An academic and practitioner-focused journal on all aspects of technology and communities.

• Journals
• Academia
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Community engagement and organising in the rural wards of Swansea

• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting
• Citizen Engagement

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.

Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.

• Socialize online
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.

• The People
• Meet the others
• COVID

Browse resources, connect with other leaders and see practical examples of smart cities approaches that can help your community thrive.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield

• civic features
• Facebook

• Graveyard
• Petitions
• Civic teams at tech companies

The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Across Green Country, from the Tulsa Zoo to ONEOK Field, education to health, assisting neighborhoods to assisting nonprofits, Tulsa Community Foundation (TCF) is making a difference in Eastern Oklahoma. TCF is truly this community's foundation: a reflection of Tulsa's overwhelming philanthropic spirit and concern for the lives and well-being of others.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Afterpattern app builder is now PatternBuilder, a capability within NetDocuments, the #1 trusted cloud-based content management platform where legal professionals do work.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Digital Justice Lab, Tech Reset Canada, and The Centre for Digital Rights are offering individuals and community organizations a one-time community microgrant of $1000-3000 for public education on digital rights.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

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
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Meet the others

This section contains information about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an international standard that is used by IPAWS to send public alerts and warnings.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Google shares aggregate location data with public officials to show where stay-in-place orders are being followed

• civic features
• mobility

• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Learn about organizations in the region and the tools which they have developed.

• The Tech
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Our Region's Community Foundation

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Code for America's Community Fellowship program pairs local Brigade talent with government to improve services for vulnerable people they serve.

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

The Aspen Institute Forum for Community Solutions supports communities to solve their own challenges, with a special focus on opportunity youth.

• youth

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

As the largest community foundation in the nation, SVCF helps build and strengthen the community by bringing together people and organizations who want to strengthen the common good.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Community Prototype Fund supports the rapid development of innovative, viable and open Internet freedom technology prototypes that serve the immediate needs of the Internet freedom and human rights communities.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

FixMyCommunity is a system for citizens to report problems in infrastructure or service delivery. FixMyCommunity was originally created by MySociety as FixMyStreet.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

A comprehensive platform designed to enhance public safety and community engagement by revolutionizing civic communication and emergency notification systems, empowering individuals and government agencies to interact seamlessly and effectively.

The Portable Network Kit (PNK) is a wireless network in a suitcase that helps people understand how to build their own mini-internet – and with it, how the internet works and might be owned and governed more equitably.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware
• Connectivity

The Northern Ireland Open Government Network (NIOGN), established in 2014, is an alliance of individual citizens, activists and representatives of community and voluntary organisations.

• Participatory democracy
• Government transparency
• Partner networks and coalitions

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

An easy tool to host a quadratic vote.

• E-voting and I-voting
• Quadratic voting
• Democratic Innovations

The Public AI Network is a coalition working to bring about public AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Peer networks

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), in partnership with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Cyber Policy Awards—an annual gathering of the U.S. cyber policy community to honor and celebrate those who drove significant progress in the preceding year, and to make resolutions for the new year.

• Cybersecurity
• Awards and prizes

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wants your ideas to develop a Federal framework, guidelines, and leading practices for public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities to help Federal agencies more broadly and meaningfully engage with you and your communities.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

This database by Mozilla Foundation maps intersections between the key social justice and human rights areas of our time and documented AI impacts and their manifestations in society.

• human rights
• Decent work and economic growth
• racial equity

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic tech catalogs

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms
• E-voting and I-voting

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

Let's build an open, free and community-owned IoT data network for New York!

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Civic literacy
• Courses

New America Chicago is a nonpartisan policy innovation lab based at The Chicago Community Trust.

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups