Representing Civic Tech at the European scale.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Meet the others

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.

• Build something
• User research
• User research groups

Fatima's mission is for every person in the world to have their voice heard, while ensuring a safe, secure, and ethical research experience.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research tools
• Surveys & polling

Somos un estudio de innovación govtech con proyectos en Europa y América Latina

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

In Fall 2023, the Digital Service Network kicked off its digital transformation policy scan by documenting executive orders (EO) enacted since 2013 that shape the digital transformation of government across states and territories.

• reports

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Advertising
• Voter outreach

The aim of this study was to assess the current use of smartphones by the masons of the informal settlements of Iringa, Tanzania, and to identify pathways for improving their construction practices.

• informal settlements
• housing

• Peer-reviewed research
• Smartphones

Transforming Narratives of Gun Violence (TNGV) is a collaborative initiative which seeks to understand the impact of dominant narratives of gun violence on individuals, families, and communities most impacted, and aims to co-create interventions to change these narratives.

• gun safety

• Media
• Narrative tech
• Academic programs

This report provides an overview of how various EMAs work, a review of popular EMAs and their notable features (LINE, Signal, Telegram, Viber, WhatsApp, and WeChat), and examples of how EMAs have been used for political manipulation

• reports

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Messaging

Civic Story, a wacky Civic Education Game.

• Games and gamification
• Civic literacy

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

A team of researchers led by Dominik Hangartner, IPL co-director and professor of public policy at ETH Zurich, has joined forces with colleagues at the University of Zurich to investigate what kind of messages could lead authors of hate speech to refrain from such postings in the future

• hate speech
• X (Twitter)

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Modern administrative data—from 311 and 911 calls to building permit applications to Tweets—offer a detailed view of events and conditions across the city.

• census
• cities

• Civic data
• Narrative tech
• Big listening

Data Justice Lab conference at Cardiff University and online

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Beirut Urban Lab is launching a platform that documents the processes and mechanisms that generate housing precarity in today’s Beirut.

• housing
• No poverty
• landlord

• Civic maps

The Beirut Built Environment Database is a platform gathering geolocalised social, environmental, and economic information on building activity in the Greater Beirut Area.

• cities
• landlord
• land

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Google's open-sourced Mediapipe-based library to redact faces from videos and images

• videos

• Digital security and privacy

An Earthquake Early Warning System for the West Coast of the United States

• earthquakes
• apps

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors

OpenTripPlanner (OTP) is a family of open source software projects that provide passenger information and transportation network analysis services.

• mobility

In Cascadia 9.0, you play as several different characters to learn how to survive and thrive in this earth-shaking catastrophe!

• earthquakes

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Games and gamification

This study documents the rise of competitive broadband service in Boston; describes steadily increasing City efforts to close gaps in broadband affordability, devices, and skills; characterizes the remaining gaps in these areas as defined by stakeholders and available data; and makes near-term policy recommendations to address these gaps in light of current federal funding opportunities. This report also provides a high-level estimate of the cost of building a third competitive fiber network in the City, in addition to the residential services of Comcast and Verizon.

• Digital literacy
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

JusticeAI is an open source platform and suite of tools that strategically apply machine learning, computer vision, and metadata analysis to sort, identify, and analyze digital media.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions
• peace

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Digital security and privacy

Understand the role of the Telegram app in the dissemination of disinformation among Brazilian far-right groups and Analyse (online) radicalization process and (offline) political violence against democratic institutions, especially the Brazilian presidential election in October 2022

• reports

• Fight disinformation
• Reports

“Socks Talk Politics” is a YouTube series launched by the Innovation in Politics Institute to showcase the wide-ranging community and government projects that are around Europe.

• Learn about civic tech
• Shows and films

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Peer-reviewed research

Harassment Manager is a web application that aims to empower users to document and take action on abuse targeted at them on online platforms.

• Google
• anti-harassment
• hate speech

• Solidarity networks

La Silla Vacía is an informative and interactive medium for people interested in current Colombian politics.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

CaptainFact is a collaborative fact-checking tool for YouTube videos.

• YouTube
• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The goal of Computational Simulation of Online Social Behavior (SocialSim) is to develop innovative technologies for high-fidelity computational simulation of online social behavior.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Netvizz is a data collection and extraction application that allows researchers to export data in standard file formats from different sections of the Facebook social networking service.

• Facebook

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Strengthening our resolve to support the fight against misinformation in India, Internews is delighted to announce that in partnership with DataLEADS and with the support of Google.org, we will be launching a new news literacy project in India aimed at empowering the general public by helping them learn how to critically assess the information they see online and navigate news.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media literacy

A training guide for journalists and writers on how to respond to online harassment and abuse, including building a community of supporters and developing counterspeech messages.

• guides
• women
• LGBTQI

• Media
• Solidarity networks

Arsgames es una asociación cultural que promueve y gestiona proyectos de carácter cultural relacionados con los videojuegos y las nuevas tecnologías a partir de áreas de acción transversales: pedagogía y formación, investigación científica, inclusión digital y participación ciudadana.

• Games and gamification

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

• Media
• Games and gamification

The full compilation of enacted US law wasn't available as a complete and accessible digital collection...until now.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

S.T.O.P. at NYU fights to end discriminatory surveillance.

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Tonika Lewis Johnson’s Folded Map™ Project visually connects residents who live at corresponding addresses on the North and South Sides of Chicago.

• racial equity

• Civic maps
• Artistic interventions

We are a collective that helps designers impacted by the conflict in Ukraine reach safety and find new work opportunities.

• Ukraine

• Design

The public-private initiative supports Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New York City.

• Govtech
• Fellowships

Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A web platform where citizens take civic action for issues they care about

• Crowdsourcing
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Activism aggregators

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Measurement Lab is seeking three Research Fellows to expand Internet performance research beyond the measurement and optimization for bandwidth. Fellows will utilize M-Lab’s longitudinal, open dataset and/or platform to identify under-recognized Internet performance metrics that can be used to improve end user performance.

• Data science for social good
• Fellowships
• Connectivity

Narrativa+Investigación+Datos

• Media
• Data science for social good
• Narrative tech

Somos un grupo de ciudadanos que colaboramos para trabajar temas de caracter civico mediante la implementación de la tecnologia.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

rAInbow is a smart companion for domestic abuse victims, people in difficult or abusive, controlling situations and unhealthy relationships. The chatbot uses artificial intelligence and storytelling (platform provides the users with personalised, immersive stories of characters who may have had similar experiences) to help victims of domestic violence find support through prevention, intervention and access to resources. The platform is hoping to provide South African domestic abuse victims with a safe space to speak out about their situations. Since its launch in November 2018, 300,000 conversations have been started on rAInbow

This humanitarian aid worker attracted the famous mentor and launched a virtual reality film business acquired by Verizon AOL.

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

Cap Colectif instance. Idee.paris est le site de coopération entre les services de la Ville de Paris, les Parisien.ne.s et les acteurs des projets de la Ville de Paris.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms