With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.

• Identity

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

The Hive Biolab exists to promote grassroots biotechnology innovation using research and entrepreneurship.

crowdsourcing environmental data across Victoria.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• animals

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The Directorate for Technology, Innovation and Partnerships is the first new NSF directorate in 30 years and "advances use-inspired and translational research in all fields of science and engineering, giving rise to new industries and engaging all Americans — regardless of background or location — in the pursuit of new, high-wage jobs in science, technology, engineering and math (STEM)."

• STEM

• Govtech
• Economic development

arXiv is a free distribution service and an open-access archive for nearly 2.4 million scholarly articles in the fields of physics, mathematics, computer science, quantitative biology, quantitative finance, statistics, electrical engineering and systems science, and economics.

• Open science
• Open knowledge

À partir du jeudi 17 février 2022 et jusqu’au 8 avril, l'ensemble des membres de Tinder en France âgés de 18 à 25 ans verront donc apparaître plusieurs “Swipe Video Card'' détaillant les démarches à suivre pour les élections présidentielles de 2022. Chaque Swipe Card dirige les membres vers notre page “Infos élections”.

• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Advertising
• Voter outreach

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

El Programa Creamos de INJUV está dirigido a jóvenes entre 15 y 29 años que quieran ser líderes y generar cambios a pequeña o mediana escala, proponiendo ideas innovadoras para problemas que afecten a una comunidad.

• youth

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

Interconexión.lat es una plataforma que impulsa el intercambio y co-producción de datos entre organizaciones de sociedad civil en América Latina para hacer frente a retos transfronterizos y hacer eficientes los esfuerzos de la región.

• Partner networks
• Data governance

Bienvenido a Hive Mind, un espacio de aprendizaje para activistas digitales. Ayudamos a los actores de la sociedad civil a desarrollar su resiliencia digital.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks

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

• Conferences

El Premio Latinoamericano Democracia Digital es un concurso online y gratuito donde pueden participar todas las iniciativas digitales de diversa índole (web, blogs, redes sociales u otras herramientas) que promuevan un cambio positivo en la sociedad.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

"an end-to-end open-source framework for creating georeferenced pedestrian networks from aerial imagery"

• place-based
• streetscape
• Good health and well-being

• Urban planning
• Peer-reviewed research
• Satellites

This site contains directories for the 41st (1869-1871) -104th (1995-96) Congresses forward, as well all Interim editions (online-only revisions) for the 105th Congress forward. Documents are available as ASCII text and Adobe Portable Document Format (PDF) files

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Archives

Homeward is an identity management system and intelligent resettlement platform for displaced populations.

• refugees
• migration

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

Secretary Blinken established the office as part of the wider modernization agenda because the constellation of critical and emerging technologies reshaping the world is now an integral part of the conduct of U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy.

• Emerging tech
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Media
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Since there's not yet a clear home for civic tech on Mastodon, I've rounded up some of the more relevant servers for civic tech's digital migrants to gather.

• guides
• Mastodon

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

From biometrics to surveillance — when people in power abuse technology, the rest of us suffer. Written by Ellery Biddle.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Newsletters

CLIP es una asociación sin ánimo de lucro, con sede en Costa Rica, y equipo latinoamericano, que realiza y coordina investigaciones periodísticas transfronterizas colaborativas y pone sus innovaciones tecnológicas al servicio del periodismo de la región.

• Media
• Investigative journalism tech

A forma fácil de ler o Parlamento.

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

El Chequeador es una plataforma educativa diseñada por el equipo de Chequeado para el desarrollo de cursos virtuales sobre Alfabetización Mediática e Informacional, desinformación, fact checking y otros temas relacionados.

• trainings

• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Dark Data Project helps organizations uncover, deobfuscate, semantify and analyze problematic datasets

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Data schemas and standards

A Bot to Add References to WikiData Statements

• Wikipedia

• Media
• Open knowledge

We are an independent Venezuelan media, which uses all its platforms for the free exercise of journalism and access to information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A Twitter bot by FiveThirtyEight. Called censusAmericans, it tweets short biographies of Americans based on data they provided to the U.S. Census Bureau between 2009 and 2013. Using a small Python program, the bot reconstitutes numbers and codes from the data into mini-narratives. Once an hour, it turns a row of data into a real person.

• census

• Bots

Climate Data Hub is a dataset exploration and discovery tool for data-driven technologists and entrepreneurs. Our visualizations will help you examine datasets in context – geospatial, bioregional,  social, and financial.

• Climate action

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

• biome
• cities
• Climate action

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Contigo, construimos el cambio político en nuestro país. Sí se puede. ¡Podemos!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• COVID
• Open source networks

Detailed, up-to-date and accurate congressional contact and biographic data - and much more.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Enter your address, get your sample ballot

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Change makers platform

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Find in-depth information about what's on your ballot.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

A biotech makerspace located in a rural community.

• Hubs
• Open science
• Citizen science

• The People
• Graveyard
• Learn about civic tech

“Marsad Majles” is Al Bawsala's project to monitor Tunisia's National Constituent Assembly (NCA).

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

One of South America's leading campaign and tech organizations

• trainings

• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits
• Campaign organizations

Help train an AI that encourages women to use more assertive language in their bios and professional descriptions.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Access this dataset to help with the fight against COVID-19

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

La Alianza Latinoamericana para la Tecnología Cívica (ALTEC) es el resultado de la alianza entre Luminate Group y Fundación Avina que busca promover el desarrollo de iniciativas de tecnología cívica con el potencial de mejorar y ampliar el ejercicio de la ciudadanía no sólo como un fin sino como un vehículo para alcanzar cambios positivos en prácticas de efecto colectivo, tanto públicas como privadas.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Catalogul aleşilor penali. De consultat înainte să mergem la vot.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Rules have developed a method and toolkit to help social movements bring about narrative and structural change. We call it Culture Hacking.

• Media
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech