Shape the future of public policy with Plural’s intuitive, AI-powered legislative tracking and stakeholder collaboration tools. Effectively influence US federal and state legislation and say goodbye to clunky legacy software and manual spreadsheets.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

APPCityLife is a Platform as a Service (PaaS) that empowers cities to rapidly deploy affordable mobile apps and engage citizens through CityLife Chatbot, our Artificial Intelligence chatbot built specifically for cities.

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Graveyard

Urban Data Pioneers is a program that empowers teams of city employees and community members to work in teams to deeply understand questions through data analysis.

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Report Civic & Social Issues through our Artificially Intelligent chat & voice interfaces integrated onto all the major social media channels

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Here we describe how machine learning can be a powerful tool in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and helping society adapt to a changing climate.

• Climate action
• research

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

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

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

Public School empowers government organizations to become more impactful problem-solvers.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

TOOLS TO POWER MOVEMENTS

• Organize campaigns

OpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential. OpenGov is the first complete cloud solution for public sector budgeting, operational performance, and citizen engagement.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Sign people-powered petitions from across the country, start your own, and view past petition victories.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Make your city better

• apps
• cities

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

With Datasketch Apps you can create data visualizations in seconds and empower users to analyze data faster with access to open information repositories curated by journalists and researchers.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The book looks at organizing models, civic tech, governance, citizen engagement and how to fund, staff, and train the next generation of leaders to revitalize democracy.

• books

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

TIRE SUA CAUSA DO LUGAR

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

The News Provenance Project seeks to diminish the spread of misinformation by empowering readers to make more informed, confident judgments about the news they see online.

• The Tech
• Media
• Emerging tech

Human Agency is a platform that democratizes the tools of advertising

• The People
• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out

Outfox AI is an intuitive, low-cost Facebook ad-buying platform for down-ballot progressive campaigns and causes.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Advertising

Más datos para más personas. Usamos datos, desarrollamos tecnología y capacitamos para construir ciudadanía y organizaciones más fuertes.

• human rights
• trainings

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

Liba Rubenstein, Director of Social Impact and Policy at Tumblr, explores how Tumblr's versatile platform can help nonprofits, libraries, and other changemakers tell powerful stories, catalyze engagement, and drive measurable impact.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic teams at tech companies

Through reporting and analysis of social and political issues, we seek to educate citizens to challenge power and encourage democratic debate across the world.

• The Tech
• Media

The mailing list hosted by Action Network, an open platform that empowers individuals and groups to organize for progressive causes.

• labor

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Terrastories is a geostorytelling application built to enable local communities to locate and map their own oral storytelling traditions about places of significant meaning or value to them.

• Mapping
• Narrative tech
• Mapping platforms

The Open Law Platform empowers you to focus on high-value tasks, auto-updates the legal code as laws become effective, and improves how you connect with citizens.

• Adjacent Fields
• Legal tech
• Tech for public challenges

The OGP Toolbox is a free software initially developed by Etalab, the Prime Minister taskforce in charge of open data and open government French policy, on behalf of the Open Government Partnership community.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

To allow low-powered devices to communicate with Internet-connected applications over long range wireless connections.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Our Mission is to empower people through inclusive economies by conducting & supporting various academic research & strategic philanthropic investments.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The Sunlight Foundation is a national, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that uses civic technologies, open data, policy analysis and journalism to make our government and politics more accountable and transparent to all.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

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

A political data and intelligence start-up helping to connect the public and politicians.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Media and social media analysis

Putting Technology in Its Place to Reclaim Our Urban Future

• books
• cities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Open Data Policy — Managing Information as an Asset

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

LittleSis is a free database of who-knows-who at the heights of business and government.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Narrative tech
• Network visualizations

Ruck.us can give you a high-powered, attractive political website in five minutes.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Graveyard

The fastest way for local governments to discover, test, and share innovative solutions.

• Govtech
• Graveyard
• Bureaucracy tech

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

Center for Information and Communication Technology for Development ICT for Empowerment and Development​

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Digital Woman Uganda is a Civic-tech and Digital Rights Advocacy organization – operating an ICT powered model to extend the literacy and skills of an eco-system economy that the world currently operates in to a woman/ girl child. Preparing the African woman/ girls to be able to be competitive and self-sustaining in the Digital World

These events join New Yorkers of all ages to test and give feedback on technologies aimed at improving quality of life and City services.

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Our mission is to empower changemakers and innovators to solve large-scale social problems — strategically and conclusively. We are world's only organization focused exclusively and relentlessly on the end game in social impact: what it will take to achieve ultimate success against the world's most stubborn challenges.

• The People
• Evaluate impact

Tumml empowers entrepreneurs to solve urban problems. A nonprofit, Tumml's goal is to support the next generation of Zipcars and Revolution Foods.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

OnlineSOS empowers people facing online harassment

• anti-harassment
• guides

• The People
• Media
• Meet the others

The Program on Liberation Technology seeks to understand how information technology can be used to defend human rights, improve governance, empower the poor, promote economic development, and pursue a variety of other social goods.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Research and policy centers

Our mission is to empower use of the City and County of San Francisco's data. Our core product is SF OpenData, the official open data portal.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Courses

Laudelina is a mobile application, aimed to empower domestic workers. It has an accessible guide to labour rights, abenefits calculator, a list of protection agencies, and an option to create a social network with fellow domestic workers.

• apps
• labor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Adjacent Fields

Debate platform powered by reason

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

Realize an Emissions Free World by 2040

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Tech for public challenges
• Carbon calculators

Accelerating Civic Innovation

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

We’re the Web Foundation’s Open Data Labs. We empower people through data.

• guides

• The People
• Civic data
• Build something