The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

A free campaign for youth funded by Colin @kaepernick7 to raise awareness on self-empowerment 💪🏿 and interacting with law enforcement 🚔

• racial equity
• trainings
• youth

• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy
• Justice tech

Help your neighbors register to vote.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

NetBlocks is an open technology platform that helps communities around the world detect and measure internet shutdowns, social media filtering and throttling in real-time.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Periodismo y acción para abrir lo público

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The mission of City Innovate Foundation is to guide local government agencies in developing user-centered products and services for the 21st century. By exploring emerging digital technology solutions with rising start-ups and experienced professionals from private and academic sectors, we enable city governments to test and learn while minimizing risk.

• The Tech
• Govtech

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Celebrating Partnerships that Strengthen America

• youth

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers

Broadband connectivity is crucial for access to the modern economy, as well as engagement in contemporary civic and political life. Without adequate study of the availability of broadband connectivity, policymakers are left in the dark as they design programs to modernize communications infrastructure and ensure that telecommunications companies provide broadband/Internet service at the minimum speeds required to take full advantage of online resource.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

SUPPORTING INTERNET FREEDOM WORLDWIDE Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Taproot Foundation connects nonprofits and other social change organizations with skilled volunteers through pro bono service.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

THE CODING SCHOOL FOR REFUGEES IN BELGIUM

• refugees

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Digital literacy

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.

• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundational layers

The Smart City Digital Inclusion Maturity Model is a tool to help cities worldwide assess and benchmark their level of digital inclusion and ICT accessibility.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

As the Confederation turns 150, Connected Canada will examine what it means to be a digital citizen in Canada today. Together, participants will draft a public research agenda for digital citizenship that will set the foundation for strong institutions and good policy. Join us October 13-14, 2017 in Ottawa as we consider the impacts of the Internet on Canadian institutions, policies, and people.

• Conferences

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Reveal hidden gender bias

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

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

When the path to social impact is unclear…we help you measure it

• Civic and social impact companies
• Evaluate impact

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

• mental health
• youth
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Building 21st Century Government with Technology Talent

• The People
• Fellowships
• Building inside government

The HANSHEP Health Enterprise Fund was created with support from the Rockefeller Foundation and is funded by USAID and DFID. It is implemented by the USAID-funded SHOPS project, and aims to uncover innovative and replicable solutions that address critical health priorities in sub-Saharan Africa.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

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

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

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

Internet access in major global subway networks

• cities
• mass transit
• mobility

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

European Foundations And Journalists Working Together To Ensure More Effective And Impactful Funding Of Journalism.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

fundraisers who are dedicated to INSPIRE your donors, your potential donors and your team.

• Nonprofit tech

The Every Voice Engaged Foundation is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that helps citizens, governments and other nonprofit organizations solve problems that benefit from effective civic engagement.

Illinois’ statewide alliance of nonprofits, grantmaking foundations, advisors, public agencies, and social impact sector allies. Forefront provides research, resources, advocacy, and educational programs to help nonprofits and foundations increase their impact

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

A collaborative platform for open metadata built on intersectional and inclusive practices of ethical data governance.

• framework

• Civic data
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data schemas and standards

We are a global campaign to center the knowledge of marginalized communities (the majority of the world) on the internet.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

Produced with AdaptNY and ISeeChange, along with WE ACT for Environmental Justice. WNYC's resilience reporting is supported by The Rockefeller Foundation.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

RePresent is a law game that provides self-represented parties in Connecticut with foundational advocacy experience.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Participatory Budgeting Resource Center YOU can help reinvent democracy! Participatory budgeting (PB) depends on hundreds of people like you who want to rebuild the relationship between government and the people. PB gives you real power over how your taxes are spent. What is PB? Download the PDF The Case for PB Learn More Guides and…

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

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

Liftware's selection of stabilizing and leveling handles and attachments are designed to help people with hand tremor or limited hand and arm mobility retain dignity, confidence, and independence.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Hardware

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Academia
• Partner networks and coalitions
• Public Interest Tech

The Civic Engagement Commission will enhance civic participation, promote civic trust, and strengthen democracy in New York City.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Build something

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

• cities
• reports

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

• The People
• Get funding
• Foundation initiatives

Journalism in the 21st century involves finding, collecting, analyzing and visualizing data for stories. The Journalism School offers foundational courses in data‐driven journalism as well as a three-semester M.S. in Data Journalism degree for students interested in advanced skills.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A crowdsourced German sign language dictionary. Funded by @prototypefund

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Foundation Center and GuideStar are now Candid. "Candid gets you the information you need to do good."

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

360/OS brings together journalists, activists, innovators, and leaders from around the world as part of our grassroots digital solidarity movement fighting for objective truth as a foundation of democracy.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Foundation promotes Civic Imagination ie listening, collaboration, participation and co-production in relation to projects and policies of the city, its neighborhoods and the entire metropolitan area, with a specific attention to the care and regeneration of urban common goods

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field