"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office
• Civic features

A Geolocation Technology Company

• Mapping tools

The Observatory of Public Sector Innovation's compendium of toolkits for public sector innovation and transformation, curated by OPSI and our partners around the world

• Civic tech catalogs
• Playbooks and design principles
• Design

"A collaboration among several street artists and Carol Ott, proprietor of the Baltimore Slumlord Watch blog, the group has painted murals on about a dozen vacant buildings in the city so far this summer."

• housing

• Artistic interventions

The Tech Worker Handbook is a collection of resources for tech workers who are looking to make more informed decisions about whether to speak out on issues that are in the public interest. Aiming to improve working conditions, direct attention to consumer harms, or otherwise address wrongdoing and abuse should not be a solo or poorly resourced endeavor.

• labor

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing

India's open challenge platform

• Challenges

Covering data for social good, data governance, and societal-level data considerations

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Data science for social good
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

An editorial newsletter tool for writers and publishers.

• Graveyard
• Newsletter tech

DATA Uruguay is a civil society organization founded in April 2012 that works on open government, open data, access to public information and participation through the use of civic technology. It is a horizontal organization based on consensus and the vast majority of the projects are co-created with expert partners on the subject (Government, Academia, Media, other Civil Society organizations) or with the community.

• Civic data
• Civic apps outfits

Realiza una solicitud de información o mira las ya realizadas

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Communicating with the government
• Freedom of Information

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information is a non-governmental organisation aiming to facilitate democratic governance in Georgia and abroad by informing and empowering the public. In 2010, IDFI launched a public information platform (Opendata.ge) through which thousands of FoI requests have been submitted to state institutions.

“Durante o Seminário, vários de nós voltamos a nos perguntar por que não temos ainda no Brasil uma instituição formada e mantida por jornalistas, independente, voltada para a troca de informações entre nós, para a formação profissional, para o aprofundamento dos conhecimentos e uso de ferramentas na área do jornalismo investigativo, para a formação de uma literatura e bancos de dados, para a promoção de seminários, congressos e oficinas de aperfeiçoamento profissional. Uma entidade que fosse voltada principalmente para o trabalho de crescimento profissional dos jornalistas, o que significa um respeito à sociedade que nos cobra um jornalismo de qualidade.”

The IATI Standard is a set of rules and guidance about what data organisations should publish and what format it should be presented in.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Fundraising tools
• Data schemas and standards

An open data standard for restaurant information

• food

• Data schemas and standards

The Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab) has operationalized the study of disinformation by exposing falsehoods and fake news, documenting human rights abuses, and building digital resilience worldwide.

• human rights

The Right2Know Campaign launched in August 2010 and has grown into a movement centred on freedom of expression and access to information. It is a democratic, activist-driven campaign that strengthens and unites citizens to raise public awareness, mobilise communities and undertake research and targeted advocacy that aims to ensure the free flow of information necessary to meet people’s social, economic, political and ecological needs and live free from want, in equality and in dignity.

Development Initiatives works to end extreme poverty by making data and information on poverty and resources transparent, accessible, and useable.

Correctiv is a German non-profit newsroom that investigates injustices and abuses of power, and runs educational programs on journalism and media literacy.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

APC is an international network of civil society organisations founded in 1990 dedicated to empowering and supporting people working for peace, human rights, development and protection of the environment, through the strategic use of information and communications technologies (ICTs). We work to build a world in which all people have easy, equal and affordable access to the creative potential of ICTs to improve their lives and create more democratic and egalitarian societies.

ALT Advisory is a public interest advisory and research firm focusing on public law, information rights, data privacy, emergent tech and social innovation in Africa. ALT strives to develop fundamental rights and galvanise activism in the information age through effective and innovative public interest advisory services.

Fundacion para la Libertad de Prensa works to defend freedom of the press, the right to information, human dignity and the free work of journalists. They are a multidisciplinary team of professionals who work to investigate the conditions of journalism in Colombia and take actions to promote guarantees for this trade throughout the country.

Viamo uses simple, low-cost technology for data collection and for the provision of public service information via mobile.

Hromadske TV is an initiative of Ukrainian journalists that aims to provide unbiased, censor-free information on political, economic, cultural and social events to Ukrainian citizens.

Chequeado is a non-profit, non-partisan independent media organisation and Latin America's first fact-checking site.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.

• Climate action

• Civic maps
• Urban planning

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Narrative tech

a portal of water-related data and information

• Clean water and sanitation

• Civic maps

Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities

• anti-trafficking

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Open Ownership (OO) believes that information on the true owners of companies is an essential part of a well-functioning economy and society.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

Run your own Freedom of Information website

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

This section contains information about the Common Alerting Protocol (CAP), an international standard that is used by IPAWS to send public alerts and warnings.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

DAP Portal is a comprehensive new research tool that includes dozens of datasets indicating harassment and potential displacement from New York City housing.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

An open project that uses data science - the same technologies used by giants like Google, Facebook and Netflix - for the purpose of monitoring public spending and sharing information in a way accessible to everyone.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Emerging tech

Kremlin Watch is a strategic program of the European Values Center for Security Policy which aims to expose and confront instruments of Russian influence and disinformation operations focused against Western democracies.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Today we're excited to announce we’ve joined forces with ProPublica to incorporate health care statistics and consumer opinion survey data onto the Yelp business pages of more than 25,000 medical treatment facilities.

• civic features

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Vote Smart provides free, unbiased, in-depth information about current officials, candidates, issues, legislation, and voting. Non-partisan and nonprofit since 1988.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

in which students are partnered with a local community in Michigan for the purpose of using information and technology to effect change in how citizens interact with and are served by local units of government.

• rural

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Human rights defenders need evidence, law and research to advocate justice and accountability. We develop tools and strategies that make this information accessible.

• human rights

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

Welcome to the ORIGINAL channel of Resistencia, Venezuela Hasta los Tuétanos. It is an information room about the political, social, and economic situation that Venezuela is going through.

• The Tech
• Media
• Engagement tech

The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington brings together experts in law, information, and computer science to enhance technology policy.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Backfence was a place for community news and info written by you and your neighbors

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

To understand digital media’s influence on national dialogue and opinion, and to develop sound solutions to disinformation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Research and policy centers

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Pizza to the Polls is making democracy delicious by delivering free food for all to polling places with long lines. Send us reports of long lines and we'll send in the delicious reinforcements.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Fluicity est une solution d’engagement citoyen, qui permet la prise de décision collective autour des sujets d’intérêt général.

• apps

• Engagement tech
• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

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

City Council unanimously approved a resolution on Monday to provide a framework for dealing with current and future technologies that impact privacy. This is a major step with the adoption of six privacy principles guiding the actions the City will take when collecting and using information from the public. The Council also established an August 2015 reporting deadline […]

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles