This project seeks to facilitate the co-creation of prototypes that can advance digital transparency and enable agency in the world's public spaces.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The commission shall publish annually a directory of the computerized information produced or maintained by city agencies which is required by law to be publicly accessible.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Open data publishing platforms

Посіпаки — це відкрита база даних помічників народних депутатів України створена на основі офіційної інформації Апарату Верховної Ради України.

• Watchdogging and transparency

Our guide on using design tools and methods in the public sector, created in partnership with design firm IDEO.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Local meetings happen all the time. Let’s make showing up easy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Now you can be an angel investor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

NYPL Labs is an interdisciplinary team working to reformat and reposition the Library's knowledge for the Internet age.

• libraries

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Important alerts from across the web when and where they are needed most.

• Google

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

New America’s Public Interest Technology Fellowship Program is an ambitious new initiative designed to support an emerging public interest technology sector in America.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

• Hubs

Research paper by Amanda Clarke, School of Public Policy and Administration, Carleton University

• research

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

When conversations are held in public, everyone’s accountable

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Campaign tools

This registry exists to help people discover and share datasets that are available via AWS resources.

• Amazon

• The People
• Civic data
• Build something

Political party transparency made easy

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

ProPublica is proud to announce the 2017 Data Institute, a 11-day intensive workshop on how to use data, design and code for journalism. The workshop will be from June 7 to June 21 in our NYC offices.

• workshops

• Workshops

To resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Engaged Public partners with citizens, civic leaders, and public and private stakeholders to tackle complex public challenges

• Civic and social impact companies

Creating a system that makes it easy to store, manage, and search for public records.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Govtech vendors

To support the Yale Information Society Project’s work on how law should regulate and social media companies should govern the digital public sphere

• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

The movement building better leaders for better democracies

• Build something
• Peer networks

The Horizon 2020 project U_CODE (Urban Collective Design Environment) aims to create an environment for urban co-design.

• cities
• OpenStreetMap

• Engagement tech
• Digital participation platforms
• Urban planning

In order to help election practitioners and stakeholders to better understand the use of ICTs in elections, International IDEA has conducted a global comparative study to learn how ICTs are being used in several stages of electoral process.

• guides

• Voting and elections
• Election administration

The consortium will leverage a $275 million state investment to create and launch a state-of-the-art artificial intelligence computing center on the University at Buffalo’s campus.

Microgrants of up to $3,000 will be awarded, on a rolling basis, to STEM groups led by master’s, PhD, postdoc, or professional students to design and execute projects that create dialogue with public officials, local community leaders, and the public around issues of common concern.

• students

• Get funding
• Funders & donors

The repository contains maps of Mexican districts used to elect representatives to various offices and code for data systematization and analysis. The primary source are shapefiles publicly distributed by INE (formerly IFE, Mexico's national election board, page here). Data in this repo is prepared for mapping and statistical analysis.

• 2024 elections

• Civic data
• Voting and elections

Track your policy impact

• Media and social media analysis
• Evaluate impact
• Research tools

A global nonprofit publication covering the impact of technology beyond the Western bubble.

Learn how to bolster your user research and design more effective services by forming a participant advisory council.

• Build something
• User research
• User research groups

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

• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

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

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

The New Practice Lab's theory of change is deceptively simple: we should design public goods and services the same way we design the most successful private goods and services— in partnership with the people who use them, and suited to the digital age in which we live.

• Reduced inequalities

• Access social benefits
• Co-design
• Service delivery

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

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

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

We are a non-profit that partners with state criminal justice agencies to advance their use of data and reduce incarceration.

• recidivism

• Civic data
• Data science for social good
• Justice tech

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

The trial monitoring of corruption cases program uses tech tools to improve the justice sector by making the workings of the judiciary easier to understand and scrutinize.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Justice tech
• Trial monitoring

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

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

Highlighting modernization initiatives from legislatures around the world

• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Newsletters

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is a public benefit corporation responsible for public transportation in the New York City metropolitan area of the U.S. state of New York.

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

We seek to make democracy more deliberative – to empower people to talk across differences, find common ground, and build political change for the public good.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Meet the others
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• In-person meetings

City, State, Federal & Public Sector Jobs

• Job boards
• Find a job or hire someone

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Building inside government
• Public Private Partnerships

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

The CLIMATE INTELLIGENCE – alias CLINT – project (https://climateintelligence.eu/) is a European-funded project whose main objective is to develop an Artificial Intelligence framework composed of Machine Learning techniques and algorithms to process big climate datasets for improving Climate Science in the detection, causation, and attribution of Extreme Events (EEs), namely tropical cyclones, heatwaves and warm nights, droughts, floods, compound and concurrent events.

• Climate action

• Artificial Intelligence
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Machine learning