Deploying Open Data to Enable Kenyan Households & Communities Conserve Fresh Water Resources, including civic literacy campaigns and IoT monitoring of water supply and quality

• Clean water and sanitation
• Climate action

• Civic data
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Environmental data

"Here’s a real-time map of the hundreds of protests taking place across Israel as the pro-democracy movement there hits its ninth week of massive participation. An estimated 400,000 people turned out across the country last weekend; that’s five percent of its population" - Micah Sifry, The Connector

• Advocacy tech
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Mapping the thinking tool landscape with collective intelligence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Report cards and audits

Madagascar Initiatives for Digital Innovation est une association à but non lucratif régie par l'Ordonnance n°60-133 du 03 octobre 1960. L'objectif est de promouvoir l' E-Democracy - l'Open Data et le Datajournalisme à Madagascar.

• Civic data

The Energia Foundation's work centers around organizing large-scale demonstrations, experiences, and proof-of-concept installations that can easily translate into organized institutions to create long-lasting, sustainable change.

• methodology

• Advocacy tech

The Verifiable Credentials for Education Task Force will explore the use of Verifiable Credentials that represent education, employment, and achievement credentials. This will include pursuing data model recommendations that will demonstrate alignment with the VC model, usage guidelines, and best practices.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Data schemas and standards
• Open knowledge

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Strengthening Digital Infrastructure and Open Source Ecosystems in the Public Interest

• Get funding
• Build something
• Funders & donors

A Berkeley Copwatch + WITNESS Initiative

• criminal justice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Crowdsourcing
• Justice tech

BARI has worked closely with the Mayor’s Office of New urban Mechanics and the 311 system examine how Bostonians contribute to the maintenance of the public spaces and infrastructure of neighborhoods—that is, custodianship in the urban commons.

• public space

• Civic data
• Urban planning
• Communicating with the people

Our mission is to direct technological development towards the collective good.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This interactive global map of Public Interest AI projects aims to help foster research on Public Interest AI projects, demonstrate their self-understanding, and provide publicly accessible data about them to the broader public.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic maps
• Civic tech catalogs

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CS Fund is launching a new funding program on Just Transitions to advance social and ecological justice for a future grounded in justice, joy, belonging, and liberation for all beings.

• Reduced inequalities
• Zero hunger

• Emerging tech
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Gemeinsam für eine starke Schule

• students
• Quality education
• CONSUL

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

This NDI report includes a list of interventions that technology platforms, governments, civil society organizations, and the media can take to make meaningful progress towards ending online violence against women in politics.

• reports

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Madica is a structured investment program for pre-seed stage companies in Africa. Madica aims to empower mission-driven founders by democratizing access to world-class company building support, which is available today only to a few well-networked entrepreneurs.

• Get funding
• Investors

Democratic Society (Demsoc) was commissioned by the Health and Social Care Alliance Scotland (ALLIANCE) to identify and share best practices and evidence on including people with lived experience in health and social care policy and practice in Scotland.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The OECD Guidelines for Citizen Participation Processes are intended for any public official or public institution interested in carrying out a citizen participation process.

• reports

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Engagement tech
• Media
• Participatory democracy

NYC's first citywide Mayoral participatory budgeting process, run by the NYC Civic Engagement Commission (CEC) (2022-2023)

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Participatory budgeting

Make your contribution to tackle some of our most pressing societal challenges

• Digital security and privacy
• Challenges

At ex/ante, we’ve created an experimental sandbox for inventive teams to build solutions that advance free societies and counter authoritarianism. We bet early on novel technology that advances democratic values and individual rights. We seek to restore personal control over assets, data, and networks. We provide the right resources to kick-start, build, and scale these concepts—leveraging diverse partners and risk-forward capital.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

In legislative theater, communities, advocates and policymakers work together, to identify, develop, and build support for new legislation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artistic interventions

Through participatory policymaking, residents propose, debate, and vote on new policies and policy changes, through online platforms and meetings.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Policy simulators

The Participation Playbook is an interactive guide to help you successfully advocate for and implement a participatory program for your government or community. It is a tool for people who want to open up government to meaningful and equitable community participation.

• guides

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Playbooks and design principles

The Czech OSF was founded in 1992 and since the very beginning has been member of the Open Society Foundations international network. The goal was to re-establish democratic principles in our country, contribute towards the development of a free society, transparency and equality of all people indiscriminately.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Self-populated directory of civic techies on Mastodon, sorted by country.

• Meet the others
• Mastodon

The Civic Tech Field Guide is the world’s largest collection of projects using tech for the common good.

• democracy

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

IFF advances democratic freedoms for every Indian in a digital society.

• Advocacy tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital rights

Nominees are individuals who are champions for the use of data in evidence-based decision-making, transparency, and accountability.

• Civic data
• Open government data
• Awards and prizes

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

"The applications allow users to view how a bill would change current law and differences between proposed legislation." URL will only work for US Capitol Hill IP addresses

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

CIPPEC works to promote a just, democratic and efficient State that improves the quality of life for all Argentine citizens.

Transnational digital dialogue with citizens from Denmark, Germany, Ireland, Italy and Lithuania

• reports

Quebrando o Tabú is a storytelling organisation focused on raising awareness and engagement around human rights, democracy, and development in Brazil.

The purpose of the Global Democracy Initiative is to organize, train, and deploy Former Parliamentarians of Canada, Former Members of the European Parliament, and Former Members of the U.S. Congress as participants in democracy building activities such as election observation, democratic institution building, and supporting elected representatives in emerging democracies as they strive for free and transparent forms of good governance.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation
• Election oversight

DemGames for Debates - developed in partnership with NDI’s Citizen Participation and Latin American and Caribbean teams - provides users with a fun way to practice the terms and concepts associated with crafting arguments, identifying evidence, and justifying rebuttals.

• youth

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

An instance of mySociety's TheyWorkForYou

• Participatory democracy
• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Otevíráme, vizualizuje a analyzuje parlamentní, volební a rozpočtová data. Díky nám víte, kdo vás doopravdy zastupuje.

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Civic apps outfits

El Centro de Asesoría y Promoción Electoral, IIDH/CAPEL, es un programa especializado del Instituto Interamericano de Derechos Humanos (IIDH).

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

BBC Media Action is the BBC’s international charity - we believe in media and communication for good. Last year, we reached more than 130 million people in some of the world’s poorest and most fragile countries. Our projects and programmes save lives, protect livelihoods, counter misinformation, challenge prejudice and build democracy.

• Media

The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation (ALTER-EU) is a coalition of over 200 public interest groups and trade unions concerned with the increasing influence exerted by corporate lobbyists on the political agenda in Europe, the resulting loss of democracy in EU decision-making and the postponement, weakening, or blockage even, of urgently needed progress on social, environmental and consumer-protection reforms.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Partner networks

Trabajamos por una sociedad justa e inclusiva, capaz de revertir la pobreza y la discriminación contra grupos vulnerabilizados, que garantice a todas las personas el acceso pleno a sus derechos, a ser tratadas como iguales y a contar con instituciones democráticas y transparentes que brinden posibilidades reales de participar e influir en la toma de decisiones sobre los asuntos públicos.

We provide a simple search tool for state and federal legislation and regulations and assemble your results into a spreadsheet-style grid for you to view and enjoy.

• apps

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Al Hayat aims to promote accountability, governance, public participation and community cohesion in Jordan and the region within the framework of democracy, human rights, and the rule of law, taking into consideration gender mainstreaming in public policy and action.

The Transparency and Accountability Initiative (TAI) is a donor collaborative working toward a democratic world where power and resources are more equally distributed; people are informed and empowered, governments and the corporate sector are open and responsive, and collective action advances the public good.

• Foundation initiatives
• Open philanthropy

CandidateWatch is a non-partisan, non-profit project which helps to make election campaigning more transparent and politicians more accountable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

The three sections of our work, Election Observation, Capacity Building and Campaign & Advocacy are different parts of ANFREL’s holistic approach to the promotion of democratic institutions. These divisions, while different, support one another.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation