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

On June 15, 2021, the Sacramento City Council approved the use of up to $1 million in Measure U funds for residents to propose ideas and vote on project concepts.

• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

In the first cycle of Denver's Participatory Budgeting, residents guide the selection of $2 million of neighborhood infrastructure.

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

UNICEF StartUp Lab is an accelerator programme for impactful businesses working to advance the SDGs for children and young people. The programme is led by UNICEF in Ghana, supported by KOICA and implemented by MEST Africa.

• youth

• Accelerators

This interactive dashboard displays the themes in fact-checking articles we scraped from IFCN-certified websites in the selected week.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data visualization

InternetLab, ARTICLE 19 and LAPIN launch a policy paper with recommendations on smart cities and personal data protection.

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Smart Cities and sensors

Investigating the empirical case of urban biking activists in Madrid, we explore how the design of the digital platform Decide Madrid impacted the collaborative practices involved in digital participatory budgeting. We found that the design of the platform made the interaction competitive, where individuals sought to gain votes for their single proposals, rather than consider the relations across proposals and the larger context of the city decisions, even if the institutional process rewarded collective support.

• cycling

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

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

• WhatsApp

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Partner networks and coalitions

A chart of thousands of media sources based on source reliability and surveys of perceived political biases

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Data visualization

Power your mission with industry-leading fundraising and donor management software. Engage donors seamlessly from anywhere with a built-to-grow solution.

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

Data Artistry is a skills development programme aimed and building data communication skills among development professionals.

• trainings

• Civic data

A guide prepared by Codeando México and Code for Pakistan as part of the Code for All Exchange Programme.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

High-Growth High-Values Ventures

• Podcasts

Empowering and inspiring civic innovators across central Virginia

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

An interactive scorecard where people can see if they would be flagged for social welfare fraud under the Netherlands' broken system

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Access social benefits

Public engagement around plan to merge digital strategy and smart city strategy in Berlin

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Pulse Lab Jakarta is a joint data innovation facility of the United Nations (Global Pulse) and the Government of Indonesia (via the Ministry of National Development Planning, Bappenas).

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Innovation teams and labs

An online event on digital participation platforms

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Conferences

Create a digital public sphere to discuss and decide together

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Civic forums

Internews’ Thwarting Disinformation and Promoting Quality Information in Haitian Media project will limit the impact of inflammatory rhetoric, false news and disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

"The Digital Democracy Charter outlines several guiding principles on countering online disinformation and strengthening our democracies given the new digital age." - Counteringdisinformation.org

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Manifestos

The International Partnership on Information and Democracy is an intergovernmental non-binding agreement endorsed by 38 countries around the world to promote and implement democratic principles in the global information and communication space. It was formally signed during the 74th UN General Assembly in September 2019.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

SMARTFISH H2020 is an international research project which aims to develop, test and promote a suite of high-tech systems for the EU fishing sector.

• Life below water
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Smart Cities and sensors

A first-of-its-kind effort for community, non-profit, and private organizations to share data with the City to aid in COVID-19 response and recovery efforts.

• Civic data
• COVID Data Projects
• Public Private Partnerships

The Partnership for Public Service is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that strives for a more effective government for the American people.

• Tech talent

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

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world. Kate Crawford is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure, and the Miegunyah distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. She co-founded the AI Now Institute at New York University, and leads the Foundations of Machine Learning international working group. She lives in New York City. By Kate Crawford

• Books

Our accelerator program provides 24 months of customer development, product development, network building, and expert guidance for startups, all in preparation for securing state & local contracts. 

• Govtech
• Accelerators

CivStart is a nonprofit focused on creating opportunities for underserved and unconnected communities through startups that build with local governments. Our goal is to help impactful innovations quickly enter the state & local market. [email protected] 80 M St. SE, Washington, DC 20003

• Govtech
• Accelerators
• Govtech vendors

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Where is there room for common ground on Twitter? This tool tracks hashtags that are used by both Democrats and Republicans on Twitter and also describes the similarity in the tone of tweets across parties.

• X (Twitter)

• Media and social media analysis
• Filter bubble poppers

A small consultancy to help local government design better digital services

• local

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

An extensive explainer of the civic tech field

• Learn about civic tech

To recognize outstanding Smart Cities projects, IDC launched its Smart City North America Awards (SCNAA).

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Awards and prizes

Public authorities from all levels of government increasingly turn to Citizens' Assemblies, Juries, Panels and other representative deliberative processes to tackle complex policy problems ranging from climate change to infrastructure investment decisions.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Group decision making

Foundation Directory Online offers a free search tool, FDO Quick Start, that provide access to essential information about over 100,000 foundations and 250,000+ IRS forms 990-PF. Funder profiles include: address and contact information fields of interest program areas fiscal information

• Get funding

We are environmental charity with a unique approach - we use the power of our laws to protect life on Earth.

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Legal tech

análisis de 30 medios de comunicación en España

• Media
• Data visualization
• Media and social media analysis

People Powered's independent expert committee scored 26 of the top digital engagement platforms

• Digital participation platforms
• Report cards and audits

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

Each will receive two years of funding ($250,000 per year) and additional support

• Funders & donors
• Academia

US State Department report on state-funded misinformation

• Fight disinformation

SPE is developing the first-ever Gold Standard certified carbon credit NFTs, a green blockchain entirely powered by renewable energy, and a carbon credit exchange that will use $SPE as the exclusive currency.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)
• NFTs

EarthFund is using 15% of its equity (plus contributions and LP rewards) to build a planet-saving treasury, controlled by you.

• Climate action

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Our team makes sure the networks, computers, and systems that support the City are secure and effective. We also manage the City’s websites and technologies focused on service delivery.

• Govtech
• Public sector innovation labs