Research, training, support and awards to promote citizen-centred public sector service to Canadians

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

Ljubljana, Slovenia based civic tech NGO, focusing efforts on (digital) political participation, open data, transparency, and public institutional oversight.

• Participatory democracy
• Fight disinformation
• Artificial Intelligence

IDinsight is a mission-driven global advisory, data analytics, and research organization that helps global development leaders maximize their social impact.

• Data science for social good
• Evaluate impact

Advancing the ethical and responsible use of data to address critical development challenges both globally and locally

• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers
• Civil society research outfits

Hope-based communications is a pragmatic approach to winning support for policies and advocacy positions by showing how they will work. Hope-based communications acts on the principle that we should be focused on building the world we want, setting the agenda with our values, our goals, our mission.

• Narrative tech
• Story-based campaigns

Tech policy leadership and scholarship, advancing ethical practices in support of emerging technologies

• Digital security and privacy
• Research and policy centers
• Legal tech

The Global Fact Check Fund will award grants in an open competition for one or a series of programs to support third-party organizations in strengthening the capabilities of fact-checking organizations across the world.

• Fight disinformation
• Get funding
• Factchecking

Workshop at CHI'23 on April 28th, 2023 in Hamburg, Germany

• Conferences

The municipality has been organising the Hâck The Hague hacking competition since 2017. During Hâck The Hague ethical hackers try to penetrate the municipality's computer systems. This is how they test the digital security of The Hague.

• Cybersecurity
• Supporting public sector from outside government

A catalog of over 500 resources filterable by language, type of support, and resource type

• Advocacy tech
• Civic tech catalogs

Using High-Altitude Balloons [and drones] for Decision Support in Wildfire Operations

• fires

• Emerging tech
• Drones
• Emergency services

The AnNahar newspaper used its paper and ink to provide election ballots instead

• 2023 Webby Awards

• Media
• Voting and elections
• Specific campaigns

The Be There Certificate is a free, self-paced learning experience designed to increase mental health literacy and provide you with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to safely support anyone who may be struggling with their mental health.

• mental health
• 2023 Webby Awards

• Online courses

Connecting Worlds is an App from UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, that facilitates meaningful connections to support the next generation of refugee students.

• Quality education
• Reduced inequalities
• refugees

• Resource matching and sharing

"We created the foundation in 2016 - economists, IT and communication specialists - to support the development of free digital tools necessary for community decision-making, and to operate such tools." (Translated)

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Civic apps outfits

Welcome Humanitarian Data & Digital Enthusiasts! Here You Can Find All Things Related To Data & Digital.

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Digital transformation

Public Sector Budgeting Software

• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech
• Internal budgeting tools

JournalismAI [at LSE] is a global initiative that empowers news organisations to use artificial intelligence responsibly.

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers

Free online courses supported by the Google News Initiative.

• trainings

• Media
• Artificial Intelligence

We are a non-profit think/do tank supporting founders and the startup ecosystem in building more equitable, world-positive tech companies.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Building in the private sector

ICLD’s mission is to support democratic participation and change at the local level.

• Participatory democracy
• Citizen Engagement

This toolbox provides support to local governments that are interested in creating a Citizens Budget. It contains the basic steps in the process and inspiring examples, which fully equips the reader to start developing their own Citizen Budget.

• Govtech
• Budget explorers

Digital for Good. Wir denken Nachhaltigkeit und Digitalisierung zusammen.

• Media
• Journalism
• Solutions journalism

The Evidence Mapping project aimed to create a common, up-to-date evidence/ knowledge base about civic tech in the African context, to improve support, decision-making and advocacy in relation to civic tech (including more broadly civil society innovation, tech for good and digital governance).

• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

Democracy is in danger, and urgently needs people to defend it. Our 10-month civic leadership programme for young activists will help fight the democratic decline.

• Build something
• Accelerators

The Standard for Public Code - a model for public organizations to build their own open source solutions to enable successful future reuse by and collaboration with similar public organizations in other places.

• Govtech
• Data schemas and standards
• State and regional government technology

GetVolunteering enables you to triage volunteers into clinical and non-clinical roles to support the fight against COVID-19.

• COVID Engagement Projects
• Manage volunteers

At the heart of Newspeak House is its residential programme, running since 2015. Seven residents spend a year immersed in these communities, enjoying the chance to meet thousands of people and attend events held on their doorstep.

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships

Data about Africa for Africa

• Civic data

We offer tailored UX coaching to help you and your team build usable, well-designed tools.

• coaching

• The People
• Build something

Because OpenStreetMap is a crowd-sourcing project where everyone can freely contribute to the map, the Humanitarian OpenStreetMap Team has devised measures to support high-quality crowd-sourced OSM data.

• guides
• earthquakes

• Crowdsourcing
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Manage volunteers

We use science and technology to tackle today’s most pressing public health issues.

• Good health and well-being

• Media
• Media and social media analysis
• Narrative tech

"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
• Academia

Powered by the University of Colorado Denver, Colorado Smart Cities Alliance, and Innosphere Ventures, the Smart Futures Lab will provide a business incubator and accelerator for companies looking for support launching and growing in the smart cities space.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Incubators

The Journal of Deliberative Democracy (formerly the Journal of Public Deliberation) is an open access journal publishing articles that shape the course of scholarship on deliberative democracy.

• Participatory democracy
• Learn about civic tech
• Academia

The UK Humanitarian Innovation Hub (UKHIH) will promote and support strategic and focused collaborations across government, science, private and humanitarian actors to drive urgently needed innovations and technologies in humanitarian responses to disasters and conflict.

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

Aim: to improve outcomes for people affected by humanitarian crises by identifying, nurturing and sharing more effective and scalable solutions.

• Adjacent Fields
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

The Public Technology Leadership Collaborative (PTLC) is a new peer learning collective of scholars, researchers, and government leaders committed to addressing the social and cultural implications of data and technology.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia

After the 2022 midterms, the Cooperative Impact Lab published initial findings for the Digital Innovation Fund, telling the story of how, in just four months, we stood up and administered one of the most extensive research-grant programs focused on TikTok’s uses for progressive politics and social good.

• TikTok
• reports

• Advocacy tech
• Media and social media analysis
• Creators and Influencers

The Biden Administration's approach to human-centered design to re-orient government around a core set of "life experience" personas

• Govtech
• Access social benefits
• Design

IT for Change’s Namma Mahiti Kendras are ICT-enabled information centers that aim to break down the barriers to citizens’ right-claiming processes.

• place-based

• Engagement tech
• Communicating with the people
• Access social benefits

UN Mappers is a community of mapping enthusiasts collaborating to collect, validate and disseminate geospatial open data in areas where the United Nations carries out field operations with the goal of supporting the decision-making process with more accurate location-based data.

• OpenStreetMap

• Mapping
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech
• Pro bono and volunteer

We are building an infrastructure for digital academic credentials that can support the education systems of the future.

• Quality education

• Adjacent Fields
• Open science

Boston Review’s Black Voices in the Public Sphere Fellowship  is designed to prepare and support a more diverse generation of  journalists, editors, and publishers.

• Media
• Fellowships

Pushing the Boundaries of Scientific Innovation to Create a Smarter, Sustainable, and Resilient Future for Communities

• Govtech
• Foundation initiatives
• Public Private Partnerships

We run weekly(ish) civic hacknights for everyone.

• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Hate speech tool for monitoring, analysing and tackling Anti-Muslim hatred online

• hate speech

• Media
• Media and social media analysis

Core science and tech policy trainings open to US government staff

• trainings

• Govtech
• Supporting public sector from outside government
• Tech or Digital Policy

CHSR is dedicated to developing empirically-based knowledge to improve the design and delivery of services that address social issues and meet community needs in the Capital region, across New York State, and across the United States.

• Research and policy centers
• Academia
• Service delivery

The Uganda Response Innovation Lab (Uganda RIL) was founded in 2018 by Save the Children Uganda. The main objective of the lab is to support the humanitarian response to 1.4 million refugees from eight East African countries, mainly from the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan, and their host communities across 13 districts in the country through innovative approaches, systems, technologies and products.

• refugees

• Disaster response and humanitarian tech