With branches at Stanford University and ETH Zurich, IPL is an international community of scholars dedicated to innovation in immigration policy.

• immigration
• refugees

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

In the midst of an immigration crisis on the US-Mexico border, Code for America, Codeando México, and The GovLab organized online listening sessions to help determine areas of need and where the civic tech community might help.

• immigration

• Needs assessment

PRL’s Path to 2024 report series is a new monthly chronicle covering partisan attitudes of Americans in the lead-up to the November 2024 presidential election. Each month, we focus on a different salient issue affecting voters and analyze public attitudes from our weekly public opinion poll.

• reports

• Polarization

We aim to strengthen instruments for mobile EU citizens and expats to engage in EU political life on an everyday basis

• immigration

• Civic literacy
• Citizen Engagement

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• Govtech
• Service delivery

The Welcome Alliance is an alliance of civil society organizations, foundations, state institutions and companies initiated by ProjectTogether. Our goal is humane, needs-oriented and sustainable integration and participation of all new immigrants in Germany.

• immigration
• housing
• Decent work and economic growth

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Resource matching and sharing
• Mutual aid

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

2021 book edited by Oscar Barberà, Giulia Sandri, Patricia Correa, Juan Rodríguez-Teruel

• books

• Books
• Group decision making
• Political parties

A paper published in Nature introducing a database of public meetings in the US

• YouTube

• Academia
• Communicating with the government
• Peer-reviewed research

We Build Digital Tools for Immigrant Justice

• immigration

• Legal tech
• Justice tech

Poynter’s Beat Academy is a virtual classroom designed to provide journalists from any newsroom the skills to tackle emerging coverage areas, like private equity, and better grounding on key topics like immigration, climate change response, federal infrastructure dollars and more.

• courses

• Media
• Online courses

Homeward is an identity management system and intelligent resettlement platform for displaced populations.

• refugees
• migration

• Emerging tech
• Graveyard
• Blockchain

Our artificial intelligence platform covers many of today's most relevant topics: from sustainable cities to citizen security, from migration to climate change & biodiversity, and more.

• Engagement tech
• Media
• Participatory democracy

ACT NOW is an international programme run by The Innovation in Politics Institute, which supports local politicians in tackling the current challenges they face, such as migration flows, the climate crisis, and increasing social division resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic.

• cities

• Supporting public sector from outside government

Pioneering Collaborative Journalism

• waste
• food
• migration

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Nonprofit newsrooms

Encouraging individuals of exceptional talent and creativity to advance bold new projects in education, immigration, the environment, social justice, media, and health.

• Participatory democracy
• Fellowships

MarvelousAI is an (inactive) early stage startup founded by tech industry veterans.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Fight disinformation

The Citizen Helpdesks are a pioneering citizen feedback, dialogue and community voice platform to ensure accountability in the development process.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation

showcases work by artists and designers that demonstrate the power of numbers in helping us understand New York and New Yorkers.

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Artistic interventions

A weekly informed and concise guide to immigration news culled from hundreds of sources across the country.

• immigration

• Media

The People’s Bus is a bus formerly used to transport people detained on Rikers Island; it has been transformed with input from New Yorkers into a community center on wheels, with the purpose of engaging people in NYC’s civic life through beauty and joy.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Artistic interventions
• Citizen Engagement

Our journey of 5 years delivering positive social impact with technology for the public interest – Tech4PI.

• Incubators

Code for Romania's information portal for people fleeing war in Ukraine

• refugees
• Ukraine

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

CITIES FOR ACTION is a coalition of over 100 mayors and municipal leaders fighting for federal immigration reform, and galvanizing the movement by launching inclusive policies and programs at the local level. Our leaders have joined forces to create stronger and safer cities by driving the national debate, embracing new immigrants, and engaging with stakeholders to win on immigration policies.

Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

• immigration

Closing feedback loops and building accountability in communities

• anti-trafficking

• Engagement tech
• Group decision making

Matras 2 offers a range of services, related to matters such as vehicle registration, immigration and visadocumentation, and loss of documents.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

Hukoomi is an e-governance application which provides access to a broad range of information, including legal information for business, and information about visa and immigration procesess.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Notifica allows users to inform family members, legal advocates, and other contacts that they have been detained by the police or Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).

• immigration

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Immi helps immigrants understand their rights and options during the immigration process. The website’s guided process helps users determine their path to legal immigration, and offers a list of organisations and self-help resources.

• immigration

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Visualizing Iran

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Mapping

Selected organisations receive over the period of six to eight months* constructive assistance to create a secure environment for their employees and thereby the CSAs and HRDs they work with.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

The map shows the transfers from the Government to the municipalities and county councils from the Reserve Fund (15%), Local Development National Program (65%) and other programs managed by the Ministry of Regional Development and Public Administration that sum up to 7.5 billion lei

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Mapping
• Civic maps

Fundación Avina is a Latin American foundation created in 1994 and focused on producing the large-scale changes necessary for sustainable development by fostering collaborative processes among leaders from different sectors, thereby contributing toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

• biome
• cities
• Climate action

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Human Rights Data Analysis Group is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that applies rigorous science to the analysis of human rights violations around the world.

• human rights
• immigration

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields

To help level the playing field, CDM created Contratados, a platform launched last week to let migrant workers share Yelp-style ratings and reviews of their experiences with different recruiters and employers.

• labor
• migration

• Watchdogging and transparency

What if Tech said

• campaigns

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Whistleblowing