This group is a place for those who facilitate online (or need to) can learn, share and make offers to the world as the Covid19 virus plays out.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Sandstorm is an open source platform for self-hosting web apps

• Engagement tech

The Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) is a free software project that aims to empower decentralized efforts in increasing transparency of internet censorship around the world. You can run OONI Probe to collect evidence of internet censorship.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Decentralization

Wearable technology to map subjective perception of air quality. Pollution Explorers is a participatory project exploring air quality issues through people’s subjective perception and wearable technology.

• The Tech
• The People
• Emerging tech

Exploring new approaches for community-led innovation in public spaces.

• cities
• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

By receiving, storing and analyzing flight data, the boards of the country's 17 airports and calculating flight delays help passengers make a data-driven choice

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Consumer watchdogging

A platform for the rapid review of outbreak-related preprints

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Open innovation
• COVID Media Projects

This is an open source hardware project to allow makers and the public to assemble mechanical respirators (aka. Ventilators, breathing machines) and/or intubation kits that could be used by medical professionals.

• Hardware
• High-tech COVID Interventions

Citizens monitor. Everyone wins.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic maps

Revolutionizing Prosthetics is an ambitious multiyear program—funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)—to create a neurally controlled artificial limb that will restore near-natural motor and sensory capability to upper-extremity amputee patients.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

Samurai is a Frontier Artificial Intelligence Lab Dedicated to Eliminating Online Violence

• harassment

• The Tech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

Civic Tech for Thailand’s Democracy

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Neighborland is a communications platform that empowers organizations to collaborate with their stakeholders in an accessible, participatory, and equitable way.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Watchdogging Czech Republic

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Advocacy tech

Uma aplicação portuguesa de entreajuda comunitária

• Resource matching and sharing
• Pro bono and volunteer
• COVID

This group is being formed to evaluate, design, validate, and source the fabrication of open source emergency medical supplies around the world, given a variety of local supply conditions.

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects
• Hardware

We are a community of volunteers who develop open-source projects as a Code for America Brigade by focusing on open government, open data, great design, and social good in Baltimore.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Orange Telecom's "big data for development" project provided telecom data to generate insights

• The People
• Challenges
• Data science for social good

Browse and download over 1,600 New York State data resources on topics ranging from farmers’ markets to solar photovoltaic projects to MTA turnstile usage.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

The interactive map of over-indebtedness in the Czech Republic based on real data from Central register of enforcement proceedings (financial executions)

• debt

• Civic data
• Data visualization
• Civic maps

This is a project to counter the Amazon Ring doorbell camera surveillance infrastructure. We provide information for users and community members concerned about the country’s biggest company planting always-on cameras all over our streets.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

a project to improve the transparency behind Facebook’s algorithms

• Facebook

• The Tech
• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

• Apple

• COVID Media Projects
• COVID

We would like to invite you to the new Code For Tallahassee brigade and the unveiling of our flagship project Roadmaps to the Future (RM2F)

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Drawing on MIT’s legacy of media innovation and its deep commitment to open and accessible information, the MIT Open Documentary Lab brings storytellers, technologists, and scholars together to explore new documentary forms with a particular focus on collaborative, interactive, and immersive storytelling.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects

The premiere national event on building better places

• cities

• Conferences
• In-person meetings

Ciudad.Decide is a pilot project to encourage citizen participation in Fuencarral, district of Madrid, Spain.

• cities

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

As part of its Tech & Check Cooperative, the Reporters’ Lab is serving as a hub for automated fact-checking to connect journalists and technologists around the world. The conference gave them an opportunity to demonstrate current projects and discuss the big challenges of automation.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Factchecking

NeMO-Net is a single player iPad game where players help NASA classify coral reefs by painting 3D and 2D images of coral.

• Life below water
• coral

• Emerging Tech Projects
• Games and gamification
• Emerging Tech report

A series of projects, events, and resources in support of the 2020 US Census

• census

• The People
• Build something
• Supporting public sector from outside government

We are San Diegans who believe data and technology can better serve citizens, sparking a more vibrant democracy and civic life. We treasure our communities and work together to bolster our public experience. We are a brigade of the national, non-partisan Code for America, leveraging their resources, but keenly focused on our improving local issues here at home.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Ulule: The 1st European crowdfunding site. Already 24208 projects funded with success. Make good things happen!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

MetroQuest is public involvement software with a track record of award-winning planning projects. Engage thousands, gain insight, build community support.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Citymart transforms the way cities solve procurement problems. Citymart is a platform for city government employees to deliver better services, connecting them to urban solutions, projects and peers across departments and around the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Procurement

Alidade is an interactive tool that explains to social organisations what to look for when using technology for social change project, Alidade asks the user questions that can help them decide what kind of technology tool would fit with their project. Through the tool organisations can understand their needs, understand the tech, Try it out and get help to implement or manage the technology you have chosen. Each step includes tips, real-life examples, and useful resources to help you answer the questions. Alidade then puts together a structured PDF document that can be used to get colleagues on board with the idea; explain the requirements to technical providers; or show funders that has done your homework.

Find Environmental Impact Assessments Near You. And register for alerts in your area.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• Service alerts

The CrowdLaw Catalog is a growing repository of 100 CrowdLaw cases from around the world.

• case studies

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

We support innovative projects that solve water problems in African cities

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

• guides
• housing
• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Website that shows country-by-country coronavirus social distancing responses

• COVID-19
• health
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

It's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

We have been commissioned by Wheatley Group, a major provider of social housing, care and other services in Scotland*, to explore how they can engage better with their customers – facilitating customers to shape the services they receive. The Chartered Institute of Housing are also working with us on this project to ensure our learnings are spread into the wider housing sector.

• housing

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

The Credibility Coalition (CredCo) is pleased to announce that we have begun a project/partnership with the Jigsaw team at Alphabet to develop better understanding of credible content online.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

The main goal of CiviCERT is to improve the incident response capabilities of NGOs, journalists and involved citizens all around the world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A list of state and national resources that help people find a covid vaccine

• vaccines

• Graveyard
• COVID
• COVID Data Projects

Tech volunteers and activists.

• The People
• Organize campaigns
• Pro bono and volunteer

This searchable database indexes visual and geospatial solutions to critical urban problems.

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Open source project using Raspberry Pis and sensors to learn about the health of a bee colony by monitoring the temperature and humidity inside and outside the hive over multiple years.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Projects