500+ design tools for public good, all in one place.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic tech catalogs

To connect Taiwan and the world, PDIS incubates and facilitates public digital innovation and service, optimises the processes and tools of the public service with design thinking, guides the public sector to adopt social innovations and collaborate with communities of practice.

• The People
• The Tech
• Build something

WE DESIGN SERVICES WITH PEOPLE

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

Looking to transform public services and influence government? Grab a desk and join the startups and civic servants driving the govtech revolution.

• The People
• The Tech
• Govtech

Effective public engagement is not easy to achieve. This roadmap helps organizations get to where they want to go.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Media

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

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

"We’ve made the difficult decision to sunset the Public Interest Tech Job Board."

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

The Public Interest Technology Universities Network is a partnership that fosters collaboration between 21 universities and colleges committed to building the nascent field of public interest technology and growing a new generation of civic-minded technologists.

• Partner networks and coalitions
• Public Interest Tech
• Academia

The Public Engagement Strategy Lab will provide you with the tools and resources you need to authentically engage stakeholders in thoughtful, democratic processes. Registration closes June 16th. Frontiers of Democracy registrants and students enjoy a discounted rate. **NOTE: Door payments must be paid by check only.**

• workshops

• Workshops

A metadata description standard for public software

• The People
• The Tech
• Civic data

Unlocking the potential of New York’s public spaces.

• cities
• public space
• mental health

• Design

The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) wants your ideas to develop a Federal framework, guidelines, and leading practices for public participation and community engagement (PPCE) activities to help Federal agencies more broadly and meaningfully engage with you and your communities.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

This report delves specifically into the limited publication of written decisions by criminal court judges.

• Justice tech

Online course offered through Georgetown University’s Initiative on Technology and Society, the Beeck Center for Social Impact + Innovation and the McCourt School of Public Policy: a continuing education course to help participants rapidly grasp digital fundamentals in a way that is practical and relevant to their work.

• Learn about civic tech
• Govtech
• Online courses

The Program for Public Consultation was established to develop the methods and theory of public consultation and to conduct public consultations.

Discover 49,883,271 images, texts, videos, and sounds from across the United States

• Open knowledge

The DPG Charter is a multi-stakeholder campaign to align and mobilize diverse stakeholders and initiatives around a compelling shared vision for digital public goods (open-source technologies designed for the public good) and their role in driving safe, trusted and inclusive digital public infrastructure at scale.

• Digital transformation
• Economic development

Official petition site for Portuguese citizens to the National Assembly

• Communicating with the government
• Petitions
• Engagement tech

Our committed staff of lawyers, community organizers, policy experts, and other advocates combine forces with 80 member firms, 900 pro bono attorneys, and thousands of community members.

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Legal tech

ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.

• Journalism
• Media
• Investigative journalism tech

Better public meetings are possible, sustainable, and measurable.

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Meeting tech

Discover search trends across Google Search, Bing, and YouTube

• commercial

• Narrative tech
• Big listening

The Data and Public Services Toolkit aims to help public authorities make better use of data. It addresses challenges such as: how to make a business case for data use; how to use data ethically and fairly; and how to identify and utilise relevant datasets.

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Digital transformation

Research by Rebecca Rumbul of mySociety - As part of the joint mySociety and Democratic Society project Public Square - this literature review provides an overview of current academic research into the themes relevant to the goal of developing a meaningful, participative and collaborative digital environment, and draws out salient points to inform the development of tools and approaches to be created as part of the project.

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Fieldwide resources

The U.S. General Services Administration’s (GSA) Emerging Citizen Technology program, part of the Technology Transformation Service’s Innovation Portfolio, launched an open-sourced pilot to guide dozens of federal programs to make public service information available to consumer Intelligent Personal Assistants (IPAs) for the home and office, such as Amazon Alexa, Microsoft Cortana, Google Assistant, and Facebook Messenger.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Civic features

An automated query in Wikidata of all existing profiles of Venezuelan authors, scientists and creators whose works are in the public domain according to national and international laws by virtue of the time elapsed since their death.

• Wikipedia
• culture

• Open knowledge

Find out how your MP votes on the issues you care about.

• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

The AI Assembly is the first national deliberative event on AI in the United States and represents a significant step toward understanding public sentiment on AI-related issues and shaping the conversation around the role of AI systems in society, with a focus on transparency, accountability, and responsible use.  

• Sortition
• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

Recursive Public is an experiment in identifying areas of consensus and disagreement among the international Artificial Intelligence (AI) community, policymakers, and the general public on key questions of governance.

• Polis

• Artificial Intelligence
• Governance of AI

(Biden Administration) With a focus on making the White House inclusive and accessible to its citizens, the Office of Public Engagement is responsible for creating and coordinating direct dialogue between the Biden-Harris administration and the diverse American public.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

LinkedIn newsletter sharing tech and innovation jobs in government from across the US, by Rebecca Heywood

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards
• Newsletters

Code for Korea's project digitizing government gazettes '공보’란 국가기관과 지방자치단체가 대국민에 정부의 소식을 알려주는 소식지를 말합니다.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency
• Report cards and audits

Created and published by the Digital Benefits Network, this open dataset and analysis documents identity proofing and authentication practices in online public benefits applications across the US, contributing to field-wide understanding about the digital identity landscape in public benefits, an important issue for equitable benefits access.

• Civic data
• Access social benefits
• Identity

The International Public Policy Observatory finds, distils and shares the best global evidence for policy practice across England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

• Research and policy centers

Our mission is to create content that tells the story of humans in public service, share stories that reflect the diversity in America in an effort to humanize public servants, and create a more positive perception of government.

• Govtech
• Story-based campaigns
• Narrative tech

Over 700 organizations and individuals petitioning Twitter not to revoke free research access to its API

• X (Twitter)

• Specific campaigns
• Fight disinformation

A collection of case studies where civic tech interventions have resulted in tangible improvements and benefits for governments/public institutions and their citizens, by People Powered

• Evaluate impact
• Engagement tech

We are the ProPublica union. We are reporters, editors, designers and business and communications staff across the entire workplace who are dedicated to investigative reporting in the public interest.

• labor

• Journalism
• Media
• Civic tech unions

The European Commission's country-by-country factsheets containing "the most recent developments that the public administrations of 35 European countries have undergone in 2022. Additionally, a dedicated factsheet for the EU which focuses on all the matters related to digital public administration and interoperability at the European Union level is also available."

• Govtech
• Digital transformation

2017 OECD report

• reports

• Govtech
• Behavioral economics programs

Google Cloud's public sector division

• Google

• Govtech
• Govtech vendors
• Civic teams at tech companies

Public Interest Data Literacy (PIDLit) at Georgia State University weds the skills of data literacy with the frameworks and tools of public interest technology.

• Digital literacy
• Public Interest Tech
• Academia