EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Ministerul Finanțelor Publice a creat Sistemul naţional de verificare, monitorizare, raportare şi control al situaţiilor financiare, angajamentelor legale şi bugetelor entităților publice din România. Aici poți găsi informații despre activitatea financiar-bugetară a acestora.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard
• Budget explorers

At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Test+Build is a digital platform that provides customers with the tools to design their own behavioural science interventions and run their own randomised controlled trials (RCTs).

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Enter your address, get your sample ballot

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

We’re helping small, mission-driven organizations build and use technology.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

Eticas teams up with organizations to identify black box algorithmic vulnerabilities and retrains AI-powered technology with better source data and content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic and social impact companies

Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Working with Catalist can help you build membership, target persuasive messaging, engage activists, drive an issue agenda, and register or mobilize voters.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

LexLucid is a service that grades elements in contracts and online legal documents, such as terms of service and privacy policies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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
• Courses

Chalmers can help you find things like: free meals, overnight shelter, clothing banks, emergency contacts and can point you to offline and online mental health services.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS
• Campaign tools

Everyone a humanitarian

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data.

• cities
• neighborhoods
• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Indicators

Holds you Accountable! Macedonian fact-checking outlet

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Networked Neighbourhoods is a consultancy combining the expertise of experienced practitioners in social media, communications and community development.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

• peace

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

NationalField was acquired by and folded into NGP VAN

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

The Tech4Germany Digitalization Fellowship brings IT talent, designers and entrepreneurs together with government agencies and ministries to solve burning challenges for the federal government over three months.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

LSE Cities is an international centre at the London School of Economics and Political Science that carries out research, graduate and executive education and outreach activities in London and abroad.

• cities

• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

Intervention SimulationAugmented Reality Decision Support Systems topredict and quantify the impact of disruptive interventions

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Urban planning

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

As the Confederation turns 150, Connected Canada will examine what it means to be a digital citizen in Canada today. Together, participants will draft a public research agenda for digital citizenship that will set the foundation for strong institutions and good policy. Join us October 13-14, 2017 in Ottawa as we consider the impacts of the Internet on Canadian institutions, policies, and people.

• Conferences

WE DESIGN SERVICES WITH PEOPLE

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

HURUmap gives infomediaries like journalists and civic activists an easy ‘plug & play’ toolkit for finding and embedding interactive data visualisations into their storytelling. The project's underlying data is quality-checked, from reputable official sources including the government Census, PEPFAR and Uwezo.

Movement Voter Project provides tools for activists and donors to connect with hundreds of grassroots vote groups across the United States.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Holopolis MR imagines the uses case in the near future, when MR headsets are more popularized. It turns on the GPS with computer vision feature so that the users can bump into virtual public forums such as a forum setup next to the priority seats. Mature of mixed reality enables “engaging” civic engagement Despite the naming war of AR/VR/MR/XR, the substance of connecting information, overlaying visualization and designing interaction between real and virtual world brought us to a journey t...

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

Architizer is how architects find building-products.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

An international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

This portal makes available data on the City of Cape Town to increase transparency in its processes and actively involve residents and other stakeholders in local government, as well as promote economic opportunity.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

QuakeQuizSF Earthquake awareness quiz, is a fun interactive quiz that provided useful suggestions on what to do in case of an earthquake.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Reveal hidden gender bias

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Join us at CampaignCon 2017, a Global technology and activism skillshare near Johannesburg on 7-9 November 2017

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

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

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

• Hubs

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

DAP Portal is a comprehensive new research tool that includes dozens of datasets indicating harassment and potential displacement from New York City housing.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Heavy-duty electric vehicle manufacturer delivering clean, quiet transportation for all.

• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

• guides

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Organize campaigns

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Visualizing Iran

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Self-written emails for you to send to your donors.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

CiviCRM is an open source CRM built by a community of contributors and supporters, and coordinated by the Core Team. CiviCRM is web-based software used by a diverse range of organisations, particularly not-for-profit organizations (nonprofits and civic sector organizations). CiviCRM offers a complete feature set out of the box and can integrate with your website. CiviCRM is created and used by a global community of tens of thousands of individuals and organisations. Our vision is that 'all organisations – regardless of their size, budget, or focus – have access to an amazing CRM to engage their contacts and achieve their missions'.

• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers
• CRM