Thoughtful engagement with decision-makers, stakeholders, and the general public provides the foundation for sound planning, successful projects, and better communities.

• Engagement tech

/dev/color is the most powerful community of Black software engineers, technologists, and executives in the world.

• racial equity

• Peer networks

The Brick House Cooperative is a publishing platform designed, owned and operated by journalists—ad-free, expandable and subscription-based.

• Media
• Platform coops

Alloy was a nonprofit technology company building broadly accessible, radically affordable, high-quality data and technology for the progressive community.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Graveyard
• Advocacy tech

Human-centered design frameworks start by identifying who a product is for and then placing them at the center of the product strategy. The Co/Act toolkit adapts and expands this approach to design digital products, services, or campaigns through modular do-it-yourself style activities that are aggressively low cost, high impact, interdisciplinary, and focused on building the capacity of participants. Co/Act will help you design more powerful products, services, and campaigns by centering them on your community, stakeholders, and colleagues - ensuring that the end result is more inclusive and therefore democratic.

• Design
• Toolkits

netCommons is a Horizon2020 research project, which follows a novel transdisciplinary methodology on treating network infrastructure as commons, for resiliency, sustainability, self-determination, and social integration.

• research

• Connectivity
• Decentralization
• Community wifi

The collection is a digital collection of literary works written in Nepali and other languages ​​of Nepal.

• Adjacent Fields
• Archives
• Translation and linguistic representation

Mechanism Design for Social Good (MD4SG) is a multi-institutional initiative using techniques from algorithms, optimization, and mechanism design, along with insights from other disciplines, to improve access to opportunity for historically underserved and disadvantaged communities.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We’re an online community of critical thinkers vetting the most-shared news articles on the Internet.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Crowdsourcing

Connecting the journalism-tech network that collaborates on open technologies and processes within journalism

• Media

Bringing organizations in Detroit together for cross-sector collaboration on urban innovation.

• cities

• Partner networks and coalitions

A community of practice for data analysts across City agencies that has since grown to over 800 members at more than 60 agencies.

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We take planning proposals out of city hall and onto their urban context, seamlessly communicating projects with a large, diverse audience to win community support while crowdsourcing stakeholders' feedback.

• apps
• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Urban planning

The Microsoft Justice Reform Initiative works to empower communities and drive progress towards a more equitable justice system.

• Microsoft
• criminal justice
• racial equity

• Justice tech
• Civic teams at tech companies

Publish and preserve your data

• Civic data
• Archives
• Open data publishing platforms

GovStack offers governments with open-source tools for digital services, including building block specifications, a sandbox for testing (upcoming), and communities of practices, and more.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Digital Public Infrastructure

KivuHub is a community hub of entrepreneurs, developers, business and startups with the right technological skills and business.

• Decent work and economic growth

• Hubs

Community Voting - Turning Ideas into Action. Vocaleyes is an advanced participation and engagement tool.

• Engagement tech
• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

HexaFair, an all-in-one 3D Virtual & Hybrid events platform for Events, Conferences & Summits, Fairs & Exhibitions, Careers & Job Fairs, Trade Shows, Industry Expos & Community Networking Meets

• The Tech
• Organize events

The City's crowdsourced, data-driven obituaries for New Yorkers who have died from COVID-19

• COVID-19

• Media
• Crowdsourcing
• Engagement journalism

Get A Certificate in Inclusive Community Engagement

• trainings

• Engagement tech

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• cities
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• cities
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

OpenMedia works to keep the Internet open, affordable, and surveillance-free.

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech

Bring a healthy new energy to your city’s conversations, and build trust with your community along the way.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We designed Tactical Data Engagement to help cities go beyond a policy and portal, and facilitate opportunities for the community use of open data to improve residents’ lives.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Action Path is a mobile app for civic engagement produced by Erhardt Graeff at the MIT Center for Civic Media.

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

A first-of-its-kind resource that defines corporate civic engagement, providing clear tools to help more companies become active players in strengthening the resiliency of our democracy

• commercial

• Playbooks and design principles
• Building in the private sector

A community of experienced Americans determined to change the world for the better.

• seniors

• Campaign organizations

Demographic Data and Policy Research on Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

A non-profit, tuition-free coding school for women and gender diverse adults. They focus on serving low-income people, underrepresented minorities, and members of the LGBTQIA+ community.

• Gender Equality
• trainings
• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Digital literacy

Co-working Space, Events, Education, Programming, Incubators, Accelerators and a community of Entrepreneurs focusing on Innovation.

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

The Heart of Civic Tech in Central and Eastern Europe

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

Keep yourself and your community safe with Círculo, an app easy to use that allows you to send check-ins and urgent alerts in a fast and private way.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• User research
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research groups

When to Use Them, How to Choose & Tips for Maximum Results

• guides

• Digital participation platforms

Side by Side is a supportive online community where you can feel at home talking about your mental health and connect with others who understand what you are going through.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Solidarity networks

Campaigners/activists, fundraisers, media experts, creatives, digital specialists, freelancers, and more all come together on the Campaigning Forum (ECF) community discussion list.

• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

This repository contains curated list of different urban & regional planning data & technology resources. Those interested in the built environment are invited to review and contribute to this repository.

• guides
• urban planning

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

• food
• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Nonprofit tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Using ICT for Co-Creation of inclusive public Places

• public space

• Engagement tech
• Ideation

Crypto-based crowdfunding where the group votes on funding proposals and distributes millions in funding accordingly

• Get funding
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

Center at Stanford University connecting and accelerating work on social problems

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Building smart civics to unlock community transitions in response to the climate crisis.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence

Drive climate action and earn rewards with a carbon-backed, algorithmic digital currency.

• Climate action

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Smart Cities and sensors
• High-tech COVID Interventions
• Hardware

Games and gamification for local engagement

• Games and gamification

A community of organisers across the UK and Ireland supporting each other to fuel the tech for good movement

• Partner networks and coalitions

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

• Slack

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Internet governance

Kybern is a website which helps communities explore new, non-hierarchical forms of governance and manage their resources in collaborative ways.

• Decentralization