The New York State Senate's bill alerts makes it easy for you to stay up-to-date on the bills that are important to you in the New York State Legislature. Subscribers receive timely email notifications for important milestones in the lifecycle of a bill.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Join us as we transform the digital experience for all New Yorkers and create a more equitable city.

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Momentum is dedicated to teaching and learning the craft of popular movements fighting for justice.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

Read about how the other side thinks. We have collected political writing from around the web and across ideologies.

• The Tech
• Media
• Filter bubble poppers

How emerging technologies are applied to journalism

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

A now deprecated glossary of tech terms from the Mayor's CTO office

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Glossaries

The Visualization and Data Analytics Research Center at NYU consists of computer scientists who work closely with domain experts to apply the latest advances in computing to problems of critical societal importance, and simultaneously generate hypotheses and methods that new data sources and data types demand.

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• Learn about civic tech
• Data visualization

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Govtech

The more traffic planners know.

• Uber

• Regulation

Nyaaya’s platform provides comprehensive information on various legal topics in an accessible and simple language,covering aspects of the law that the public interact with in their daily lives.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

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

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

Spatial Equity NYC (SE), a tool developed by MIT’s Norman B. Leventhal Center for Advanced Urbanism (LCAU) in close collaboration with New York City-based nonprofit Transportation Alternatives (TA), visualizes mobility, environment, and health data.

• cities
• place-based
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

by Nanjala Nyabola

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books

A tool that makes it easy to navigate and research government meetings. Transcribed with human review.

• cities

• Artificial Intelligence
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meeting tech

Our mission is to support the voices historically excluded from media and media ownership.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Media
• Accelerators
• Journalism

We partner with communities facing discrimination to inspire transformative action through theatre.

• Reduced inequalities

• Artistic interventions

At the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, change is in our DNA.

• Media
• Academia
• Journalism

Polychat ermöglicht flüssige Crossplattform Kommunikation – niedrigschwellig und out-of-the-box: Statt einer gewöhnlichen Chat-Gruppe eröffnet ihr eine Polychat-Gruppe.

• Group communication tools
• Messaging

Rep lookup tool for New York

• Find your representatives

This platform helps municipality facilitate participatory budgeting in the municipality.

• CONSUL
• cities

• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms
• Participatory budgeting

We’re making games to change the face of politics.

• Media
• Games and gamification

Visualization of great sums by using your time

Edit images

• Artificial Intelligence
• Generative AI

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Service delivery

Use this free tool from JustFix to research your building and investigate landlords! We use property ownership mapping to identify a landlord's portfolio

• housing

• Civic data
• Consumer watchdogging

"DPW set out to answer a question: Can the youth use affordable and widely available technologies to gather the information necessary to support informal settlement upgrading?"

• housing
• informal settlements

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Civic maps

We are an independent not-for-profit organisation based in Berlin, Germany.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Zenysis is an interoperability platform built to accelerate global development goals and improve lives everywhere.

Find out who you can vote for in the upcoming 2022 Kenyan elections

• Voting and elections
• Ballot information

Mapping data on economic security, housing, health, education and more in NYC

• Civic maps
• Access social benefits

Community-owned internet infrastructure

• coop

• Connectivity
• Community wifi

Leading up to and following the Kenyan election on August 9 2022, the Sentinel Project is expanding its previous work in the area, from Una Hakika to 15 of Kenya's highest risk counties.

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Fight disinformation

TaxClock shows how public budget data can be used to help citizens better understand how governments spend our taxmoney.

• labor
• Decent work and economic growth
• taxes

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Budget explorers

This guide is meant to provide information on how you can make your virtual meetings accessible to people with disabilities.

• guides

• Meeting tech
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

Living Lots NYC is a clearinghouse of information that New Yorkers can use to find, unlock and protect our shared resources. 596 Acres started with vacant lots and remains committed to helping fill these holes.

• land

• Civic maps

A project to measure and show bus performance in NYC

• mobility
• mass transit

• Dashboards

a free online game funded by the State Dept. that helps fight #disinformation, now playable in 6 different languages

• Fight disinformation
• Games and gamification

• Media
• Graveyard

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

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

The public-private initiative supports Black, Indigenous, People of Color (BIPOC), and women-led small businesses, nonprofits, cooperatives, and technology startups that are building a more equitable and sustainable future for New York City.

• Govtech
• Fellowships

Find help in NYC with food, money, housing, work and more on ACCESS NYC.

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

NYC municipal budget explorer

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

A network of groups organizing to provide aid and support to New Yorkers during the COVID-19 pandemic.