Lockdown Mode is an optional, extreme protection that’s designed for the very few individuals who, because of who they are or what they do, might be personally targeted by some of the most sophisticated digital threats. Most people are never targeted by attacks of this nature.

• Apple

• Cybersecurity
• Digital security and privacy

Easy and secure location based applications and payment services for councils.

• local

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

A new kind of public institution, the world’s first data utility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Appgree is the only technology that can sift through the hundreds or thousands of opinions a group might have and find common ground among such a vast array of data. What’s more, it does all this in a matter of minutes.

• Graveyard
• Group decision making

The first open government data hackathon, Fall 2008

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

• civic features
• Apple

• The Tech
• Civic data
• COVID

Welkom op Apps For Ghent, de site voor de Gentse Open Data community. Dit is een samenwerking tussen de Stad Gent, Open Knowledge België en het Ghent Living Lab. Apps for Ghent wil via projecten, events en co-creatie het potentieel van open data in Gent maximaal benutten en de mogelijkheden ervan bij zoveel mogelijk mensen bekend maken.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

AppMyCity! is a contest for the world’s best urban app

• cities

• The People
• Awards and prizes
• Fieldwide resources

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Applied makes recruitment smart, fair and easy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Apptorney is a platform agnostic mobile application that uses natural language processing and content indexing and categorization to provide user friendly search functionality to its users. Utilizing a dynamic search engine, users are able to navigate and search through resources that are relevant to their needs such as Legislation, Subsidiary Legislation, Fields of Law and Case Law. These are all individually indexed, cross-referenced and linked within the comprehensive master database, giving the user complete access to all relevant resources, including a lawyers/ firm repository, in one tool

a movement (and its manifestations) encompassing technological choice and application that is small-scale, affordable by locals, decentralized, labor-intensive, energy-efficient, environmentally sound, and locally autonomous.

• Predecessors

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

• Apple

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

Helping citizens and communities to give their view on civic issues through Messenger chatbots

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

Learn to make apps for Android devices by doing projects that can help people in your community.

• Android
• apps

• Emerging tech
• Smartphones

Business intelligence for the public sector

• Civic and social impact companies

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Media and social media analysis
• Specific campaigns

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• CRM

We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.

• hurricanes

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital security and privacy

Our WhatsApp link extractor is a tool that makes it easy to export and download all the useful links from your WhatsApp chat history.

• WhatsApp

• Media and social media analysis
• Messaging app analysis

This is a simple app which generates a WhatsApp share link.

• WhatsApp

• Social media

Il assiste les utilisateurs dans leur parcours de vote : pour vérifier leur inscription sur les listes électorales, leur rappeler les dates limites pour s’inscrire, les dates des élections 2022 et la procédure pour faire une procuration.

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Voter assistance tech
• Voting and elections

Krama App is a mobile app for responsible consumer who cares whether the business still does business in Russia or not

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Boycott or buycott

A flowchart guide to help users consider which type(s) of experiments to run in policy settings

• Policy simulators
• Behavioral economics programs
• Data visualization

Information website by Budapest municipality in order to help the population find the possibilities of solar energy

• Govtech
• Mapping tools
• Mapping platforms

CANVAS was founded in 2005 by Slobodan Djinovic and Srdja Popovic to advocate for the use of nonviolent resistance in the promotion of human rights and democracy. Since then, we have worked with pro-democracy activists from more than 50 countries.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

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
• Reports

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

• Civic data
• Access social benefits
• Identity

The [Human Rights Watch] report finds that data collected by the state for administering public services, such as registering for the Covid vaccine, administering tax benefits, and mandatory membership in professional associations, was repurposed to spread Fidesz’s campaign messages.

• reports

• Organize campaigns
• Reports
• Tech for Bad Hall of Shame

Digitized the city's services, including e-petition tool, and "adapted them to conditions under martial law"

• Ukraine
• apps

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bureaucracy tech

Nepalese government mobile app for citizens

• apps

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bureaucracy tech

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

Glific enables NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff.

• Bots
• Messaging
• Nonprofit tech

To highlight the global knowledge base of behavioural insights work in public policy, and bring the achievements of institutions to the fore, the OECD launched the Behavioural Insights Knowledge Hub and map in 2021.

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Bots

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Manage volunteers

A report by the UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub

• reports

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Satellites
• Emerging tech

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Help out

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

What this means is we’re putting the power into people’s hands to maintain access to WhatsApp if their connection is blocked or disrupted.

• WhatsApp

• Civic features
• Circumvention tech

A clever campaign riffing on Spotify's Unwrapped year-in-review product, by Fight for the Future and Union of Musicians and Allied Workers. https://github.com/fightforthefuture/spotifyunwrapped.org

• Spotify
• labor

We are Members of the U.S. House of Representatives hosting district-wide Congressional App Challenges for middle school and high school students, encouraging them to learn to code and inspiring them to pursue careers in computer science.

• apps
• students
• youth

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding