We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard

SpeakEasy democratizes the political process by making it cheaper and easier for campaigns to use targeted direct mail to communicate with voters. Instead of hiring a consultant to write your content and produce custom art for every mailer, SpeakEasy allows campaigns to use pre-built design templates and their own photography and text to produce their own direct mail.

• Organize campaigns

By Tom Foremski for SiliconValleyWatcherDan Gillmor's Bayosphere citizen media project has been acquired by Backfence, a Vienna, Virginia based company that intends to use local communities to generate all online content and sell advertising around it.It is a logical move but it also shows that citizen media is not easy to do. Bayosphere did not...

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

We developed the Community Maturity Model™ (CMM) to help organizations understand, plan for and assess the performance of community and social business initiatives.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

The encyclopedia of American politics

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Validated Real Time Information

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Empowering citizens democratically with Artificial Intelligence

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Census Accelerate, an initiative within the innovation arm of the U.S. Census Bureau, has launched its first-ever video prize competition to reward the most engaging, impactful and informative videos about the 2020 Census - with a total of $50,000 in cash prizes.

• census

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

We are not just a widget – we are THE platform for brands to scale content marketing and insight

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Crowdin is a localization project management platfom and translation tool for developers and website owners. We make it easy to work with content being translated using our collaboration platform.

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

This was an online platform that community groups can use to develop online hubs for civic engagement, online organizing and information-sharing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Hardware

To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Promoting innovation and data literacy through a premier center of excellence

• trainings

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A community of female drone pilots, enthusiasts, content creators and innovators. Fly, learn and contribute with us!

• Emerging Tech Organizations
• Drones

MediaLab for Women provides journalists with training on how to manage gender-related open data and with support to investigate gender inequality in French speaking Africa. This project is making use of innovative content to raise awareness of gender and open data issues among journalists and civil populations in four countries.

• Solutions journalism

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Eticas teams up with organizations to identify black box algorithmic vulnerabilities and retrains AI-powered technology with better source data and content.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civic and social impact companies

Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Specific campaigns

Step into someone else's Twitter feed

• extensions

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Apptorney is a platform agnostic mobile application that uses natural language processing and content indexing and categorization to provide user friendly search functionality to its users. Utilizing a dynamic search engine, users are able to navigate and search through resources that are relevant to their needs such as Legislation, Subsidiary Legislation, Fields of Law and Case Law. These are all individually indexed, cross-referenced and linked within the comprehensive master database, giving the user complete access to all relevant resources, including a lawyers/ firm repository, in one tool

openlaws.com is a thematic search engine that is covering legal content.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Filter bubble popper tool, killed by Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Artificial Intelligence
• Meet the others

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The Redirect Method is focused on reaching those who are actively looking for extremist content and connections. Rather than create new content and counter-narratives, our approach tries to divert young people off the path to extremism using pre-existing YouTube content and targeted advertising.

• extremism
• YouTube

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Swayable lets political campaigns and brands measure how content changes people’s minds. Campaigns using Swayable increase their impact on opinions by measuring persuasion, breaking down exactly which kinds of people respond to which content.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

Wordpress plugin that would connect the post content to related social actions the reader could take

• extensions
• Wordpress

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Public Interest Tech

Jotto allows individuals allied with a cause to record and automatically upload videos directly to an organization behind that cause.

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Direct action
• Story tech