Linking river health to wellbeing in the Thames basin

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers

• Media and social media analysis
• Civic maps
• Public sentiment tools

An online organizing forum for DoorDash workers to fight low wages

• labor

• Advocacy tech
• Specific campaigns
• Algorithmic transparency

We are a driver-owned ridehailing cooperative in New York City.

• mobility
• gig economy

• Platform coops

Coding for Civic Good Building partnerships and apps to help citizens in the NRV

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

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

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

The Water Data Explorer was developed by the British Geological Survey in collaboration with Imperial College London, The University of Oxford and UCL as part of the CAMELLIA project, and in partnership with a broad range of stakeholders. CAMELLIA has been funded by the UKRI's Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

• Clean water and sanitation
• cities
• rivers

• Civic maps

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced today that it has established a permanent Customer Experience (CX) office to help deliver services that are simple to use, accessible, equitable, protective, transparent, and responsive for all DHS customers.

• Govtech
• Service delivery

The Brussels Urban Summit (BUS) brings together three international city conferences: the 14th Metropolis World Congress, the Eurocities Annual Conference and the sixth OECD Champion Mayors Summit for Inclusive Growth Initiative. It gathers over 300 cities worldwide and more than 1000 politicians, experts and representatives of civil society to exchange ideas and set the priorities for sustainable, affordable, and liveable cities going forward.

• cities

• Meet the others
• Conferences

Ukrainian digital government app

• apps

• Govtech
• Digital transformation
• Biometrics

"Customers can now search for accommodations that include an EV charger in their stay. Airbnb made the search addition after years of EV drivers requesting the option."

• Airbnb
• civic features
• Climate action

• Civic features

"Findings from this study presents a developed model that can support community engagement for urban innovation by specifying factors that influences community engagement for smart sustainable city development." by Bokolo Anthony Jr.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Data Rights for Digital Workers

• labor

• Civic data
• Digital rights
• Crowdsourcing

Report by Ada Lovelace Institute

• reports

• Social media

InfoNile is a cross-border group of geojournalists with a mission to uncover critical stories on water issues in the Nile River Basin through data-based multimedia storytelling.

• Clean water and sanitation
• rivers
• local

• Civic data
• Media
• Civic maps

This tool offers an adaptable method to measure the gendered aspects and understand the drivers of this violence.

• Gender Equality
• reports

• Voting and elections
• Media and social media analysis
• Reports

Now there’s an even easier, faster, and more secure way for Texans to take care of government to-dos – like driver license and vehicle registration renewals – anytime, anywhere, and on any device.

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

The Floods Alert is a pilot platform currently available only in Portuguese that informs on the risks of flooding of rivers in the Amazon region.

• floods

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Lateral Economics do things differently so that their clients reap the rewards. Policy consultants and lobbyists who simply advocate their clients’ interests achieve limited results. Influencing policy outcomes requires more than advocacy. It requires an understanding of how a complex jigsaw of interests and ideas fit together. The key is understanding the goals of a business or government agency, understanding the principal drivers of policy and the public interest, and finding new ways to fit them together.

RideShare2vote provides full training for drivers regarding voter laws as well as implementing CDC guidelines regarding masks, sanitizing before and after completing rides and social distancing with only one rider in the back seat.

• US Election 2020
• apps

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

illuminating local water quality through data performances for collective action

• Clean water and sanitation

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Polis is a real-time system for gathering, analyzing and understanding what large groups of people think in their own words, enabled by advanced statistics and machine learning.

• Polis

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

TLC Data Hub offers users a new and convenient location to access and visualize taxi and for hire industry data.

• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Development Seed is supporting the World Bank to identify dangerous housing in Colombia through the use of artificial intelligence.

• housing

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Mobile micro-fundraising and awareness platform for charities

• apps

• Mapping
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• Mapping platforms

We connect volunteer drivers with anybody who needs a ride to claim their vote. CarpoolAction is maintained by the Progressive Coders Network community.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Governor's Budget Summary 2020-21

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

A program started in 2002 to recognize those technology leaders putting their knowledge to work to solve problems and serve their communities.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Michael Knapp is the CEO and founder of Green River, a software design and development firm that has worked extensively with local governments. He is passionate about social justice, and his firm’s most prominent recent project has involved working with cities to end homelessness. We spoke with him about his experiences with the government procurement Read More

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Reported lets you submit feedback about NYC taxis in 30 seconds. Reported submits this feedback directly to NYC's 311 system and the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission.

• apps
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government