Etalab is the Prime minister’s digital taskforce and innovation lab of the French government

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

We gather citizen voices to improve public services

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? Code for PDX is here to help.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Enter your address, get your sample ballot

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

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
• Courses

A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Everyone a humanitarian

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

REUNITE's family tracing platform helps refugees and displaced persons search, connect and communicate with their loved ones. Here is how we do it.

• refugees

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

Change.org is the web's leading platform for social change, empowering anyone, anywhere to start petitions that make a difference.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

NationalField was acquired by and folded into NGP VAN

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Congressional Research Service Reports for the People

• Watchdogging and transparency

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Local meetings happen all the time. Let’s make showing up easy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

We are an organization that defends and promotes Internet freedom, through concrete actions of research, dissemination and defense in cases where there is a violation of digital rights.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

A platform to show how the OTT Tax makes our digital and everyday lives harder, to learn what life would be like if the rest of the world had to pay it too, and to stop the spread of taxes like these elsewhere.

An international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.

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• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Civic engagement can take many forms and Cityflag, a mobile phone app that allows citizens to highlight and track local issues, wants to make it just a download away. Along with allowing users to post photos of infrastructure issues, Cityflag incorporates a social media tangent and mapping system where people can share infrastructure and City service […]

• The Tech
• Media
• Govtech

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Organize campaigns

The NewCities Summit gathered top entrepreneurs, policymakers, corporate leaders, designers and thinkers to work together to improve life in cities. The sixth edition of the Summit took place in Incheon Songdo, South Korea from June 7-9, 2017 on the theme Thriving Cities: The Building Blocks of Urban Wellbeing. The new city of Incheon Songdo has been […]

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• In-person meetings

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

• indigenous

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

A HUB OF FUNDING TOOLS MADE WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS IN MIND

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• Fundraising tools

We pursue our mission largely through our award-winning website, OpenSecrets.org, which is the most comprehensive resource for federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis available anywhere. And for other organizations and news media, the Center's exclusive data powers their online features tracking money in politics - counting cash to make change. Our OpenSecrets Blog features newsbreaking original reporting about money-in-politics, including the sort of investigative work that won the Society of Professional Journalists' 2013 award for Public Service in Online Journalism.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Impact Engine is an investment firm with a mission to bring more capital to a market where financial returns are linked to positive social and environmental impacts.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Lexcare is an online forum where people can post legal questions and recieve advice. Users can also find lawyers andconsult them for a fee.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

If you have a Excel, CSV, or OpenDocument file including a column of postcodes, upload it here, and MapIt will automatically match the postcodes and add columns for the administrative areas (councils, constituencies, CCGs, etc.) you request, sending you the results by email.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Posters and social media resources for Canva users

• print resources

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

In the four years since fact-checkers around the world first gathered in London for the inaugural Global Fact-Checking Summit, a lot has happened

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Browse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

We empower communities to work together and build innovative technology for the public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open science

AI bot that can navigate and serve up FAQ content in conversations with workers

• apps
• IBM
• labor

• The People
• Emerging tech
• Meet the others

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Community-based monitoring (CBM) allows civil society to gather and analyse information from the service users’ points of view. It recognises that communities, citizens and public service users are active holders of fundamental rights and not merely passive users of public services. As a result, CBM provides strong evidence to take back to government and, where necessary, into the public domain, in order to better the delivery of services where needed and to acknowledge good service where it is provided.

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

• cities

• Artistic interventions
• Specific campaigns

Uwajibijaki Pamoja (Accountability Together) is an integrated complaints referral mechanism operated by Transparency International Kenya in collaboration of more than 40 service providers including government and development aid agencies. The platform enables citizens to lodge complaints about gaps in access to a range of services provided by the government and humanitarian agencies, through a toll-free SMS, line, email, and walk-ins from where the complaint is then referred to the relevant provider.

Canadian Open Data Society was formed around CODS - the Canadian Open Data Summit. The organization supports open data across Canada.

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

Believing that technology provides endless opportunity, Microsoft Philanthropies works in creating a future where everyone has access to endless possibilities.

• Microsoft

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The easy and powerful solution for creating meaningful change in your community. Anywhere, anytime.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

the social good predecessor to Groupon

• Graveyard
• Civic crowdfunding platforms

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.

Our platform provides unprecedented situational awareness and actionable insights for decision-makers.

• cities
• earthquakes
• floods

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Continued American leadership in AI is of paramount importance to maintaining the economic and national security of the United States and to shaping the global evolution of AI in a manner consistent with our Nation’s values, policies, and priorities.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Artificial Intelligence

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

Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.

• Google

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

DilSeWill is an online platform where users can create a will, and have it mailed to them after completion

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

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

PMG aims to provide accurate, objective, and current information on all parliamentary committee proceedings in the form of detailed, unofficial minutes and documents and since 2007, sound recordings of the meeting.

• Voting and elections
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech