Infrastructure Space was established in 2017 to acknowledge the infrastructural turn in architectural theory, to embrace the thinking and methods established in L+U and [Re_Map] and to explore new territory, specifically the interface between digital communications, infrastructure and the production of space no longer limited to urban contexts, but accepting the often intangible manufactured nature of most British landscapes.

• Industry, innovation, and infrastructure
• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Urban planning

The Infrastructure Accessibility Index - IAT© highlights areas with ample services and easy pedestrian access to different types of infrastructure. IAT© is based on the "15-minute city" idea, which says that all important facilities and services for urban dwellers should be easily accessible within a 15-minute timeframe. We assess infrastructure accessibility by surveying the facilities reachable within 15 minutes on foot, by car and by public transport.

• cities

• Civic data
• Indicators

Creating a sustainable future for the technology that powers our world

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open internet

To build the foundations of democracy with intention, as Jill Blair and Malka Kopell suggest, there is a need to survey the types of civic infrastructure in place and how these building blocks fit together in order to appreciate where the cracks and crevices are that need strengthening.

• guides

• Civic data
• Research tools
• Citizen Engagement

Civic Infrastructure Collaborative drives public value from core urban infrastructure through cross-sector collaboration and technology-enabled innovation.

• cities
• mobility

• Urban planning

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

the critical infrastructure lab aims to create space to co-develop alternative infrastructural futures that center people and planet over profit and capital.

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Artistic interventions

A set of recommendations for infrastructure improvements based on a series of interviews with and stories collected from local election officials

• reports

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

How a robust public interest technology field can overcome historical inequities and ensure that everyone can fully benefit from technology. By Jenny Toomey & Latanya Sweeney

• Public Interest Tech
• Digital Public Infrastructure

iDPI looks to move beyond "fixing" existing internet infrastructures like Google, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter and asks what we might build if we constructed digital spaces for the public good instead.

• Research and policy centers
• Digital Public Infrastructure

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital Public Infrastructure

A great overview map and gallery of the global trend toward open streets

• mobility

• Civic maps

Supporting open source project leaders implementing best practices in sustainability, governance, and community health.

• Adjacent Fields
• Incubators
• Decentralization

A campaign to convince US Congress to adequately fund election administration

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

This walking tour was designed by Aslak Ransby, Ingrid Burrington and Janet Gunter for the Internet Infrastructure Summit at Techfestival.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Walking tours

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

• Digital transformation
• Economic development

The Society Library is a 501(c)3 U.S. collective intelligence nonprofit working on knowledge systems and digital public infrastructure to make "big data democracy" possible in the 21st century.

• Participatory democracy
• Collective intelligence

The APNIC Foundation’s main grants and awards fund...provides funding across Infrastructure, Inclusion and Knowledge.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Supports the creation of a prototype Open Knowledge Network — an essential public-data infrastructure to power the next information revolution.

• Civic data
• Open knowledge

As we move solidly into 2024, we have been considering how civic infrastructures, currently and in the future, will affect our experiences with technology, our experiences with services we take for granted, and how we relate to one another.

• Learn about civic tech
• Mainstream media coverage

Just like how we use AI to detect sidewalks, street signs and road names in satellite imagery to display helpful information in Google Maps, we’ll also use AI to identify oil and gas infrastructure, like oil storage containers, in our imagery. Then, we’ll combine it with EDF’s information about oil and gas infrastructure to locate where the emissions are coming from.

• Google
• Climate action
• methane

• Civic maps
• Satellites
• Civic features

14 renowned European research and computing centers have joined forces to develop an open European infrastructure for web search. The initiative will be contributing to Europe’s digital sovereignty as well as promoting an open human-centered search engine market.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Cycling updates to Google Maps now take account of traffic conditions and the availability of high-quality cycling infrastructure

• cycling
• cities
• Google

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Public Private Partnerships

Nym protects communication patterns, IP addresses and metadata for end-users, enterprise and infrastructure operators

• Digital security and privacy

Metaculus offers trustworthy forecasting and modeling infrastructure for forecasters, decision makers, and the public.

• Big listening

$30 million initial investment will bridge gaps between industry, civil society, and policymakers, broadening generative AI infrastructure in service of society

• Get funding
• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Twelve like-minded European and global organizations committed to advancing democratic innovation and participation are coming together in the new Horizon project Nets4Dem.

• Participatory democracy
• Partner networks

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

The objective of the UnderServed Project is to develop a platform for reporting and analysing threats, intended for sectors that are vulnerable to cyberattacks yet lack the resources to mitigate them effectively.

• Cybersecurity
• Threat reporting

It is a platform aimed at improving the urban environment and public spaces in Lithuanian cities.

• urban planning
• cities

• Communicating with the government
• Issue reporting

It's a platform aimed at helping people find information about various neighborhoods and districts in Lithuanian cities.

• local
• cities

• Civic data
• Urban planning

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Supporting public sector from outside government

The Cyber Defense Assistance Collaborative (CDAC) is a group of leading cybersecurity companies, former U.S. government officials, and top U.S. cyber defense leaders who came together to provide operational cyber defense assistance to Ukraine during the 2022 Russian invasion.

• Ukraine

• Cybersecurity
• Public Private Partnerships

ParlGov is a data infrastructure for political science. It contains information about parties, elections and cabinets for all EU and most OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today.

• Civic data
• Voting and elections
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Reliable open source digital infrastructure!

• General purpose open source tools
• Web hosting

We provide online meeting and conferencing tools, powered by renewable energy, running on cooperatively owned infrastructure.

• coop

• Meeting tech
• General purpose open source tools

Data Mapping Cornwall provides a summary of this spatial investigation of Cornwall, conducted by a large team of academics, experts and postgraduate students between September 2016 and March 2017.

• cities
• place-based

• Civic data
• Mapping

Join us in building the European way of Digital Transformation for 300 million Europeans

• cities

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Smart Cities and sensors

The LB Co-Lab will engage Long Beach community members in an immersive and collaborative technology deployment and training process to design a technology solution that works for them.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

The Global Media Registry is a non-profit social enterprise that supports transparency, accountability and pluralism in our shared digital information space. We are a solution hub for newsrooms, regulators and policy makers, and for all stakeholders that engage with the media industry.

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

by Code for America Founder Jennifer Pahlka

• books

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

The report is based on a survey of 7,500+ civil society organizations (CSOs) from 136 countries who answered questions about the barriers that they, and the communities they serve, face when it comes to digital equity.

• reports
• Reduced inequalities

• Adjacent Fields
• Connectivity

We work with communities to build the internet infrastructure and skills they need to participate fully in a digital society

• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

The Center for Information Technology Policy is a nexus of expertise in technology, engineering, public policy, and the social sciences.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Questica OpenBook is a transparency and data visualization software that enables organizations to share their financial and other data, when and where they need to.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Govtech vendors