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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Rappaport Family Foundation -

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

The App was designed on the basis of good governance. Municipalities are the closest form of government to the people – Let’s Talk bridges the gap between elected officials local government sphere with their respective constituencies. The effective and efficient rolewithin the to believe in the idea of a social contract, its institutions and rules. – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens,and transparency – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens, through the ballot, are the ones the authorise politicians to assume public offices, as such, they must be accountable to them; transparency meaning the knowledge of what government officials are doing and how money is being spent amongst others. This is the type of accountability and transparency the Let’s Talk App envisages.

Empowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Enrich your stories with charts, maps and tables.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

A common EU approach for the use of mobile applications and mobile data in response to the coronavirus pandemic

• COVID
• COVID Government Projects
• Location

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
• Constitutions
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

“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 People
• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech

Villages in the Indonesian province of Aceh that have successfully reduced forest fires are to be rewarded through a clever new scheme that uses blockchain-based smart contracts. Here's how it...

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The People
• The Tech
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AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Bots
• Emerging tech

Security First’s flagship Umbrella app gives you free digital and physical security advice when you need it most.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Maldita.es presenta la primera aplicación móvil capaz de avisarte cuando entras en una web con desinformación // a mobile application to fight against misinformation and promote transparency through the confirmation of facts and journalistic techniques

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Data to understand who is working in a given region and what are their assets; this can improve outcomes for many applications, at multiple scales.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Local governments working together to address the epidemic with data and maps

• opioids

• Civic maps

Supporting Disaster Response. With a Single Click!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Örömmel tudatjuk, hogy – a K-Monitor webes felületének közelgő megújulásával szinkronban – a mai naptól elérhető a K-Monitor új okostelefonos alkalmazása. Az app segítségével a felhasználók térképen kereshetnek rá az utóbbi évek legfontosabb, konkrét helyszínhez (pl. épülethez, utcához, hivatalhoz,…

• apps

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Emerging tech

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

10% less door-to-door walking time. Automatically generated walk lists.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

‎Read reviews, compare customer ratings, see screenshots, and learn more about EveryElection

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

• The Tech
• Data visualization
• Advocacy tech

Simple. Secure. Reliable messaging.

• commercial
• WhatsApp

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

C-App provides guidance, support, and advice for most parts of the application process for Employment and Support Allowance and Personal Independent payment benefits, respectively.

• Adjacent Fields
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Open App Stack allows you to simply manage your own cloud applications

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The People
• The Tech
• Evaluate impact

With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

A platform for civic engagement and neighborhood impact.

• The Tech
• Activism aggregators
• Advocacy tech

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Haki Law App intends to make knowledge about laws easily accessible. The mobile application provides legalinformation and connects citizens to lawyers.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

BERN was mostly used for “relational organizing”, which is a tactic of asking supporters to reach out to their friends to persuade them to vote and volunteer.

• apps

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Use the LOVELAND Next App to survey properties or look up property information while you're on the go!

• apps
• land

• Urban planning

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
• Communicating with the government

Mapping NYC automobile collisions and their resulting injuries and fatalities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Expert networks

Lets together script the rise of New India

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Nkola App is a tool which can disseminate employment rights information via the short message codes on your phone – the ones usually used for airtime or service provision from the telecom companies.

• Civic data

Empowers citizens to directly present bills. It uses blockchain technology to register citizens' support for the bill.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

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

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Digital tool that helps Colombian citizens know where, how and what to do regarding their everyday legal paperwork

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

A now-defunct app that let you find US nonprofits to donate to

• apps

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

WhoFundsThem is mySociety's new project looking into MPs’ and APPGs’ financial interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Crowdsourcing

[W]e explore c.125 companies operating in the Responsible AI space

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Artificial Intelligence