Expanding opportunities in America’s cities

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

Code for Bloomington is an official Code for America Brigade in Bloomington, IN working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Pledge and training materials on how to resist a coup

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Tracer is our weekly newsletter that tracks the evolution of synthetic media technologies, weaponised misinformation, and new cybersecurity threats.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

At the Center for Civic Media, we focus on creating or leveraging digital technology for social change. As an artist, a documentarian, and a creative coder with a do-good streak, I am exploring how…

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

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

Lawger uses an online bidding system to connect people with lawyers. Once users submit their legal problem, lawyers registered with the programme can bid on the case.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

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

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Everyone a humanitarian

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Especially the Transparency, Participation, and Accountability grantmaking

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The National Neighborhood Indicators Partnership (NNIP) is a collaboration between the Urban Institute and local organizations that connect people with neighborhood data.

• cities
• neighborhoods
• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Indicators

GSA’s Emerging Citizen Technology program collaborates with U.S. businesses, civic organizations and inter-agency communities.

• The People
• Build something
• Public sector innovation labs

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

This group is for events hosted by Open Austin (http://www.open-austin.org/), for people interested in open government, open data, & civic technology.At our Open Gov & Civic Tech Meetups we typically

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

PeaceTech Lab works to reduce violent conflict using technology, media, and data to accelerate and scale peacebuilding efforts. An independent nonprofit organization, the Lab brings together engineers and activists, MBAs and conflict experts, social scientists, data scientists, and other innovators to develop effective peacebuilding solutions.

• peace

• The People
• Build something
• Building in the private sector

Congressional Research Service Reports for the People

• Watchdogging and transparency

Check out who is funding Full Circle Fund's 2018 Civic Tech Accelerator Round.

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• Funders & donors

The Tech4Germany Digitalization Fellowship brings IT talent, designers and entrepreneurs together with government agencies and ministries to solve burning challenges for the federal government over three months.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

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
• Civic fiction

Tecnologías de Información y Comunicación para el Desarrollo

• The People
• Help out
• Tech translators and intermediaries

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

This walking tour was designed by Aslak Ransby, Ingrid Burrington and Janet Gunter for the Internet Infrastructure Summit at Techfestival.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Walking tours

As the Confederation turns 150, Connected Canada will examine what it means to be a digital citizen in Canada today. Together, participants will draft a public research agenda for digital citizenship that will set the foundation for strong institutions and good policy. Join us October 13-14, 2017 in Ottawa as we consider the impacts of the Internet on Canadian institutions, policies, and people.

• Conferences

WE DESIGN SERVICES WITH PEOPLE

• The People
• Build something
• Civic and social impact companies

A statement of 12 principles for online, participatory lawmaking.

• The People
• Participatory democracy
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

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

Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home

• social isolation

• The People
• Resource matching and sharing
• Help out

Code for Boston addresses local social and civic challenges through creative uses of technology.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The MacArthur Foundation supports creative people and effective institutions committed to building a more just, verdant, and peaceful world. In addition to selecting the MacArthur Fellows, we work to defend human rights, advance global conservation and security, make cities better places, and understand how technology is affecting children and society.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Fast Forward — Accelerating technology nonprofits. Fast Forward provides funding, training, mentorship, and community for tech-based nonprofits.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Our program offers real-time tracking of school buses through a mobile web app. We hope that — in a small way — this creates a better experience for parents and students.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Empowering designers within government

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Pine Tree Legal Association provides online legal resources to improve access to law for people with low incomes.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

An international network of organizations who believe that digital technology opens new channels for citizens to more meaningfully engage in the public sphere and have a positive impact on their communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Comparison of online social benefit platforms for all 50 US states

• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Engagement tech

Reveal hidden gender bias

• Gender Equality

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Philadelphia’s Mayor’s Office of New Urban Mechanics (MONUM) pilots experiments that offer the potential to improve radically the quality of City services. To design, conduct and evaluate pilot projects in these areas, MONUM builds partnerships between constituents, academics, entrepreneurs, non-profits and City staff.

• cities

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Search, browse, subscribe and comment on your City Council bills, council members and events.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

A research lab that addresses local issues through participatory data practices: methods, approaches and tools for co-creation to learn about and through data.

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