Powerbase is a free guide to networks of power, lobbying, public relations and the communications activities of governments and other interests.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

PowerSwitch Action is a national community of organizers, strategists, and leaders forging multiracial feminist democracy and economies in our cities and towns.

• Advocacy tech
• Partner networks
• Campaign organizations

PowerLabs helps organizers design and run people-powered campaigns. We provide training, coaching and strategic planning support to build the capacity of organizations, leaders and networks.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

Power to the Public: The Promise of Public Interest Technology - Tara Dawson McGuinness and Hana Schank - A powerful new blueprint for how governments and nonprofits can harness the power of digital technology to help solve the most serious problems of the

by Okki Berendschot

• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Learn about civic tech
• Artistic interventions

Un mouvement citoyen indépendant et non partisan qui rassemble et mobilise dans l’action toutes celles et ceux qui veulent une France plus juste, égalitaire, démocratique et responsable

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

Power the Polls makes it really easy to sign up to become a poll worker and ensure that there are enough people to staff voting locations across the country.

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

powerplanets is owned by the science channel. i might be posting a full guide on the game, but for now ask your questions on the comment section and i will g...

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Our mission is to maximize the availability and impact of data for public good.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We are the first donor fund dedicated to community organising. We will provided targeted long-term funding in key geographies across the UK.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• The craft of organizing

The project produces information on new forms of digital power and enables people to make a difference in matters that are important to them.

• Participatory democracy
• Public Private Partnerships

How do you measure gifts of time, expertise and leadership? What indicators can you use to assess grassroots power building, organising and volunteer initiatives?

• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Evaluate impact

What is a more ambitious vision for data use and regulation that can deliver a positive shift in the digital ecosystem towards people and society?

• reports

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency
• Working groups

Progressive Power Lab provides management and marketing services to nonprofit and for-profit organizations working to realize democracy, achieve justice, and restore our environment. PPL partners provide technology, canvassing services, grassroots organizing services, financing, and technical support to organizations moving millions of people and dollars into action.

The Center for Cultural Power is a women of color, artist-led organization, inspiring artists and culture makers to imagine a world where power is distributed equitably and where we live in harmony with nature.

• culture

Community Technology Empowerment Network (CTEN) is a refugee-founded and led organisation, which began in 2016 as community-based initiative in Rhino Camp refugee settlement West Nile region of Uganda. CTENs mission is to give community knowledge in digital technology for purposes of understanding and eventually building digital skills for employability, resulting in livelihoods resilience.

• refugees

• Co-design
• Information & Communication Tech for Development ICT4D

Find original research, insights, and assessment tools to help you solve your biggest tech challenges.

• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Nonprofit tech
• Digital literacy

The Empower Rangers es una creación animada pensada y ejecutada por RedesAyuda y el primero, de un grupo de ellos, es el Empower Ranger Azul.

• Media
• Digital security and privacy
• Artistic interventions

People Powered is a global hub for participatory democracy - the direct participation of community members in making the policy decisions that affect their lives.

• Engagement tech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Participatory budgeting

Through training, research and digital tools, our expertise in relational organizing makes an impact at hundreds of progressive organizations, including Sunrise Movement, AFL-CIO, and Rock the Vote.

• trainings

• Organize campaigns
• Relational organizing

The hidden costs of artificial intelligence, from natural resources and labor to privacy and freedom What happens when artificial intelligence saturates political life and depletes the planet? How is AI shaping our understanding of ourselves and our societies? In this book Kate Crawford reveals how this planetary network is fueling a shift toward undemocratic governance and increased inequality. Drawing on more than a decade of research, award-winning science, and technology, Crawford reveals how AI is a technology of extraction: from the energy and minerals needed to build and sustain its infrastructure, to the exploited workers behind “automated” services, to the data AI collects from us. Rather than taking a narrow focus on code and algorithms, Crawford offers us a political and a material perspective on what it takes to make artificial intelligence and where it goes wrong. While technical systems present a veneer of objectivity, they are always systems of power. This is an urgent account of what is at stake as technology companies use artificial intelligence to reshape the world. Kate Crawford is a senior principal researcher at Microsoft Research, the inaugural visiting chair of AI and Justice at the École Normale Supérieure, and the Miegunyah distinguished visiting fellow at the University of Melbourne. She co-founded the AI Now Institute at New York University, and leads the Foundations of Machine Learning international working group. She lives in New York City. By Kate Crawford

• Books

The Global Participatory Budgeting Hub is the initial flagship program of People Powered. It aims to improve and expand participatory budgeting (PB) around the world by addressing common challenges and opportunities faced by PB implementers and supporters.

• Participatory budgeting

A New City O/S: The Power of Open, Collaborative, and Distributed Governance (Brookings / Ash Center Series, Innovative Governance in the 21st Century)

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Books

Civic technology should empower us as citizens.

• research

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

GuideStar connects donors and grantmakers to non-profit organizations.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Messaging flows for campaigns and organizations

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Organize campaigns

DISTRIBUTED DIALING FOR VOLUNTEERS TO REACH BEYOND THEIR BASE

• Organize campaigns
• Phone banking tools

• The People
• Help out
• Pro bono and volunteer

Run for office successfully. Govern effectively.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

We’re transforming how we think about power, who holds it, and how we wield it in our communities — we’re looking at power in every context, and speaking truth to it.

• trainings
• workshops

• Organize campaigns
• Workshops

From a cutting-edge cultural commentator, a bold and brilliant challenge to cherished notions of the Internet as the great leveler of our age The Internet has been hailed as an unprecedented democratizing force

• books

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

The BlocPower Smart Cities platform connects investors and community members to green building projects that save energy and improve health outcomes in financially underserved communities.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

Connecting people to power with their phones

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Creating a sustainable future for the technology that powers our world

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Open internet

Civitech’s campaign management platform, RunningMate, is the affordable solution for campaigns of all sizes and budgets.

• partisan

• Civic data
• Organize campaigns
• Campaign tools

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

Our aim is to build a community that supports the Open Data and uptake of the Living Lab paradigm.

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Civic apps outfits

An open-source comprehensive platform that serves as a one-stop solution for monitoring Thailand's parliament.

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

Recognizing organizations that support politicians to empower citizens and develop better policies for people and the planet.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Fieldwide resources

In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State, IE University is leading Tech4Democracy, a powerful initiative to identify entrepreneurs dedicated to developing technology that will promote and protect democracy worldwide.

• Research and policy centers
• Build something
• Academia

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

A service of the Law Center for Better Housing (LCBH), here to help Illinois tenants facing housing issues

• housing

• Artificial Intelligence
• Legal tech
• Bots

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

• User research
• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research groups

Ushahidi-powered project tracking voting irregularities in the 2009 Indian election

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

Data for Judicial Transparency

• Civic data
• Justice tech

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency