Brand New Bundestag (BNB) ist eine unabhängige und überparteiliche Graswurzel-Organisation, die sich für eine progressive, zukunftsorientierte Politik einsetzt. Wir unterstützen Menschen, die mit progressiven Ideen frischen Wind in die Parlamente bringen, bei ihrem Weg in politische Ämter.

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Govtech
• Books

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

• Civic data
• Data governance

PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Participatory democracy

The firm's long-running nonprofit tech benchmarks

• Nonprofit tech
• Benchmarks

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

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

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

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Access social benefits
• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

We run weekly(ish) civic hacknights for everyone.

• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

The vision of Code for Sri Lanka is to improve the technology that runs Sri Lanka by voluntarily helping government organizations to digitally transform in alignment with the vision for a digital Sri Lanka.

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

Camino is a 2D side-scrolling stealth game with Afro-surrealist elements that challenge the player to carefully manage resources and make use of their environment to fight for their loved ones and survive the onslaught of colonization.

• racial equity

• Media
• Games and gamification

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

We manufacture embedded city maintenance machines for city civic and green agencies to upgrade to new standards of service to the citizens.

• streetscape

• Govtech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Playbooks and design principles

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

• reports

• Emerging Tech report
• Emerging tech
• Reports

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

Amachi Pittsburgh raises awareness and delivers services to give children a fighting chance in Allegheny County, and runs a VR pilot program to connect chidren with incaracerated parents

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

A report by Center for Democracy & Technology

• racial equity
• anti-harassment

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office
• Fight disinformation

Dataregister van de Nederlandse Overheid. Runs on CKAN

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

The Disinformation Action Lab (DAL) at Data & Society forges new approaches to address the complex dynamics underpinning the spread of propaganda and disinformation. Last publication December 2020.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Making Census Data Easy to Use

• census

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• cities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Fight disinformation

A book by Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Books

Data Artistry is a skills development programme aimed and building data communication skills among development professionals.

• trainings

• Civic data

Securely share information with Africa's finest journalists BLOW THE WHISTLE

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Media
• Whistleblowing

Law requiring digitization of German government. Die Interaktion zwischen Bürgerinnen, Bürgern und Unternehmen mit der Verwaltung soll in Zukunft deutlich schneller, effizienter und nutzerfreundlicher werden.

• Government transparency
• Civic tech legislation and policy
• Digital transformation

PInT is the student-run public interest technology (PIT) organization at  Olin College of Engineering

• students

• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

Public engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Hawkfish was a 2020 Election effort, supported by Mike Bloomberg, that engaged with Democratic candidates, allies & causes to reach the right voters with the right message in the right place using robust technology, data, and digital-first storytelling.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Machine learning analytics
• Advertising

An initiative designed to help political parties become more inclusive and representative through an assessment that gauges men and women's perceptions of women in leadership, the types of social norms held by members of parties, and the individual, institutional and socio-cultural barriers to gender equality.

• women
• Gender Equality

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office

Lead Stories is an innovative fact checking and debunking website at the intersection of big data and journalism that launched in 2015.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Content Blockchain Project was initiated in 2016 by a consortium of publishing, law and IT companies to research the possibilities of using blockchain technologies to advance the content and media ecosystem.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Blockchain

Real411 was created to give all citizens the power to report digital disinformation during the run up to the 2019 South African National and Provincial Elections.

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Voting and elections

The Pro-Truth Pledge is a project of Intentional Insights, a volunteer-run educational nonpartisan 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to promoting science-based truth-seeking, rational thinking, and wise decision-making.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Manifestos

Organized an e-conference for over 150 women candidates for elected office in Uganda, with a focus on navigating social barriers to political participation, including misinformation and cyberbullying.

• women

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Fight disinformation

Introducing an open-source browser extension that helps you thwart targeted advertising on Facebook. Not updated since 2018.

• Facebook
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Advertising

Name It. Change It releases research projects and studies demonstrating gender-based challenges women face from the media when they run for office.

• women

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Fight disinformation

In the "Widely Viewed Content Report", Facebook provides the 20 individual links and 20 individual posts that were seen by the highest number of people, in the US, for the quarter. In this dashboard, we are tracking objective properties of these 20 posts, links, and the producers behind them, as well as the extent to which it is possible for Facebook users to assess the content from a media literacy perspective.

• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Media
• Consumer watchdogging

Greenbeam uses data from the GreenWebFoundation to indicate which sites you visit (and the third party sites these sites call) are running on renewable energy. Emissions from IT are growing and switching energy sources of data centers, both in the websites you visit and those you run, is a critical next step.

• extensions
• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action

• Specific campaigns

Taught by David Eaves

• Govtech
• Courses
• Digital transformation

Copia Gaming is our ongoing initiative to design and facilitate a variety of games that explore serious and important subjects.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Add, view, or discuss places of value to your local community (including Assets of Community Value and assets owned and run by the community).

• local
• neighborhoods

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

Civic Service Design refers to the practice of creating, better understanding, and improving upon programs at any stage; we use “civic service design” to mean applying the tools and methods of service design to government-run or funded programs.

• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

Send Texts, Make Change We leverage technology and our army of passionate, remote volunteers to help progressives run and win everywhere.

• Peer to peer SMS

The Sage project will design and build a new kind of national-scale reusable cyberinfrastructure to enable AI at the edge.

• air quality
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Large civic tech conference in Japan running for 7+ years. 集え、全国のシビックテックプレイヤー

• Conferences

DocumentCloud runs every document you upload through Thomson Reuters OpenCalais, giving you access to extensive information about the people, places and organizations mentioned in each.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research tools