The Cities, Government & Politics track focuses on innovative city planning and development, privacy and policy issues, and how politics plays a role in shaping policy in government.

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

The Open County Initiative is a project within the Devolution Programme implemented by Open Institute together with the Council of Governors. The Programmes broad objective is to work with county governments towards overcoming the challenges they face in actualizing their ambitions for good governance, integrity, transparency and accountability through three segments - Public Participation, Building Public Participation for accountability and innovating and building capacity

The Innovation Bridge Between the City of San Antonio and its Residents

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

Creating Safer Streets Through Data Science

• cities
• mobility

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

The civic tech field has expanded so widely in recent years, it’s hard to think of a major city or an area of civic life that these technologies don’t touch. In this dynamic environment, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation has been a field leader, investing over $25 million since 2010 in projects […]

• The People
• Evaluate impact

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

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

CIVICS is the first civic innovation map developed daily by citizens throughout Latin America.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

These events join New Yorkers of all ages to test and give feedback on technologies aimed at improving quality of life and City services.

• The People
• Build something
• Graveyard

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

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The fastest way for local governments to discover, test, and share innovative solutions.

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bureaucracy 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

Flowminder Foundation is a registered non-profit entity based in Stockholm, Sweden, Our mission is to improve public health outcomes by working with NGOs and government agencies with method development, capacity building, and implementation and scaling of processes relating to collecting, aggregating, analyzing, and disseminating anonymized mobile phone location data and satellite data.

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

Civic Design Lab (CDL) is a civic service design and innovation team within Oakland City Hall that grew out of the Resilient Oakland initiative.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Who's on that thing, and where are they going? The scooter company knows, but the city might, too!!

• mobility

• Data science for social good

Supporting the transformation of cities towards a more sustainable mobility through data analysis and digital communication.

• mobility
• project tracking

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Data visualization

VHacks is a hackathon taking place at the Vatican City in Rome on the weekend of March 8-11, 2018. Students from all nationalities and faith-backgrounds are invited for 36 hours of ideation and innovation to address problems in areas of social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, and migrants & refugees. These 120 students will work in teams…

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Join us as we transform the digital experience for all New Yorkers and create a more equitable city.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

A multi-million dollar ongoing survey contract to understand New Yorkers' sentiment toward the NYPD. Built by Elucd and shut down by the City.

• police violence
• policing

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A compilation of reflections, tools and methodologies with the capacity to program and activate Collective Intelligence processes with impact on the Territory.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

The Displacement Alert Map is a rich resource of more than a decade of key data on residential displacement in New York City.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• permits
• reports

• Procurement
• Reports
• Regulation

Social Maps is a tool that allows citizens to express their opinions about the city and its urban environment.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

THE CITY’s year-long project with Brooklyn Public Library to explore how to make local news more collaborative

• The Tech
• Media

the City’s first public-private NYC Blockchain Center

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

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

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Illinois allocates an incredible amount of money to incarcerate people from Chicago's poorest neighborhoods — sometimes millions for residents on individual city blocks. There are more effective ways to invest public dollars.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Mayor’s Public Engagement Unit (PEU) proactively connects New Yorkers to key City services, like housing and healthcare.

• Good health and well-being
• housing
• translation

• Canvassing

Every year, mayors from around the country gather at the Civic I/O Mayors Summit at SXSW. The summit is a time to bring together city leaders, entrepreneurs, and provocative thinkers in order to learn from one another and engage in the premier destination for discovery.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The Center for Civic Innovation focuses on improving the efficiency of public organizations and increasing civic participation. We are Atlanta's City Lab.

• Hubs

The Resilient Mesh Wireless project is a series of local networks serving small businesses combined with community-based trainings in Sandy-affected areas.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

From amazing new parks and safe neighborhoods to growing our local economy and promoting green initiatives, City leaders are looking for your bright ideas to Imagine Mesa in innovative and exciting ways.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This group is intended to serve as a venue for discussing three major issues: the magnitude of the worldwide Covid-19 pandemic, the medical steps indicated to deal with it, and practical responses to the new social challenges it poses in everyday life and in the political work of left activists.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Crash Data Explorer is an open source analysis and engagement tool for urban pedestrian and bike safety.

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

Unlock Collective Action

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

We work at the city-level to find, fund and support the most promising entrepreneurs; then we build an ecosystem of support around them

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Code for Fort Collins is a volunteer organization who develops technology-driven solutions to challenges faced by charities, government agencies, and other groups within the city.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

City's open data portal

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

• youth
• workshops

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Digital literacy

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports. Ma3Route aims to make traveling easier in developing countries by democratizing timely transport information. We hope to bring greater sanity to the roads and inform city planning and transport regulation in emerging economies through the provision of transport data and trend analysis.

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns