We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard

The world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.

• The Tech
• Get funding
• Emerging tech

Startups and social entreprises that are transforming cities around the world through technology.

• cities

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

We build open source software, digital infrastructure, and governance frameworks to enable public-private collaboration and the seamless exchange of transport data.

• cities
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Political Change Starts Here

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Project Mobilize is a network of leaders working to create change both within the current systems and organizations that already exist as well as investing in new ideas on the local, state and national level that will break through the stagnate and partisan rhetoric in order to create a more unified, inclusive and forward-thinking nation.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

A UNICEF Mobile and Web Digital Mapping Solution

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

The Firefox EU Elections Toolkit helps you to prevent pre-vote online manipulation

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

The #opensource #opendata platform. Powering http://data.gov.uk, http://data.gov & portals around the world

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

We provide the expertise and infrastructure to turn ideas into real world change.

• Graveyard
• Civic and social impact companies

Civic Technology and Open Government - Global #civictech #opengov has 7,413 members. ‎Global exchange on civic technology, open government, open data,...

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

The Startups Driving Europe's GovTech Revolution

• cities

• Awards and prizes

Technology at work for the public

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Get funding

The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings.

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

• place-based

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

GovRight provides citizens the opportunity to understand and contribute to government and legislation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Open Data Barometer for Latin America and the Caribbean covers 24 countries and classifies governments according to readiness for open data initiatives, implementation of open data programs, and impact that open data is having on companies, politics and civil society.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

We bring together people from the UK, no matter what their background, to stop the Tories from winning another parliamentary majority at the next election. We use electoral data to determine which left-leaning party has the best chance of beating the Tories in 50 of the most marginal seats and support any and all volunteers to get out campaigning.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Digital Public Infrastructure

Sauti is a mobile-based platform allows cross-border traders to access real-time market prices, exchange rates and trade procedures, using a basic phone.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Using the power of satirical AI -generated media to create awareness about the climate emergency.

• Climate action

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Mic covers news, opinion, reviews and analysis around arts, entertainment, celebrity, LGBTQ, social justice, police brutality, dating, sex, feminism, body positivity, space, innovation, climate change.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

​Implementing Innovation: A User’s Manual for Open Government Programs is a hands-on resource that provides practical advice and guidance for government changemakers as they navigate the specific challenges of implementing innovative programs in the public sector.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

• books

• Books
• Connectivity

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

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

We are a technology nonprofit committed to inspire and bring positive social change to the world. We harness the medium of innovative, digital technology to promote education, learning, and empowerment - the building blocks to lasting change.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

WeVolunteer is for DOers who want to change the world!

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

A biotech makerspace located in a rural community.

• Hubs
• Citizen science
• Open science

The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The MobLab Dispatch is a round-up of the most thought-provoking stories, resources, opportunities and discussions about changemaking in today’s networked world.

• The Tech
• The People
• Adjacent Fields

Build With is a training, facilitation, and consulting practice led by Laurenellen McCann.

• trainings
• workshops

• Civic and social impact companies
• Co-design

On 26 July, 2018, we brought together global changemakers to learn from special guests Daisy Ozim, Veronica Garcia and Lee Brenner about using Blockchain to advance social change work.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

What are the trends most impacting how campaigns create change in 2018? Bots. Decentralised campaigns. Facebook's ever-changing mood (and algorithm). MobLab and its network look at campaign trends in 2018.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Meet the others

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Civic tech catalogs
• Peer networks
• Socialize online

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

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

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

the easiest way to find local freelancers

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

Not accepting fellows as of 4/23/2020. The Compass Fellowship connects diverse changemakers with the tools, training, and jobs needed to build a career in the progressive movement.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

Bot Populi is an alternative media platform dedicated to looking at all things digital from a social justice and Global South perspective. It was founded in 2018 by seven global, digital justice organizations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Fellowships

Beespace is a private operating foundation working to advance meaningful innovation for social change.

• The People
• Build something
• Incubators

Livestream discussion on March 15th hosted by Movement School and Courage to Change

• Organize campaigns
• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

iCampus is Liberia’s first multi-disciplinary, innovation and community space for change-makers focusing on the intersection of technology, accountability and social change. The establishment of iCampus was fostered by Accountability Lab Liberia and iLab Liberia as part of a USAID Liberia Accountability and Voice Initiative program that tends to inform decisions around policy reform through advocacy.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

With Trimble at your side, you can harness geospatial data collection and measurement technologies, field inspection and asset management tools, as well as analysis systems to engage with citizens, collaborate with business partners, and manage change and compliance to optimize your operations and workforce.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data