The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Txeka is an online platform called “Txeka-la” created to monitor the Fifth General and Legislative Mozambican Elections held on October 15, 2014, whose main objective was to give Voice to Citizens in Mozambique during the Electoral Process

Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Tool for creating small online group discussions around an issue, originally created for political campaigning in the US

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

• books

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Dynamically change disputed national borders

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

Placemeter is an open urban intelligence platform. Create your account to automatically quantify pedestrian and vehicular movement for a selected area: streets, parks, stores, and much more.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

Civic Capital is a call to fundamentally shift the way we understand the value embedded into civic assets, how it can be actualized, captured and redistributed.

• fintech

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns

Our mission is to empower changemakers and innovators to solve large-scale social problems — strategically and conclusively. We are world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

To specifically break through online rumors, restore the truth, and urge everyone to continue to enjoy life.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Tech startups typically avoid government agencies like the plague but startup Homejoy is working with the public sector to find people to clean homes on its service.

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

The Green Button initiative is an industry-led effort to respond to a White House call-to-action to provide electricity, natural gas, and water customers with easy access to their energy- and water-usage data in a consumer-friendly and computer-friendly format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• COVID
• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Bringing sight to blind and low-vision people

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

It is a non-profit voluntary organization whose base is Ibaraki Prefecture (we call it a community). Code for Ibaraki's

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Helping civil society organizations use digital resources safely, ethically and effectively.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Create right from your phone with Google

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Until this day, the only way to access the Securities and Exchange Commission's Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval (EDGAR) database of filings from public corporations and financial entities was to go to a special reading room in Washington, DC, or to pay private information services.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

WE help healthcare organizations find community services, track social needs, and coordinate referrals with community partners to radically improve the health of the people we serve.

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

“Sharing Cities: Activating the Urban Commons” showcases over a hundred sharing-related case studies and model policies from more than 80 cities in 35 countries.

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Policymaking backed by BIG DATA

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

At Organizer, we strive to build the tools you need to make canvassing and field outreach efficient, effective, and accountable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

A single platform to design for multiple transportation modes to thrive in your city.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

investigates the use of computer-based approaches to spread misleading information in public life.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

In this Playbook, we explore the evolution of the procurement function’s missions, from its original cost reduction role to risk management and to contribution to growth as a strategic partner.

• The People
• Build something
• Procurement

HeLawyer provides legal information and access to lawyers through an Android application, SMS, phone call and Whatsapp.

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

• STEM

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

We are an international organisation that helps activists, organisations, and other social change agents make the most of data and technology to increase their impact.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

The Red Flags project aims to enhance the transparency of public procurements in Hungary and support the fight against corrupt procurements

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

The chatbots are easily accessed via Whatsapp, Messenger and webchat for smartphones and via SMS for feature phones.

• WhatsApp
• COVID-19
• Good health and well-being

• Bots
• COVID Engagement Projects

In the last six months I coordinated a research project, called ‘Punto Zero’, aimed at understanding how to safeguard the democratic…

• Regulation

We're an impact technology company building a blockchain to help you prove your ethical and sustainable practices. .

• supply chain

• Emerging tech
• Evaluate impact
• Blockchain

Data Governance is an important component of enabling our mission because we believe that while the world needs better quality and more granular data to achieve its development goals, people’s rights must also be protected zealously. In partnership with Amnesty International, the Open Institute aims to bring together expertise in data for human rights and data for development towards strengthening data governance in Kenya and Africa as a whole. Building on the momentum created by an event dubbed #RestoreDataRights, which ended with calls from African civil society organisations and academic representatives for policy tools and frameworks that could help to ensure that sensitive personal data used as part of the pandemic response is used responsibly, the project will work to ensure responsible data use and protect people’s data rights.

• Civic data
• Data governance

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Ask Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology. This is done through an Android app, WhatsApp, calls, and SMS. Medical experts and counsellors are available 24/7 to assist users with the right information regarding sexuality at the fingertips of every youth from the age of 12 to 35 years without judgment or shame. Ask Without Shame aims to reach one million youth in East Africa by 2018, scale Ask Without shame in other African countries five years from then and eliminate sexual taboo Africa by 2050.

• WhatsApp

Flex, the company’s flagship product, predicts and controls tens of thousands of energy resources from millions of customers by ingesting, storing, and managing petabytes of data from trillions of endpoints.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Community Prototype Fund supports the rapid development of innovative, viable and open Internet freedom technology prototypes that serve the immediate needs of the Internet freedom and human rights communities.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

WindyGrid is a computer application, designed for City personnel, that makes Chicago’s big data easily and strategically accessible in one place.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• Adjacent Fields
• Mapping
• Civic maps