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

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

A group of coders, designers, government reps, and citizens building a better #Fresno

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

​Implementing Innovation: A User’s Manual for Open Government Programs is a hands-on resource that provides practical advice and guidance for government changemakers as they navigate the specific challenges of implementing innovative programs in the public sector.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

People with access to lasercutters and 3D printers are designing and fabricating face masks for front-line healthcare workers

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Presidential Hackathon is an initiative designed for the Taiwanese government to demonstrate its emphasis on open-source data, data utilization, and practice innovation to address the needs of the country in social innovations

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

An evolving collection of design patterns for sharing data

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

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

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

10 tips to help hiring managers recruit employees

• The People
• Build something
• Find a job or hire someone

SmartParticipation is an open source e-participation platform based on Drupal and designed to offer an effective and adaptable environment for informed online discussion.

• The Tech
• Digital participation platforms

Unlocking People's Expertise to Solve Urban Challenges

• methodology
• reports

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Building inside government

Queensland Law Handbook is a comprehensive and accessible resource designed to help Queensland residents withtheir legal problems.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Our Citywide solution is designed for cities, counties, special districts, and regional commissions who want to administer multiple projects on one platform.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Hack League is a friendly academic competition that invites all NYC middle and high school students to learn, design, and build projects to help their community.

• youth

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Designed for interested public officials, technologists, politicians and researchers, the CrowdLaw Communiqué features curated news, interviews, announcements, and recommended readings on the…

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

• racial equity
• trainings

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

• cities
• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

El programa per a la Digitalització Oberta: Programari Lliure i Desenvolupament Àgil de Serveis de l’Ajuntament de Barcelona defineix el procés de canvi profund i progressiu de la manera en que la ciutat oferirà els seus serveis a la ciutadania en els propers anys.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Build With is a training, facilitation, and consulting practice led by Laurenellen McCann.

• trainings
• workshops

• Civic and social impact companies
• Co-design

Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

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

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Knomos employs modern app frameworks and design principles grounded in the user experience to deliver more powerful legal tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

This toolkit is designed to help you implement the OECD Recommendation on Digital Government Strategies.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Libre is a small design firm that employs AI to craft products and services for clients. "Our mission is to widely disseminate the benefits of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning and make them accessible to the world."

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

The Community Approach to Research Partnerships (CARP) aims to collaboratively establish academic and community partners...

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• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• apps

• Organize campaigns
• Cameras
• Direct action

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

RapidPro allows you to easily design, pilot, and scale services that connect directly with a mobile phone user...without the help of a software developer.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

• cities
• reports

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

your Government One Stop ® for services and information

• Govtech
• Service delivery

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

This is the homepage for Civilla, a center for social innovation and design thinking in Detroit. We help nonprofit and civic leaders innovate through the discipline of human-centered design.

• Civic and social impact companies

An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• Conferences

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.

• cities
• mobility

• Civic data
• Civic teams at tech companies

In the spirit of Wikipatterns, this is a collection of patterns and anti-patterns for describing common practices that may help or hinder the conception or design of your civic technology.

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• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Microsoft and the Clooney Foundation for Justice have teamed up to create TrialWatch, an app designed to help human rights advocates more easily monitor legal proceedings around the world.

• apps
• human rights

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Open Procurement: digital transformation in procurement

• Participatory budgeting
• Procurement

Digital Innovation for Social Impact

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Automated monitoring, issue management, analysis and reporting of political affairs.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Data science for social good

Fast, affordable, online permitting for governments

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Change the face of social impact engagement globally

• maternal health
• WhatsApp
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots