Upturn promotes equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of digital technology. Their research and advocacy combines technical fluency and creative policy thinking to confront patterns of inequity, especially those rooted in race and poverty.

The Pop Culture Collaborative is a hub for high impact partnerships and grants designed to help organisations and individuals leverage the reach and power of pop culture for social justice goals. By driving authentic, just narratives about people of color, immigrants, refugees, and Muslims in the media, they seek to help shift how mass audiences understand the past, grasp the present, and engage in building an inclusive future.

A Day of Unreasonable Conversation is an annual gathering expressly designed to equip creators of popular culture - including writers, artists, producers, and executives - for the year ahead.

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

International networking and support hub for those creating change in their communities through data and technology.

• Meet the others
• Socialize online
• Pro bono and volunteer

CcHUB is Nigeria’s first open living lab and pre-incubation space designed to be a multi-functional, multi-purpose space where work to catalyze creative social tech ventures take place. The HUB is a place for technologists, social entrepreneurs, government, tech companies, impact investors and hackers in and around Lagos to co-create new solutions to the many social problems in Nigeria.

It is one of the largest Civic Tech conferences in Japan with about 1,000 participants in two days.

• Conferences

Participation simulator game and card deck

• Participatory democracy
• Games and gamification
• Policy simulators

Reseaching and advocating for critical digital education and youth participation from Latin America and the Majority World

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital literacy

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• videos

• Learn about civic tech

The U.S. Digital Corps is a two‑year government fellowship to launch your career at the intersection of technology and public service.

• Govtech
• Fellowships

In this Playbook, we explore the evolution of the procurement function’s missions, from its original cost reduction role to risk management and to contribution to growth as a strategic partner.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

I’ve been working on organizing some departmental knowledge at CMS, and our human-centered design team – the crew that promotes design thinking and helps other teams build better, more user-focused products and processes1 – recommended that my first step be to get teams to make directories.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

It is a group of designers, researchers, data journalists, activists, web developers and curious citizens who seek to make a fairer, transparent city and a better place to live through data, design and technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Digital Service Standard is a set of best-practice principles for designing and delivering government services. It helps digital teams to build services that are simple, clear and fast.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Use Digital Marketplace (previously CloudStore) to find digital specialists, cloud-based services and technology to build digital services for the public sector, eg cloud technology, IT health checks, technical architects, web designers

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Building inside government

Did you know that you can use Minecraft for more than a simple fun? Learn about great Block by Block initiative for community participation in urban design.

• workshops
• Minecraft

• Media
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Research and survey on social innovation labs in Canada.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

OTF’s Secure Usability and Accessibility Lab offers secure usability and user-interface assistance to Internet freedom and digital security tools to help them recognise and solve usability challenges that hampered the adoption of those tools in repressive contexts.

• trainings
• coaching

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Clear Ballot is re-imagining elections with the world's most innovative and transparent voting system.

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

Kickstarter is the world's largest funding platform for creative projects. A home for film, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, photography, and more.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Crash Data Explorer is an open source analysis and engagement tool for urban pedestrian and bike safety.

• cycling
• mobility

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping tools

In this citizen created roadmap, we outline how to humanize technology, move beyond transparency for transparency's sake, and ensure we have government technology that works for the people, built with the people.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

The Democratic Principles for an Open Internet have been primarily designed for citizens and civil society organizations in fragile and emerging democracies, who are new to the digital rights space, are beginning to engage more regularly online, and who may be more likely to encounter deliberate internet disruptions as a result of government interference.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

As part of the Code for America Brigade Network, we are a welcoming and inclusive volunteer group of developers, designers, data geeks, and citizen activists who use creative technology to solve civic and social problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

the Knight Foundation gave the TED conference a $985,000 grant to help develop TED.com into an “action platform,” to help channel people moved by a powerful talk into taking meaningful action on the issues being raised

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

17 visions of the future of government. Features essays, provocations, thought experiments, fiction, speculative design and original art, with each one asking the reader to consider the implications of an idea about something fundamentally different in the future.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Developed by the non-profit Cortico, the Local Voices Network (LVN) is a unique physical-digital network designed to bring under-heard community voices, perspectives and stories to the center of a healthier public dialogue.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

Today, Seabourne is advancing the state of the art for data integration, consolidation, and visualization tools.

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

Through this programme, Fellows design and deliver targeted projects that contribute to the Centre's overall goal of increasing the use and impact of data in the humanitarian sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

livestreams video from the committee debates in Brasilia, and includes a chat window designed to let citizens ask questions, vote on others' questions, and generally chat about the proceedings with other viewers

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

Survey 160 is a software-as-a-service tool which seeks to improve traditional polling by using SMS messaging to reach audiences who are not responsive to phone surveys and are underrepresented in existing online panels.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Digital participation platforms

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• COVID
• Hardware

A comprehensive political database for modern day voters

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Code for America is a non-partisan, non-political 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 to address the widening gap between the public and private sectors in their effective use of technology and design. According to its website, the organization works with residents and governments in solving community problems.

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

A set of principles of open government data developed by advocates on On December 7-8, 2007. The meeting, held in Sebastopol, California, was designed to develop a more robust understanding of why open government data is essential to democracy

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

New innovation methods for designing public policy involving all public stakeholders

• The People
• Build something
• Co-design

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

The “Digital Policy Playbook 2017” is designed to help leaders understand the complex dynamics and difficult decisions they will face in managing their transition into the digital domain. With real-world insights on the implications of digitalization, the aim is to strengthen their confidence as they create new opportunities for all while lowering shared risks. By providing a richer understanding of the factors shaping our future, combined with pragmatic tools to drive the outcomes desired, this new playbook will serve to support the core mission of the World Economic Forum: improving the state of the world.

• Playbooks and design principles
• Regulation

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• COVID
• Open internet

We are Code for Newark, the local Newark brigade of Code for America. We are a diverse group of newbies, pros, developers, coders, data geeks, and designers who are interested in making ourselves and our world a better place.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

WindyGrid is a computer application, designed for City personnel, that makes Chicago’s big data easily and strategically accessible in one place.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Our mission is to educate the public about privacy in digital communications and to develop tools that anyone can use. By embracing "privacy by design," we help make digital security and privacy more accessible to everyone.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Connectivity

U-Report is a free SMS social monitoring tool for community participation, designed to address issues that people care about

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Design the sustainable cities of tomorrow with the first end-to-end urban planning software. Discover the platform built for planners, by planners.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

GenderGap.AFRICA is a tool designed to help users calculate the gender pay gap in any African country. The tool uses Estimated Earned Income data from the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Gap Report 2020. The calculator isn’t designed to give breakdowns for each industry: it instead captures the average gender gap across all sectors within a country. Gender Gap here represents the gap between men and women in pay. It is supplemented by Series of data-driven stories on gender gap and gender equality in African countries

Blockchain

• Blockchain
• Internal government tech capacity