The Public Engagement Strategy Lab will provide you with the tools and resources you need to authentically engage stakeholders in thoughtful, democratic processes. Registration closes June 16th. Frontiers of Democracy registrants and students enjoy a discounted rate. **NOTE: Door payments must be paid by check only.**

• workshops

• Workshops

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Generation Citizen believes all students have the right to civics education that prepares them to participate in our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy
• Foundational layers

VHacks is a hackathon taking place at the Vatican City in Rome on the weekend of March 8-11, 2018. Students from all nationalities and faith-backgrounds are invited for 36 hours of ideation and innovation to address problems in areas of social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, and migrants & refugees. These 120 students will work in teams…

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial entities was to go to a special reading room in Washington, DC, or to pay private information services.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Pakistani Lawyer is web-based platform that provides contact details of lawyers, as well as resources to educate students and non-lawyers about Pakistani law.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young mother in Nigeria, we are catalysts of human promise everywhere.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our free digital curriculum allows educators, civic organizers, and community leaders to help new voters find clarity on what leadership qualities are most important to them in a U.S. President -- and why.

• students
• toolkits
• workbook

• Voting and elections
• Civic literacy
• Design

Governor's Budget Summary 2020-21

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

iCivics works to ensure every student in America receives a quality and engaging civic education and graduates from high school well prepared and enthusiastic for citizenship

• youth

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

StoryWeaver offers open source libraries for children's books in their native languages.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

We train youth to produce high quality data about community assets that everyone can use to improve the human condition.

• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

• youth
• Microsoft

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

M-Shule is an adaptive, mobile learning management platform designed to improve performance for millions of primary school students across Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa

Win the White House teaches students in grades 4-12 about the challenges of running for office by empowering them to create and manage their own presidential campaigns.

• The Tech
• Media
• Organize campaigns

Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Pocket Law is an offline legal library for students with no internet connection at home, and for courts with limitedinternet connectivity. Additionally, smaller or younger law firms can also subscribe to use this legal library.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic data

Innovative open source projects, made by incredibly motivated students, coaches & organisations.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Civic Seed is on online multi-player RGP to prepare college students for community service work that is now an integral ...

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

At Mikva Challenge, we challenge high school students, teachers, and schools across Chicagoland to be active participants in the political process.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

ml5.js aims to make machine learning approachable for a broad audience of artists, creative coders, and students. The library provides access to machine learning algorithms and models in the browser, building on top of TensorFlow.js with no other external dependencies.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Established in 1966, the Fellows Program is a cornerstone of Institute life and the only program of its kind at Harvard University or anywhere else. An IOP Fellowship offers the rare opportunity for professionals in politics and public service to spend a semester at Harvard sharing their experiences with students and exploring important public issues with a distinguished

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• In-person meetings

Hack League is a friendly academic competition that invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community.

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

It's our House, so it should be our mouse.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping
• Civic literacy

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Individuals, students, entrepreneurs, start-ups, academia, private companies, nonprofits and public sector agencies from member countries of the World Bank Group shared innovative solutions and ideas for tackling real-world, actionable climate challenges.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Co-design

Our program offers real-time tracking of school buses through a mobile web app. We hope that — in a small way — this creates a better experience for parents and students.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities

• racial equity
• surveillance

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

• rural

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Advancing peace through social innovation

• Build something
• Incubators

A first-of-its-kind technology, data science, and design internship program for innovative students to solve pressing problems in US federal agencies.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Promptable helps students in further education (FE) to succeed in their courses by helping colleges to deliver a proven support programme to their students.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Cast Your Vote teaches students how to evaluate what they hear politicians say, and to determine if they think they will keep their word in office.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

• The Tech
• The People
• Build something

A PhD student's suite of apps for small group consensus-building and facilitation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

RyeCatcher is online collaboration software that makes it easy for everyone involved in a student’s success to work together.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Virtual temporary newsroom for student and citizen journalists

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

This course brings together engineering students from MIT with law students from Georgetown Law School to explore current issues in privacy policy and technology.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Support women, entrepreneurs, students and refugees around the world with as little as $25 on Kiva. 100% of your loan go to support borrowers.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Techtopia is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative that brings together Harvard students and faculty around the biggest issues in tech today.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Journalism