Snap has new Lenses that show users how to fingerspell in American Sign Language

• Snap
• Deaf

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• Virtual and Augmented Reality (VR, AR, MR)
• Civic features

"Snapchat is launching a new tool aimed at guiding its young user base to consider running for political office. The company says it wants to help potential future candidates deal with common barriers to launching political campaigns by providing information, resources, and encouragement."

• apps
• Snap
• civic features

• Voting and elections
• Help more people run for office
• Civic features

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• reports

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

Register to vote on Snapchat

• civic features
• Snap
• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

With support from the Omidyar Network, the joint team worked with local researchers in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Mozambique, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe to extract a snapshot of the state of digital identity, using an evaluation framework specifically designed by CIS for assessing digital identity ecosystems.

• Identity

An open guide promoting participatory urban planning

• cities
• guides

• Urban planning

Introducing the world’s best way to make & share maps on the internet.

• Civic data
• Mapping tools
• Mapping platforms

The EIU Democracy Index provides a snapshot of the state of world democracy for 165 independent states and two territories. The Democracy Index is based on five categories: electoral process and pluralism, civil liberties, the functioning of government, political participation, and political culture. Based on their scores on 60 indicators within these categories, each country is then itself classified as one of four types of regime: full democracy, flawed democracy, hybrid regime or authoritarian regime.

• Report cards and audits

Research with Code for America on CalFresh, by Donald Moynihan, Eric Giannella, Pamela Herd, and Julie Sutherland finds "hard evidence on the barriers administrative burdens pose."

• research

• Peer-reviewed research
• Access social benefits

We work with government agencies, nonprofits, and communities to shape a social opportunity system that supports and propels the 100 million economically insecure people in the US

• Access social benefits

Field Papers is a tool to help you create a multi-page atlas of anywhere in the world.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Create modern web applications that evaluate household data against eligibility rules for 31 different City, State, and Federal benefits programs (including SNAP, Cash Assistance, WIC, HEAP, and more).

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Govtech

We're a brigade of Code for America, which means that we're a volunteer group of coders who like to work on software projects for the good of our community.

• indigenous

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Pondera offers a comprehensive cloud solution to help you detect, investigate, and enforce fraud, waste, and abuse.

• fraud detection

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Emerging tech

ipaidabribe.com is Janaagraha's unique initiative to tackle corruption by harnessing the collective energy of citizens.

• corruption

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

HOT is an international team dedicated to humanitarian action and community development through open mapping.

• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Adjacent Fields