An open, civic tech community in public safety and crime.

• criminal justice

• Civic data
• Civic hackathons
• Help out

Help your neighbors register to vote.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Engagement tech

Inspired by the help that people give each other during hard times, we created an application that will allow anyone in need to find help in their daily duties.

• Participatory aid
• Resource matching and sharing
• COVID Engagement Projects

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

A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Democracy Engine offers a suite of fundraising tools to empower donors to support the organizations and issues they care about at any level, in any party, in any state.

• The People
• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

• Media
• Graveyard
• Innovation teams and labs

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.

Hold your politicians accountable. Tell your representatives what you want them to do. We'll track whether they listen, so you'll know if they deserve your vote in the next election.

• apps

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

the project to develop the public services app

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

• census

• Civic data
• Civic maps

One of the key factors in a Nation’s democratic success is how engaged and inclusive her Government is. However, the health of any democratic society may be measured by the levels of engagement and inclusion of the private citizen. The Civic Hub is modelled as an accelerator to help social or civil intervention grow into systems for Citizens’ – Government engagement.

• Build something
• Accelerators

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.

• Graveyard
• Freedom of Information

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Hardware
• Digital literacy

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

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

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
• Procurement
• Bureaucracy tech

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Envisio helps governments achieve greater transparency & accountability by making it easy to track and report on strategic plan.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

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 data flow layer for political tech. Making data accessible to progressive tools has never been more important.

• partisan

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

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

RankedVote is the easiest way to create ranked-choice voting polls on any device.

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting
• Surveys & polling

Messaging flows for campaigns and organizations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

FixMyTransport was a mySociety project running from 2011 to 2015. It allowed passengers to send complaints directly to transport operators.

• mass transit
• mobility

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

We gather citizen voices to improve public services

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Facebook giving the WHO as many free ads as they need for their coronavirus response along with other in-kind support.

• civic features
• COVID-19
• Facebook

• Advertising
• COVID Media Projects
• COVID

Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

DebateArt is a unique and growing community committed to the idea of exchanging views and perspectives through debating.

• Civic forums
• Debate

Enter your address, get your sample ballot

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Adjacent Fields

The Open Source Peer to Peer SMS Tool

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools
• Peer to peer SMS

A five-year partnership that hoped to improve procurement through open data and transparency

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Procurement

Mapping Hard to Count (HTC) Communities for a Fair and Accurate 2020 Census

• census

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

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

Congressional Research Service Reports for the People

• Watchdogging and transparency

Wise Entertainment is an award winning independent studio that develops, creates and produces content that lives at the intersection of entertainment, social justice and civic imagination. Their “proof of concept” was the hit drama series East Los High.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Specific campaigns

Raise money online for your nonprofit or charity. Create an online fundraising page for your campaigns and events, or donate to any US registered nonprofit.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

We advocate, visualize and track government spending and international aid, and let you know how effective it has been in our rural communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Blockchain technology offers solutions to many of the toughest challenges facing countries around the world.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

HURUmap gives infomediaries like journalists and civic activists an easy ‘plug & play’ toolkit for finding and embedding interactive data visualisations into their storytelling. The project's underlying data is quality-checked, from reputable official sources including the government Census, PEPFAR and Uwezo.

At the heart of CharityBase is the most comprehensive source of public data on charities in the UK.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Nonprofit tech

Open Source Politics is a company that builds participatory democracy open source tools and hosts collective inteligence workshops for private or public stakeholders willing to engage in a public consultation or a participatory budgeting process.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Mayor's Office of New Urban Mechanics was formed in 2010 as one of the first municipal innovation offices in the world. Our research and design projects tackle a range of topics — from civic engagement to city infrastructure to education. Our team comes from a diverse array of backgrounds and our work comes in many different flavors.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

Civic engagement can take many forms and Cityflag, a mobile phone app that allows citizens to highlight and track local issues, wants to make it just a download away. Along with allowing users to post photos of infrastructure issues, Cityflag incorporates a social media tangent and mapping system where people can share infrastructure and City service […]

• The Tech
• Media
• Govtech

Driven by data, not bias, I’ll help you discover how aligned our leaders are with the issues that matter most to you and start a more courageous conversation about Australia’s future.

• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

The Data Ethics Canvas is designed to help identify potential ethical issues associated with a data project or activity. It promotes understanding and debate around the foundation, intention and potential impact of any piece of work, and helps identify the steps needed to act ethically.

• guides

• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The research conducted by Tactical Tech and our partners over the last 18 months has confirmed that WhatsApp is now a primary means of delivery for political messaging in many countries in the Global South, with particularly strong penetration in rural communities where internet is accessed mostly via smartphones.

• reports
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Organize campaigns

What’s the connection between a campaign issue and a vegetable? ProPublica President Richard Tofel reminded us this month. “For too many voters, as every editor in her or his darkest heart knows…

• X (Twitter)

• The Tech
• Media
• Media and social media analysis