A Google Sheet comparing popular meeting livestreaming solutions with government meetings in mind

• Meeting tech

Festival Latinoamericano de Instalacion de Software Libre (FLISOL) sede Venezuela

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

We are Sea Island Software, Inc., a company specializing in hurricane threat assessment. HurricaneMapping.com is our storm tracking service for Google Earth and ESRI's ArcGIS.

• hurricanes

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Over 860 "Coders, product managers and anyone who wants to help the party win with better technology."

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Meet the others

This process code will introduce you to a digital-native approach to procurement. It maintains the core principles of public procurement—fairness, transparency and objectivity—but realigns the process with contemporary software development.

• guides

• Govtech
• Procurement

A report by Written by Nneka Sobers and Dr. Anthony Townsend.

• reports
• case studies

• Govtech
• Reports

As part of the Beeck Center’s Digital Service Collaborative , a project in partnership with The Rockefeller Foundation, we will knit together a collection of state agencies based on common needs to help them collaboratively procure, develop, and maintain the software that they all depend on. This will prevent 50 states from buying 50 versions of near-identical, overpriced software, and instead allows them to procure high-quality, fair-priced software just once, and share it amongst themselves.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Peer networks

2022 Nonprofit Software Development Summit

• Conferences

Building the next generation of collaborative systems, owned entirely in the public interest

• Build something
• Civic apps outfits

DSFSG aims to enable collaboration within the data software for social good ecosystem and welcome a diverse and independent set of member projects.

• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing
• Data science for social good

Though successive generations of digital technology have become increasingly powerful in the past twenty years, digital democracy has yet to realize its potential for deliberative transformation.

• Digital Public Infrastructure

Identifying high-priority policies and needs that could benefit from shared software across jurisdictions.

• local

• Govtech
• Partner networks
• Peer networks

A free, user-friendly, extendable application and API for drone image processing.

• Drones

A nonprofit with a worldwide mission to promote computer user freedom. We defend the rights of all software users.

• Predecessors

The Internet & Racial Justice, from the AfroNet to Black Lives Matter

• books
• racial equity

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Changing our world by building a stronger, more inclusive technology workforce

• User research
• User research groups

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

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

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.

• Govtech
• Learn about civic tech
• Online courses

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

A11yBuddy is the software behind an innovative web portal that empowers everyone to report and track digital accessibility issues.

• Foundational layers
• Assistive and Accessible Tech

FedGeoDay is THE event devoted to "open geospatial ecosystems" (open source software, open/collaborative mapping, open science challenges, and open engagements) that are used to initiate and grow capabilities across the U.S. federal government. 

• Civic data
• Govtech
• Meet the others

A decentralized toolkit for funding your critical software dependencies.

• Build something
• Fundraising tools
• Blockchain

We fund new technologies to cultivate internet freedom.

• Get funding
• Decentralization

Parte del programa Justicia Abierta, este es un proyecto integral de apertura institucional, que comprende un software web que permite a las fiscalías sistematizar las solicitudes de acceso a la información condensando datos procesales, de uso

• Civic data
• Justice tech

FreedomBox is a private server system that empowers regular people to host their own internet services, like a VPN, a personal website, file sharing, encrypted messengers, a VoIP server, a metasearch engine, and much more.

• Digital security and privacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Decentralization

Techno-Activism Third Mondays (TA3M) is an informal meetup designed to connect software creators and activists who are interested in censorship, surveillance, and open technology.

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

We provide research and development to support decision making in the field of sustainable mobility and humanitarian aid. We accomplish this through open geoinformation, open methods, open software and close collaboration with our partners.

• mobility
• Climate action

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mapping

Academic analysis of open data on Github finds it's "one of the largest hosts of open data in the world and has experienced an accelerated growth of open data assets over the past four years."

• Civic data
• Peer-reviewed research
• Open data publishing platforms

O COLAB é um centro de pesquisa que atua também no desenvolvimento de software e na formação de pessoas.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Civic apps outfits

Design of digital services for public administration with people and data at the center

• Govtech
• Build something
• Govtech vendors

The “AI Cyber Challenge” (AIxCC) will challenge competitors across the United States, to identify and fix software vulnerabilities using AI.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Challenges
• Open source supply chain

We help people avoid getting ticketed and towed when they park on the street through simple SMS alerts.

• mobility
• streetscape
• place-based

• Consumer watchdogging
• Service alerts

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

What is a “progressive data” job? Loosely defined as a job where the majority of the role, department, or organization is focused on data or analytics work in the progressive space. This work may include anything from data science and software engineering to sales and staff management.

• partisan

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

Documenting methodologies of digital service teams in state, local, tribal, and territorial government.

• state
• local

• Govtech
• Service delivery
• Supporting public sector from outside government

Polimorphic is the first Constituent Relationship Management (CRM) software specifically built for local governments.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Bureaucracy tech

A comprehensive set of resources to help new techies in government hit the ground running on day one.

• Govtech
• Digital literacy
• Supporting public sector from outside government

TechSoup project: We aim to increase the number of mission-specific tools that can be effectively used by civil society organizations, starting with DWeb solutions.

• Build something
• Decentralization
• DAO (Decentralized autonomous organization)

OSLabs is a nonprofit tech accelerator devoted to furthering high-impact open source software within a collaborative community of dedicated engineers and mentors.

• Build something
• Fellowships
• Accelerators

In the project “reframe[Tech] – Algorithms for the Common Good”, we are committed to ensuring that efforts to develop and use algorithms and artificial intelligence are more closely aligned with the common good.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Algorithmic transparency

Paper by Paolo Cardullo, Ramon Ribera-Fumaz, and Paco González Gil. "In this paper we focus on the platform’s ‘soft infrastructure’ – the network of developers, ethical hackers, academics, maintainers, advocates and activists, and city administrators but also the agreements with the city and the documentation produced – on its internal governance arrangements and the provincialising relationships these might entail."

• Decidim

• Peer-reviewed research
• Academia

A powerful & impactful software that helps manage volunteers and their impact. Signup for a Demo

• Manage volunteers

A state-of-the-art, white-labeled, job marketplace solution for governments and nonprofits. Visit Commons.Jobs

• Job board software

Donation software built by progressives for progressives. We empower progressive causes because we believe that positive change happens when we work together!

• partisan

• Get funding
• Fundraising tools

"Just three days after the war started, Sudanese market intelligence firm DataQ launched a platform called Nidaa (meaning “call for help” in Arabic). It allows people in distress to post their requirements — from money and groceries to medical services and a ride to safety — so volunteers can reach out to them."

• Resource matching and sharing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Mutual aid

Copylefted libre software, used by over 2,500 libre software projects and companies in over 165 countries.

• Translation and linguistic representation
• Translation tools, platforms, and communities

electobox is a secure and easy to use online voting software, capable of conducting elections and referendums of any scale

• Voting and elections
• E-voting and I-voting