This project will develop ethical principles and guidelines, as well as draft best practices for the use of remote sensing and volunteered geographic information (VGI) in crisis situations.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Mapping tools

OpenBlock is a web application and RESTful service that allows users to browse and search their local area for "hyper-local news

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Search for elected offices across the USA.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Voting and elections

KoBoToolbox is a suite of tools for field data collection for use in challenging environments. Our software is free and open source. Most of our users are people working in humanitarian crises, as well as aid professionals and researchers working in developing countries.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

IEEE GHTC focuses on advancing technology for the benefit of humanity.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

to enable data-driven farming

• agriculture
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

Studying & Shaping the Impact of Entertainment & Media on Society

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Using Chatbots to Answer Farmer Queries in India

• agriculture
• research
• Zero hunger

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Bots

Open Boise is an inclusive coalition of civic-minded volunteers that builds, researches, and designs technology to help foster community engagement and improve quality of life for residents of the Treasure Valley.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Democracy 2.0 A Community of Intelligent Voters

• Voting and elections
• Matching views to votes

The Foundation supports long-term, free basic research beneficial to Sweden, mainly in medicine, technology, and the natural sciences. This is achieved through long-term grants to excellent researchers and to projects of the highest international standard.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”

• peace
• universities

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

The Durban EDGE is eThekwini Municipality’s platform to provide cutting-edge economic intelligence and insight to economic decision makers. The brand was established in 2011 by the City’s Economic Development Unit. The Durban EDGE produces publications; economic info releases, as well as on-demand seminars; an annual release on the State of the Durban Economy; and topical research papers. Each release includes reliable data on the global, domestic, and local economy; designed to assist researchers, investors, business leaders, politicians and other key stakeholders.

Designed for interested public officials, technologists, politicians and researchers, the CrowdLaw Communiqué features curated news, interviews, announcements, and recommended readings on the…

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech

• Civic data
• Roundtables

Teams of researchers will work with up to 350 partner organisations on a range of topics and themes, including how data-driven innovation can improve public services in the region, the role of artificial intelligence and the ethics of data.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Collectively created online space to inform and connect people working for a better democracy in the UK

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

Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.

• human rights

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Media and social media analysis

Smart growth is a way to build cities, towns, and neighborhoods that are economically prosperous, socially equitable, and environmentally sustainable.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Build something

ITIF is a think tank focusing on critical issues at the intersection of technological innovation and public policy.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Where technologists and communities work together to explore and build new solutions for New Yorkers

• The People
• Build something
• User research

The Hive Biolab exists to promote grassroots biotechnology innovation using research and entrepreneurship.

The Beeck Center for Social Impact and Innovation was founded in 2014 to provide training and experiential opportunities for students, faculty, and global leaders to enact solution-based social change.

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Racial Equity Tools is designed to support individuals and groups working to achieve racial equity.

• racial equity

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

DataFirst provides easy online access to survey and adminstative microdata from South Africa and other African countries to researchers. DataFirst also offers training to African data managers and researchers.The data the Open Data Portal provides datasets, studies and surverys carried out by universities, private organisations and government departments. In 2016 UCT Data First had about 37 047 online usage.

Global Impact Awards go to entrepreneurial teams who think on a global scale and have a healthy disregard for the impossible.

• Google

• The People
• Get funding
• Awards and prizes

Encounters in Citizen Science The European conference for citizen and participatory science 2020 in Trieste, Italy.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges

Enigma is an operational data management and intelligence company. We place data into the context of the real world and make it connected, open, and actionable.

• The Tech
• The People
• Open data publishing platforms

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

• research

• The People
• Build something
• Public sector innovation labs

Reboot builds and powers coalitions for courageous, structural change.

• Civic and social impact companies

Wish you had a better way to make sense of Twitter during disasters than this? Type in a keyword like #ChileEarthquake in Twitter's search box above and you'll see more tweets than you can possibly read in a day let alone keep up with for more than a few minutes. Wish there way were an easy, free and open…

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence

We have created and collected guidance to support accurate and responsible reporting on coronavirus, which will be regularly updated with new information.

• COVID
• COVID Media Projects

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Civic tech tools are often not used to the extent that their creators hoped for.

• reports

• Graveyard
• Government transparency

assessing and analyzing the current state of media and prescribing technologies, practices, and ethics that might foster and promote deliberation

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

Applied makes recruitment smart, fair and easy.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Find a job or hire someone

50 years of leading the world in strategic futures

• workshops

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Fellowships

This OII research programme investigates legal, ethical, and social aspects of AI, machine learning, and other emerging information technologies.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

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

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Eleven Predictions on the Influence of Emerging Technologies

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Services week is a nationwide, cross-government event that looks at how we can work together to deliver end-to-end, user-focused services.

• Conferences
• Peer networks
• Building inside government

Civic User Testing Group as a New Model for UX Testing, Digital Skills Development, and Community Engagement in Civic Tech By Daniel X. O’Neil and the Smart Ch…

• books

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• User research