It is Africa’s premier repository for documents that the public need to help make more informed decisions, or that help civic watchdogs such as the media or social justice NGOs substantiate their reportage, or documents that have been suppressed or censored elsewhere.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Code for Poland's platform for prioritizing amongst many Coronavirus response ideas

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

In many innovation settings, ideas are generated over time and managers face a decision about if and how to provide in-process feedback to the idea generators a

• The People
• Get funding
• Challenges

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

• cities
• reports

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research groups

The Wahl-O-Mat is an online tool that aims to assist and mobilize voters in Germany.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

A suite of tools for wildfire response and planning

• fires

• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping tools

Twaweza works on enabling children to learn, citizens to exercise agency and governments to be more open and responsive in Tanzania, Kenya and Uganda. It has programs, staff and offices across all three countries, and a world respected practice of learning, monitoring and evaluation. It's flagship programs include Uwezo, Africa’s largest annual citizen assessment to assess children’s learning levels across hundreds of thousands of households, and Sauti za Wananchi, Africa’s first nationally representative mobile phone survey. It undertake effective public and policy engagement, through powerful media partnerships and global leadership of initiatives such as the Open Government Partnership.

• Budget explorers

Open source and free software that enables the creation of anonymous and secure whistleblowing platforms

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Reported lets you submit feedback about NYC taxis in 30 seconds. Reported submits this feedback directly to NYC's 311 system and the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission.

• apps
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

Home cleaning in NYC you can feel great about

• labor
• coop

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Tech for public challenges

Protect the Vote is a national coalition of nonpartisan organizations focused on making sure everyone can vote. They have great volunteer opportunities across the country.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

BERiDE is where people can share their ideas to develop the city in any way. / Ide Anda dapat Menjadikan Jakarta Lebih Baik, Ayo Kolaborasi Bersama

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

MajiVoice is a service that enables Kenyans to easily and conveniently reach their Water Company (through a mobile phone or the Internet).

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Guardian Project creates easy to use secure apps, open-source software libraries, and customized mobile devices that can be used around the world by any person looking to protect their communications and personal data from unjust intrusion, interception and monitoring.

• apps

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Connecting people to power with their phones

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Anyone can join the Participedia community and help crowdsource, catalogue and compare participatory political processes around the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

We believe that everyone has a story and can contribute to the news narrative. Tipster is a news sharing platform that is democratizing the news making business by placing the power of the media into the hands of ordinary people whom we call Tipstars. Tipster is basically empowering anyone with a smartphone to be an amateur journalist. Tipster provides a secure channel for ordinary people to upload exclusive news content (images, videos and reports) which is then distributed/sold to content consumers and publishers (probloggers, Media Houses, TV channels etc) depending on the type of content.

• News to action

Automated monitoring, issue management, analysis and reporting of political affairs.

• Govtech
• Government transparency
• Data science for social good

Le Moteur de visualisation de données ouvertes convertie pour vous les données publiques en formes narratives de visualisation.

• Data visualization
• Open data publishing portals

Start using your career to make a difference in one of the world's leading tech for good companies fighting climate change, improving healthcare, reducing inequalities and many other impact areas.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

An exhaustive reference to problems seen in real-world data along with suggestions on how to resolve them.

• guides

• Data visualization

Digidem Lab skapar framtidens processer för demokratiskt deltagande. Vi sätter nya verktyg för kollektiv intelligens i dina händer.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

We place experienced, pro-bono technologists to work with government and organizations responding to crisis, to quickly deliver critical services and infrastructure that support the needs of the public. We’re non-partisan, fast, and free.

• Govtech
• Voting and elections
• Help out

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Zostań koordynatorem projektu lub dołącz do rozwijanych projektów jako członek interdyscyplinarnego zespołu. Przejdź przez proces tworzenia projektu od analizy wymagań po ogólnopolskie wdrożenie.

• Civic tech catalogs

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

A realtime bus locator service

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Outline makes it easy for news organizations to set up a virtual private network (VPN) on their own server.

• VPNs

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Enough is Enough Nigeria (EiE) is a network of individuals and organizations committed to instituting a culture of good governance and public accountability in Nigeria through active citizenship. We are non-partisan, neither are we a platform for the actualization of any individual’s political ambitions.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Factba.se is a transparency engine, allowing any PAC, campaign, organization, or company efficiently track and search every word a person has ever said, publicly or online, in real time. This lets you immediately identify discrepancies, changes in position, tonal shifts and areas of weakness.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

At Louder we've spent a lot of time asking people to give reach to what they believe deserves more attention. This page is dedicated to the lessons we've learned.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Many people become engineers or designers because they hope to change the world for the better using technology.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

A PLATFORM FOR CITIES TO MANAGE THE FUTURE OF MOBILITY

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A privacy tool that lets you scan any website and see how you are being surveilled

• Digital security and privacy

Lyft is offering free or discounted rides and bikes to the polls.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Paint the Town is a collaborative data art project. It allows anyone to paint a New York City tax lot to any color they choose.

• cities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Find any State or Federal bill and, if you like, share it live through social media

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This ICT4D Guide is a free and open guide to help anyone who wants to make a positive social impact with technology's help.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Schema.org is a collaborative, community activity with a mission to create, maintain, and promote schemas for structured data on the Internet, on web pages, in email messages, and beyond.

• Data schemas and standards

MapChecking calculates the size of an area, and then calculates how many people may be standing in it - based on how thick the crowd is.

• Mapping tools

"Verification Swiss Army knife", including lookups of video clips to find them in context elsewhere

• extensions

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Ranking ICT sector companies on respect for free expression and privacy

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Digital rights
• Evaluate impact

The Indigo Trust funds organisations using digital technologies to improve transparency and accountability in sub-Saharan Africa

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Wir erforschen und erproben digitale Werkzeuge um gemeinsam mit Bürger*innen, Verwaltung und Unternehmen die Zukunft Berlins zu gestalten.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hacking meetups

The number one reason people give for not getting involved in an issue or election is that they don’t know how. Solving this problem led us to create Democracy.com. Our groundbreaking free-to-join platform makes citizen action as easy as buying a book online.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

First Draft began in 2015 as a small nonprofit coalition that grew out of a need to understand, debunk, and provide guidance on the misinformation we all were seeing on the social web. It will live on as the Information Futures Lab.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Villgro Africa addresses the lack of access to quality and affordable health services & technologies in Africa by investing in innovations with the potential for scalable and sustainable business models and by offering technical assistance to entrepreneurs.

• Good health and well-being

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators