In an increasingly dangerous world, there’s one simple thing every messaging platform must do right now: make our messages safe using end-to-end encryption.

• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Specific campaigns
• Cybersecurity

An Icelandic game for creating a constitution

• Games and gamification

Donnez votre avis sur des sujets de société qui vous tiennent à coeur en participant à nos consultations citoyennes. Ensemble, citoyens, associations et entreprises, définissons nos priorités et réalisons des changements concrets.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Group decision making

Make a Difference (MaD) is a regional think-and-do collaborative platform – where you can explore creativity for good, meet cross-disciplinary changemakers and synergize across sectors for innovative solutions to social challenges.

• Hubs
• Working groups

makesense inspires and empowers citizens, entrepreneurs and organizations to build an inclusive and sustainable society together.

• Climate action

• Advocacy tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Vote Save America's graphic-heavy make a plan tool

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Let's get started making your voting plan.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Coming Soon: Your virtual philanthropy assistant to maximize the impact of your giving in line with your goals.

• Get funding
• Tools for Funders

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

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

The Changemaker Award, which celebrates and recognises the best role model and leader from within the EIT Community's education programmes, and whose activities and achievements have the potential to generate a significant social impact.

• Awards and prizes

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Weaving together the anthropological, aesthetic, and political aspects of assembly-making, What Makes An Assembly? explores the potential of assemblies to reimagine the way democracy is practised in contemporary societies.

• books

• Participatory democracy
• Books
• Democratic Innovations

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

We help governments, nonprofits, and social enterprises create human-centered solutions to achieve their missions and scale their impact.

• Civic and social impact companies
• Building in the private sector

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps.Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of f

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

Change.org is the web's leading platform for social change, empowering anyone, anywhere to start petitions that make a difference.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

It is a collective of people using their skills to create things for the public good. Sometimes this involves tech, sometimes community organising, sometimes it's just talking about and understanding a problem from different points of view.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Advocacy tech
• Voter outreach

The Institute for Security and Technology (IST), in partnership with the Center for Cybersecurity Policy and Law, is pleased to announce the inaugural edition of The Cyber Policy Awards—an annual gathering of the U.S. cyber policy community to honor and celebrate those who drove significant progress in the preceding year, and to make resolutions for the new year.

• Awards and prizes
• Cybersecurity

Find out where to vote, and absentee voting, and more, in Slovenia's 2024 EU elections

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Find your polling place
• Make a plan to vote

Our services are comprised of 5 remote electronic platforms and a complete customer support system.

• Voting and elections
• Digital participation platforms
• Citizen Engagement

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Government transparency

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups

Wholly embeddable voter registration, polling place lookup, reminders, absentee, and election date tools for your organization.

• 2024 elections

• Voting and elections
• Voter registration
• Find your polling place

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

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. It uses LLMs to create granular chapters that readers can skim and share.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

The Africa Data Leadership Initiative (ADLI) is a ​peer learning and exchange network designed by and for African policymakers, legislators, researchers, technologists, and digital rights advocates working on data governance and digital platforms and services.

• Peer networks
• Digital transformation
• Data governance

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Environmental data
• Civil society research outfits

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

Art exhibition at MIT: critical explorations of ai and cities

• cities

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Artistic interventions

Custom GPT tool to help journalists in the Philippines to parse long government audit reports for anomalies

• Artificial Intelligence
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Measure the Internet, save the data, and make it universally accessible and useful.

• Foundational layers
• Connectivity
• Open knowledge

Democracy Reporting International (DRI) strengthens democracy by shaping the institutions that make it sustainable.

• Participatory democracy
• Research and policy centers

The mission of the National Civic League’s Center for Democracy Innovation is to understand, test, and disseminate innovations that can make democracy more participatory, equitable, and productive.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Democratic Innovations

We make technology work for the public good

• Govtech
• Evaluate impact
• Govtech vendors

Ireland's Smart Cities Education Programme designed for young people and local authority staff.

• youth
• local

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Digital literacy

The Planning DataHub is a collaborative project between all of the Planning Authorities in London to build a single open data set of development proposals in the planning process to enable monitoring of how our City is changing and develop a shared understanding of the data.

• cities

• Civic data
• Civic data APIs
• Urban planning

An AI Assistant by Gooey.AI and Digital Green to make vetted farmer knowledge accessible.

• WhatsApp

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

This year we assess the AI readiness of 193 governments across the world. We are also introducing an interactive map to make our data more accessible!

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Report cards and audits