Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

A non-profit consortium will offer free cybersecurity support to almost 200 humanitarian NGOs in The Hague in the next 1.5 years.

• local

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Pro bono and volunteer

This website provides data on the turnover of leaders in municipal and state-owned enterprises, and their connections with political parties or associations.

• Media
• Government transparency
• Media monitoring

The Innovation and Technology Group of the Vilnius City Municipality is developing digital innovations aimed at the smart development of the Lithuanian capital.

• cities

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Open innovation

The portal is designed not only for IT specialists who want to create projects using open-source code but also for residents who want to make important personal life decisions based on sound statistical data.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Open data publishing portals

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

• urban planning
• cities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

Citify is an online platform designed to track planned and existing real estate projects, ranging from apartment complexes and business centers to streets, bike paths, parks, and schools.

• mass transit
• mobility
• cities

• Urban planning

We also provide consultancy and advisory to help nonprofits and foundations take the right risks when supporting and resourcing grassroots change. We enhance your organisation’s security risk management, information security and data protection, and staff care and wellbeing.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Help out

The Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy is the largest gathering devoted to direct democracy worldwide. It favours a multidisciplinary approach, welcoming participants from academic, political and civil society perspectives.

• Participatory democracy
• Conferences
• Democratic Innovations

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• Govtech
• Service delivery

A graduate course where students designed an engagement program to inform the city of Tempe, Arizona's climate action plan

• Climate action
• cities

• Courses
• Applied Learning

Public Option for AI (PO4AI) is an immersive experience designed for elected officials and city staff to explore how residents’ voices might be centered in decision-making around public-interest technologies.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

The Journalists in Distress (JiD) Network is an informal forum for sharing information on journalists in distress and developing joint initiatives for emergency response.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solidarity networks

NoKunda was a pioneering civic tech initiative designed to catalyze a civic movement in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Province, enabling citizens to report instances of electricity theft to the relevant authorities.

• electricity

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Promoting research & capacity building on digital rights in Africa

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Research and policy centers
• Cybersecurity

Accelerating digital equality and data justice in Africa.

• Research and policy centers
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D
• Civil society research outfits

Solving technological problems in the legislative process for House of Representatives Members, Committees, and staff.

• Govtech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Internal government tech capacity

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone.

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

This map will help us grow volunteer engagement at a neighborhood level and track our progress towards increasing tree stewardship across District 33 (in New York City)

• trees
• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic maps

Metamorphosis Foundation works on strengthening the awareness and capacity of citizens and civil society to assume their fullest possible role as activists for democracy, while supporting government to fulfill its democratic role in serving society.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.

• guides

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

A pilot program that connected a cohort of volunteer experts with City staff to answer questions and make recommendations using best practices in user research. Seattle By Design is a partnership between U.S Digital Response (USDR) and Seattle Innovation & Performance.

• cities

• Govtech
• Design
• Service delivery

Hundreds of campaigns ⁠— from city council races to Bernie 2020 ⁠— rely on Rewired technology and expertise to build political power from the bottom up.

• partisan
• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

The Digital Services team works to make city services more accessible and inclusive for Chicago residents. It’s our mission to listen, amplify, and design with the community to build better technology experiences for everyone.

• cities

• Govtech
• Design

The aim of the project Improving Inclusion of EU Mobile Citizens (IMPEU) is to foster political participation of EU mobile citizens and enhance capacity and knowledge of civil servants and relevant national, regional and local experts on EU citizenship and related political rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Digitized the city's services, including e-petition tool, and "adapted them to conditions under martial law"

• Ukraine
• apps

• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Barrier-Free Communication service allows citizens with specific needs to communicate with the city in a form that is comprehensible to them.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

BARI is an inter-university research partnership for Northeastern University and Harvard University in conjunction with the City of Boston.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Conferences

Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

With unparalleled voter data, a powerful canvassing app, and easy-to-use contact tools, this all-in-one campaign solution packs a punch. Designed to scale with you from city council to Congress and beyond, our platform offers all the features you need to run smoother and smarter campaigns.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Fundraising tools

A standalone product for users to query the veracity of text- and image-based claims

• civic features

• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.

• podcasts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Podcasts

A web solution designed for governments that provides the digital twin of the city, and delivers a real-time view of every street, plus insightful analytics to support decision-making and increase the efficiency of the city operations.

• cities

• Govtech
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Dashboards

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Indus Action helps vulnerable Indians access government entitlements to education, maternity and livelihood support.

• No poverty

• Access social benefits

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Dive into our Know Your City (KYC) portal, home to community-collected slum data from over 5,000 slums in more than 18 countries across the global south.

• housing
• Reduced inequalities
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

• Civic data
• Data governance

PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

We are the largest community-based career platform for urbanists working on city challenges worldwide.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Peer networks

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

ICLD’s mission is to support democratic participation and change at the local level.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Cornell Tech is a graduate campus and research center of Cornell University, located on Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, in New York City.

• Learn about civic tech
• Academia
• Academic programs

Welcome to NYC Government’s home for filing Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Freedom of Information