Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Get answers from EU Institutions

• Alaveteli

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Advocacy tech

MapLight is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that reveals the influence of money in politics, informs and empowers voters, and advances reforms that promote a more responsive democracy.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data visualization

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Conferences

A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census

• census

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

TLC Data Hub offers users a new and convenient location to access and visualize taxi and for hire industry data.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Voix et Actions Citoyennes is a civic organization led by young people and oriented towards Beninese and African youth. It aims to promote, via digital tools, active and responsible civic participation of young people for the effective achievement of increased democratic and local governance. It is intended to be an information and training platform for young people on the concepts of digital citizenship, citizen participation, accountability, E-democracy, Open data.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Civic maps
• Mapping

Was a professionally curated lists of online sources, available free for public use

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Toolkit for tracking advertisers on partisan news channels with sampling, data science, and open data.

• Civic data
• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency

A page that allows candidates and parties to present election campaign finance information.

• The Tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Advocacy tech

Free open-source participatory democracy for cities and organizations

• Decidim

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

New urban visions, the final event of the EU-funded DSI4EU project, will see the launch of our experimental index and ideas bank, a pioneering piece of work exploring how city ecosystems and governments can support and work with DSI, and of our new collection of positive visions for the future of DSI.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

A data collaborative company. Using open source tech & data trusts to enhance impact, inform decisions, & increase equity of opportunity.

• The Tech
• Civic data

Up-to-date information about Stadt Jülich's city politics - by Meine Stadt Transparent, the open source council information system

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

In 2001, registering or transferring land in Jamaica was an uphill battle. Four separate departments handled different aspects of land administration, leading to weak coordination and delay. Even straightforward transactions dragged on for weeks, simply getting information was a struggle, and fraud was commonplace. In April of that year, Jamaica established the National Land Agency, charged with merging the four departments, speeding up services, and improving their quality. As the new agency’s CEO, Elizabeth Stair led a team of managers that had to oversee the consolidation, design systems to prevent fraud, improve performance, and implement new procedures and technologies to increase speed and transparency. During its first decade and a half of operation, the National Land Agency significantly reduced processing times and won acclaim for its customer service and innovative use of technology. Despite these successes, there was still room to improve land tenure security. Stiff documentation requirements, high costs, and limited awareness of the process meant that registration and related services remained out of reach for many Jamaicans.

• land

• The Tech
• Govtech

Comprehensive collection of open verification tools and methods

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Solving Problems the Open Source Way

Durban Answers is a city website where Durban citizens can information and services with a simple search. On the website you can find information about licencing issues, health information, public transport, universities, schools, libraries, metro fines etc.

The Michigan Moonshot is Merit’s commitment to ending the digital divide. The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography. The Moonshot Team needs citizen scientists, like YOU to help us gather data about the internet in your community.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Emerging tech

Illinois Legal Aid Online presents legal resources and information about legal aid in a simple and accessible manner.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Members of g0v.tw built a page that matches government information on the recent movements of confirmed coronavirus patients with users' location history based on Google Maps Timeline to check whether or not they may have had contact with the patients, and if so — where and when.

• COVID-19

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Grassroot is a civic tech tool plaform that uses web, mobile app, USSD, Whatsapp and social media, it allows informal settlements citizens to engage with other members, call meetings, take votes, mobilise rallies and create actions lists. Communities can also start crowdfunding campaigns to raise funds for example the campaign to raise funds for the construction of new toilets in the Mzondi community in Ivory Park which raised about R68 890, excedeeding the community's R60 000 goal. Communities can also create community groups for different purposes. In total as of 17 October Grassroot had a total of 19 433 groups. In total Grassroot has about 169 037 users (October stats).

• apps
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Many communities use Facebook Groups as their online message board

• commercial
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Neighborhood forums

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 Tech
• The People
• Media

Re-designing Service Delivery

• Gender Equality

• Civic apps outfits
• Social impact design firms

The Dangerous Speech Project was founded in 2010 to study speech (any form of human expression) that inspires violence between groups of people – and to find ways to mitigate this while protecting freedom of expression.

• hate speech

• The People
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

We build job-matching platforms, omni-channel communications systems and evaluation tools for the most complex problems in the world today.

• refugees

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard

“The Checkpoint tipline is primarily used to gather data for research, and is not a helpline that will be able to provide a response to every user.”

• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Local Office Function Index (LOFI) is a standardized, nationwide dataset of what your elected officials are responsible for and how you can engage with them.

• local

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Data schemas and standards

ICTworks™ is the premier community for international development professionals committed to utilizing new and emerging technologies to magnify the intent of communities to accelerate their social and economic development.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

Polco is a platform designed to increase civic engagement, improve government transparency, and inform municipal governments of constituents’ input which, in turn, will help better guide public policy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Explore, visualise and interact with youth-centered data

• youth

• Data visualization

Knight Foundation is a national foundation with strong local roots. We invest in journalism, in the arts, and in the success of cities where brothers John S. and James L. Knight once published newspapers. Our goal is to foster informed and engaged communities, which we believe are essential for a healthy democracy.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

'Find that Charity', developed by David Kane and supported by 360Giving, is a tool for finding data about non-profit organisations.

• Civic data
• Get funding
• Data schemas and standards

Obscuracam is a photo and video app for Android that keeps certain information private. Last updated 2017.

• apps

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Our complete suite of listening, information, analysis, reporting and relationship management features enable you to mix and match precisely the right online tools for your community engagement objectives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Eventbrite - Tisch College, Tufts University presents Frontiers of Democracy Conference 2016 - Thursday, June 23, 2016 | Saturday, June 25, 2016 at Tufts University - Boston Campus, Boston, MA. Find event and ticket information.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

The Municipal Barometer is a web-based portal that provides municipalities and people with local level data so municipalities can make informed and resolute decisions to deliver on their mandates. The portal provides people information on local demographic trends, social development, economic growth and development, environment and municipal finances graphs and tables from 1996 to 2016. The information provided is from government categories including districts, local municipalities, provinces and metros.

Eric Cantor's legislation-tracking platform, built on Facebook

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

CitySDK is a “service development kit” for cities and developers that aims at harmonizing application programming interfaces (APIs) across cities.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

LawRato is an online platform which allows individuals and businesses to find lawyers and receive free legalinformation online.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Mzalendo is a non-partisan entity that keeps an eye on Kenyan Parliament with a mission to facilitate public participation in Parliamentary processes through Information Sharing, Research and Networking.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

File, track, and share public records requests.

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

A UNICEF Mobile and Web Digital Mapping Solution

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Public Square is a two-year action research programme that explores how to improve participation at a local government level.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy