Hyphen-Labs is an international collective working at the intersection of technology, art, science, and the future

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

DemTools is designed to help empower civil society organizations, political parties and legislatures around the world by applying technology solutions to common challenges

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

RevUp Software is a Silicon Valley-based SaaS start-up that designs tools to help academic institutions, non-profits, and political organizations leverage data analytics and social media to meet and exceed their fundraising goals.

• Get funding
• Graveyard
• Fundraising tools

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Pro bono and volunteer

The American people expect to interact with government through digital channels such as websites, email, and mobile applications. By building digital services that meet their needs, we can make the delivery of our policy and programs more effective.

• Playbooks and design principles

to surface practical and cost-effective solutions on ‘privacy by design’ features that can be embedded into digital identification systems and empowering users with their data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Get ready to ride the best motorized skateboard when you buy a Onewheel today! Designed and made in California from the highest quality components.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The Open Internet for Democracy Playbook serves as a companion piece to the Democratic Principles for an Open Internet, which is a framework for understanding what principles must be upheld in order for the internet to foster democracy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Many people become engineers or designers because they hope to change the world for the better using technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

"We’ve made the difficult decision to sunset the Public Interest Tech Job Board."

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

This is a growing collection of games that improve city making

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

As a Code for America Brigade, we're part of a national network of civic-minded volunteers who contribute their skills toward using the web as a platform for local government and community service.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A PLATFORM FOR CITIES TO MANAGE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

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

This study introduces a framework for evaluating the democratic potential of civic apps, distinguishing six criteria: inclusiveness, deliberation, influence, publicity, mobilization, and knowledge production.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Evaluate impact

• The People
• Build something
• Smart Cities and sensors

We're a bunch of civic-minded technologists, designers, and topic experts using our skills to improve Atlanta and the world.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Small Media is a London-based action lab, providing digital research, training and advocacy solutions to support the work of civil society actors that provides assistance to at-risk communities globally.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

IDEO is a global design company. We create positive impact through design.

• Civic and social impact companies

Michael Knapp is the CEO and founder of Green River, a software design and development firm that has worked extensively with local governments. He is passionate about social justice, and his firm’s most prominent recent project has involved working with cities to end homelessness. We spoke with him about his experiences with the government procurement Read More

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

To raise a new set of civic tech leaders that transform governance

• The People
• Meet the others
• Find a job or hire someone

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

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

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Data schemas and standards
• Access social benefits

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Accessible web and mobile software for NGOs and development agencies

• Social impact design firms

Using deliberative democracy models to inform city decision making and to connect organizations and districts around NYC’s

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

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

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Advertising

The Jefferson Center is a nonpartisan organization committed to advancing democratic, citizen-driven solutions to community and public issues.

• methodology

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Co-design

Sphaera is a systems design firm that conceptualises, designs and develops legal, financial and technical infrastructure that supports connecting, collaborating and sharing resources across disparate organisations, networks and communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Alliances

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Narrative tech
• Mapping
• Story-based campaigns

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

• Bureaucracy tech

Tool for creating small online group discussions around an issue, originally created for political campaigning in the US

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

We use the concepts of platform politics and voice to show that while Amplify managers and designers invested time and resources to include the voices of Amplify beneficiaries on the platform and elicit their feedback on projects supported via the platform, no meaningful participation took place.

• research

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

News for the global citizen covering stories from business, environment, politics, art, design, culture, technology, education, urban issues and the latest news

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Der Prototype Fund ist ein Förderprogramm des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF), das von der Open Knowledge Foundation Deutschland betreut und ausgewertet wird.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

These events join New Yorkers of all ages to test and give feedback on technologies aimed at improving quality of life and City services.

• The People
• Build something
• Graveyard

The Center for International Private Enterprise (CIPE), the National Democratic Institute (NDI), and the Center for International Media Assistance (CIMA) are facilitating an initiative to identify and promote internet norms and principles essential to democratic governance.

• The People
• Get funding
• Adjacent Fields

We help governments deliver great software to the people they serve.

• Bureaucracy tech