by Pew Charitable Trusts

• state

• Connectivity

Websites for local candidates disappear after elections. We’re going to save them.

• Specific campaigns
• Archives

A human-centered investigation by The OpenGov Foundation into the systems, tools, constraints, and people who drive constituent engagement in Congress.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

NationStates is a free nation simulation game. Build a nation and run it according to your own warped political ideals

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

by @authoritycollective. Do No Harm

• guides

• The Tech
• Media
• Advocacy tech

A new initiative from the Tech Talent Project and AnitaB.org to bring 10,000 technologists into the public sector across state, local, and federal government by the end of 2021

• Find a job or hire someone
• Recruitment campaigns
• Professional associations

The online voting software used by millions around the world. Technology responsibles from multiple organizations have chosen nVotes to run their elections · Secure online voting system · Run polls in minutes and increase voter participation · Create your election fast and easy with our election management tool.

• Bureaucracy tech

The New York Times beta Android app appears to be experimenting with a GoFundMe link to help readers touched by a story give back. Newspapers have run fundraising drives for local residents for years,...

• The Tech
• Media
• Solutions journalism

Broadband connectivity is crucial for access to the modern economy, as well as engagement in contemporary civic and political life. Without adequate study of the availability of broadband connectivity, policymakers are left in the dark as they design programs to modernize communications infrastructure and ensure that telecommunications companies provide broadband/Internet service at the minimum speeds required to take full advantage of online resource.

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Connectivity

Using deliberative democracy models to inform city decision making and to connect organizations and districts around NYC’s

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This site tracks COVID-19 testing data and hospital bed availability over time in the city of Chicago.

• health
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• COVID Data Projects

• youth

• Adjacent Fields
• Foundational layers
• Civic literacy

Track bills, review legislation, research data & see how your representatives are voting.

• state

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

The New York Times asked officials in every state and the District of Columbia about their reporting processes and what share of votes they expect to be counted by noon on Wednesday, Nov. 4. Here’s what they said to expect.

• Voting and elections
• Election observation

Across the globe, government teams are pioneering new ways to solve our biggest challenges. States of Change is a collective that exists to support this growing global movement

• trainings

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

We seek to unlock the possibility inside every individual. We see equal value in all lives. And so we are dedicated to improving the quality of life for individuals around the world. From the education of students in Chicago, to the health of a young mother in Nigeria, we are catalysts of human promise everywhere.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

As a healthcare provider, lab, or other business, follow these steps to submit information on COVID-19 testing locations that Apple may display to its users.

• civic features
• Apple

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Civic maps

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Data science for social good

CUTgroup gives residents the opportunity to be a part of the design process for emerging civic technology initiatives through user testing and focus groups

• The People
• Graveyard
• Build something

Here we discuss two pillars of a Citizens’ Assembly website: its design and editorial principles; and the information that should be included.

• guides

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Digital participation platforms

@unitedstates is a shared commons of data and tools for the United States.

• The Tech
• Communicating with the government

The United States Digital Service is transforming how the federal government works for the American people. And we need you.

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

In partnerships with local and international organisations, each GTI has further developed specific facilitation methodologies and training contents addressing the risks, attacks and contexts faced by activist women in the region.

• indigenous
• LGBTQI
• trainings

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

A comprehensive study that examines best practices, policies and progress made by state governments in their use of digital technologies to better serve their citizens and streamline operations.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Vote at home? Or at uni? An election is coming and it matters where you register. Enter your home and uni postcodes to find out where your vote will make the biggest impact for Labour. Made by Momentum.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Building an open data commons of health facility data with OpenStreetMap

• COVID-19
• health
• OpenStreetMap

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Disaster response and humanitarian tech

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• SMS tools

Das Institut für Protest- und Bewegungsforschung (ipb) will der sozialwissenschaftlichen Forschung zu Protesten, sozialen Bewegungen und ihrem Wechselverhältnis zur Demokratie einen Ort geben.

• The Tech
• The People
• Advocacy tech

Free and Open Company Data on 135 million companies and corporations in over 125 jurisdictions, including US, UK, Switzerland, Panama...

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

This is an exploratory overview of current and upcoming sources of data, processing pipelines, and data products. It is aimed at helping non-experts explore and harness the unfolding revolution of Earth observation, with an emphasis on understanding current capabilities and project development considerations.

• agriculture
• forests

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Hardware

Le collectif Regards Citoyens est une association constituée de citoyens de tous âges et régions, tous bénévoles, qui se sont rencontrés sur Internet dans un désir commun de proposer un accès simplifié au fonctionnement de nos institutions démocratiques à partir des informations publiques.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Connecting coronavirus relief and aid orgs with support

• Pro bono and volunteer
• Help out
• Nonprofit tech

Take Back Tech is a gathering for organizers, advocates, academics, and workers who are looking for a space to deepen the connections and strategies we'll need to combat technology's worst harms.

• Meet the others
• Conferences

The only global launch pad for non-partisan political leadership incubators.

• Civic literacy
• Accelerators

An easy tool to host a quadratic vote.

• E-voting and I-voting
• Democratic Innovations
• Quadratic voting

Diagnosing perceived and actual risks impeding responsible AI acquisition in government

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Procurement

This update allows you to create professional-grade press releases in a matter of minutes with minimal effort and editing.

• Govtech
• Artificial Intelligence
• Communicating with the people

Voteview allows users to view every congressional roll call vote in American history on a map of the United States and on a liberal-conservative ideological map including information about the ideological positions of voting Senators and Representatives.

• Civic data
• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

TextOut has been trusted by hundreds of candidates and organizations across the U.S. since 2018.

• partisan

• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

An affordable voter file perfect for civic engagement and grassroots organizing

• partisan

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Voter outreach

Turbo Phonebank turns any Google Sheet into a phonebank or textbank with 2-tap calling, follow-up texts to increase your contact rate, and a caller-friendly interface.

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Peer to peer SMS

CLJE:Lab is the policy and legal innovation lab at Harvard Law School’s Center for Labor and a Just Economy – where our ideas for building worker power and strengthening democracy hit the ground.

• labor

• Academia
• Innovation teams and labs

The Digital Sandbox offers General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant datasets in a secure environment, mentorship from industry experts and access to the FinTech Community to help enable experimentation and scaling for proof of concepts.

• fintech

• Govtech
• Civic data
• Testbeds and Sandboxes

By Aure Schrock. Out in September. The first detailed history of Code for America that examines how democratically designed government systems can collectively improve technology's impact on society.

• books

• Learn about civic tech
• Books
• Civic tech community surveys

We use sustainable innovation to solve bottlenecks, accelerate impact, and improve health, focusing on the most neglected problems and people.

• Good health and well-being

• Innovation teams and labs

AI-powered database where you can search California's legislators, lobbyists, donors, gifts, travel, bills, transcripts, videos, supporters, and organizations

• state

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Government transparency
• Parliamentary and congressional monitoring

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

We are a global collaborative Internet of Things ecosystem that creates networks, devices and solutions using LoRaWAN®.

• Emerging tech
• Peer networks
• Smart Cities and sensors

8-month pilot to test 12 computer-vision sensors across four boroughs of NYC to employ machine vision and improve street-level data collection and improve planning decisions

• cities
• mobility
• streetscape

• Artificial Intelligence
• Urban planning
• Machine vision