EASY LAWS is a free mobile app and website in Lebanon that explains laws in everyday language, giving ordinary people access to legislation from a citizen’s rather than a legalistic perspective. With easy searches via a simplified database covering 380 legal topics, over 6000 questions and answers, explanatory notes, real life examples, a glossary of terms, and extensive legal references, EASYLAWS gives people equal opportunities and leads to the elimination of discriminatory policies and laws by empowering citizens in their quest for justice.

• apps

• Legal tech
• Freedom of Information

Defunct platform offering info about parliament and matching users views to parties

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Matching views to votes
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Organised by the European Social Network, the Awards shine a spotlight on successful new approaches and the extraordinary ongoing work of public social services managers, funders, planners, providers, and deliverers of social services, as well as providing opportunities for exchange and mutual learning to improve social work policies and practice.

• Awards and prizes
• Access social benefits

The only FOSS-based service offering Matrix chat server hosting

• Matrix

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Internal communication and coordination
• Data integration

A Network Of Grassroots Citizens Dedicated To Tracking Government And International Aid Spending.

• apps

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Open philanthropy

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

An initiative that matches tech talent with impact-driven organizations.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Tech talent
• Job-matching

Donation software built by progressives for progressives. We empower progressive causes because we believe that positive change happens when we work together!

• partisan

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

• cities

• Govtech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Manifestos

Korean app to match young people to politicians in their area and discussing their issues

• Matching views to votes
• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people

Slack, Microsoft Teams, Discord, SMS, WhatsApp or Telegram? Authenticate your preferred one with one click!

• commercial

• Internal communication and coordination

The 6-week virtual programme launches in August and provides mentorship and support to organisations wanting to build and scale their WhatsApp Health service.

• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• Accelerators
• Messaging

"Sudan Safe Passages, a volunteer group of local and diaspora Sudanese, has built an app called Amen, said Hiba Sharief, a Silicon Valley veteran and senior technology executive at Amazon Web Services. Amen uses crowdsourced data to send real-time updates on secure transport routes and hospital availability." - Damilare Dosunmu

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Govtech
• Books

Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

• Peer networks
• Meet the others

PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.

• WhatsApp

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation tools, platforms, and communities
• Translation and linguistic representation

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

• Hong Kong protests

• Messaging
• Direct action
• Connectivity

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.

• supply chain

• Watchdogging and transparency

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Open government data

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work. Hope-based communications acts on the principle that we should be focused on building the world we want, setting the agenda with our values, our goals, our mission.

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

US White House order including addressing AI generated public comments

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government
• Artificial Intelligence

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

We work to strengthen the course of civic engagement using data / social science / tech / design

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

Clean Insights is focused on answering key questions about user usage patterns without enabling invasive surveillance of all user habits. It provides methods for user interactions that are ultimately empowering instead of alienating.

• Build something
• Adjacent Fields
• Privacy-preserving user analytics

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Specific campaigns

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Location
• Mapping

This [2023 Webby Award nominated] app allows current Meals on Wheels volunteers in the Charlottesville/Albemarle area to easily see their assigned routes, view customer stops, and navigate to each customer on the route.

• Zero hunger
• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Resource matching and sharing
• Manage volunteers

Fingerspelling.xyz is a browser-based app that uses a webcam and machine learning to analyze your hand shapes so you can learn to sign the ASL alphabet correctly.

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Games and gamification

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

It’s a one-hour, 1-mile walk through the site of America’s first large-scale urban renewal project.

• history
• racial equity
• apps

• Walking tours

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic apps outfits

The first object interaction app for the visually impaired. iOS only.

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

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

Participación, formación ciudadana y apertura de datos Somos una organización que trabaja por una Guatemala más democrática, innovadora y transparente.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

eCivis helps state and local governments maximize grant funding, optimize financial and program performance, and prepare cost allocation plans.

• Govtech
• Grant management
• Bureaucracy tech

CityBase technology helps people find, apply, and pay for public services — and helps staff manage those interactions. More than 100 government agencies, cities, counties, states, and utilities use the CityBase platform for hassle-free payments and digital services.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

In the database, we collect the best case studies we come across, to ensure that everyone in our global network can learn from and be inspired by these creative applications of AI in journalism

• Journalism
• Media
• Civic tech catalogs

RosKomSvoboda is the first Russian public organization operating in the field of digital rights protection and digital empowerment.

• Adjacent Fields
• Advocacy tech
• Digital rights

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• cities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Smart Cities and sensors

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

The Dignity and Justice Fund is a pooled grantmaking fund designed to make high-impact grants to advance social justice and equity globally. Includes a $10M+ grant from Apple.

• Apple

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The tool to team up for mapping in OpenStreetMap

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Manage volunteers

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Salesforce.org's own volunteer management app for the platform.

• extensions
• Salesforce

• Manage volunteers