LEVERAGING DATA TO IMPROVE LIVES

• Decent work and economic growth

• Digital literacy
• Tech talent
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate is a major international initiative to examine how countries can achieve economic growth while dealing with the risks posed by climate change. The Commission comprises former heads of government and finance ministers and leaders in the fields of economics and business.

Now-defunct citizen reporting platform

• Graveyard
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

Pew Trusts report: What the changes mean for the millions of people who interact with the civil legal system each year—and what remains to be done

• reports

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers

A case study of legislative theater in Mulhouse, France.

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions

Quorum’s public affairs software helps you map, track, change, and report on your policy landscape – all in one place.

• Lobbying

A scholarly review of Chinese e-government solutions that allow citizens to message leaders, by Kathleen Hartford

• Communicating with the government

A weekly newsletter about social change initiatives from Slowalk in Seoul

• Newsletters

Consumer tools for online safety & anti-harassment. Automatically hide unwanted tweets & mute the trolls (review later, but only if you want!).

• extensions

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The IOPD's annual conference has run for over twenty years

• Conferences

Case Studies from Around the World

• Books
• Design

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

An IRL game where you try to recruit 1,000 supporters to your campaign

• Organize campaigns
• Games and gamification

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Peer networks
• Partner networks

Donnez votre avis sur des sujets de société qui vous tiennent à coeur en participant à nos consultations citoyennes. Ensemble, citoyens, associations et entreprises, définissons nos priorités et réalisons des changements concrets.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

Rappler is an independent, digital-only social news network that leverages community and digital engagement to drive social change.

The Instituto de Tecnologia e Sociedade do Rio de Janeiro (ITS) is a non-profit that uses technology opportunities to drive positive social change.

The Bridgespan Group is a global nonprofit that strives to make the world more equitable and just. Since 2000, we have had the privilege of advising and collaborating with many of the world’s most extraordinary social change leaders including philanthropists, nonprofit and NGO leaders, and impact investors.

Yiaga Africa is a non-profit civic hub of change makers committed to the promotion of democratic governance, human rights and civic engagement.

The Four Freedoms Fund is a donor collaborative of NEO Philanthropy. Founded in 2003, the Four Freedoms Fund™ (FFF) works toward full integration of immigrants as active participants in our democracy. Leveraging the resources and insights of its multiple donors, FFF provides an intelligent, nimble vehicle for donors to invest directly in the state and local immigrant rights and grassroots organizations that have become the driving force fuelling culture change and policy reform at all levels of government.

The Anti-Corruption Data Collective brings together leading journalists, data analysts, academics and policy advocates to expose transnational corruption flows and push for policy change using the advocacy reach of ACDC partners. The Collective draws from experts and participating organizations with on-the-ground networks of local non-profit partners and journalists in more than 100 countries around the world. We leverage both data and expertise to target specific vehicles for hiding and laundering ill-gotten gains. Our specific aim in 2021 is to expose wrongdoing and risk areas in the real estate and private investment industries within target jurisdictions. Our investigations can then be used as a platform for advocating for relevant changes in law and practice by our advocacy partners.

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

A structured conversation to identify the most pressing, impactful questions for which data and data science have the potential to answer.

• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

• immigration

America are dedicated to renewing the promise of America by continuing the quest to realize the nation's highest ideals, honestly confronting the challenges caused by rapid technological and social change, and seizing the opportunities those changes create.

The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.

The New Venture Fund (NVF) works to achieve a healthier, more equitable world. Its work spans a range of issue areas to realise social and environmental change.

Solutions exist. Let's make them a reality.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Foundation initiatives

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Urban planning
• Civic maps

Portland, OR's open data and app competition site

• Civic data
• Graveyard
• Ideation

Action for Transparency (A4T) is a pioneering project that fights corruption and mismanagement of government funds by putting the power to change in the hands of citizens. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. If you don’t have a smartphone, you can find the same functionality on the website. Action for Transparency empowers citizens and government employees to act on corruption experienced in their everyday lives. Using a mobile phone with Internet access, anyone is able to check the amount of government money pledged to each school and health clinic – and the amount actually spent. By exposing which institutions and individuals are involved in corruption and providing the data to journalists and activist groups we hope we can make corruption less attractive.

Waag operates at the intersection of science, technology and the arts. Our work focuses on emergent technologies as instruments of social change, and is guided by the values of fairness, openness and inclusivity.

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Civic hacking meetups

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• cities
• research

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Unfiltered.News maps what important news stories might not be covered in your country, using the Google News corpus to allow internet users to discover which stories are being covered in certain locations, how different countries cover stories differently, and how issue coverage changes over time.

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

How Do You Like It So Far uses pop culture to take soundings of a society in transition, exploring intersections with civic imagination and engagement, and social and political change. Henry Jenkins and Colin Maclay are your guides on this adventure.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

The Center for Humane Technology is a world-class team of former tech insiders and CEOs who are advancing thoughtful solutions to change the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our brains.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Spendrise is a platform for creating positive change everywhere you spend money. Speak up as a paying customer and help businesses you love become even better.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

"I'm asking you to believe. Not in my ability to create change — but in yours." President Barack Obama

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

#getcivic

• Artistic interventions
• Organize events

Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform

• racial equity

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Petitions

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Powered by community we exist to enable your educational & entrepreneurial pursuits.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Hubs

Chatham House is establishing a Commission on Democracy and Technology in Europe to help investigate the nexus of technological change and the future of democratic governance.

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

Designed for public servants, this course helps government innovators learn how to lead digital-driven change in the public sector.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Outvote is a friend-to-friend texting app for political campaigns. We allow you to digitally volunteer for campaigns by reaching out to your friends with

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media