Short case studies on how to use free or low-cost tools to produce campaign infographics

• Organize campaigns
• Infographics

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

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

Data Commons aggregates data from a wide range of sources into a unified database to make it more accessible and useful. More

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Mapping tools

Making Census Data Easy to Use

• census

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

Non-profit news site serving Kyrgyzstan, including election monitoring

• Media
• Nonprofit newsrooms

IDADI is our flagship data journalism project, in collaboration with The Infographics Studio, to disseminate, visualize and democratize official data on TikTok to allow Kenyans participate in decision making and enhance government accountability.

• TikTok

• Media
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

The XR Collaboratory (XRC) at Cornell Tech works with faculty, researchers and students from computer vision, computer graphics, and human-computer interaction, as well as practitioners in application areas such as healthcare, education, and architecture.

• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The Beeck Center at Georgetown University conducted a survey of self-described Public Interest Tech workers

• reports
• labor

• Learn about civic tech

GovRight provides citizens the opportunity to understand and contribute to government and legislation.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Code for America partnered with the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, and Nava Public Benefit Corporation to conduct pilots in Michigan (in partnership with Civilla), Colorado, Alaska, Vermont (led by Nava PBC) and Louisiana.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

Cloud-based budget and performance management software built for local governments.

• ChatGPT

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Budget explorers

A tool created for citizens and all those people or organizations that may be interested, which aims to facilitate the analysis and understanding of the budgets of the City of Barcelona.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Digital Connector is an open source piece of software, which allows data specialists to efficiently connect data sets into a common format.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

• census

• Civic data
• Civic maps

Start where you are

• Graveyard
• Data visualization
• Mapping

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

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

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

With Team, users join an online community of supporters and speak directly with their friends about the causes and candidates they care about.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities. These datasets can help cities by supporting the planning, management, monitoring, and reporting needs of cities.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals