Citizens creating solutions to improve cities and communities in Belgium

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Totem is an online learning platform on using digital security tools and tactics effectively for journalists, activists, and trainers.

• trainings

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

I am Vigilant" is a Tunisian, non-profit, and independent monitoring organization that aims to combat financial and administrative corruption and enhance transparency. Anna Yazdat became the official contact point for Transparency International in Tunisia in November 2013 and since January 29, 2017 the branch is under construction for Transparency International in Tunisia. The organization aims at two main goals: transparency and fighting corruption

We build tools that help data journalists investigate the relationship between campaign contributions and political narratives in US elections.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Missions Publiques is a high-impact social entrepreneur whose mission is to bring the voice of ordinary citizens into international and global discussions and negotiations on societal challenges through the organization of Citizens’ Debates.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Probleemgedreven innovatie voor overheden (enzo). Bedenkers van de Fixxx methode voor snelle innovatie die werkt!

• Social impact design firms

User-friendly interactive databse that provides an ovierview of lobbying activities in the UK.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Detailed, up-to-date and accurate congressional contact and biographic data - and much more.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• cities

• Media
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

When the path to social impact is unclear…we help you measure it

• Evaluate impact
• Civic and social impact companies

Fluicity est une solution d’engagement citoyen, qui permet la prise de décision collective autour des sujets d’intérêt général.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday to provide a framework for dealing with current and future technologies that impact privacy. This is a major step with the adoption of six privacy principles guiding the actions the City will take when collecting and using information from the public. The Council also established an August 2015 reporting deadline […]

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A global organization that identifies and invests in leading social entrepreneurs -- individuals with innovative and practical ideas for solving social problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Find a job or hire someone

Our mission is to support development actors to better collect, structure, use and open data, while respecting people's privacy and preserving the interests of the nation - through research, advocacy, training, tools and assistance

PesaCheck is a fact-checking initiative to verify the financial and other statistical numbers quoted by public figures across East Africa, supported by International Budget Partnership, and Code for Africa affiliates in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda.

• indigenous

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification. The OCF’s vision for IoT is that billions of connected devices (devices, phones, computers and sensors) will communicate with one another regardless of manufacturer, operating system, chipset or transport. With the OCF fulfilling this promise, anyone – from a large technology company to a maker in their garage – can adopt the open standards of OCF to innovate and compete, helping ensure secure interoperability for consumers, business, and industry.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

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

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

This year at PDF, we’re going to focus on meaningful action and collaboration. This year, PDF will be about plugging you into the process of change-making.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. The project also aims to strengthen the link between the municipality and citizens,

• cities

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Census Reporter provides useful facts about every place in America. Compare places using tables and maps, download data, and embed charts on your site!

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

This interactive WebVR experience creates a space out of time to explore memory from an intimate and poetic perspective.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

The World's First Robot Lawyer

• apps
• LGBTQI
• refugees

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

We're a global technology consultancy. We help you invent what's next, and bring it to life with technology. In weeks, not years.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Afin de favoriser l’émergence de futurs champions de l’impact positif, GROUPE SOS Pulse participe à l a création, à l a cogestion ou au soutien de programmes d’accompagnement en France et à l’international. Belgique, Bénin, France, Hong Kong, Maroc, Tunisie…

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view. It recognises that communities, citizens and public service users are active holders of fundamental rights and not merely passive users of public services. As a result, CBM provides strong evidence to take back to government and, where necessary, into the public domain, in order to better the delivery of services where needed and to acknowledge good service where it is provided.

Digital, open and colaborative platform in which news and articles are fact-checked and published regularly for maintaining healthy debates and conversations in Colombia.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement. With this information, community organizations, decision markers, and local residents can push back with outreach, education, organizing strategies, and policy change.

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

una plataforma para activar y canalizar la participación de tu comunidad

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

An assault team that establishes moral beauty, political poetry and human greatness while aiming to preserve humanitarianism.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

We're empowering the next generation of technology leaders to create social change.

• The People
• Meet the others

We forge partnerships between neighbors who use technology to improve interactions with, and access to, public services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Parcours interactifs, ateliers, conférences, hackathons, journée portes ouvertes etc. mettent en lumière des méthodes originales pensées par des acteurs locaux pour concevoir plus efficacement les politiques publiques et transformer l'administration.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Holidays

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos. Our mission is to promote the principles of a free culture and defend civil rights on the Internet, fostering spaces for interaction and exchange of knowledge and developing Web tools with open code and design, supported by an alternative and innovative communication and advocacy work.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

L'Atelier BNP Paribas 2017 report on "how technology is renewing civic engagement". (PDF file)

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks