We combine media, data and behavior science to motivate action.

• Media
• Creators and Influencers
• News to action

Social and open participation consultancy in Colombia

• Civic and social impact companies

USGS Earthquake Hazards Program, responsible for monitoring, reporting, and researching earthquakes and earthquake hazards

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Internet of Things pilots to improve quality of life in London neighborhoods

• local
• cities

• Smart Cities and sensors

Transform your political campaign or movement with AI-powered two-way voice calls that transform your voter contact.

• Advocacy tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns

an easy-to-use digital safety checklist

• guides

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Cybersecurity

Powerfully simple open access tools for a just and kind information age.

• Adjacent Fields
• Open knowledge
• Open science

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

by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Martyrology of the Russian-Ukrainian war victims among the civilians. Add information about the deceased people. Keep the memory about them alive.

• Ukraine
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Participatory memorials

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

Official e-newsletters from every member of Congress. In one place. In real time.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

six-week Data Activism curriculum to equip students with critical-thinking skills so they feel prepared to utilize data science to challenge social injustice and empower their community

• courses
• students

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Digital literacy

The New Haven Independent is produced in conjunction with the Online Journalism Project, a not-for-profit effort to promote professional-quality ​“stand-alone” and ​“hyperlocal” news sites on the Internet.

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Civic engagement features promoting voting while dating in the 2022 cycle

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Civic features

A book by Marina Nitze and Nick Sinai

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Bureaucracy tech

With the Civic Voice, you have the power to access, follow through and contribute to bills that matter most to you.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

How to publish open data: a list of advice and tools

• guides

• Civic data

We monitor and challenge internet censorship in China

• free speech
• apps
• WeChat

• Adjacent Fields
• Circumvention tech

Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools

DEBUNK (demaskuok in Lithuanian) is a unique Lithuania-born initiative uniting competing media outlets, journalists, volunteers for a single purpose – to make society more resilient to orchestrated disinformation campaigns.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Newsroom partnership networks

Animal Politico's fact-checking project. "Fooling a dog is difficult."

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

A plug-in that flags fake news directly on social media to prevent you from clicking or sharing articles that intentionally mislead and disinform.

• extensions

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Graveyard

Every day, people use Facebook to share their experiences, connect with friends and family, and build communities.

• Media
• Fight disinformation

Play or Get Played – the app antidote to deceptive political ads, from HonestAds.org.

• apps

• Advertising

How to increase public engagement in environmental issues is a central question in environmental communication and environmental psychology literatures.

• research
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

Bytes of Good is a podcast where we engage in critical discussions about technology, the role it plays in our society, and career paths in the social good space.

• Podcasts

A single civic action each day ensures that a voter will never miss an election and feel empowered showing up to the polls.

• apps
• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The purpose of this guide is to standardise accessibility features and ensure accessibility compliance across Code for Africa’s projects. Please feel free to copy and adapt it for your organisation.

• guides

• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Side by Side is a supportive online community where you can feel at home talking about your mental health and connect with others who understand what you are going through.

• mental health
• Good health and well-being

• Solidarity networks

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
• Government transparency

Korean participatory policymaking platform

• Graveyard
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Start using Engage today and be part of the discussion! Vote and comment on proposals from your local government.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

Mapping solution for municipalities

• Mapping tools

@Stake is a digital multiplayer roleplaying game that fosters creativity and empathy in small group deliberation

• Games and gamification
• Group decision making

Fireside specializes in creating the most innovative and easy-to-use tools to help Congressional offices connect with their constituents more efficiently.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A HatchLab is a new kind of global storytelling workshop.

• workshops

• Narrative tech
• Story tech

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

• labor
• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Lab for open citizen Science and tech

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

For the first time, city leaders can track the real-time pulse of how every neighborhood feels about trust and safety, and develop strategies for their improvement.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Justice tech

Realize an Emissions Free World by 2040

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Tech for public challenges
• Carbon calculators

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

OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

If you’re a government service manager, you can see how your service is doing by using a Performance Dashboard. A dashboard lets you quickly spot problems with your service so you can take action to improve it.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Balkan is a story. Long, intricate, some would even say complicated. We feel the real Balkan is about its people and the stories they have to tell. If you start from there, it is that simple! If you come from Balkan, you live there or if you have a Balkan story to tell, we welcome you and your story to the Humans of the Balkan’s.

• Graveyard
• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

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