partners are already working with Waze to gain better data and insights; reduce driving alone with Waze Carpool; and to make their communities safer with Waze's Beacons and Crisis programs.

• civic features
• Google
• mobility

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A public interest project to document crowds and contention in the United States.

• Organize campaigns
• Data visualization
• Direct action

In this audit, we obtained an understanding of the Commonwealth’s current IoT environment in terms of device use and planned use by surveying a sample of Commonwealth agencies (see Appendix) where we believed IoT devices were used for significant purposes.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Fostering solidarity networks against the COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• COVID
• Resource matching and sharing

Developing benchmarks and datasets for online harms researchers, and guidance for practitioners using tools to detect online harms

• harassment

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

MIT City Science has developed an international network of cooperative City Science Labs

• cities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

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

At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

• books

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Adjacent Fields

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

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), as a non-governmental organization has been formed in June 2018 as a progression of the three successful projects named; Tanzania Data Lab (dLab), Data Zetu and Data for Local Impact Innovation Challenge (DLIIC). Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives. The program works with communities across Tanzania to discover issues that matter most to them. Then we work with stakeholders to arm them with skills and tools to make sense of data related to those challenges. As a result, we’re helping to foster the use of open data that is relevant, hyperlocal, and actionable

Citizens Tracker of Government COVID-19 Measures

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• COVID Engagement Projects

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

CivicActions | We help agencies and organizations successfully execute large-scale software projects using open standards technologies and Agile development methodologies.

• Civic and social impact companies

The North American Cartographic Information Society (NACIS) is an enjoyable society of map enthusiasts. We have yearly meetings, an online discussion forum, and we work on a variety of projects and publications which promote good map making. We hope you’ll drop by and be a part of our collegial community.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

THE CITY’s year-long project with Brooklyn Public Library to explore how to make local news more collaborative

• The Tech
• Media

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

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

DecidimFest is an intense 3-day program of activities devoted to the Decidim project, participatory democracy and open source tools for collective intelligence in the era of Global Democracy.

• Decidim

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The portable unit interviews users about the apps, services and digital providers they interact with, reveals what these providers know about their users, then tells the user stories about what the effects of this may be and provides recommendations regarding their level of trustworthiness, relating to the individual themselves and to other people who may be more or less impacted by the same use or misuse of the data that accumulates around their digital life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Horizon 2020 was the biggest EU Research and Innovation programme ever with nearly €80 billion of funding available over 7 years (2014 to 2020)

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

A crowdsourced resource for technologists building things for the (probably) upcoming general election

• 2024 elections

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic 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
• Emerging tech

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Our goal is to bring our diverse networks into more effective coordination, for the duration of this crisis and beyond.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The Hackable City is a research project that explores the potential for new modes of collaborative citymaking, in a network society.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• User research
• User research groups

In the last six months I coordinated a research project, called ‘Punto Zero’, aimed at understanding how to safeguard the democratic…

• Regulation

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Watchdogging and transparency

from National Geographic

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

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

• Bots
• COVID Engagement Projects

The purpose of this guide is to help PB implementers understand how they can use mass text messaging to effectively engage underrepresented communities in participatory budgeting (PB).

• guides

• SMS tools
• Participatory budgeting

Wikidata acts as central storage for the structured data of its Wikimedia sister projects including Wikipedia, Wikivoyage, Wiktionary, Wikisource, etc.

• Wikipedia

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Open source monitoring for understanding energy

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Start where you are

• Graveyard
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The CLARITY project brings together stakeholder networks across Europe into an engaged and mobilised community that supports innovation in open eGovernment applications.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Data Governance is an important component of enabling our mission because we believe that while the world needs better quality and more granular data to achieve its development goals, people’s rights must also be protected zealously. In partnership with Amnesty International, the Open Institute aims to bring together expertise in data for human rights and data for development towards strengthening data governance in Kenya and Africa as a whole. Building on the momentum created by an event dubbed #RestoreDataRights, which ended with calls from African civil society organisations and academic representatives for policy tools and frameworks that could help to ensure that sensitive personal data used as part of the pandemic response is used responsibly, the project will work to ensure responsible data use and protect people’s data rights.

• Civic data
• Data governance

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

• Petitions

A VR museum tour of The Colored Girls Museum

• museums
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Through this programme, Fellows design and deliver targeted projects that contribute to the Centre's overall goal of increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Design

InfoQ provides software engineers with the opportunity to share experiences gained using innovator and early adopter stage techniques and technologies with the wider industry.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy