Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

An anatomical case study of the Amazon echo as a artificial intelligence system made of human labor

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Digital upheaval also means a whole universe of tools and techniques are out there to make your reporting easier, faster, harder, smarter.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Istinomjer je inicijativa koja u svom fokusu ima promociju odgovornosti političkih partija koje participiraju u izvršnoj vlasti, kao i nosioca javnih funkcija koji imaju odgovornost prema građanima/kama BiH. Cilj mu je da politički i javni diskurs u BiH što više usmjeri ka promociji političke odgovornosti kao temeljnog principa demokratije.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

From amazing new parks and safe neighborhoods to growing our local economy and promoting green initiatives, City leaders are looking for your bright ideas to Imagine Mesa in innovative and exciting ways.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We are joining together to stop Amazon’s growing, powerful grip over our society and economy.

• Amazon

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

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

I started a Google spreadsheet to track links to tech ethics syllabi

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Identity

DearSA is a legally recognised and constitutionally protected non-profit platform which enables the public to co-shape all government policies, amendments and proposals.

• Petitions

What if Tech said

• campaigns

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• cities
• research

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

She Should Run is dedicated to dramatically increasing the number of women in public leadership by eliminating barriers to success. Join She Should Run and step up to inspire more women and girls to consider a future run.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

Since 1989, CSDC has been fueling process performance through purpose-built, automation technology.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

This is a project to counter the Amazon Ring doorbell camera surveillance infrastructure. We provide information for users and community members concerned about the country’s biggest company planting always-on cameras all over our streets.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The use of prizes and awards is a visible element of the Obama Administration’s efforts to promote innovation in government. For example, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has sponsored a competition among federal employees to find cost savings and the White House has created the “challenge.gov” website where federal agencies can pose problems in hopes of getting

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

• Participatory budgeting

Citizenville: How to Take the Town Square Digital and Reinvent Government [Gavin Newsom, Lisa Dickey] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. “A fascinating case for a more engaged government, transformed to meet the challenges and possibilities of the twenty-first century.” —President William J. Clinton A rallying cry for revolutionizing democracy in the digital age

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance [Stephen Goldsmith, Susan Crawford] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew citiesand citizenship in America The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement andgovernance in the digital age that will help leaders link importantbreakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessonsof small-group community input to create more agile

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Website builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine

• Govtech
• Participatory democracy
• Budget explorers

We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

Adoption of self-driving, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) promises to dramatically reduce the number of traffic accidents, but some inevitable accidents will requi...

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The GSBI Accelerator is Miller Center’s signature program and is for the highest potential social enterprises we can find. Participating organizations have proven traction and potential to scale their impact dramatically

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

This book is a resource for (and by) practitioners inside and outside government—from the municipal chief information officer to the community organizer to the civic-minded entrepreneur. 

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

El programa per a la Digitalització Oberta: Programari Lliure i Desenvolupament Àgil de Serveis de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona defineix el procés de canvi profund i progressiu de la manera en que la ciutat oferirà els seus serveis a la ciutadania en els propers anys.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

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

The Incidental Emergency Grants respond to urgent needs such as a website or email being hacked, or the theft or loss of sensitive data and equipment.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

• research

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

• Gender Equality
• women's health

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Get funding

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Specific campaigns

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

A HUB OF FUNDING TOOLS MADE WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN MIND

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

O Impacto.Jor é uma iniciativa para medir o impacto do jornalismo na vida das pessoas, através de um software criado para reportar e agregar impactos.

• The Tech
• Media
• Evaluate impact

Sarkozy's official app

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

• workshops

• Narrative tech
• Story tech

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Ballot Scout returns confidence to the vote-by-mail process.

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Election administration
• Vote by Mail

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

"Artifice" describes the end of a relationship between an Apple iPhone and an Amazon Echo.

• films

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic fiction