The Impact Job features handpicked social impact jobs across the fields of nonprofits, climate change, and mission-driven businesses.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Fellowships
• Accelerators

#CityHallSelfie Day is a celebration of public service showcasing pride in local government institutions.

• local

• Govtech
• Holidays

The NuLawLab is the interdisciplinary innovation laboratory at Northeastern University School of Law. We are leaders in the emerging global Legal Design movement.

• Legal tech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The International Center for Not-for-Profit Law (ICNL) works in more than 100 countries to develop long-term relationships with civil society, governments, and the international community to strengthen civic space.

• Legal tech
• Nonprofit tech
• Partner networks and coalitions

debeunKEd is a technology-driven, community-centred fact-checking programme designed and implemented by the Demography Project, with support from the Africa Fact Checking Alliance, to enhance citizen awareness on misinformation and disinformation in the leadup to the 2022 General Election in Kenya.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Blacks in Civc Tech organizations aims to increase the amount of Black technologists in civic tech and provide a community that encourages growth and fulfillment in the field.

• racial equity

• Meet the others
• Peer networks
• Merchandise

Today, the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is releasing guidance detailing new steps that Federal agencies should take to make it easier for interested members of the public to voice their views in the regulatory process.

• Participatory democracy
• Communicating with the government
• Regulation

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

Annually, the Fellowship brings together a group of diverse leaders from the European Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States who spend one year creating projects that reinvent democratic spaces.

• Fellowships

We are Bingwa Civic Tech Lab, a youth-led initiative based in the Democratic Republic of Congo, supporting technically the community and civil society organisations through co-creative and collaborative processes to implement digital solutions informing decision makers and different stakeholders to improve social services

• trainings
• Gender Equality

• Hubs

Online community tracking earthquakes with Raspberry Shakes: Professional grade seismograph and infrasound monitors that anyone can use to record and visualize both natural and human activity.

• earthquakes
• apps

• Crowdsourcing
• Citizen science

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

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Accelerators

You want to actively shape your Linz? Join the Innovationshauptplatz Linz and become part of our community of 7,300 users!

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Ideation

FnF takes you on a journey, from grass-root discussions to collective actions at the European Parliament, to fight for our freedoms and civil rights in a digitalised world.

It is a platform to motivate, connect and mobilise the digital rights community with an inclusive, friendly and independent/self-determined spirit. FnF is a continuous quest, empowering, refreshing and radically necessary!

Parsons, named after Lucy Parsons, is a Python package that contains a growing list of connectors and integrations to move data between various tools. Parsons is focused on integrations and connectors for tools utilized by the progressive community.

• Civic data
• Data integration

The Movement was founded to give the world better social media, where the people control the platform and receive its profits, where democracy and children are prioritized over corporate profits, and where the community is enabled to fight income inequality and the climate crisis LEARN MORE

• Social networks
• Blockchain

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Narrative tech

PowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Campaign organizations

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

• podcasts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Podcasts

ConsiliumBots uses technology and data to help people make important decisions by turning complex and underutilized information into virtual assistance and personalized recommendations across education, housing, and other areas of government programs. Research has shown that providing relevant information at the right time can make a significant difference in students' trajectory by reducing school dropouts and introducing education options with better job prospects. They have so far created 36 digital solutions to address information asymmetries, supporting 3.9 million parents, students, and teachers from over 7 countries in the region. Some of these digital solutions have now been adopted as national public policies.

• Access social benefits
• Behavioral economics programs

Our mission is to create content that tells the story of humans in public service, share stories that reflect the diversity in America in an effort to humanize public servants, and create a more positive perception of government.

• Govtech
• Story-based campaigns
• Narrative tech

We invest in ideas and organizations that expand human agency.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundation initiatives

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

A collaborative, national campaign rooted in equitable, accessible, and significant community-led decision-making practices.

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns

We identify political changemakers in Europe and provide them with financial resources, strategic advice, practical support and a community of practice to advance their mission of reimagining politics.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

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

Red Hook WiFi, a project of Red Hook Initiative (RHI), is a community-led effort to close the digital divide.

• Hardware
• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Community based nonprofit supporting residents of Red Hook Brooklyn with youth trainings, mesh wifi, urban farms, and more.

• local

• Community wifi

The Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.

• local

• Neighborhood forums

The Digital Security Community Directory of security and safety resources available in various Southeast Asian languages

• Digital security and privacy
• Circumvention tech
• Civic tech catalogs

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Voting and elections
• Participatory democracy
• Nonprofit tech

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

• Find a job or hire someone
• Meet the others
• Job boards

Code for Charlottesville brings together coders, designers, data analysts, researchers, and community partners to work on projects with local nonprofits and governmental agencies.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Civic hacking meetups

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

ACT is a newly formed organization that will connect volunteer civic technology efforts, in both technology and advocacy, in their local communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

TTS annually awards the Andrew Hyder Government Service Improvement Award to one or more federal employees who demonstrate both excellence in their work and a commitment to improving the public’s experience with government. This award commemorates the life and work of Andrew Hyder, a consulting software engineer at 18F who tragically passed away in 2021.

• Govtech
• Awards and prizes
• Service delivery

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

Community-driven litigation for racial, social, and economic justice

• Advocacy tech
• Justice tech

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

A Playbook for learning about funding and financing options for the African civic technology community.

• reports

• Build something
• Get funding
• Fieldwide resources

An open source platform for data related to the Indian legal and justice system. Crowdsourced from a community of law and data researchers, practitioners and enthusiasts.

• Civic data
• Legal tech
• Justice tech

A native app that allows you to monitor more than 35 different severe weather and emergency alerts in your town, and other cities that matter to you, such as hurricanes, earthquakes and tornados. 

• apps
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Community management platform

• Social networks
• Online forums

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech
• Civic apps outfits

Making cities stronger, fairer, and more resilient through responsible technology.

• cities

• Emerging tech
• Research and policy centers
• Smart Cities and sensors

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