The Free Speech Project at Georgetown University works to document and analyze the ways Free Speech is threatened in the United States through its flagship enterprise, the Free Speech Tracker, an online tool for monitoring Free Speech challenges and controversies in education, civil society, and government.

• democracy
• free speech

• Media
• Research and policy centers
• Media and social media analysis

• methodology

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Monitors the world's broadcast, print, and web news from nearly every corner of every country in over 100 languages and identifies the people, locations, organizations, themes, sources, emotions, counts, quotes, images and events driving our global society every second of every day, creating a free open platform for computing on the entire world

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Secure messaging, anywhere

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

We are a community of robots and people crossing divides on social media.

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation
• Surveys & polling

• workshops

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

• The People
• Media
• Learn about civic tech

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

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

The Media Research & Action Project’s (MRAP) mission is to strengthen progressive social movements working toward social justice and inclusive, participatory democracy.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

We are focused on leveraging leapfrog technologies and an ecosystem of partners to offer rural, underserved communities affordable and holistic solutions for their basic needs. Our data insights revealed that families in Buikwe spend up to $20 a month to access unclean energy (charcoal), unclean water, limited healthcare, and no electricity. Our solution will solve these challenges through providing telemedicine, microfinance, smart agriculture, solar power, insurance, internet connectivity and clean water, at only $8 a month

• Civic data
• Roundtables

It helps people and organizations to use inclusive technologies to build systems and services that are accessible, responsive, and resilient.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Town Hall Project 2018 is a progressive, volunteer-based initiative working to identify and promote upcoming Congressional forums nationwide.

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government

The Oakland Fence Project is a public art experience with three primary components: an interactive documentary installation, an A/R mobile cinema app, and a participatory photo exhibit online

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Our mission is to monitor changes to government websites, holding our government accountable by revealing shifts in public information and access to Web resources, as well as changes in stated policies and priorities.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Building consensus for how we measure and manage impact

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

118 projects to help refugees, curated by betterplace lab

• refugees

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The mission of the DC Domestic Violence Court Watch Project is to create transparency and data-driven information through court monitoring to ensure that all victims of domestic violence have equal access to a clear, fair and consistent judicial process that prioritizes victim safety and offender accountability.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

The City of Philadelphia aims to improve collaboration with communities. This website shares guidance on how to engage communities equitably.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the people

Highlighting modernization initiatives from legislatures around the world

• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Newsletters

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Building inside government
• Public Private Partnerships

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project (https://climateintelligence.eu/) is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation, and attribution of Extreme Events (EEs), namely tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, droughts, floods, compound and concurrent events.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning

We have collected over 40 chatbot projects by nonprofits and social businesses around the world that help build a more just, equal and sustainable future.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Bots

Supports research, implementation and education projects involving multi-sector teams that focus on the responsible design, development or deployment of technologies.

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

2020 UNDP initiative to assist the Republic of Vanuatu in the supervision of registration of electors and the planning and implementation of democratic elections for parliament, province, and municipal councils.

• Emerging tech
• Voting and elections
• Satellites

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

‘Participate Practically’ is a 10-hour self-paced online course designed to help you plan, launch, administer and evaluate participation projects.

• Engagement tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Participatory democracy

The OpenAIRE project, in the vanguard of the open access and open data movements in Europe was commissioned by the EC to support their nascent Open Data policy by providing a catch-all repository for European Commission funded research.

• Github

• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms
• Open science

My new WikiCred project is aimed at making Wikidata/Wikipedia a more effective indicator of news-site credibility.

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

This site contains a list created by the Codeando México community and curated by different volunteers with knowledge of civic technology projects in Mexico.

• Civic tech catalogs

Oslo for AI aims to open up new possibilities for the governance of AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

This Transport for London project looks to introduce new ways to reduce adverse impacts of roadworks in London, by working with innovative companies to shape these in a way that responds to the problems London faces.

• mobility

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Procurement

Its goal is to promote research and disseminate best practice in the ethical application of artificial intelligence in cities.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Smart Districts (Dublin) are strategically selected locations where innovation projects are fast-tracked.

• neighborhoods
• cities

• Innovation teams and labs
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Urban planning

ATLAS is a crowdsourced (map) repository of projects happening in cities involving the use of artificial intelligence systems.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Civic maps

Here you can find a list of tools and resources that were either recommended by projects during their funding period or mentioned during coaching sessions and calls.

• General purpose open source tools