Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

Empowering journalists with data, tools and collaborations

• Media
• Civic data
• Research and policy centers

Loop’s feedback platform is revolutionising accountability in humanitarian aid and development by providing a space for accessible feedback, reliable complaints mechanisms and safe reporting of Sexual Exploitation, Abuse and Harassment (SEAH).

• Engagement tech
• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Beirut Urban Observatory is a platform of geolocalized urban data informing ongoing post-blast recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

The Civic Tech Institute at Equitech Futures empowers leaders in the social sector - governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises - with the data and technology skills critical to achieving impact at scale.

• trainings

• Data science for social good
• Courses

The Good Lobby Awards is an annual celebration of projects, initiatives and campaigns led by citizens committed to lobbying for change.

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Awards and prizes

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Hatebase was a collaborative, regionalized repository of multilingual hate speech, developed in partnership between the Dark Data Project and The Sentinel Project

• anti-harassment

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Archives

National Science Foundation program supporting the facilitation, creation and growth of open-source ecosystems for the creation of new technology solutions.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open source networks

Climate section of the Participation Playbook

• guides
• Climate action

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Code for BTV is an organization based in Vermont that works on projects to address technology problems for social and civic justice organizations.

• Meet the others
• Civic apps outfits

@last100bills is a Twitter bot that posts daily breakdowns of the 100 most recent bills introduced in the US government using data from GovTrack.us.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots

A COVID-era research project into emerging technologies and their use for the public interest

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech report
• Reports

@nycdatabot is a Twitter bot that lets you explore the city of New York through data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Bots
• Open government data

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

Openly mapping for the pedestrian experience.

• place-based
• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Im BVV-Planspiel machen Sie gemeinsam mit anderen Spieler:innen Bezirkspolitik. In einem konkreten Streitfall entwickeln Sie die Position einer fiktiven Partei und vertreten sie in der BVV. Ziel ist es, einen konkreten Antrag an das Bezirksamt zu richten.

• libraries

• Civic literacy
• Games and gamification

Using AI to make journalism better. Together.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Conferences

Lessons from 5 African countries

• reports

• Procurement

In its latest program to support local efforts to leverage data in community change, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the Urban Institute (Urban) awarded a total of $1.5 million to 38 organizations across the US and its territories through the Using Local Data to Address Structural Racism grant program.

• racial equity

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Green Web Foundation is seeking five practitioners for a paid part-time fellowship of 10 months for our 2023 cohort.

• Climate action

• Fellowships

The Digital Garden is designed to bring together two fields of research: participatory research and Indigenous research.

• indigenous

• Research and policy centers
• Co-design

Build, fund, and fuel Latinx power with us.

• racial equity
• Latinx

• Get funding
• Peer networks
• Funders & donors

Los desinformantes es una serie de investigaciones sobre diferentes actores que han desinformado durante la pandemia.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Fight disinformation

For the first time ever, we will be holding a Democracy Awards Dinner to recognise and champion the outstanding work being done across our sector.

• Awards and prizes

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

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

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

IFF’s Project Panoptic aims to bring transparency and accountability to the relevant government stakeholders involved in the deployment and implementation of facial recognition technology (FRT) projects in India.

• surveillance

• Crowdsourcing
• Digital security and privacy
• Specific campaigns

"We implemented a pre-registered, citywide experiment to test the effects of three high-pay-off, geographically targeted lotteries designed to motivate adult Philadelphians to get their COVID-19 vaccine...we do not detect evidence of any overall benefits."

• vaccines

• Peer-reviewed research
• COVID Engagement Projects
• Behavioral economics programs

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Equitable Internet Initiative (EII) is a collaboration between the Detroit Community Technology Project and a network of community organizations including BLVD Harambee.

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Connecting Carbon Markets Through Open Data

• Climate action

• Blockchain

"The applications allow users to view how a bill would change current law and differences between proposed legislation." URL will only work for US Capitol Hill IP addresses

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

CLD works collaboratively with NGOs around the world, on a consultancy or small project basis, to carry out projects aimed at boosting respect for key human rights.

• human rights

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• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Graveyard

Viewfinder is an accountability journalism project in South Africa. Viewfinder conduct long term investigations into abuses of power which impact on the public interest – specifically as it relates to the need for equality and redress – in post-apartheid South African society.

• Investigative journalism tech

Was 4 pilot projects in European cities

• cities

(a project of the Citizen Power Foundation)

BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity - we believe in media and communication for good. Last year, we reached more than 130 million people in some of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries. Our projects and programmes save lives, protect livelihoods, counter misinformation, challenge prejudice and build democracy.

• Media

As of 2013, iSolon.org’s primary project has been providing state-by-state information clearinghouses regarding upcoming periodic state constitutional convention referendums. iSolon also maintains a central information clearinghouse for the fourteen U.S. states with such periodic referendums.

• state

• Constitutions

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on. This will prevent 50 states from buying 50 versions of near-identical, overpriced software, and instead allows them to procure high-quality, fair-priced software just once, and share it amongst themselves.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Peer networks

FUSE increases the capacity of local governments to engage communities, advance racial equity, and work more effectively for everyone.

• Fellowships

Nafundi's mission is to create technologies that improve the lives of the underserved. Our current focus is designing, building, deploying, and supporting mobile data collection systems that work well in challenging environments (e.g., offline villages in rural Kenya, humid rain forests in Brazil, and even the International Space Station).

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The Center for Effective Government (formerly OMB Watch) ceased operations as of March 2016. The majority of work and materials has been passed on to the Project On Government Oversight (POGO). This site is being maintained as an archive of materials produced.

• Supporting public sector from outside government

Open Data Project Web Peru

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open government data

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

Tarbell makes it simple to put your work on the web, whether you’re a team of one or a dozen. With Tarbell, you can collaboratively build beautiful websites and publish them with ease. Tarbell makes use of familiar, flexible tools to take the magic (and frustration) out of publishing to the web. Google spreadsheets handle content management, so changes to your stories are easy to make without touching a line of code. Step-by-step prompts help you set up and configure your project, so that publishing it is a breeze.

Philippine Public Transparency Reporting Project

CandidateWatch is a non-partisan, non-profit project which helps to make election campaigning more transparent and politicians more accountable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms