The Blue House is a community where designers, writers, researchers, artists, activists, filmmakers, coders, teachers, entrepreneurs, developers, and others come together to share and shape a new kind of workspace.

• The People
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

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• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic literacy

A metadata description standard for public software

• The People
• The Tech
• Civic data

A directory of over 900 COVID mutual aid local groups all across the UK, mostly via Facebook groups, and a backgrounder on what they are and how to start one.

• The People
• COVID
• COVID Organizing Projects

The most innocent clues can sometimes help crack a case. The objects are all taken from the background of an image with sexually explicit material involving minors. For all images below, every other investigative avenue has already been examined. Therefore we are requesting your assistance in identifying the origin of some of these objects. We are convinced that more eyes will lead to more leads and will ultimately help to save these children.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Open collaborative network for journalists and other researches, experts and engaged people working on housing across Europe

• housing

• Media
• Solutions journalism
• Engagement journalism

The First Act Fund is a new source of catalytic funding and support encouraging young people with technical backgrounds to pursue impactful and innovative ideas.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Graveyard

National Voter Registration Day is a holiday celebrated on the fourth Tuesday of every September. It's goal is to focus attention on the importance of registering to vote and voting in our democracy during a single day of on-the-ground and digital efforts lead by government, nonprofits, and businesses.

• US Election 2020

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Holidays

As the gears of federal government have ground to a halt, a new energy has been rocking the foundations of our urban centers. From Atlanta to Seattle and points in between, cities have begun seizing the initiative, transforming themselves into laboratories for progressive innovation. Income inequality, affordable housing, climate change, sustainable development, public health, participatory government—cities are tackling them all, bringing new urgency to some of the most vital questions of the day. Welcome to the age of big city progressivism! Cities Rising is The Nation’s contribution to the conversation.

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

Microsoft AirSim (Aerial Informatics and Robotics Simulation) is an open-source robotics simulation platform. From ground vehicles, wheeled robotics, aerial drones, and even static IoT devices, AirSim can capture data for models without costly field operations.

• Microsoft

• Drones

AmericaSpeaks was a Washington, D.C.-based non-profit organization whose mission was to

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

VHacks is a hackathon taking place at the Vatican City in Rome on the weekend of March 8-11, 2018. Students from all nationalities and faith-backgrounds are invited for 36 hours of ideation and innovation to address problems in areas of social inclusion, interfaith dialogue, and migrants & refugees. These 120 students will work in teams…

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens.

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

• The People
• Civic hacking meetups
• Meet the others

A crowd-sourced web-based database of organizations, programs, and initiatives at the intersection of STEM and local government and communities.

• STEM

• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Help out

• Diversity & Inclusion
• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

Keeping our eyes on members of Nigeria's National Assembly!

• The Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

A specification of the civic.json metadata standard for civic technology projects

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

a fellowship program to empower social entrepreneurs, artists, activists, scholars and other catalysts to increase awareness, understanding and engagement around pressing areas of public interest, with particular attention to underrepresented communities and their ideas

• The People
• The Tech
• Find a job or hire someone

Microsoft Soundscape was a project from Microsoft Research that explored the use of innovative audio-based technology to enable people to build a richer awareness of their surroundings, thus becoming more confident and empowered to get around.

• apps
• Microsoft

• Adjacent Fields
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Foundational layers

Deep learning is transforming the world. We are making deep learning easier to use and getting more people from all backgrounds involved through our: free courses for coders, software library, cutting-edge research, and community

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Question Bridge is an innovative transmedia project that facilitates a dialogue between Black men from diverse and contending backgrounds and creates a platform for them to represent and redefine Black male identity in America.

• racial equity

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

We bring together people from the UK, no matter what their background, to stop the Tories from winning another parliamentary majority at the next election. We use electoral data to determine which left-leaning party has the best chance of beating the Tories in 50 of the most marginal seats and support any and all volunteers to get out campaigning.

• Brexit

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Tactical voting

This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Location

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

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

2018 Book by Susan Crawford

• books

• Books
• Connectivity

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• In-person meetings
• Meet the others

Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The People
• The Tech
• Civic data

Watchdogging apps for voter suppression, police brutality, and bullying

• apps
• police violence
• youth

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Communicating with the government

CDS hires top technologists from diverse backgrounds into term-limited tours of civic service, bringing their expertise to help improve the services that millions of Coloradans use.

• The People
• The Tech
• Find a job or hire someone

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

• coop
• partisan

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Civic data

Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Co-design

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Mark43 is reinventing public safety software applications from the ground up, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains to first responders.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Enter your address, get your sample ballot

• US Election 2020

• Ballot information
• Voting and elections

Everyone a humanitarian

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

NationalField was acquired by and folded into NGP VAN

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

• The People
• Watchdogging and transparency
• The Tech

The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics was formed in 2010 as one of the first municipal innovation offices in the world. Our research and design projects tackle a range of topics — from civic engagement to city infrastructure to education. Our team comes from a diverse array of backgrounds and our work comes in many different flavors.

• The People
• Public sector innovation labs
• Build something

Zooniverse gives people of all ages and backgrounds the chance to participate in real research with over 50 active online citizen science projects.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

• The People
• Meet the others
• Peer networks

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

"Citizinvestor was an online crowdfunding platform specifically focused on raising money for public projects and community infrastructure"

• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Graveyard

Knomos employs modern app frameworks and design principles grounded in the user experience to deliver more powerful legal tools.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization