Polish issue-reporting app

• Issue reporting

Platform to help local government interact with residents, including social-media-based consultation processes

• Govtech
• Bots
• Bureaucracy tech

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

FixMyStreet instance for Montevideo

• Issue reporting

The IWMF works to unleash the power of female journalists to transform the global news media. Their fellows and grantees — both freelance and staff journalists — become experts in reporting in underserved regions, generate must-read stories, align with top outlets, and bring critical issues affecting women and others to light. The IWMF is the only organization that provides safety training, byline opportunities, and emergency support tailored to female journalists and photographers around the world.

Herdict is an online platform that crowdsources internet users’ reports of website inaccessibility and outages.

The Committee to Protect Journalists promotes press freedom worldwide by defending the rights of journalists to report news without fear.

• Media

The Global Investigative Journalism Conference is the world’s largest international gathering of investigative reporters.

• Conferences
• Journalism

NewsTrust enabled citizens to find and share trustworthy journalism online, promoting greater transparency in news reporting.

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, and when the government fails to serve the public or silences those who report wrongdoing. POGO champions reforms to achieve a more effective, ethical, and accountable federal government that safeguards constitutional principles.

Budgeting and planning, financials, citizen services, and reporting and transparency tool suite for local government

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Concise civic engagement research summaries

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs
• Peer-reviewed research

76engage is an online platform that strengthens the bonds between citizens and public institutions through meaningful public engagement.

• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Narrative tech

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

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

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

WITNESS is an international nonprofit organization that trains and supports people using video in their fight for human rights.

• human rights

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

• cities
• reports

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

Tracking promises made by governments

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Justice Today is a mobile application that protects citizens from crime and utilizes artificial intelligence to educate citizens on the steps to take when victimized. The platform also allows citizens to report crime in real time

• Communicating with the government

‎Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about Wheely NYC. Download Wheely NYC and enjoy it on your iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

A tool to track progress on UN Sustainable Development Goals

• Sustainable Development Goals

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

MobiSAM (Mobile Social Accountability and Monitoring) is a mobile application and web, Whatsapp and Facebook platform that connects Grahamstown/Makana residents in the Eastern Cape to their local municipality.

• WhatsApp

• Surveys & polling
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Iran's first and only promise-tracker

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Each solution reduces greenhouse gases by avoiding emissions and/or by sequestering carbon dioxide already in the atmosphere.

• Climate action

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields

The Drone Journalism Lab's Operations Manual is here to help your news organization with using flying robots to report news.

• Media
• Journalism
• Drones

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Using modern technologies will facilitate the possibility of public participation, and will provide a platform for people’s active presence in governance, which will lead into the improvement of governance quality

• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

Produced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

The Apollo DemTool is a powerful system for compiling, managing, and analyzing citizen reports from an election monitoring mission.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The main goal of CiviCERT is to improve the incident response capabilities of NGOs, journalists and involved citizens all around the world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities. These datasets can help cities by supporting the planning, management, monitoring, and reporting needs of cities.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Help your community recover from disasters. A free, easy-to-use website for organizing disaster relief.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A Civic Platform To Drive Positive Change In Africa

• WhatsApp

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Open Procurement: digital transformation in procurement

• Participatory budgeting
• Procurement

We believe that everyone has a story and can contribute to the news narrative. Tipster is a news sharing platform that is democratizing the news making business by placing the power of the media into the hands of ordinary people whom we call Tipstars. Tipster is basically empowering anyone with a smartphone to be an amateur journalist. Tipster provides a secure channel for ordinary people to upload exclusive news content (images, videos and reports) which is then distributed/sold to content consumers and publishers (probloggers, Media Houses, TV channels etc) depending on the type of content.

• News to action

Automated monitoring, issue management, analysis and reporting of political affairs.

• Govtech
• Data science for social good
• Government transparency

We believe a world that respects our right to be isn’t some far-off destination. It’s something we’re building every day. This is your call to power, to build a world free of harassment. How do you want to get started?

• trainings

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them.

• guides

• Data visualization

A source of complaint data to help NYC's City Council be more responsive to constituents

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

• VPNs

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields