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

A prototype to display factchecks in real-time on live TV

• extensions

• Graveyard
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

VoteAmerica builds technology to simplify political engagement, increase voter turnout, and strengthen American democracy for all eligible voters.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Voter assistance tech

The Alliance is a nonpartisan collaborative that is bringing together election officials, designers, technologists, and other experts to help local election departments improve operations, develop a set of shared standards and values, and obtain access to best-in-class resources to run successful elections.

• Voting and elections
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Civic Tech Toronto project to support grassroots efforts to evacuate African nationals and people of color from Ukraine

• Ukraine
• refugees
• racial equity

• Support civic projects with tech

Data about every national legislature in the world, freely available for you to use.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

An experimental Boston Globe Lab geo-focused Twitter aggregator

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Alexander von Humboldt Institut Für Internet und Gesellschaft

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The International Fact-Checking Network is releasing a limited-run podcast about fact-checking and fake news.

• podcasts

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Algorithm Watch is a non-profit research and advocacy organization committed to evaluating and shedding light on algorithmic decision-making processes

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Tools to build a movement

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

CommonVC is an impact innovation and startup studio that is run and funded by people passionate about a sustainable future.

• Social impact design firms

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge. In addition, we aim to use our collective muscle to get better access to markets (for our work), better prices on hardware / software / insurance (through collective bargaining), and share resources (for everything from drones to data-crunching computer servers).

• Drones

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City. It is both a database of power players in New York City politics and a searchable campaign finance tool that tracks their donations in the 2021 New York City election cycle. You can: search for any candidate that is currently running for office in New York City's 2021 elections and see a list of power players that have donated to their campaign, search for power players and see their associations, such as their job or organizational affiliations, and their recent City donation history, and sort power players by their categories (e.g. candidates, press, city officials)

A mesh network for NYC

• Connectivity

Question2Answer (Q2A) is a popular open source Q&A platform for PHP/MySQL, currently running on 24,500+ sites in 40 languages.

• Open asks

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

• Civic data

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

Tidepools is a re-skinnable collaborative mobile mapping platform for gathering and sharing hyperlocal information and culture through expressive, community maps and data feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among neighbors and local organizations.

• Graveyard
• Mapping platforms

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Dutch participatory engagement company

• Engagement tech

Project Isizwe works to extend free wifi across low-income communities in South Africa and runs the Tobetsa content portal.

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

New York University's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute runs the Membership Puzzle Project, which works to identify and incubate innovative early-stage membership models globally.

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

Finally. A platform made for Local Progressive Campaigns

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers
• Canvassing

Run your own Freedom of Information website

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Trusted by campaigns of every size, NGP VAN's award-winning websites and industry-leading organizing, fundraising, compliance, and digital tools have elected thousands of Democrats to local, state, and federal office. Nearly every Democrat running for office is powered by NGP VAN. 

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

We hope these tools help you out in running your next election. If you do not have word processing or spreadsheet software, you can use Libre Office or Open Office for free. If you've found this resource valuable, please tell others and consider a donation. Additionally, we do not offer resources for plurality elections because it is an awful voting method and should never be used.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

EasyVote Solutions delivers a SaaS platform to city, county and state election offices to help manage the process of running elections.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

How technology is disrupting, remaking, and sometimes overrunning our cities.

• cities
• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

A platform for running online participatory budgeting elections

• Participatory budgeting

Tool for creating small online group discussions around an issue, originally created for political campaigning in the US

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Analysen und Visualisierungen der Daten zur Bundestagswahl 2017 in Karlsruhe. Größte Änderungen, Wechselwähler, Erststimmen und mehr Statistiken.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Tele Law facilitates the delivery of legal aid to marginalized communities, by connecting individuals with lawyersthrough volunteer-run service centres.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

A web application to connect the general public with the large network of shelters and rescue organisations when people run into wildlife in distress.

• animals
• Sustainable cities and communities
• fires

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Civic data

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The online voting software used by millions around the world. Technology responsibles from multiple organizations have chosen nVotes to run their elections · Secure online voting system · Run polls in minutes and increase voter participation · Create your election fast and easy with our election management tool.

• Bureaucracy tech

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Challenges

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

• women

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Shared, open cross-government standards make services better for users and cheaper to run.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The Human Utility provides assistance to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.

• Clean water and sanitation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards

We bring together people from the UK, no matter what their background, to stop the Tories from winning another parliamentary majority at the next election. We use electoral data to determine which left-leaning party has the best chance of beating the Tories in 50 of the most marginal seats and support any and all volunteers to get out campaigning.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections