You can think of Code for BTV as a pro-bono digital agency working for the public good. We pick meaningful projects and do the research, design, architecture, coding, launch, and communications work to help important organizations work more effectively.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Well designed posters to hang in your gov office

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Capacitación a líderes locales y herramientas digitales para movilizar

• cities
• youth
• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech

(PDF) How to develop collaborative data projects – for citizens, urban innovators, researchers and policy makers

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Calgary's First Inclusive Usability Testing Service

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Foundational layers

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

We are a strategic discovery, design and development lab working to transition society in response to technological revolution and climate breakdown.

• Climate action

• Social impact design firms

We utilize radical imagination, art and culture to communicate ideas, connect brands with causes and advance social change.

• Social impact design firms

Become a Media and Technology Policy Expert

• Academic programs

South Africa's Online Budget Data

• Budget explorers

The Metagovernance Seminar invites individuals working in online governance to present their work to a community of other researchers and practitioners.

• Conferences
• Decentralization

The EMPATIA platform has developed and integrated a number of digital and non digital tools that can support the design, implementation and evaluation of complex participatory systems.

• Ideation
• Participatory budgeting

We analyse user needs and implement open source solutions to put your services on a path of continuous improvement.

• Social impact design firms

OF/BY/FOR ALL toolkit (PDF)

• toolkits

• Surveys & polling
• Meeting tech

The Ontario Digital Service (ODS) is a hub of technologists, designers and digital government experts who deliver user-centred products and digital policies using agile processes and data-driven methods.

• Govtech
• Graveyard

• Social impact design firms
• Campaign organizations

Program to accelerate community connectivity

• local

• Connectivity

We build digital experiences designed around the needs of our constituents. We work to make these tools beautiful, welcoming, and highly useful.

The challenges of 21st century city-making require innovative methods that incorporate the complexity of today’s rapidly urbanising world. Traditional ways of urban planning and design — top-down and singlehanded — are already making way for a practice of city-making deeply rooted in the collective experience, creativity, and intelligence of growing and increasingly diverse groups of people. This will be crucial in building sustainable urban futures.

Design and deliver a digital government with and for the American public.

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

CommonVC is an impact innovation and startup studio that is run and funded by people passionate about a sustainable future.

• Social impact design firms

IDEO.org is a nonprofit design studio. We design products and services alongside organizations that are committed to creating a more just and inclusive world.

• Social impact design firms
• Design

The programme provides you with the planning, management and technical skills necessary to lead and transform public organisations to be open, inclusive, innovative, flexible and effective using Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

• Academic programs

Hosted + technical support for using the CONSUL platform, offered by two of the platform's core team

• Govtech vendors

• cities

• Govtech
• Playbooks and design principles
• Digital transformation

Julien Carbonnell's thesis, featuring case studies in Taiwan, Israel, and Estonia

• Artificial Intelligence
• Books
• Citizen Engagement

A collection of transit merchandise, designed in San Francisco by me, Chris Arvin.

• Civic tech gifts

Progressive gifts made by designers who give a shit

• Civic tech gifts
• Merchandise

Digital, tech, design, and data projects for social impact

• Social impact design firms

J++ is an international team of data journalism specialists, with offices in Stockholm and Porto. The team integrates experts in research, data analysis, data-driven storytelling, newsroom programming and full-stack design.

• Media
• Data visualization
• Engagement journalism

Tu empresa en WhatsApp (Facebook, Instagram, …)

• WhatsApp

• Bots
• Social impact design firms
• Govtech vendors

"Democracy as a service" voting app

• apps

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting

A set of guidelines that help development practitioners integrate established best practices into technology-enabled programmes.

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Chinese digital participation platform for the city of Chengdu, designed for Android devices

• WeChat

• Participatory budgeting

Korean tech and design firm

• Social impact design firms

The Climate Change AI summer school is designed to educate and prepare participants with a background in artificial intelligence and/or a background in a climate-change related field to tackle major climate problems using AI.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Courses

Web design company

• Social impact design firms

We design and make bespoke hardware and software, run workshops and events, make installations and exhibitions, and teach.

• air quality

• Build something

This prototype tool allows you to see climate change forecasts for local areas, the expected impacts on health and wellbeing, and suggested adaptation priorities.

• Climate action
• Good health and well-being

• Civic maps

We're working with researchers in the Banded Mongoose Research Project at the University of Exeter to design and build a new online game to understand sociality and cooperation in mongooses, based on their research in Uganda.

• animals

• Games and gamification

Shareabouts is an online mapping tool to gather crowdsourced public input in a social and engaging process.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

A crowdsourced collection of personal stories, how-to articles, and resource lists on four major topics: Funding, People, Mission, and Operations + Tech.

• Playbooks and design principles

211CHECK is a fact-checking and information verification platform that works on countering misinformation and disinformation in South Sudan.

• WhatsApp
• Facebook
• workshops

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A public engagement project around air quality

• air quality

• Engagement tech

The ArcticHubs project is an ambitious, multi-disciplinary international collaboration that aims to develop research-led, practice-based solutions to help address the urgent challenges faced in the Arctic.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Climate action
• Arctic

• Partner networks

Digital heart for building cities together

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation's compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation, curated by OPSI and our partners around the world

• Civic tech catalogs
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

India's open challenge platform

• Challenges