The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Civic and social impact companies
• Forms

City of Austin, TX program

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Bringing the town hall to your citizens

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The Digital Connector is an open source piece of software, which allows data specialists to efficiently connect data sets into a common format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

WindyGrid is a computer application, designed for City personnel, that makes Chicago’s big data easily and strategically accessible in one place.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

We develop a computer vision method to measure changes in the physical appearances of neighborhoods from street-level imagery.

• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

• housing

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

• cities
• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

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
• Peer networks

Bonayo is free user-supported software that helps San Francisco citizens see every 311 call in the City.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

City page covers which tracking technologies are in place, why, and what they mean for privacy

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

cVIGIL is an innovative mobile application for citizens to report Model Code of Conduct and Expenditure violations during the elections

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Blockchain

• Blockchain
• Internal government tech capacity

Cityx is a two-day expo organised by Connected Places Catapult taking place at the Urban Innovation Centre in London from 13th – 14th November 2019.

• cities

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

StoryWeaver offers open source libraries for children's books in their native languages.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

urbAIn is a series of unique, one-day events gathering 100-150 city leaders and innovators to explore the many ways in which artificial intelligence (AI) is changing city life.

• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Citizen engagement, Civic Tecn, Open Data, and Data Visualization in The City of Buenaventura

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

We are San Diegans who believe data and technology can better serve citizens, sparking a more vibrant democracy and civic life. We treasure our communities and work together to bolster our public experience. We are a brigade of the national, non-partisan Code for America, leveraging their resources, but keenly focused on our improving local issues here at home.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A specification of the civic.json metadata standard for civic technology projects

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

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

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Up-to-date information about Stadt Jülich's city politics - by Meine Stadt Transparent, the open source council information system

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

by the City of Denver

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

The Government clearly highlighted the modifications made to the text following this consultation, in order to facilitate the follow-up of proposals from different contributors.

• The People
• Internal government tech capacity
• Civic tech legislation and policy

As part of a wide-ranging effort to upgrade the subway system’s capacity and reliability, all the winning ideas will be thoroughly vetted and further developed as quickly as possible with future procurements subject to any required MTA Board approval.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

Propose and build apps that advance DC in the areas of city mobility and the environment through the use of gigabit-speed internet.

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Durban Answers is a city website where Durban citizens can information and services with a simple search. On the website you can find information about licencing issues, health information, public transport, universities, schools, libraries, metro fines etc.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

We train youth to produce high quality data about community assets that everyone can use to improve the human condition.

• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

Examining the overall technology programs and plans of the city with awards presented concurrently with the National League of Cities conference held each November.

• cities

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

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

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

One IT solution for all participatory budgeting activities. Available as SaaS or self-hosted.

• Participatory budgeting

Our mission at WeGovNYC is to bring New Yorkers together to create the world’s best municipality.

• cities

• Support civic projects with tech

WoeLab is a grassroots network of inventors and entrepreneurs who want to build smart city projects or a digital democracy. This is an original initiative of the L’Africaine d´architecture, a platform that “anchored modernity”, which are attempts to make Africa the next technology revolution hub and was established by Sénamé Koffi Agbodjinou.

This site tracks COVID-19 testing data and hospital bed availability over time in the city of Chicago.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• COVID Data Projects

Built as a microcosm of Berlin, the game gives kids a chance to try out different roles in city life – and provides a testbed for ideas on real urban challenges

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Local Law 49

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Fellows will work closely with PRU staff to support multiple research projects including statistical data analysis and monitoring the poverty reduction effects of the city’s anti-poverty initiatives.

• No poverty

• The People
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Data visualization

Website builder platform for cities and amalgamated communities in Ukraine

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech
• Budget explorers

Philadelphia should think twice about its risk-assessment algorithm.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

The 21st Century Integrated Digital Experience Act (IDEA) requires all government-produced digital products, including websites and applications, to be consistent, modern, and mobile-friendly.

• The People
• Govtech
• Foundational layers

Citizen Engagement tools and services for city governments

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

We support Human Rights Defenders facing digital threats and work to strengthen local rapid response networks.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media