The Guide features governance approaches for data that is owned or in possession of a city or county.

• guides

• Govtech
• Digital security and privacy
• Data governance

An open source Policy Toolkit for cities to develop digital policies that put citizens at the center, tackle Sustainable Development Goals and make Governments more open, transparent, and collaborative.

• guides
• cities

• Playbooks and design principles

eGovlab is the Stockholm University Centre for Excellence in e-Governance Studies focused on driving European and International research collaboration for research and development in the area of IT in the Public Sector.

• Govtech
• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

Its over-arching goal is to reinforce trust in public institutions and to unleash multiple measurable positive impacts in terms of efficiency gains and reduction of current administrative burden and costs, rooted on a Toolkit for extended semantic interoperability and on secure, privacy-preserving and trustworthy realisation of fundamental once-only, relevant-only and digital by default principles, through state-of-the-art, usable and high-quality fully online procedures accessible through the Single Digital Gateway (SDG).

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Government Interoperability

A free of charge Consultation Service for Civil Society Organisations and Civic Movements

• coaching

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Accelerators

The European Citizen Action Service (ECAS) is an international, Brussels-based non-profit organisation with a pan-European membership and more than 30 years of experience.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A commitment to make digital technologies work for, not against, democracy and human rights. It underlines the joint responsibility of governments, multilateral organizations, civil society, and technology companies to develop and use digital technologies to the benefit of democracy and human rights.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

The AI4D multidisciplinary research lab run by two public academic institutions in Tanzania, UDOM & NM-AIST. We set forth an objective to establish a multidisciplinary AI4D lab that fosters capacity development, research and innovation in responsible AI and its application in addressing societal and developmental problems in Africa.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

We create engaging courses and events on topics that matter

• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

In 2020, CIL launched the Digital Innovation Fund (DIF) to support experimental and innovative digital organizing tactics for state-based organizing groups and sharpen organizer skills in digital strategy and data analysis.

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Narrative tech

Audience development and analytic-driven communications for campaigns

• Advocacy tech
• Campaign organizations

Humanitarian AI Today is podcast series produced by the Humanitarian AI meetup groups.

• podcasts

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Podcasts

Collective creativity for the common good

• Participatory democracy
• Govtech vendors
• Social impact design firms

Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Glific enables NGOs to easily scale to thousands of conversations a day with few staff.

• Bots
• Nonprofit tech
• Messaging

Enabling NGOs to get the most out of technology

• Nonprofit tech

Our mission is to create content that tells the story of humans in public service, share stories that reflect the diversity in America in an effort to humanize public servants, and create a more positive perception of government.

• Govtech
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

A World Bank project forking the Your Priorities platform to meaningfully engage residents in Kyrgyzstan around a major development project

• development

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022. Additionally, a dedicated factsheet for the EU which focuses on all the matters related to digital public administration and interoperability at the European Union level is also available."

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Public sector needs to prepare for what is coming next, continuously identify, test and implement innovative solutions to benefit from future opportunities while reducing the risks through increased resilience of their public systems.  To facilitate that OPSI has developed an Anticipatory Innovation Governance (AIG) model.

• Govtech
• Emerging tech

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

We develop visions and projects with the goal to create more equitable futures. We do research, build networks and shape narratives. Superrr is playful, visionary and feminist.

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits

Network Impact has created a series of Network Know-How Guides for early-stage network builders who want to learn how to develop healthy, impactful and sustainable networks.

• guides

• Meet the others
• Peer networks

"FedNow is a service developed by the Federal Reserve for depository institutions in the United States. It will enable individuals and businesses to send and receive instant payments. Banks will be able to build products on top of the FedNow platform." - Wikipedia

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Payments

Developing a robust and replicable Data Commons methodology in the Raval, Barcelona

• Civic data
• Data governance

Open-source developer & translator friendly localization platform

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

The Hub is a system of physical and digital community bulletin boards designed to serve the diverse constituencies of Red Hook.

• local

• Neighborhood forums

FireChat was a proprietary mobile app, developed by Open Garden, which used wireless mesh networking to enable smartphones to pass messages to each other peer-to-peer via Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or Apple's Multipeer, without an internet connection.

• Hong Kong protests

• Graveyard
• Connectivity
• Messaging

The MyCandidate platform empowers citizens of African countries to play an active role in electoral and democratic processes during elections and strengthens civil society’s advocacy work ahead of and post elections. MyCandidate, ingests electoral candidate data, to present it in a way that all voters can understand on a widely-accessible web-based platform.

• Participatory democracy
• Voting and elections
• Nonprofit tech

A housing platform that simplifies, centralizes, and makes it easy for people to search and apply for affordable housing.

• housing

• Govtech
• Access social benefits

Developed in collaboration with Hackney Council, FOIWorks is an open-source user-needs focused front-end solution for taking Freedom of Information requests from citizens.

• local

• Govtech
• Freedom of Information

What would you like to do for your community? We want to help make it happen.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Social impact design firms

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

We are a platform of more than 140 thousand activists, organizations and groups that mobilize to transform behaviors and attitudes, generating influence in public policies and thus building a more tolerant, fair, sustainable, inclusive and participatory country.

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

• Data science for social good
• Evaluate impact

Digital Futures Lab is a multidisciplinary research network that examines the complex interactions between technology and society in the global south.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Civil society research outfits

The findings from our study are intended to provide insights to developers and designers to improve the accessibility and inclusivity of digital platforms from the perspective of language.

• reports

• Foundational layers
• Translation and linguistic representation

FPF brings together industry, academics, civil society, policymakers, and other stakeholders to explore the challenges posed by emerging technologies and develop privacy protections, ethical norms, and workable best practices in these areas and more.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital security and privacy

FOWIGS is a network of Think Tanks from southern regions which brings data and knowledge together to build evidence-based narratives on the Future of Work. At FOWIGS, we contribute to the policy frameworks from and for developing countries.

• labor

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Civil society research outfits

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Drones
• Emergency services

A campaign to create hack algorithmic music discovery algorithms to promote an anti-Nazi message and pressure audio platforms to stop hosting Nazi content

• culture
• 2023 Webby Awards
• racial equity

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions
• Algorithmic transparency

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

The Oslo Governance Centre (OGC) is UNDPs dedicated Global Policy Centre for Governance issues. It promotes transformative governance for peaceful, just and inclusive societies.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The SDG16 Survey jointly developed by UNDP, UNODC and OHCHR provides a high quality, well tested tool that countries can use to measure progress on many of the survey-based indicators under SDG16.

• Peace, justice, and strong institutions

• Evaluate impact
• Indicators

Public Sector Budgeting Software

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Internal budgeting tools