A community dedicated to researching locally-sourced, easy-to-manufacture designs for PEEP valves, BVMs, automated BVM pumps, and full ventilators.

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

• COVID
• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

How can today’s public servants use technology and design to deliver high-quality public services and engagement opportunities?

• Courses

LawforMe attempts to make the law and legal processes accessible to all citizens by simplifying Indian laws throughthe use of design and technology.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Realize an Emissions Free World by 2040

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Tech for public challenges
• Carbon calculators

Predictwise is a powerful data, analytics, research, and survey platform that can generate customized, granularized insights on any voter in any district in the country.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Supporting the transformation of cities towards a more sustainable mobility through data analysis and digital communication.

• mobility
• project tracking

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Data visualization

Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.

• books
• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

With voter turnout at record lows, and political illiteracy rampant, PeoPoli is a political parody in the form of a video game designed to teach Canadian Politics through interactive storytelling.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The DIY Toolkit has been specially designed for development practitioners to invent, adopt or adapt ideas that can deliver better results.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Building resilient systems to keep civil society safe online

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Citizens' Watch is a promise tracker that is designed to empower citizens with the digital tools and information that enables them to track, rate and publish the most significant promises of politicians, in a bid to promote public accountability and participatory governance

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Promise trackers

A common project model for the public sector

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles

Join us as we transform the digital experience for all New Yorkers and create a more equitable city.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Open Cities Lab is a non-profit open and non-partisan organisation that combines the use of action research, co-design, data science, and technology with civic engagement, to enable the development of inclusive cities and urban spaces.

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

aims to promote fact-based information consumption and sharing through the development of design prototypes, design guidelines, and empirical research that explores the landscape of ways to signal the credibility of information to everyday users.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Data Zetu (“Our Data” in Swahili) aims to empower communities to make better, more evidence-based decisions to improve their lives.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Enhancing everyday visualisation practice through generative and evaluative design tools for data scientists

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Data visualization

An online open content tool designed to help workers share information with each other about health and safety issues in their workplace

• labor

• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

We have designed a neutral, independent and transparent index to assess news websites on their risk of carrying disinformation.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

See how local governments are responding to tech solutions to persistent problems #InnovatingRegulation

• permits
• reports

• Procurement
• Regulation
• Reports

At Meedan’s Digital Health Lab we are researching, designing and testing a digital response framework for addressing health misinformation online, centered around accessibility and equity.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

If you are a professional researcher who wants to learn more about how to get started with designing your citizen science project, this is a good place to start

• books

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Code Switch is a free, two-day civic hackathon in which community members, designers, project managers, programmers, and people who just want to learn, collaborate intensively on projects that change our community.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

I-Lab students work in interdisciplinary teams to address urban and civic challenges in the Dudley and Upham’s Corner neighborhoods.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

CityScore is an initiative designed to inform the Mayor and city managers about the overall health of the City at a moment’s notice by aggregating key performance metrics into one number.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

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

We co-design and deliver Time Credits programmes in partnership with local authorities, health, social care and housing providers, schools, businesses and voluntary sector organisations.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Pro bono and volunteer

A Taiwanese developer Carol created a chatbot called Aunt Meiyu on popular messaging app LINE. Aunt Meiyu is designed to combat disinformation circulated in private chat group, especially family chat groups

• LINE

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Graveyard
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• COVID

Help make climate change visible in public spaces with design, data and stickers.

• Climate action
• guerilla

• The People
• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers. The brand was established in 2011 by the City’s Economic Development Unit. The Durban EDGE produces publications; economic info releases, as well as on-demand seminars; an annual release on the State of the Durban Economy; and topical research papers. Each release includes reliable data on the global, domestic, and local economy; designed to assist researchers, investors, business leaders, politicians and other key stakeholders.

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.

• racial equity

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

It is a competition designed to help city leaders think big, be bold and uncover inventive – and, ultimately shareable – ideas that tackle today’s toughest problems.

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

The event is a 5-day design sprint where multidisciplinary teams consisting of the best local, regional and international talent in data, design, journalism and technology are teamed up with NGOs that collect data.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We design campaigns powerful enough to end practices that unfairly hold Black people back, and champion solutions that move us all forward. Until justice is real.

• racial equity

• The People
• Campaign organizations

Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

• research

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

To assist agencies to modernise and transform their government services, the Department of the Premier and Cabinet has developed these four toolkits.

• toolkits

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

• apps
• police violence
• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

This guide is meant to provide key tips to help you establish successful hacknights.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

ProPublica is proud to announce the 2017 Data Institute, a 11-day intensive workshop on how to use data, design and code for journalism. The workshop will be from June 7 to June 21 in our NYC offices.

• workshops

• Workshops

Hamdam is a classic period and ovulation tracker with a twist: a significant function of the app is to help familiarize Iranian women with their reproductive and legal rights.

• Gender Equality
• women's health

• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

BetaNYC is a civic organization dedicated to improving lives in New York through civic design, technology, and data.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Your Priorities is an eDemocracy web application designed by the non profit Citizens Foundation to help groups speak with one voice.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy