Come join developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help local government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Crowdfund innovations in tech and design before they go mainstream, and buy hundreds of unique products shipping now from Indiegogo's Marketplace.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census

• census

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Wagbot is a Facebook Messenger-based chatbot designed to answer questions from school children about sexualhealth and related issues.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

An open source mapping platform for custom designed maps. Our APIs and SDKs are the building blocks to integrate location into any mobile or web app.

• Mapping platforms

We help governments, organizations and companies understand and navigate the increasingly complex urban landscape, and work together to create a sustainable and executable vision for the future, fast.

• Social impact design firms

The Center for Humane Technology is a world-class team of former tech insiders and CEOs who are advancing thoughtful solutions to change the culture, business incentives, design techniques, and organizational structures driving how technology hijacks our brains.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Municode provides website design & development, electronic payment processing, codification, and publishing services to local governments.

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

In the 2020 Microsoft AI for Good Challenge, Australian students in Grades 7-12 are supported by their teachers to learn the basic concepts of Artificial Intelligence.

• youth
• Microsoft

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

In 2001, registering or transferring land in Jamaica was an uphill battle. Four separate departments handled different aspects of land administration, leading to weak coordination and delay. Even straightforward transactions dragged on for weeks, simply getting information was a struggle, and fraud was commonplace. In April of that year, Jamaica established the National Land Agency, charged with merging the four departments, speeding up services, and improving their quality. As the new agency’s CEO, Elizabeth Stair led a team of managers that had to oversee the consolidation, design systems to prevent fraud, improve performance, and implement new procedures and technologies to increase speed and transparency. During its first decade and a half of operation, the National Land Agency significantly reduced processing times and won acclaim for its customer service and innovative use of technology. Despite these successes, there was still room to improve land tenure security. Stiff documentation requirements, high costs, and limited awareness of the process meant that registration and related services remained out of reach for many Jamaicans.

• land

• The Tech
• Govtech

CivicTechYYC is a community based group that is part of a global movement to leverage technology for public good.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Media Party is a three days event that brings together 2000 entrepreneurs, journalists, software programmers and designers from five Continents to work together for the future of media.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Mapping platforms
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Designed for public servants, this course helps government innovators learn how to lead digital-driven change in the public sector.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Liberté Living-Lab is a new collaborative workspace for tech, civic & social innovation. Our ambition is to accelerate projects addressing key societal challenges. #techforgood

• Hubs

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Social impact design firms
• Civic apps outfits

M-Shule is an adaptive, mobile learning management platform designed to improve performance for millions of primary school students across Kenya and Sub-Saharan Africa

Looking to transform public services and influence government? Grab a desk and join the startups and civic servants driving the govtech revolution.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

LABIC are a series of labs aimed at fostering civic innovation in Ibero-America, in order to boost social transformation, democratic governance, and social, cultural and economic development.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

A speculative story sprint collection

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Drones

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

BIG DATA + MAPS + EDITOR

• desktop apps
• GIS

• Data visualization
• Graveyard
• Mapping tools

The world's leading cloud software company powering #socialgood.

• The Tech
• Get funding
• Emerging tech

OUR NO-BULLSHIT GUIDE TO UNLEASHING YOUR TEAM'S POTENTIAL

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Fellows will work closely with PRU staff to support multiple research projects including statistical data analysis and monitoring the poverty reduction effects of the city’s anti-poverty initiatives.

• No poverty

• The People
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

Reach Planetizen's massive audience of planners, designers, architects, developers, academics, and other professionals who are working with the built environment.

• urban planning

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

Code for All Global Summit

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

International community of policymakers, service designers, digital people & others working to reform government and make public services better

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

PlaceSpeak is a location-based citizen engagement platform that authenticates the online public participation process through digital credentials and privacy-by-design to build trust.

• place-based

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We used a computer program to talk to young people on the dating app about the U.K. election. The results were amazing.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Voting and elections

A free app that narrates the world around you. Designed for the low vision community, this research project harnesses the power of AI to describe people, text and objects

• apps

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Answering the Call, a leadership development experience designed to help service alumni explore their interest in potentially seeking political office.

• The Tech
• Voting and elections
• Advocacy tech

The App was designed on the basis of good governance. Municipalities are the closest form of government to the people – Let’s Talk bridges the gap between elected officials local government sphere with their respective constituencies. The effective and efficient rolewithin the to believe in the idea of a social contract, its institutions and rules. – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens,and transparency – accountability is the realization and acknowledgement that citizens, through the ballot, are the ones the authorise politicians to assume public offices, as such, they must be accountable to them; transparency meaning the knowledge of what government officials are doing and how money is being spent amongst others. This is the type of accountability and transparency the Let’s Talk App envisages.

Designing a more equitable world

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Where makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts come together to use technology to solve civic problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

MoMobility is a fun, engaging card game designed to start constructive conversations, provoke collegial debate and inspire players to rethink our perceptions and attitudes around creating sustainable, equitable and joyful cities and transportation for all.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Here we discuss two pillars of a Citizens’ Assembly website: its design and editorial principles; and the information that should be included.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

Participation Factory is a social enterprise that mainstreams participation and data-driven approaches into governance and process design.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

It is designed to make it easier for all political campaigns and parties, especially those with small teams and limited resources, to get access to cybersecurity services.

• civic features

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Come join idea-makers, designers, citizen leaders, developers, and data geeks who volunteer to help the Fort Lauderdale government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Twitter Vote Report (TVR) was an all-volunteer nonpartisan online project designed to encourage voters in the 2008 U.S. presidential election to submit brief accounts of their voting experiences using mobile and online tools.

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech