Established in 1966, the Fellows Program is a cornerstone of Institute life and the only program of its kind at Harvard University or anywhere else. An IOP Fellowship offers the rare opportunity for professionals in politics and public service to spend a semester at Harvard sharing their experiences with students and exploring important public issues with a distinguished

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

An approach to machine learning where the data is not centralized

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Where makers, designers, developers, and subject matter experts come together to use technology to solve civic problems.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Facebook launches petition feature, its next battlefield

• civic features
• Facebook

• Graveyard
• Civic features
• Petitions

Scratch is a free programming language and online community where you can create your own interactive stories, games, and animations.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Lets citizens collaboratively draft and edit legislative texts, as well as upvote and downvote individual clauses

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We make local policy information accessible and byte-sized, with a weekly email of your community board’s most recent meeting highlights and transcript data.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Here we discuss two pillars of a Citizens’ Assembly website: its design and editorial principles; and the information that should be included.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

by First Draft News

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

The page uses search terms, surfaced through the research, to find job postings using that language via Indeed.

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

In the midst of an immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border, Code for America, Codeando México, and The GovLab organized online listening sessions to help determine areas of need and where the civic tech community might help.

• immigration

• Needs assessment

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
• Mapping tools

Its a free emergency app that connects South Africans to safety just by a press of a button which tells operators who you areand where you are. GPS technology means Namola can pinpoint your location to help emergency services reach you faster. It assists Neighbourhood Watches and Community Policing Forums keep their communities safe allowing them to receive alerts of incidents

eclips.is is a free, lightweight platform where you can launch your (virtual) servers. It is funded by Open Technology Fund (OTF) to facilitate an easy accessible cloud infrastructure.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

We're building a platform where citizens can help realign our institutions and leaders with the public.

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the government
• Digital Public Infrastructure

IEEE GHTC focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

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

an experimental project to enable practical alternatives to how we manage our personal data and interact on the internet

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

The Fairwork Foundation is a project that is working to set and measure standards in the platform economy.

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

CivicTech4Democracy is the European Union’s global competition showcasing democratic innovation by Citizens for Citizens across the world. Every day, everywhere, citizens invent new ways of bringing democracy closer to the people.

• European Union

• The People
• Get funding
• Fieldwide resources

This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

APPLYING THE BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES APPROACH TO DRIVE INNOVATION IN CITIES

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

Intel is working with University of California, Davis, to perfect irrigation techniques by placing sensors in crops and other strategic areas to monitor soil and air moisture levels.

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

By using the power of Ethereum, distributed networks and crowdfunding, we are building a system that will reward people who help surface the truth.

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Governance for a Post Nation-State world. For everyone, anywhere.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Blockchain

Personal Democracy Forum CEE is a unique space where the enthusiasm for technology is supported with meaningful debates on its role in the contemporary world.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The wiki for local government innovation ✨

• wikis

• Socialize online
• Peer networks
• Listservs, forums, and Slacks

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

Avaaz mobilizes instant campaigns to address crises happening anywhere on earth, and to close the gap between the world we have the world most people everywhere want. Join the movement now.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

An API standard for ride hailing services

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Partecipa is the Bologna participation and collaboration platform where it is possible to access the processes of collaboration and care of common goods. Sign up, report, propose and vote for proposals.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Somos uma união de coletivos formados por mulheres, pessoas negras e LGBT+ com o objetivo de diminuir a distância entre eleitoras/es e candidatas/os comprometidas/os com os direitos sociais, civis e políticos da população.

• Voting and elections
• Graveyard
• Matching views to votes

Where journalism meets data

• guides
• handbooks
• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

Showcasing re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organisations building them. Civic technologists do not need to reinvent the wheel. Civic software solutions to pressing developmental challenges already exist elsewhere in the world, and often simply need be customised or adapted to local requirements. Locally developed software solutions are also appropriate for reuse elsewhere on the continent, and the wider world. The challenge is discovery: end-user organisations and technologists are seldom aware of existing solutions elsewhere and/or struggle to find credible recommendations that are sensitive to local operational requirements. africanCOMMONS is a platform to showcase re-useable tools built across Africa and the people & organizations building them.

Support your favorite cause or campaign Anytime, Anywhere

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Advocacy tech

Establishes New Jersey Civic Information Consortium; appropriates $20 million from General Fund and $1 million annually thereafter.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic literacy

Communicate with your supporters, constituents, parishioners or customers where they want to hear from you: text.

• The Tech
• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS

Technology and Design programming for the people of East Oakland and beyond

• racial equity
• trainings

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Metagenomics & Metadesign of Subways & Urban Biomes

• cities
• DNA
• mass transit

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Here you can find the Catalan Constitution draft that has been written by the group of jurists led by Santiago Vidal. Help us and give us your opinion on the different articles. Your opinion counts!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Build With is a training, facilitation, and consulting practice led by Laurenellen McCann.

• trainings
• workshops

• Co-design
• Civic and social impact companies

yAvo is a free legal advice service where users can post legal or law related queries on the platform, which are thenanswered by lawyers and legal professionals registered on the site.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

It provided an easy way for constituents to sign up to hear from their MPs, and a simple online forum for discussion.

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

• Civic tech catalogs
• Crowdsourcing
• Socialize online

Containerized Open-Source Mask Production Lines

• masks

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Graveyard
• Hardware

Where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers

• The People
• Build something
• User research groups

Community is about trust and sharing. Open Collective lets you manage your finances so everyone can see where money comes from and where it goes. Collect and spend money transparently.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

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