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

• apps

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

World Central Kitchen and its partners are activating Chefs For The Polls to serve nourishing meals on early voting days and Election Day.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

See how you match with political candidates based on the issues you care about

• US Election 2020

• Graveyard
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Over 1 million workers are using Organise to win better pay and conditions at work. Complete your confidential profile page to get started!

• employee organizing
• labor

• Organize campaigns
• Online forums

A dedicated section on Facebook that connects people to news and information about their community, called Today In.

• civic features
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

The digitalisation process in the public sector calls for overall principles that apply to all public services. They are the commonly agreed rules for developing public services.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

For 20 years, the Center for Digital Government’s Best of the Web Awards have recognized and benchmarked state and local government progress online.

• The People
• The Tech
• Govtech

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The People
• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields

To provide research‐based techniques for engaging digital audiences in commercially viable and democratically beneficial ways.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the national security industrial base and our country.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Health-e News is South Africa’s award-winning television and print health news service that has been producing news and in-depth analysis for national media since 1999. Health-e News has television, online and print clients and has a nationwide network of citizen journalists called OurHealth who are based in rural villages and small towns throughout the country.

Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

Dash makes any car a 'smart car'. Our app, for Android and iOS, connects to your car with a low-cost, easy to install device, called a ODB2. We use the information on your driving habits to make the roads smarter, safer, greener, more affordable and more social.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Specific campaigns
• Drones

Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Catalist compiles, enhances, stores, and dynamically updates data on over 256 million unique voting-age individuals across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Working with Catalist can help you build membership, target persuasive messaging, engage activists, drive an issue agenda, and register or mobilize voters.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

This group is for events hosted by Open Austin (http://www.open-austin.org/), for people interested in open government, open data, & civic technology.At our Open Gov & Civic Tech Meetups we typically

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Local meetings happen all the time. Let’s make showing up easy.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Philadelphia’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) pilots experiments that offer the potential to improve radically the quality of City services. To design, conduct and evaluate pilot projects in these areas, MONUM builds partnerships between constituents, academics, entrepreneurs, non-profits and City staff.

• cities

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

• guides

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We build better fundraising tech and give it away for free (seriously). Our products drastically improve the online giving experience and help 501(c)(3) nonprofits raise more for their causes.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Hear from all of your residents and better connect to your community's heartbeat with Zencity, a cross-channel platform that takes civic engagement to the next level

• cities

• Emerging tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Meet the others
• Emerging tech

Review submissions together.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Forms

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Artistic interventions
• Specific campaigns

Are you a civil servant working to make government more user-centred? Join the International Design in Government community.

• The People
• The Tech
• Meet the others

Code For Boulder lies within the intersection of tech, data, and community engagement. Boulder is a vibrant city; we join up with local government, non-profits, and community organizers to help bring out the best in the place we call home.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Media

A card game that helps organizations and communities explore governance around a shared codebase, whether hypothetical or in a real-world collaboration.

• The Tech
• Games and gamification
• Building inside government

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

• framework

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

• cities
• mobility
• planning

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

A resource that provides guidance for designing ethically humane digital products through patterns focused on user well-being.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Nonprofit artificial intelligence firm called WattTime is going to use satellite imagery to precisely track the air pollution (including carbon emissions) coming out of every single power plant in the world, in real time. And it’s going to make the data public.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Satellites

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

• Voting and elections
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Archives

GSBI Online Accelerator provides transformative mentorship, for transformative impact

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

DISTRIBUTED DIALING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BASE

• Organize campaigns
• Phone banking tools

Planning4Informality is a website which acts as 'policy tracker', datatool and accountability Platform. It was designed to measure and critically assess eight South African cities' response to national targets set to upgrade 750,000 out of the total 1.2 million informal households to standards outlined in stages 2 and 3 of the Upgrading of Informal Settlements Programme (UISP), part 3 of the National Housing Code. These cities are: Buffalo City, City of Cape Town, City of Joburg, City of Tshwane, Mangaung, eThekwini, Ekurhuleni, and Nelson Mandela Bay Metro. Open Data Durban partnered with Isandla Institute to create this living tracker that enables journalists, researchers, local government, communities, and many other user groups assess where each South African metro is at in terms of housing provision and upgrading informal settlements, supporting evidence-based decision making for city housing policy.

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Texting large volumes of potential voters is possible while remaining compliant with TCPA rules thanks to new technology.

• SMS tools
• Campaign tools
• Email campaign tools

A big 'Thank You!' to the hundreds of thousands of you who supported our two-month Kit Kat campaign by e-mailing Nestlé, calling them, or spreading the campaign message via your Facebook, Twitter and other social media profiles. This morning, Nestlé finally announced a break for the orang-utan - as well as Indonesian rainforests and peatlands - by committing to stop using products that come from rainforest destruction.

• Adjacent Fields
• Brand organizing
• Specific campaigns

The Wi-Fi Smart Sprinkler Control system that saves up to 50% on watering bills using your laptop or smartphone to schedule watering times and automatically adjusts watering amounts.

• Adjacent Fields

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Story tech
• Cameras

TechSoup equips changemakers with transformative technology solutions and skills they need to improve lives globally and locally.

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Tech for public challenges

Popit database and API service that helps you make and maintain information about politicians, politically exposed persons (PEPs) and their memberships in organizations and generates Popolo standard compliant open data to power your project.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing