2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

A report for lawmakers, governments and policymakers at national and European level, 2023

• reports

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fieldwide resources

Astroturfing research. We spent the second half of 2020 analysing 24 fake Twitter profiles that published divisive or hostile content and were regularly mentioned or retweeted by Slovenian right-wing politicians.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

PartyParty is a source for in-depth reporting on political changemakers, political parties and political trends across Europe.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• News and blogs

Based on FixMyStreet.com, launched by our parent charity mySociety in 2007, FixMyStreet Pro is the only reporting solution capable of automatically routing reports to other authorities across the UK.

• local

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

• reports

• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

We now bring this decade’s worth of insights and our intellectual capital to scale with our automated audits, and proprietary demographic and geographic database used to ensure the validity (and compliance) of the outputs.

• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

See how publications and data-driven journalists use open source to power their newsroom and ensure information is reported fairly and accurately.

• Github

• Media
• Civic data
• Civic tech catalogs

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Get funding
• Build something
• Fieldwide resources

Black communities need an affirmative vision of technology that protects our civil rights and advances our needs. A campaign nominated for a 2023 Webby Award.

• racial equity
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Report cards and audits

We analyzed data on 13,147 US police departments.

• racial equity
• criminal justice
• police violence

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

The Social Network for E-Democracy

• Civic forums
• Issue reporting
• Social networks

Public Sector Budgeting Software

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Internal budgeting tools

eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Grant management

A platform for searching information about people based on open-source data

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech
• Open-source intelligence (OSINT)

Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Open government data

A Brief but Actionable Primer for Founders

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Benefits Enrollment Field Guide looks at the landscape of America’s safety net benefits experience in 2023 and tracks the differences from our 2019 assessment based on expanded evaluation criteria.

• Good health and well-being

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Report cards and audits

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

Welcome to NYC Government’s home for filing Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• Manage volunteers
• COVID Engagement Projects

Salesforce.org's own volunteer management app for the platform.

• extensions
• Salesforce

• Manage volunteers

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

The Africa Data Hub Climate Observer is designed to help journalists and academics reporting and researching climate change in Africa.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Environmental data

This white paper seeks to unpack the use of Indigenous or non-majority language in the existing digital landscape.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Translation and linguistic representation

A report by International Republican Institute "synthesiz[ing] core challenges and lessons learned from practitioners, funders and government to help answer the questions of why civic and govtech initiatives struggle long term and what can be done about it."

• reports

• Fieldwide resources
• Reports

This report from Katharine Lusk and Azer Bestravos of Boston University evaluates of the state of the field across the 43 academic institutions that make up the Public Interest Technology University Network as of the summer of 2021, providing insight into the ways in which PIT-UN members are investing in its five priority areas, and sheds light on the state of the field more generally.

• reports
• students

• Academia
• Fieldwide resources
• Public Interest Tech

This brief is the compilation of the findings from of a series of workshops on creating a vision for how our [US] government can build and foster a culture of innovation over the next 20 years.

• reports

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Reports

Report and share Violence Incidence in Nigeria directly on this platform.

• Preventing election violence

• Voting and elections
• Crowdsourcing
• Election observation

A report: How can stories help us change systems?

• reports

• Media
• Narrative tech

While the Open Treasury portal hosts all federal daily treasury reports, GOVSPEND.NG, a platform powered by BudgIT, simplifies the treasury report for citizens and Civil Society Organizations to access, monitor and understand federal government’s real time expenditure.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Open government data

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Emerging tech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

A Reuters special report investigating global supply chains and sustainability programs

• Apple
• sustainability

• Media
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Investigative journalism tech

Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Report cards and audits

Brookings report: Using a combination of analytical methods – including natural language processing, machine learning, and manual classifying – this research provided the first overarching assessment of the role that popular political podcasting plays in spreading unsubstantiated and false claims.

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

What builders in Germany, India, Kenya, and the United States need to know when experimenting with new approaches to data governance

• reports

• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data governance

The CLC is a volunteer network of individuals trained to monitor for, critically evaluate, and report misinformation on diverse topics central to our civic life: voting, elections, public health, civil rights, and other important issues.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Pro bono and volunteer

The all-in-one platform for community engagement

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Manage volunteers

This joint initiative from Hearken, Solutions Journalism Network and Trusting News will equip newsroom-based journalists to transform their coverage of democracy through solutions-focused reporting that builds trust and avoids polarization.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Find a job or hire someone

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Communicating with the people
• Urban planning

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• cities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Urban planning

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
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Communicating with the people

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement