Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Volunteer & Serve for Community Project

• apps

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Crowdsourced document curated by Newspeak House

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

• COVID
• COVID Government Projects

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Civic maps

The Open Eligibility Project is an initiative of Aunt Bertha, a Public Benefit Corporation in order to simplify the process of finding and applying for human services.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Help out

The lab focuses on improving the software security of projects that advance OTF’s Internet freedom goals by ensuring that code, data, and people behind the tools have what they need to create a safer experience for people experiencing repressive information controls online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

At MIT, the Design Laboratory exists within a context of broad-based technological innovation and builds upon the unique advantages offered by this setting. It pursues research, executes practical design and art projects, and engages in scholarship and criticism.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Mapping with and for the Older Adults (Senior Citizens) and Ageing Population in the Philippines

• OpenStreetMap
• seniors

• Mapping
• Open government data
• Civic maps

MEMRIA uses the power of voice to help our partners further their missions.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

Learn to make apps for Android devices by doing projects that can help people in your community.

• Android
• apps

• Emerging tech
• Smartphones

The Self-Quarantine Manifesto

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• COVID

Want to know if your organization is ready to start a data-driven social impact project? See where you are in our data maturity framework and how to improve your organizational, tech, and data readiness.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

a crowdsourced resource for technologists building things related to the coronavirus outbreak

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

Was a global federation for civic tech with reusable components for projects

• Graveyard
• Partner networks

Access to the national budget is every citizen's right.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals

To promote charitable projects that want to implement an innovative digital idea to strengthen our democracy.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Boost understanding, get consensus and deliver projects that people love with our all-in-one citizen engagement platform.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

A knowledge base website that collects public health information on the novel coronavirus from WHO, CDC, NYS, and NYC.

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

It let people set up pledges in the form: ‘I will do something, if a certain number of people will help me’.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Housing Data Coalition (HDC) is a group of individuals and organizations who collaborate on their use of public data to further housing justice in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Paint the Town is a collaborative data art project. It allows anyone to paint a New York City tax lot to any color they choose.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The World Smart City Awards seek to recognize pioneering projects, ideas and strategies that promote sustainable urban development around the globe.

• cities

• The People
• Get funding
• Smart Cities and sensors

Michael Knapp is the CEO and founder of Green River, a software design and development firm that has worked extensively with local governments. He is passionate about social justice, and his firm’s most prominent recent project has involved working with cities to end homelessness. We spoke with him about his experiences with the government procurement Read More

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.

• Climate action
• research

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

GovTech Catalyst competitions help the public sector identify and work with cutting edge technology firms.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

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

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Cameras

Project Management tool

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

A 4-month pre-acceleration program happening on 6-weekend sprints in the volcanic region of La Garrotxa (Girona), where +20 startups, social movements, cyber activists, corporate and government teams colive, boosting and cross-pollinating their projects on civic innovation, distributed governance and decentralized technologies

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

The Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (SAIL) has been a center of excellence for Artificial Intelligence research, teaching, theory, and practice since its founding in 1962.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Watchdogging and transparency

Chart the frequency of words and phrases in UK Parliament debates

• Media
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

Fund projects that make local places better. Millions in matchfunding available. Crowdfund a project idea on Spacehive now.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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
• Fight disinformation

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

This lab anticipates, assists with, and responds to various legal issues unique to internet freedom projects.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Tracking Donald Trump's Campaign Promises. It is a project by the fact-checking organization Politifact.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Responsible Innovation COMPASS is an EU-funded project that supports Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) from emerging technology industries to manage their research, development and innovation activities in a responsible and inclusive manner.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Adjacent Fields

A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement.

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

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Open County Initiative is a project within the Devolution Programme implemented by Open Institute together with the Council of Governors. The Programmes broad objective is to work with county governments towards overcoming the challenges they face in actualizing their ambitions for good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability through three segments - Public Participation, Building Public Participation for accountability and innovating and building capacity

Pick your project and invest some dollars.

• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Caminos de la Villa es una plataforma de acción ciudadana que permite acceder de manera sencilla a la información vinculada con los procesos de urbanización en las villas de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires y ver de qué manera se están llevando adelante. ¡Sumate!

• project tracking

• Engagement tech
• Urban planning
• Data visualization