This bill requires the Office of Management and Budget, jointly with the executive department that issues the most federal grant awards, to: (1) establish government-wide data standards for information reported by grant recipients, (2) issue guidance directing federal agencies to apply those standards, and (3) require the publication of recipient-reported data collected from all agencies on a single public website.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Organize campaigns

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Government transparency
• Tech for public challenges
• Civic tech catalogs

Le Monde's database of fake news websites

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Urban Knowledge Exchange Southern Africa (uKESA) is an online platform built to benefit urban development decision makers, urban practitioner, researcher or policy maker by providing knowledge on related issues.

• cities

Organization working on strenghtening citizen participation by using technology for offering quality information on public administration. Somos una herramienta de información que busca que los ciudadanos tengan una visión clara y completa de la gestión de los funcionarios públicos en Colombia.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Demagog Association is Poland's first factchecking organization. It's main aim is the improvement of the quality of the public debate through unbiased and reliable information.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

Re-focus is a mobile application that provides legal information and welfare advice for women who are separated orare thinking of separating.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Founded in 2008, the Sentinel Project is a Canadian non-profit organization that assists communities threatened by mass atrocities worldwide through direct cooperation with the people in harm’s way and the innovative use of technology.

• human rights
• humanitarian

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Fight disinformation

KYR ARICA ensures public access to information and protect fundamental freedoms, in accordance with national legislation and international agreements

A dockless bike and scooter pilot in Washington DC that provides ridership information and more data to help plan a more integrated transportation system.

• cities
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Regulation

Biscate (meaning odd jobs in Portuguese) is a platform using inclusive technologies such as SMS, USSD and web to connect skilled workers from the informal sector with customers. The platform allows informal and often uncertified skilled workers located throughout Mozambique to register and advertise their services with a basic phone using USSD technology. Biscate offers potential customers access to a register of workers arranged by trade, location, and experience.

Benetech Service Net is an open standards data exchange platform that makes it easier to share and maintain information on local social and human services.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Dobijte odgovore od Vlade i javnog sektora Make a request for information to a RH public authority: by law, they have to respond Croatian Alvateli site

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

El Soberano aparece entonces como una plataforma informativa que surge desde las organizaciones de la sociedad civil y de los movimientos sociales a efectos de informar directamente a los ciudadanos, sin censuras editoriales, sin aceptar presiones de ningún tipo.

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

Factchecking Serbian politics

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Ask Without Shame provides accurate emergency sexual health information to youth in Africa through mobile technology. This is done through an Android app, WhatsApp, calls, and SMS. Medical experts and counsellors are available 24/7 to assist users with the right information regarding sexuality at the fingertips of every youth from the age of 12 to 35 years without judgment or shame. Ask Without Shame aims to reach one million youth in East Africa by 2018, scale Ask Without shame in other African countries five years from then and eliminate sexual taboo Africa by 2050.

• WhatsApp

Alaveteli instance for Romania

• Alaveteli

• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

We create survey-based applications that organize information in ways which are easily accessible, scientifically rigorous, and profoundly personalized. In so doing, we offer compelling online experiences that promote civic engagement and informed dialogue.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

“FOIA Data Mining” is a FOIA service that enables watchdog organizations to organize volunteers in retyping and structuring responses to FOIA requests.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Famalia is an SMS-based tool that seeks to inform people about succession law.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

Citizens monitor. Everyone wins.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

• Adjacent Fields
• Mapping
• Foundational layers

Civic Tech for Thailand’s Democracy

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

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

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Watchdogging Czech Republic

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

Safecity provides you with a collection of curated resources ranging from safety products, mobile applications, self defence classes and important legal information to help you stay safe and take necessary action in case you have been harassed. You can reach out to us to connect you to an advocate in our circle.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

There is a universe of government records hidden away in file cabinets and offline databases. With FOIA Mapper, much of that information is now searchable.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

SeeClickFix makes it easy for neighbors to request information and services from local service providers. But what about when these organizations need to reach out to the public to give them useful information and important updates?

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts

NDI is partnering with Living Cities—an organization that harnesses the collective power of the world’s largest foundations and financial institutions to get dramatically better results for low-income urban residents—on a research initiative to explore the innovative ways that megacity governments are strengthening urban democracy.

• cities
• research

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Data science for social good
• Challenges

A comprehensive political database for modern day voters

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Voter assistance tech
• Voter registration

Maryland Law Help is a mobile application that connects Maryland citizens with legal information, tools and resources.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Code for Kenya uses data to give citizens hyper-local and hyper-personal information to make better informed decisions about bread & butter issues. Code for Kenya also builds technology tools to amplify citizen voices.

• Civic hacking meetups

A misinformation fighting extension for Facebook News Feed

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

To enable all people to exercise their rights and access services, ID4D helps countries realize the transformational potential of inclusive, robust, and responsible digital identification systems.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

If knowledge is a door to information, data is the key. When you’re talking about politics and government, information is extremely important to those who are making decisions on who to vote for and what legislation to get behind or block.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Citizen engagement, Civic Tecn, Open Data, and Data Visualization in The City of Buenaventura

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals

Since 1989, CSDC has been fueling process performance through purpose-built, automation technology.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors

This is a project to counter the Amazon Ring doorbell camera surveillance infrastructure. We provide information for users and community members concerned about the country’s biggest company planting always-on cameras all over our streets.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

cVIGIL is an innovative mobile application for citizens to report Model Code of Conduct and Expenditure violations during the elections

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

GovEx at Johns Hopkins successfully helps governments effectively use data in order to make informed decisions on services that improve people’s lives.

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

Nuru, a tool that is designed to empower citizen community monitoring to crowdsource observations about how they are coping in the exceptionally difficult circumstances of the COVID-19 pandemic. Nuru is a tool in the citizen’s hands, it will provide governments and other stakeholders with the information they need to develop and offer solutions to the unique challenges faced by their citizens.

The news has always played an essential role in our lives, keeping us informed about the world and the issues we care about.

• civic features
• Google

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

We support entrepreneurs building a more informed, inclusive, and empathetic society.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

The Dispute Finder Firefox Extension helped you know when information you read is disputed by highlighting snippets if they make a disputed claim

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

m-Omulimisa is an agriculture technology company that leverages ICT tools especially mobile phone technology to improve the livelihoods of small holder farmers in Uganda.

• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

they offer great potential for both the sharing and receiving of useful information on food security.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Messaging