Exposing protection gaps in digital transformation programmes

• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

To highlight the global knowledge base of behavioural insights work in public policy, and bring the achievements of institutions to the fore, the OECD launched the Behavioural Insights Knowledge Hub and map in 2021.

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

We are identifying the organizations and leaders creating digital community-building platforms that strengthen our democracy.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Between March and September 2021, BUL researchers identified around 80 NGOs that participated in shelter repair within the neighborhoods severely affected by the August 2020 port blast. The data and findings are presented through a recent mapping output on the Beirut Urban Observatory.

• cities

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic maps

Mapping the videos of the US Capitol building attack

• Civic maps

A combined tech and journalistic effort to map the Makoko informal settlement

• Clean water and sanitation
• land
• informal settlements

• Civic maps
• Smart Cities and sensors
• Narrative tech

This re­gion­al view is your portal to in­di­vidu­al maps and stat­ist­ics for 158 cit­ies and un­in­cor­por­ated places and 114 neigh­bor­hoods with­in the city of Los Angeles.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Media

A blog post covering ways to map the media ecosystem

• The Tech
• Media
• Network visualizations

We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.

• hurricanes

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

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

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Manage volunteers

The Open Mapping Hub - Eastern and Southern Africa exists to serve communities in the region by supporting the creation, maintenance, distribution, and use of high-quality open maps that are relevant for and contributed to by local communities.

• humanitarian

• Civic data
• Mapping

Identifying audiences via TV, internet and news consumption patterns

• YouTube

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

In Close Up at a Distance, Laura Kurgan offers a theoretical account of these new digital technologies of location and a series of practical experiments in making maps and images with spatial data.

• Mapping
• Books

The CUNY Mapping Service at CUR engages with foundations, government agencies, businesses, nonprofits, and other CUNY researchers to use spatial information and analysis techniques to develop and execute applied research projects.

• gerrymandering

• Data visualization
• Mapping

To take part in STEW-MAP, a person or group collects data from stewards serving their community.

• cities
• neighborhoods
• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Data to understand who is working in a given region and what are their assets; this can improve outcomes for many applications, at multiple scales.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Mapping tools

Local governments working together to address the epidemic with data and maps

• opioids

• Civic maps

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting dispossession and resistance upon gentrifying landscapes.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Data visualization

Building on our previous publication of similar high-resolution population maps for 22 countries, we're now releasing new maps of the majority of the African continent, and the project will eventually map nearly the whole world’s population. Using weakly- and semi-supervised learning.

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis. The primary source are shapefiles publicly distributed by INE (formerly IFE, Mexico's national election board, page here). Data in this repo is prepared for mapping and statistical analysis.

• 2024 elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping
• Civic apps outfits

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

Mapped integrates with common organising platforms like Airtable, Mailchimp and Action Network to augment membership lists with other useful data sources.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• CRM

Currently a solar potential look-up tool for the German state of Bavaria. "We support the roll-out of more photovoltaic roof systems."

• Climate action

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Mapping tools

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Meet the others

Mapeo de rutas para futuras ciudades sostenibles

• mobility

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic hackathons

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

Enter a UK postcode and this tool returns the constituency it belongs to

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Mapping tools

Making movements visible

• Advocacy tech
• Data schemas and standards
• Civic data APIs

The easy way to match points to boundaries

• Civic data
• Mapping
• Civic data APIs

Digitize your city is a series of actions that seek to create a friendlier environment through the use of technology previously influenced by us and the data we consciously create and deliver.

• Crowdsourcing
• Mapping

Urban Analyst provides interactive maps of the properties of cities including of their transport systems and socio-demographic conditions, as well as statistical summaries of all cities.

• cities

• Civic maps
• Mapping tools

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

Safecity empowers communities worldwide to report and combat gender-based violence through crowd-sourced data and technology.

• Gender Equality
• anti-harassment

• Crowdsourcing
• Issue reporting

Information website by Budapest municipality in order to help the population find the possibilities of solar energy

• Govtech
• Mapping tools
• Mapping platforms

Know where you spend your money - mapping politically exposed hotel & restaurant owners

• Civic maps

Gain deep insights into any location of interest through thousands of data variables and stunning visualizations. Reinforce your decisions with Social Explorer’s reliable data mapping capabilities. Watch Videoplay_arrow

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

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

• Academia
• Peer-reviewed research

Digital Commons Lab (DCL) is a research laboratory of the Digital Society center of FBK with the goal to design, develop and analyze digital commons based on open data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Research and policy centers

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

PetaBencana.id provides residents, government agencies, and first responders with a real-time disaster information sharing system at an unprecedented scale. It is the first platform of its kind to harness the power of crowdsourcing through social media to aid humanitarian response and recovery.

• WhatsApp

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

Open Supply Hub (OS Hub) is an accessible, collaborative, supply chain mapping platform, used and populated by stakeholders across sectors and supply chains.

• supply chain

• Watchdogging and transparency

Posting towns in the USA with a population less than 1000 that are undermapped on OpenStreetMap.org

• OpenStreetMap

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Crowdsourcing

We highjacked Google Maps API to create a geolocated placename called Systemic Racism, just in front of the Parliament of Quebec, where it'd be impossible for the Premier to ignore.

• racial equity
• campaigns
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Mapping
• Specific campaigns
• Location

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research