The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Hashtag Our SA is a local project which aims to create a news network in all 11 South African languages, which will be created on mobile phones and Hashtag Our SA will also teach South African communities how to tell their own stories.HashtagOurStories has trained over 200 storytellers in 40 countries. The initiative's goal is to train MOJO storytellers that can produce constructive, solutions-based stories and provide more diverse news coverage.

• Media
• Partner networks

Iran's first and only promise-tracker

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

NYC Digital Safety: Privacy & Security is a partnership between New York City’s three library systems and METRO, a library resources council serving NYC and Westchester County. With support from the City of New York Mayor’s Office of the Chief Technology Officer, the project will ensure that NYC residents can rely on public libraries for their questions about internet privacy and security.

• libraries

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Adjacent Fields

For more general tasks, including things like walking pets or sending mail, Deutschland Zusammen, or Germany Together, connects those willing to help

• The People
• The Tech
• Engagement tech

Lab for open citizen Science and tech

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Launched in 2014 by BudgIT, Tracka is a social platform of/for active citizens who are interested in monitoring public projects in their communities thus enhancing budget performance across the country.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Digital participation platforms

We are here to give you actionable information about the quality of your city's air, water and sound.

• air quality
• noise
• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

SMS for Justice is a project by Nazdeek that combines legal training, mobile technology and community monitoringto build a Dalit women-led network of paralegals, trained to demand accountability for the delivery of basic services.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

The prices of basic necessities (e.g., maize flour) are very important. If prices increase, you buy less with the same money, reducing your purchasing power. In this project, the Ministry of Economy and Finance intends to investigate the possibility of collecting reliable price data using crowd-sourcing technologies.

Catalogue of procurement risk indicators from various countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Are you a reporter interested in covering voting issue this election cycle? See our Electionland project.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

The aim of the Easy Voter Guide project is to make nonpartisan information about why vote, how to vote and what’s on the ballot accessible to as many

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas

• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

g0vhk 受台灣「零時政府」（g0v.tw）的理念啟發。目的是透過技術解決社會問題，以項目形式推動社會進步。以開放數據為例，透過開放源碼程式編寫 (Open Source Program) 或群眾外包 (Crowd Sourcing) ，令不同範疇的數據透明化，解決資訊不流通問題，以擴大公民的知情權。

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Government transparency
• Civic tech catalogs
• Blockchain

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

The first effort to monitor the performance of Iran’s parliament, often referred to as “Majlis”

• Media
• The Tech
• Civic data

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Fellowships

The experiment will test whether machine learning and natural language processing (NLP) can effectively cluster similar proposals and recommendations from ‘like minded citizens’ on the Consul digital democracy platform

• CONSUL
• experiments

• The Tech
• Emerging Tech Projects
• Emerging tech