Civic Tech for Thailand’s Democracy

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Open.Media is the nonprofit online transparency portal for governments of all sizes. Open.Media allows you to upload, timestamp and archive video of meetings and proceedings with searchable, automated transcriptions.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

We are a community of volunteers who develop open-source projects as a Code for America Brigade by focusing on open government, open data, great design, and social good in Baltimore.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design. According to its website, the organization works with residents and governments in solving community problems.

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

m-Omulimisa is an agriculture technology company that leverages ICT tools especially mobile phone technology to improve the livelihoods of small holder farmers in Uganda.

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The Church Commissioners exist to support the work and mission of the Church of England today and for future generations, helping it to remain a Christian presence in every community.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This is a project to counter the Amazon Ring doorbell camera surveillance infrastructure. We provide information for users and community members concerned about the country’s biggest company planting always-on cameras all over our streets.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Petition site. WeMove Europe is a values-based community of Europeans spread across the continent that seeks to build people power to transform Europe in the name of all people, future generations and the planet.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

You are not a loan.

• debt

• Peer networks
• Socialize online
• Narrative tech

MetroQuest is public involvement software with a track record of award-winning planning projects. Engage thousands, gain insight, build community support.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Progressive Coders Network is a 501(c)(4) non-partisan progressive community of tech and non-tech activists building open-source tools to empower the grassroots and reduce the influence of big money in politics.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Help out

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
• Conferences
• In-person meetings

We connect volunteer drivers with anybody who needs a ride to claim their vote. CarpoolAction is maintained by the Progressive Coders Network community.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Code for America is working towards a government by the people, for the people, that works in the 21st century. We are a 501(c)3 non-profit that helps residents and governments harness technology to solve community problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census

• census

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

• 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

The Michigan Moonshot is Merit’s commitment to ending the digital divide. The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography. The Moonshot Team needs citizen scientists, like YOU to help us gather data about the internet in your community.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

#getcivic

• Artistic interventions
• Organize events

Color Of Change’s digital petition and training platform

• racial equity

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Petitions

The Civic Innovation Challenge aims to leverage social science, data, and technology to address complex community challenges, enhance job growth and economic competitiveness, and address equity in our communities.

• The People
• Get funding
• Competitions

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

We are committed to building a crowdsourcing community for social innovators.

• The Tech
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Access this dataset to help with the fight against COVID-19

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Vote:Women is a leadership springboard for women to achieve their dreams. We provide a platform for support every step of the way through capability development, fundraising, and campaign management using innovation, technology and a sense of community. Vote:Women empowers women to follow their ambitions of civic leadership.

• women

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Responsive City: Engaging Communities Through Data-Smart Governance [Stephen Goldsmith, Susan Crawford] on Amazon.com. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. Leveraging Big Data and 21st century technology to renew citiesand citizenship in America The Responsive City is a guide to civic engagement andgovernance in the digital age that will help leaders link importantbreakthroughs in technology and data analytics with age-old lessonsof small-group community input to create more agile

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

Lilly Endowment Inc., is a private philanthropic foundation supporting the causes of religion, education and community development. We afford special emphasis to projects that benefit young people and that strengthen financial self-sufficiency in the charitable sector.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

People’s Press is a fictional community magazine exploring the use of digital social innovation in the year 2030

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

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
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

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

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

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Mapping platforms

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 People
• The Tech
• Media

Collect the place-based data you need using our easy mobile tools and web dashboard. Create your own survey or engage around community health, safety, commercial development, blight, historic resources, and more. Quickly export your data for Excel or as a Shapefile.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Civic Tech Sweden is a network of people working with technology for the common good and digital tools for community, democracy, and transparency.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The Skoll Foundation presents the Skoll Awards for Social Entrepreneurship each year to a select group of social entrepreneurs whose innovations have already had significant, proven impact on some of the world’s most pressing problems, and invests directly in the promise of even greater impact at scale.

• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.

• The People
• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech

Rights x Tech is a forum for technologists, policy makers and movement leaders to discuss emerging issues around human rights, products and power.

• racial equity
• human rights

• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

The South African Data Archive serves as a broker between a range of data providers (for example, statistical agencies, government departments, opinion and market research companies and academic institutions) and the research community. The archive does not only preserve data for future use, but all adds value to the collections. It safeguards datasets and related documentation and attempts to make it as easily accessible as possible for research and educational purposes. The Data Portal provides access to the SADA holdings of data sets. It allows online browsing according to specific collections, including author, title, subject and date. The Advanced Search facility facilitates searching by keywords. The Study Descriptions and certain documentation can be downloaded from the portal. Please order the data directly from SADA by completing an "Order Form".

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Making our community a better place to live, work, and play through technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Be an SF Hero by being prepared for an emergency, getting involved in your community, learning new skills, and more...Your friends will be impressed!

• apps
• disasters

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Hack Cleveland, also known as HackCLE, is a group of community leaders who are leveraging technology to unify Clevelanders and those responsible for their public safety. HackCLE recognizes that Cleveland is at a crossroads; symbols of a renaissance are abundant, but the awakening must equally affect everyone to signal true progress.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Our complete suite of listening, information, analysis, reporting and relationship management features enable you to mix and match precisely the right online tools for your community engagement objectives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy