The Shuttleworth Foundation offers fellowships to individuals to implement their innovative idea for social change. We are most interested in exceptional ideas at the intersection between technology, knowledge and learning, with openness being the key requirement.

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

The International Fact-Checking Network is a unit of the Poynter Institute dedicated to bringing together fact-checkers worldwide.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

“Jamnevisi” provides a platform which public – specially scholars and stakeholders – can participate in the process of providing the draft of country’s legal texts; a platform which significantly will result in the improvement and debugging of legal texts of the country.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Dynamically change disputed national borders

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

Liba Rubenstein, Director of Social Impact and Policy at Tumblr, explores how Tumblr's versatile platform can help nonprofits, libraries, and other changemakers tell powerful stories, catalyze engagement, and drive measurable impact.

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

OPEN DATA TODAY TO BUILD RESILIENT AND SUSTAINABLE SOCIETIES TOMORROW

• The People
• Civic data
• Meet the others

A digital hub where people determined to change the world can find a job, discover workshops and courses, locate funding, hire the right team, connect with mission-driven companies, share best practices, or learn from others who are using their careers to make an impact.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Our mission is to monitor changes to government websites, holding our government accountable by revealing shifts in public information and access to Web resources, as well as changes in stated policies and priorities.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

We shine a light on the people & technology making our world better.

• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize events

The production house focuses on creating content in the genre of Civic Entertainment, i.e. films, TV, digital content, radio content, etc. which can be used to encourage civic participation with public institutions, and thus strengthen democracy.

• culture

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Narrative tech

Social change organizations job platform

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

Make a Difference (MaD) is a regional think-and-do collaborative platform – where you can explore creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and synergize across sectors for innovative solutions to social challenges.

• Hubs
• Working groups

L'application mobile à destination des mairies et des collectivités locales pour signaler les problèmes rencontrés dans votre ville, dans votre rue. Géolocalisation et catégorisation pour envoi directement au bon service technique municipal.

• apps

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Through StimuLab, the Digitization Directorate and DOGA will stimulate public innovation from the users' perspective. We support state and municipal businesses that dare to rethink roles and systems and are willing to change these to provide better services to users.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Procurement

Let's change the feedback game

• apps

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Action Button lets you instantly #TakeAction on news that matters. Don’t just read the headlines, change them.

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

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

Trustwire gives you strong end-to-end encryption while keeping it simple to use. Trustwire is web-based, so users don't need to download or install apps, and they can manage or exchange files whether they are overseas or just down the street.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers. From Atlanta to Seattle and points in between, cities have begun seizing the initiative, transforming themselves into laboratories for progressive innovation. Income inequality, affordable housing, climate change, sustainable development, public health, participatory government—cities are tackling them all, bringing new urgency to some of the most vital questions of the day. Welcome to the age of big city progressivism! Cities Rising is The Nation’s contribution to the conversation.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Realize an Emissions Free World by 2040

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Tech for public challenges
• Carbon calculators

Decisions made easy.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

• The People
• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

Pairing talented technologists with government change-makers to tackle complex social issues

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

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

We play a unique role, experimenting with injecting conservation messaging into online conversations about the ocean. We do this through “attention campaigns.”

• Life below water

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Riseup provides online communication tools for people and groups working on liberatory social change.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

New Media Ventures is the first seed fund and national network of angel investors supporting media and tech startups that disrupt politics and catalyze progressive change.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Investors

RHoK Australia runs weekend hackathons in summer and winter every year. These happen simultaneously in five different locations across Australia. Over the course of 48 hours, teams assemble around our changemakers to work fast and furious, have fun, and create real social impact. It's an opportunity to work in a collaborative environment to help create innovative technology solutions to social problems.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Participation, organisational change, community development, and social technology

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation

• permits
• reports

• Procurement
• Reports
• Regulation

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

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

Axon Vibe provides smartphone app technology that enables public transport operators to deliver personalized communications based on users’ commuting behavior.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Next City is a nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire social, economic and environmental change in cities through journalism and events around the world.

• cities

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Data as protest. Data as accountability. Data as collective action.

• racial equity

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Policymaking backed by BIG DATA

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

CityGML is an open data model and XML-based format for the storage and exchange of virtual 3D city models.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Offers world-class online courses that empower you to think differently, learn collaboratively and join a global community of learners and doers with a burning desire to change the world.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

The Rockefeller Foundation's mission, unchanged since 1913, is to improve the well-being of humanity around the world.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Largest organization for social change volunteers and community service, with 6,000,000 members and counting.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

Bringing together the heads, hands and hearts of people using data and technology to create change in their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

Luminate is a global philanthropic organisation focused on empowering people and institutions to work together to build just and fair societies.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

A smart city framework created by the city of Vienna

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors