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

China’s Participation Center developed a “mini app” for the popular WeChat platform, and grew the number of participatory budgeting users in Chengdu city to more than 3 million

• WeChat

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

The WhatsApp archiver consolidates chat files exported from different WhatsApp conversations into one database. The scraper relies on WhatsApp's export chat feature which allows 40,000 messages to be exported without media and 10,000 to be exported with media. If a media item has not been downloaded to your phone, it cannot be exported through the export chat feature. The archiver removes overlaps in different files exported from a chat; and anonymizes sender and group names.

• Civic data
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

End-to-end fact-checking on the WhatsApp Business API organized by Meedan

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

Latin American fact-checking organization's Whatsapp bot to make it easier for people to ask for fact-checks

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

In this project, we studied 13 government mobile apps – eight from the federal public administration and five from the state of São Paulo – that we believed most affect Brazilian citizens on a daily basis for their relation to services that are especially relevant to our day-to-day life and to the government-citizen relationship.

• apps
• reports

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

To increase civic engagement in strengthening government effectiveness in Indonesia, The Asia Foundation held a competition for civic tech apps through the “Innovation and Collaboration for Development” (In.CoDe) program.

• Civic hackathons

A referral marketing tool for political campaigns that works atop Whatsapp

• WhatsApp

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Manage volunteers

Rappler values truth-telling, facts, and factual reporting.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

This system shows the most shared image, video, audio, messaging, and URLs content across over 300 WhatsApp public groups daily.

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Media and social media analysis

Goal is to promote cross-border learning and networking on a wide range of existing initiatives and to develop new capacity in political participation, government transparency and election administration.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Podcast dedicated to unpacking the disinfo spreading on Whatsapp

• WhatsApp
• YouTube

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Podcasts

Helping voters in English and Spanish

• WhatsApp

• Voting and elections
• Bots
• Voter assistance tech

This is a public interest bot, a project of Demand Progress, that tweets primary source announcements concerning US House and Senate Appropriations

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Bots
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Mapping the videos of the US Capitol building attack

• Civic maps

Pineapple Fund was an experiment in philanthropy with cryptocurrency wealth. What happens when your 'play-money' becomes a treasure chest, and you're past the satiety point of money?

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• Mapping
• Books

Mit Face the Facts Wahlplakate scannen und herausfinden wofür Politiker:innen wirklich stehen.

• apps

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information
• Cameras

After the installation, users can decide which messages they want to receive. Then, they will start getting notifications, assigned to one of six categories: alarms (emergencies), safety (e.g. meteorological warnings), breakdowns (e.g. water and sewage), housing estate (neighbourhood messages directed from individual housing estate councils), air (smog reports, exceeded dust particle limits, free communication), transport (road works, communication difficulties).

• apps
• cities

• Issue reporting

No code platform's solutions for gov

• state

• Govtech

The Counting Us mobile app was developed by Simtech Solutions to automate the collection of data for the annual homeless census.

• homelessness

• Crowdsourcing

Visualize your impact, track data trends, and share the stories that matter most.

• human rights

• Evaluate impact

A l’occasion des élections de 2020, Municipales.app dote le citoyen d’outils pour comprendre le débat, y participer et exprimer sa voix. Participez au changement !

• cities

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

ACCELERATING APPALACHIA – TM is supported in part by a $100,000 federal Rural Jobs Accelerator grant award from the Appalachian Regional Commission.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• cities
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A mobile app making it easy to report on the work city government is and isn’t doing.

The Common Approach is composed of 4 related standards that are community-driven.

• Evaluate impact

Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).

• extensions

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A technical certification process for emergency response apps

• apps

• Data schemas and standards
• Emergency services

Rappler is an independent, digital-only social news network that leverages community and digital engagement to drive social change.

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Narrative tech

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Ideation

Official campaign app

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

A project in the Netherlands to enable digital voting on the blockchain

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Started in 1970, GreenUp Day in Vermont has been a State

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Simple. Secure. Reliable messaging.

• commercial
• WhatsApp

• Organize campaigns
• Group communication tools
• Internal communication and coordination

GL is well known for championing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, and coordinating an Alliance of over 40 women’s NGOs that campaigned for the adoption and implementation of the Protocol, following its 2016 revision that was adopted by the SADC 36th Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mbabane, Swaziland. The revised SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the Beijing Declaration and its Platform of Action, The Maputo Protocol and the Agenda 2063 among other gender norms and standards.

an ingenious tool that lets Zambian citizens participate in the country’s ongoing constitution-drafting process—effectively allowing almost any Zambian adult to help forge the nation.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

NYC BigApps is the premier civic innovation competition in New York City that challenges tech experts to apply their know-how to improve NYC.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

There is a universe of government records hidden away in file cabinets and offline databases. With FOIA Mapper, much of that information is now searchable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

A platform for civic engagement and neighborhood impact.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

VoxMapp Baseline allows you to collect high quality data even in contexts of crisis; VoxMapp Feedback ensures communities participate and remain at the center of the initiative; and VoxMapp Management centralizes the analysis, decision-making and learning mechanisms, to feed into a new positive cycle.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech