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 Center for the Governance of Change at IE University and Microsoft launched AI4Democracy, a global initiative that seeks to create knowledge and mobilize democratic governments, companies and civil society to promote action for a responsible use of artificial intelligence to defend and strengthen democracy.

• Artificial Intelligence
• Research and policy centers
• Academic programs

In collaboration with the U.S. Department of State, IE University is leading Tech4Democracy, a powerful initiative to identify entrepreneurs dedicated to developing technology that will promote and protect democracy worldwide.

• Build something
• Accelerators
• Research and policy centers

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

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

• The People
• Meet the others
• Conferences

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

Fable is digital accessibility, powered by people with disabilities

• Assistive and Accessible Tech
• User research
• User research groups

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

• User research
• User research groups

Sets out best practices and actions online platforms can take to implement more robust support for Human Rights Defenders under threat

• human rights
• reports

• Digital security and privacy
• Foundational layers

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

• Voting and elections
• Civic maps
• Election oversight

Let's build an open, free and community-owned IoT data network for New York!

• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

Extensive land use and geographic data at the tax lot level in comma–separated values (CSV) file format. The PLUTO files contain more than seventy fields derived from data maintained by city agencies.

• land
• cities

• Open government data

This report reviews Citi Bike’s performance to-date and recommends a comprehensive contract overhaul to ensure more reliable and equitable service, with a strategic mix of performance standards, attention to equitable service, and incentives to enable Citi Bike to thrive as a key element of the transportation network – whether under Lyft or a new operator.

• mobility
• cities
• Reduced inequalities

• Civic data
• Data science for social good

We offer family reunification services, a phone buddy program, and basic income pilots for people experiencing homelessness

• homelessness
• social isolation

• Resource matching and sharing
• Access social benefits
• Solidarity networks

CoreData.nyc is New York City’s housing and neighborhoods data hub, presented by the NYU Furman Center.

• housing
• cities

• Data visualization

FPWA’s NYC Funds Tracker monitors New York City’s revenue and the flow to budget expenditures.

• Civic data
• Government transparency
• Data visualization

Maru is a chatbot that helps you tackle online harassment

• anti-harassment
• Gender Equality

• Artificial Intelligence
• Bots

In 2020, the initiative launched a yearly civic innovation and governance training to empower community champions to become lifelong changemakers by developing and scaling solutions for disrupting civic participation and improving governance and social justice in their communities.

• Fellowships

This programme will support 100 people to become Everyday Democracy Champions, in turn catalysing the action of others in communities furthest from power, and creating tangible change across all four UK nations.

• trainings

• Advocacy tech
• Courses
• Civic literacy

This portal makes it easier for citizens to find information on government services and measure service levels in Nigeria.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Government transparency

At the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, we work to speed up and support the transition to a future free from poverty, in which people and planet can flourish.

CivicSpace focuses on building better feedback loops between residents and policymakers to build policies that improve racial and economic equity in Illinois.

• User research
• User research groups

New America Chicago is a nonpartisan policy innovation lab based at The Chicago Community Trust.

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

CivicSearch is a search and discovery tool for everything that is said in local government meetings, texts, and laws. It covers 547 cities and towns in the US and Canada.

• local

• Civic data
• Artificial Intelligence
• Government transparency

Bypass censorship by disguising web traffic. A feature in Tor Browser, Onion Browser, and Orbot.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

The Global Innovations in Democracy: Parliamentary Exchange (GID), led by the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University, and the Center for Democracy Innovation (now part of the National Civic League), was established in 2022 to provide a global forum for legislators to discuss the most innovative methods and tools for gathering input, overcoming divisions, building trust, and gaining public support for public policy.

• Parliamentary and Legislative Tech
• Meet the others
• In-person meetings

Voice Of the People (VOP) is a nonpartisan organization working to re-anchor our democracy in its founding principles by giving ‘We the People’ a greater and more effective voice in government.

• Policy simulators

What might it sound like if a reporter in rural Missouri partnered with a reporter in New York City to together explore contentious issues and uplift common ground?

• students

• Media
• Journalism
• Polarization

An Open Letter To Meta in response to the company shutting down a vital tool for following discourse on Facebook

• 2024 elections
• Facebook

• Specific campaigns
• Media and social media analysis

The Digital Donors Exchange, or DDX, is a community of global digital development funders who are committed to improving the lives of all people through harnessing that power.

• development

• Peer networks
• Tools for Funders

The We’re Right Here campaign is working to build a united movement for community power, spanning places and communities across the UK as well as the political spectrum.

• local

• Participatory democracy
• Specific campaigns
• Decentralization

Design Action Research with Government (DARG) is a guide for creating civic innovation projects.

• guides

• Public Private Partnerships
• Building inside government

We use technology to help social movements build power

• coop

• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns
• Civic apps outfits

Bringing together 50 members of the UK public to deliberate on the use of biometrics technologies like facial recognition.

• Engagement tech
• Emerging tech
• Digital security and privacy

We are proud to announce the launch of our first cohort of Research Fellows, bringing together a small group of multidisciplinary academics, digital development practitioners, and digital rights experts, working at the forefront of digital transformation efforts around the world.

• Climate action
• Gender Equality

• Find a job or hire someone
• Fellowships
• Digital Public Infrastructure

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

Beloved Community offers a number of consulting services to support organizations and communities to drive change within organizations by providing teams with custom coaching and the necessary thought leadership to advance equity journeys.

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion
• Civil society research outfits

City, State, Federal & Public Sector Jobs

• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

It can be tough for government decision makers to find current, reliable information on tried-and-tested technologies. The Exchange solves that problem by serving as a one-stop shop, featuring over 500 digital tools, products and opportunities for government technology decision makers, IT developers, and product vendors.

• Govtech
• Civic tech catalogs
• Marketplaces and clearinghouses

The first virtual DEI assessment for the workplace with an emphasis on mutual accountability.

• racial equity
• Gender Equality

• Foundational layers
• Diversity & Inclusion

Quadrant 2 invents tech for good

• Civic and social impact companies
• Civic apps outfits

An app for tracking political advertisements on Meta-owned advertising platforms such as Facebook and Instagram.

• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Voting and elections

Building spaces to grow the global conversation on environmental data access and use

• Climate action
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Civil society research outfits
• Environmental data

A family of interrelated justice-seeking organizations that both independently and collectively work to reimagine and reconstruct a more inclusive and equitable technology sector.

• Get funding
• Funders & donors
• Foundational layers

Studios are nodes of community, design education, and localized impact within university campuses across the U.S.

• students

• Meet the others
• In-person meetings
• Design

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

This reveals the equivalent cigarette intake based on Air Quality Index (AQI) and exposure time, offering a powerful wake-up call to the health impacts of poor air quality.

• air quality
• Good health and well-being

• Data visualization
• Data science for social good

As part of the 2024 Web Science Conference Brave Conversations again brings together technology, society and politics to explore humanity in the 21st Century