An experimental Boston Globe Lab geo-focused Twitter aggregator

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Start a petition with one of the UK's largest campaign organisations. People power change

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

Resources and leads for investigating algorithms in society

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence

All about changing communities, our workplaces, and the industry for the better.

• Gender Equality
• women

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Meet the others

1776 is the largest network of incubators that cultivates and empowers startup ecosystems in the Northeast Corridor.

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Provincial powerhouse: Alberta’s new government lab

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

"Our goal was to apply a simple but powerful canvas tool to help our peers plan to measure immediate and long-term results of their projects."

• resources

• The People
• Evaluate impact

A first-of-its-kind resource that defines corporate civic engagement, providing clear tools to help more companies become active players in strengthening the resiliency of our democracy

• commercial

• Playbooks and design principles
• Building in the private sector

Empowering you to find what you need from over 26,000 free, up-to-date resources

• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Access social benefits

People Powered's independent expert committee scored 26 of the top digital engagement platforms

• Digital participation platforms
• Report cards and audits

This year's Summit will focus on Open vs. Closed Tech in Government, Democracy & Elections, Disinformation & Fake News and Power Dynamics in Tech. We'll have different session formats: Panels, Lighting Talks and Workshops!

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Responsive Policy Project (RPP) lifts the curtain on public policy, making it easy to find, understand, and engage with opaque policy documents. Ultimately, RPP aims to radically transform policy by changing who participates and how.

• Engagement tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency

Eligibee is a free nonprofit tool that helps you find and apply for government assistance, making it easier to get the food, healthcare, and income supports you need today.

• food
• Good health and well-being

• Access social benefits
• Nonprofit tech
• Supporting public sector from outside government

• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Transforming corrections with technology

• recidivism
• criminal justice

• Legal tech
• Hardware
• Justice tech

Rep'd is a civic engagement platform that powers the digital conversation between voters and candidates, constituents and elected officials.

• Communicating with the government
• Campaign tools
• Open asks

Ocean Protection, Decentralized

• Sustainable cities and communities
• Life below water

• Blockchain
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

SPE is developing the first-ever Gold Standard certified carbon credit NFTs, a green blockchain entirely powered by renewable energy, and a carbon credit exchange that will use $SPE as the exclusive currency.

• Climate action
• Affordable and clean energy

• Blockchain
• NFTs
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

Small and easily secured into any face mask, FaceBit is accompanied by a mobile application that provides a user interface and facilitates research.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Smart Cities and sensors
• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Mixhubb is a one of its kind virtual event platform that lets you build your event, your way and empowers you to build, create, manage and deliver an immersive 3D experience for your attendees.

• Organize events

A tool for building and evolving governance in online communities.

• Slack

• Adjacent Fields
• Decentralization
• Internet governance

Kybern is a website which helps communities explore new, non-hierarchical forms of governance and manage their resources in collaborative ways.

• Decentralization

Communication gateway for municipalities

• Communicating with the people
• Service alerts
• Issue reporting

We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.✊

• Advocacy tech
• Digital security and privacy
• Campaign organizations

We empower individuals and local communities to build a civically engaged technology ecosystem and provide for an honest and inclusive government. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era.

• Civic hacking meetups

Powerful geocoding and autocomplete API

africanDRONE seeks to empower the drone pioneers already living on the continent, by networking them together into a self-help association that can share resources and knowledge. In addition, we aim to use our collective muscle to get better access to markets (for our work), better prices on hardware / software / insurance (through collective bargaining), and share resources (for everything from drones to data-crunching computer servers).

• Drones

Project Red String is an interactive tool that maps the relationships between key power players in New York City. It is both a database of power players in New York City politics and a searchable campaign finance tool that tracks their donations in the 2021 New York City election cycle. You can: search for any candidate that is currently running for office in New York City's 2021 elections and see a list of power players that have donated to their campaign, search for power players and see their associations, such as their job or organizational affiliations, and their recent City donation history, and sort power players by their categories (e.g. candidates, press, city officials)

Founded in Taiwan, "g0v" (gov-zero) is a decentralised civic tech community with information transparency, open results and open cooperation as its core values. g0v engages in public affairs by drawing from the grassroot power of the community.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Watchdogging and transparency

Citiscope spurs innovations to help cities work better for all of their people through the power of independent journalism. We deliver: on-the-ground reporting by local journalists extensive coverage of global debates on the future of cities expert commentary and analysis

Bringing underheard voices to the center of a stronger public dialogue

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Artificial Intelligence

Our first product, Action Button, empowers readers to impact news stories that inspire them—whether by donating, signing a petition or emailing a policymaker. Our users can do more than read headlines, they can change headlines.

• Media
• Graveyard
• News to action

By developing and equipping a global network of investigative journalists and publishing their stories, OCCRP exposes crime and corruption so the public can hold power to account.

• Media
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Journalism

Our mission is to drive a giant leap forward in the way DoD builds and deploys technology and digital services. We work alongside our public servants and service members, empowering them to incorporate private sector best practices and talent to build a better future now.

‘Pocket Change’ is a Hindi digital content channel that creates relatable, comedy content for young Indians with civic engagement at its heart.

• YouTube

• Shows and films
• Civic fiction

We create data and technology solutions for better health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries. By working alongside health advocates, governments, local communities, donors, and manufacturers, we provide reliable

• health
• vaccines
• Affordable and clean energy

• Smart Cities and sensors

The Civics Unplugged Fellowship is a 3-month civic leadership program that empowers high school students with the training, funding, and network they need to become civic innovators that build a brighter future for humanity.

• students

• Civic literacy
• Fellowships

SMSsync is a simple, yet powerful SMS to HTTP sync utility that turns any Android phone into a local SMS gateway by sending incoming messages(SMS) to a configured URL (web service).

• apps

• SMS tools

OpenRefine (previously Google Refine) is a powerful tool for working with messy data: cleaning it; transforming it from one format into another; and extending it with web services and external data.

• Civic data

Democrasoft’s mission is to make a significant and lasting contribution to our world. Now we’ve taken the essence of our Collaborize platform, and extended it by making it “portable.” We call this new form the WeJIT – a very simple, but extremely powerful online collaboration tool that goes anywhere.

• Graveyard
• Digital participation platforms

NYC's open participation platform (using CitizenLab) to get public feedback on government use of tech

• Engagement tech

Es un espacio para fomentar la participación de la ciudadanía en la generación de ideas para mejorar la gestión de la ciudad.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Our mission is to create a seismic shift in the way politics are done, through innovations that empower social, economic, and environmental justice movements.

• Organize campaigns
• Campaign organizations

We aim to find and elevate the diverse ways that city leaders are actively engaging their citizens to solve critical public problems.

• cities

• Engagement tech
• Awards and prizes

People Powered's course for government and organization staff managing citizen participation + environmental programs

• Climate action

• Participatory budgeting
• Courses

An integrated mass transit solution for emerging markets, focused on providing public transport data and technologies that enrich services, empower people, and enable innovation.

• mass transit

The Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) aims to speak truth to power, even when it is unpopular or difficult. They work to ensure that everyone in Ireland can enjoy all of their rights, all of the time. ICCL is a membership organisation and is fully independent of government.

Define American is a culture change organization that uses the power of narrative to humanize conversations about immigrants. Their advocacy within news, entertainment, and digital media is creating an America where everyone belongs.

• immigration

PPDC is a non-governmental organisation created to increase citizens' participation in governance processes in a way that improves the integrity of public and private sector processes.

Institute for Development of Freedom of Information is a non-governmental organisation aiming to facilitate democratic governance in Georgia and abroad by informing and empowering the public. In 2010, IDFI launched a public information platform (Opendata.ge) through which thousands of FoI requests have been submitted to state institutions.