IDEO is a global design company. We create positive impact through design.

• Civic and social impact companies

Software for the annual homeless count

• homelessness
• housing

• Surveys & polling

We develop data standards and open platforms that make it easy to share and find information about community resources.

• Access social benefits
• Data schemas and standards

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

A platform and a process to engage Singapore citizens in policy deliberation

• research

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Ideation

Technology for Housing Justice

• housing

• Advocacy tech
• Legal tech

A curated list of 186 criminal justice data and technology projects.

• criminal justice

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

Using deliberative democracy models to inform city decision making and to connect organizations and districts around NYC’s

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

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

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
• Data visualization

A project that collected timetable data on informal transit options and formatted it for civic data standards

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Civic data
• Learn about civic tech

Connect, communicate and collaborate to leverage community strengths and advance your mission.

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Online forums

For this first phase of our program, WhatsApp is commissioning a competitive set of awards to researchers interested in exploring issues that are related to misinformation on WhatsApp.

• research
• WhatsApp

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

An Emmy-winning, multi-year, many-media, collaborative documentary experiment at the National Film Board of Canada, that explores vertical living around the world.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Massive collective intelligence is the capacity to mobilize communities on a large scale (hundreds and thousands of participants) around key stakes and challenges to co-create new solutions in a short space of time.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

14 immersive weeks of product development, punctuated by trips to Munich and Shenzhen. Learn more about what URBAN-X has to offer your early-stage comany.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

bluenove is a technology and consulting company that pioneers massive collective intelligence and is actively committed to civic tech. They operate the Assembl collective intelligence platform.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Secure and private email service with collaboration suite.

• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity
• Civic and social impact companies

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Tool for creating small online group discussions around an issue, originally created for political campaigning in the US

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech

A 2018 initiative to organize American voters around the midterm elections

• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Help out
• Advertising

Salsa Labs is a technology company that creates powerful donor management, online fundraising, and online advocacy tools for nonprofits helping them Engage and Change the World.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

The first comprehensive study of automated decisionmaking in Europe

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

M-Haki allows users to send SMS messages with legal questions, which the organisation’s lawyers and volunteerlawyers answer for a small fee.

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Tech for public challenges

Urban Systems is an inter-disciplinary professional practice providing strategic planning, engineering, environmental science, and urban design services to both public and private sector clients throughout Western Canada.

• indigenous

• Govtech
• Social impact design firms

Find the elected officials and electoral districts for any Canadian address or postal code, at all levels of government

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The District of Columbia Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, DC Code §§ 2-531-539, provides that any person has the right to request access to records.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Freedom of Information

a citizen’s engagement platform that connects citizens to their government by allowing anyone to anonymously report an issue using their social media platforms.

Omegle meets politics. Listenr connects people with opposing political views anonymously through existing messengers (currently FB messenger).

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

SmartProcure is a procurement database company for businesses and government agencies.

• Govtech
• Procurement

Data for Policy is a premier global forum for interdisciplinary and cross-sector discussions around the impact and potential of the digital revolution in the government sector.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Theorizing the Web is an inter- & non-disciplinary DIY conference on tech & society. #TtW18 is April 27 & 28 at the Museum of the Moving Image in NYC.

• In-person meetings
• Conferences

The Federal Bureaucracy in the Digital Age. By Amanda Clarke

• books

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Realize an Emissions Free World by 2040

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Tech for public challenges
• Carbon calculators

The alumni Twitter account for a 2-year graduate program in Tisch, NYU to explore the creative uses of communication technologies

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Tools

Decisions made easy.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

DataMade is a civic technology company. We build open source technology using open data to empower journalists, researchers, governments and advocacy organizations.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Copcast is an open-source project that can turn any Android phone into a body-worn camera system for law enforcement, providing a more cost-effective and accessible solution for law enforcement officers around the world.

• apps

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Justice tech

The lack of data disproportionately affects low- and middle-income countries with 60 percent of these countries not reporting any data, covering 2 billion people.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

A project in the Netherlands to enable digital voting on the blockchain

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Predictwise is a powerful data, analytics, research, and survey platform that can generate customized, granularized insights on any voter in any district in the country.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Organize campaigns

The place where you can make a difference

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Guides, case studies and resources for government & civil society on the "what, why & how" of open data.

• books
• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

One of many services that makes it easier to message people individually through your existing Gmail account

• commercial

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

YouGov is a global public opinion and data company. Explore what the world thinks, discover our solutions, and join our community to share your opinion.

• Surveys & polling