Tella is a secure documentation app for Android, making it easier and safer to produce verifiable evidence and collect data in challenging environments

• apps

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Digital security and privacy

A dedicated section on Facebook that connects people to news and information about their community, called Today In.

• civic features
• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Tenders Guru is a website that allows to monitor public procurement processes in Hungary, Poland, Romania, and Spain.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Procurement oversight

Centro de Investigaciones y actividades academicas en torno a entornos digitales

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Peer-reviewed research

The Brookings Democracy Dashboard is a collection of data designed to help users evaluate political system and governmental performance in the United States.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Combating media manipulation through knowledge and action

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

PolitiFact is a fact-checking website that rates the accuracy of claims by elected officials and others on its Truth-O-Meter.

• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Wenadata is a web-based, mobile-based and offline tool which gathers statistical data, and works with government, private sector companies and other institutions to help them collect opinions and help make better strategic decisions for citizens. The platform works as an integrated opinion platform where everyone contributes to a more informed, knowledgeable,participatory and supportive country by taking part in campaigns, polls and surveys on issues ranging from sport, politics, culture, housing, education and many more. By partiicpating in the campaigns citizens are rewarded through points which they can redeem for offers and they can also participate in paid surveys. It won the Maputo Seedstars in 2018.

Get answers from the government and public sector

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Participatory democracy

Tunabakonzi is not an official site of the Congolese Government. It is a site built with the support of OSISA by Collectif 24, a platform of Congolese civil society organizations that advocates for the transparency of public action, citizen participation through the promotion and protection of civil society. right of access to information and freedom of expression. The site is built to help anyone like you to have information held by the Congolese authorities at the local, provincial and national levels. No more traveling to access public information.

• Freedom of Information
• Graveyard

The Trustable Technology mark empowers consumers to make informed decisions & enables companies to prove their connected devices are trustworthy.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

The Data Coalition advocates on behalf of the private sector and the public interest for the publication of government information as standardized, machine-readable data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

Across the country, Sunshine Week is marked by panel discussions, workshops and other events about using and understanding the latest developments in freedom of information resources.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easily-digested information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

It is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Holidays

GotToVote started off as a simple experiment to make data otherwise locked in government, useful to the general public. When the Independent Electoral & Boundaries Commission released voter registration centres locations information in the 2013 Kenyan Elections, they made it available as a PDF on their otherwise always unavailable website. This unprecedented ease of finding your registration centre spurred adoption of GotToVote's simple code in Zimbabwe, Ghana and Malawi. Code4Africa continues to this day in ensuring citizens get to the ballot box prepared by adding more arsenal of what GotToVote can offer and has grown to include Peace Messaging, Polling Results and Voter Registration Confirmation (VRC). In Kenya GotToVote deployment that focussed on making it easy to find your nearest registration center; In Malawi - the Malawi Government as their official platform, GotToVote was used for voter registration confirmation

Through original reporting, sharp analysis, and visual storytelling, CityLab informs and inspires the people who are creating the cities of the future—and those who want to live there.

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

Government contracting is worth trillions of dollars a year. We open up public contracting through disclosure, data and engagement so that the huge sums of money involved are spent honestly, fairly, and effectively.

• Civic data
• Bureaucracy tech
• Data schemas and standards

Every year 103 million Americans leave $80 billion in benefits unclaimed. We help inform consumers so they receive the benefits they’ve earned.

• Access social benefits
• CRM
• Civic data APIs

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform. The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map citizen reports. The platform aggregates local citizen reports from the Kibera community media and other relevant news and information. In partnership with various local organizations, the Map Kibera team (http://mapkibera.org/) launched Voice of Kibera to visualize reporting in and about Kibera (one of the largest slums in Africa). The platform acts as a social reporting platform used to enhance resilience through community-led actions. It has become a dataset about the challenges faced by Kibera’s residents, the existing services and capacity (e.g. clinics, schools, water resources), and other relevant news and information about the area. Via a simple web-based reporting system, citizens of Kibera can report incidents, from security presence, to health, education, and natural disasters.

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

Dash makes any car a 'smart car'. Our app, for Android and iOS, connects to your car with a low-cost, easy to install device, called a ODB2. We use the information on your driving habits to make the roads smarter, safer, greener, more affordable and more social.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Defining the field

To meet this need and help ensure fact-checkers can continue doing their important work, this new initiative will provide legal support including connecting fact-checkers with lawyers, establishing a fund to help pay legal fees when pro bono support isn’t available, and publishing guides covering the main legal and non-legal threats that fact-checkers face and how they can be mitigated.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

Find in-depth information about what's on your ballot.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Crowd-sourced verification of current US mail box locations

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Engagement tech

DSU is the official app of the Department for Emergency Situations, Ministry of Internal Affairs.DSU's aim is to provide citizens with a quick tool for information and reportings about critical situations and disasters which they are witnessing.What do you find inside DSU app: - articles, news and official statements of the Department for Emergency Situations;- information about weather alerts, traffic alerts and natural disasters;- a section for reporting events which you are witnesses (fire, flood, accident i.e.);- a section for informing you about how to act effectively in critical situations and the behaviour you should adopt;- tests for verifying your knowledge.We are excited to provide this useful tool and hope you will enjoy using it.DSU TeamPS: Your feedback is important to us. We welcome and appreciate your opinions, suggestions and rankings.

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

A tool to help election officials (and election officials only) report problems with election mail

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Vote by Mail

Nigeria's promise tracking website.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Aktuelle Badegewässerqualität und Informationen rund um die Berliner Badestellen

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Mapping tools

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports. Ma3Route aims to make traveling easier in developing countries by democratizing timely transport information. We hope to bring greater sanity to the roads and inform city planning and transport regulation in emerging economies through the provision of transport data and trend analysis.

The Library of Congress announced that the legislative information website THOMAS is scheduled to stop functioning on July 5, with…

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Meet the others
• Government transparency

LocalCircles takes Social Media to the next level and makes it about communities, governance and urban daily life.It enables citizens to come together in communities or groups to raise issues, find trusted information, participate in policy and engage in constructive collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Know Your Budget is an initiative committed to giving Ugandan citizens access to timely and accurate budget information, and real opportunities to participate in government budget processes. You can learn about the Budget process on the Budget Basics pages. You can access and download budget and expenditure data through the Budget Dashboard. You can access published government documents through the Budget Library.

• Budget explorers

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Filter bubble poppers

TAKING A HEARING ON THE SPOT

• The Tech
• Govtech

Ministerul Finanțelor Publice a creat Sistemul naţional de verificare, monitorizare, raportare şi control al situaţiilor financiare, angajamentelor legale şi bugetelor entităților publice din România. Aici poți găsi informații despre activitatea financiar-bugetară a acestora.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Graveyard
• Budget explorers

Tracer is our weekly newsletter that tracks the evolution of synthetic media technologies, weaponised misinformation, and new cybersecurity threats.

• The Tech
• Media
• The People

At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Enter your address, get your sample ballot

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Ideas for a hackathon. Upload your project. Add colaborators. Inform status. Share your app.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Code to send out a daily tip sheet for fact checkers

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

FactChecker.in is India’s first dedicated Fact Check initiative.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data.

• cities
• neighborhoods
• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Indicators