The planning news website, featuring articles, op-eds, jobs, courses, and information for the planning, design, and development community.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

This portal makes available data on the City of Cape Town to increase transparency in its processes and actively involve residents and other stakeholders in local government, as well as promote economic opportunity.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

• Hubs

DAP Portal is a comprehensive new research tool that includes dozens of datasets indicating harassment and potential displacement from New York City housing.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

• guides

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Open Connectivity Foundation (OCF) create a specification and sponsors an open source project to unlock the massive opportunity in the IoT market, accelerating industry innovation and helping developers and companies create solutions that map to a single open specification. The OCF’s vision for IoT is that billions of connected devices (devices, phones, computers and sensors) will communicate with one another regardless of manufacturer, operating system, chipset or transport. With the OCF fulfilling this promise, anyone – from a large technology company to a maker in their garage – can adopt the open standards of OCF to innovate and compete, helping ensure secure interoperability for consumers, business, and industry.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Civic Hall is launching the Digital Learning Center (DLC) to address the nonprofit digital leadership gap by providing professional development classes and workshops aimed specifically at building the digital, data and technology literacy of New York City nonprofit organizations and their leaders.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice and accountability. We develop tools and strategies that make this information accessible.

• human rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

The Initiative on Cities engages with urban leaders, academics, and policy makers from around the world to help plan for the development of essential services and sustainable infrastructure necessary for cities to flourish.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Meditect offers an innovative mobile solution which combines blockchain and artificial intelligence to allow pharmacists and patients to scan their medicines and thus ensure their authenticity.

• Good health and well-being

• Tech for public challenges

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Alojamento para profissionais de saúde

• housing

• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

Our mission is to support development actors to better collect, structure, use and open data, while respecting people's privacy and preserving the interests of the nation - through research, advocacy, training, tools and assistance

Uwajibijaki Pamoja (Accountability Together) is an integrated complaints referral mechanism operated by Transparency International Kenya in collaboration of more than 40 service providers including government and development aid agencies. The platform enables citizens to lodge complaints about gaps in access to a range of services provided by the government and humanitarian agencies, through a toll-free SMS, line, email, and walk-ins from where the complaint is then referred to the relevant provider.

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

SUDPAY is a startup specialized in Mobility and Ticketing Solutions. It develops service platforms and electronic payment platforms adapted to African realities.

• Emerging Tech Tools

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open science

Sarkozy's official app

• apps

• Graveyard
• Organize campaigns
• Official campaign apps

The Code for America Brigade Network is a national alliance of community organizers, developers, and designers that are putting technology to work in service of our local communities.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Meet the others

Geoidea.ro stands for GEodata Openness Initative for Development and Economic Advancement in ROmania and started in January 2013. It aims at improving the scientific basis for open geodata model adoption in Romania

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Desarrollamos tecnología cívica abierta: Promovemos el uso y desarrollo de software y hardware libre, diseño abierto y datos abiertos. Our mission is to promote the principles of a free culture and defend civil rights on the Internet, fostering spaces for interaction and exchange of knowledge and developing Web tools with open code and design, supported by an alternative and innovative communication and advocacy work.

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy

Measuring, analysing and countering online hate speech with advanced computational methods

• harassment
• hate speech
• racial equity

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

The Code for NL Foundation is the Dutch network of developers and designers who work together on an open and honest digital government and society.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The first-of-its-kind organization whose sole mission is to develop and support sustainable business models for great local journalism. Learn more.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

CivicWise is an international distributed and open network that promotes citizen engagement, developing concrete actions and projects based on collective intelligence, civic innovation and open design.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

We work to build citizen capacity to use data for better engagement with government and other stakeholders.

• Crowdsourcing

“Majlesnama” is the first Parliamentary monitoring organization in Islamic Republic of Iran which helps to promote transparency of the Islamic Consultative Assembly.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

We are a Silicon Valley-based technology company that partners with cities to rethink the permitting and development process.

• The Tech
• Govtech

we provide an open community space, an incubator that is vibrant and enables a collaborative environment for innovators and startups to think through their ideas, and develop their solutions, so as to turn these opportunities into meaningful products, services, and businesses

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

Développer ensemble des solutions open source pour la démocratie.

• Working groups

helps government employees in Arnsberg develop both the skills and understanding necessary for a modern, innovative government that focuses on meeting the needs of citizens

• The People
• Build something
• Building inside government

Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

SIM|ED is a tech incubator housed in the SAFElab at Columbia University School of Social Work.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

A NON-PROFIT HOME FOR YOUR OPEN SOURCE PROJECT

• resources

• The People
• Build something
• Toolkits

Making innovation in philanthropy easier.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We will use the hackathon concept to come up with new products, business models, policy and campaigns by encouraging cross-pollination of ideas.

• Civic hackathons
• COVID Engagement Projects
• COVID

In partnership with the Social Tech Trust, the Civic Innovation Challenge is calling on tech startups and innovators to develop solutions to London’s biggest challenges.

• cities
• mobility
• planning

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

The Siragusa Family Foundation is a private foundation that is committed to sustaining and developing Chicago’s extraordinary nonprofit resources.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

GL is well known for championing the SADC Protocol on Gender and Development, and coordinating an Alliance of over 40 women’s NGOs that campaigned for the adoption and implementation of the Protocol, following its 2016 revision that was adopted by the SADC 36th Summit of Heads of State and Government in Mbabane, Swaziland. The revised SADC Protocol on Gender and Development is aligned to the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG), the Beijing Declaration and its Platform of Action, The Maputo Protocol and the Agenda 2063 among other gender norms and standards.

Find news, appeals decisions & best practice for development management & strategic planners on PlanningResource

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Worldie‘s mission is to create safety, equality, humanitarianism, positive social impact, and all-in-one integration to improve lives with technology, helpful social media systems, social projects, public safety, crowdsourced help, and a network of partners.

• harassment
• humanitarian

• Engagement tech
• Online forums
• Social networks

The Drone Journalism Lab's Operations Manual is here to help your news organization with using flying robots to report news.

• Media
• Journalism
• Drones

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

questions-and-answers with elected officials, candidates, media, and more public figures

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Build SMS bots for remote surveys

• The Tech
• Graveyard
• Emerging tech