Giving everyone a voice in our democracy

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

DECODE es un proyecto europeo que pretende dar respuesta a la preocupación de las personas sobre la pérdida de control de su información personal en Internet.

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Participatory democracy

Launched by Black Futures Lab in early 2018, the Black Census Project is the largest survey of Black people conducted in the United States since Reconstruction.

• census
• racial equity

• Ideation
• Digital participation platforms
• Surveys & polling

The Whitman Institute advances social, political, and economic equity by funding dialogue, relationship-building, and inclusive leadership.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Balancing Act is a fun and easy way for residents to learn about public budgets and the choices their elected officials face in the budgeting process.

• housing

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

The Boston Area Research Initiative (BARI) is an interuniversity partnership that pursues original urban research on the cutting edge of scholarship and public policy, with an emphasis on opportunities created by novel digital data.

• neighborhoods

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Participatory democracy

We build apps that help communities organize, access, and apply local resources to their most pressing problems.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Emerging Tech Organizations

OpenOakland bridges technology and community for a thriving and equitable Oakland.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

The Michigan Moonshot aims to leverage public and private partnerships to connect everyone in rural Michigan, regardless of geography.

• rural

• Civic data
• Foundational layers
• Crowdsourcing

Baobab Connect provides a set of tools to refer and track cases, manage remote teams and measure impact in the pursuit of access to justice. Baobab Connect allows organizations to:Track referrals - referrals are a crucial component of access to justice.. Keep track of all inbound and outbound cases and keep your clients in the loop; Report and Measure - Reports are one of those things we just can’t get away from. Baobab Connect makes it easy to measure the work being done by your team; Maintain Security & Privacy - Using personal emails and IM clients means your clients confidentiality is at risk. Using a centralized system means better control over privileged data.

To have been major transformations in global media infrastructure, the platformization of the Internet, and the ubiquity of the mobile phone.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

Open source Open Government and E-Participation Web Software

• CONSUL

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Peak Democracy Inc is a nonpartisan company that provides Open Town Hall - a cloud-based online citizen engagement platform that increases participation and builds public trust in government.

• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

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

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

As of October 2014, the Yale University Open Data Access (YODA) Project is enabling scientists across the world to gain access to the company’s clinical trial data assets.

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

(PDF) Thinking about GovTech (2019) introduces the concept of GovTech and identifies eight activities that policymakers can undertake to foster national GovTech innovation ecosystems and help to steer them towards positive outcomes for citizens and public administrators.

• reports

• Govtech
• Reports

Google Map Maker officially closed on March 31, 2017, and many of its features are being integrated into Google Maps.Since 2008, the Google Map Maker community has edited and moderated millions of f

• Google

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Graveyard

OpenGov’s comprehensive open data and financial transparency solutions help agencies of all sizes drive accountability, make data more useful, engage the public, and unlock economic potential. OpenGov is the first complete cloud solution for public sector budgeting, operational performance, and citizen engagement.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data visualization

Between 2015 and 2020, Doteveryone helped to provoke change in how tech is made and used so that it serves a fair, inclusive and sustainable democratic society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

CivLab is a suite of complementary projects and design-thinking that revolve around the concepts of citizenship, civics, and engagement.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

A film about civic hackers and digital humanitarians responding to crises

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

Celebrating Partnerships that Strengthen America

• youth

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Civic literacy

Wazimap provides useful facts about places in South Africa

• census

• Civic data
• Civic maps

We are civic tech collaboration that partners with the community to design technology-driven programs and services.

• The People
• Build something
• Meet the others

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

One of the key factors in a Nation’s democratic success is how engaged and inclusive her Government is. However, the health of any democratic society may be measured by the levels of engagement and inclusion of the private citizen. The Civic Hub is modelled as an accelerator to help social or civil intervention grow into systems for Citizens’ – Government engagement.

• Build something
• Accelerators

Fannie Mae serves the people who house America. We are a leading source of financing for mortgage lenders and our financing makes sustainable homeownership and workforce rental housing a reality for millions of Americans.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Tunabakonzi is not an official site of the Congolese Government. It is a site built with the support of OSISA by Collectif 24, a platform of Congolese civil society organizations that advocates for the transparency of public action, citizen participation through the promotion and protection of civil society. right of access to information and freedom of expression. The site is built to help anyone like you to have information held by the Congolese authorities at the local, provincial and national levels. No more traveling to access public information.

• Graveyard
• Freedom of Information

A global measure of how governments are publishing and using open data for accountability, innovation and social impact. Last published in 2016.

• Civic data
• Report cards and audits

A community of female drone pilots, enthusiasts, content creators and innovators. Fly, learn and contribute with us!

• Drones
• Emerging Tech Organizations

The home for civic tech in New York City

• Hubs

MediaLab for Women provides journalists with training on how to manage gender-related open data and with support to investigate gender inequality in French speaking Africa. This project is making use of innovative content to raise awareness of gender and open data issues among journalists and civil populations in four countries.

• Solutions journalism

Polk Bros. Foundation focuses its work at the intersection of Chicago's most pressing issues to address the complex roots and devastating effects of poverty, and to challenge inequity. Learn more.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

By leveraging the collective bargaining power of our members, The Movement Cooperative provides best-in-class data and technology resources that match the needs of progressive organizations at the cheapest possible price point.

• coop
• partisan

• The People
• Civic data
• Advocacy tech

SUPPORTING INTERNET FREEDOM WORLDWIDE Without Fear of Repressive Censorship or Surveillance.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Get funding

DeepFreeze is a journalism reference resource, conceived to supply a reader with easily-digested information to determine the reliability of an individual writer or outlet.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Code With Aloha is a volunteer group of developers, designers, project managers, and community members who gather to work on civic projects that help the community.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Social Pinpoint provides a flexible suite of digital tools to enhance your community and stakeholder engagement.

• Participatory democracy
• Data visualization
• Civic and social impact companies

The Barr Foundation is a private, Boston-based foundation with core programs in Arts & Creativity, Climate, and Education.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Empowering rural communities with digital education

• rural

• Digital literacy
• Hardware

Code for Orlando is a community searching for technological solutions to social challenges.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

It is an opportunity to engage New Yorkers in the information that is produced and used by City government.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Holidays

Placelet is a system for collecting, analyzing and visualizing data on the human experience of urban places.

• cities
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Graveyard

The Civic Cloud provides the raw infrastructure upon which to build the rest, or at least many, of the remaining services that might be needed or wanted.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Make the Breast Pump not Suck Hackathon

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

Public People makes news more effective at supporting accountability and democracy. It does this by showing news about a person of political or civic interest in reverse chronological order. Presenting historical articles in this way helps you find articles that you might not otherwise find easily; it lets you see how the conversation about someone changes over time; and it lets you see how one publication differs from another in angle on the same story.

• Media

Engagement platform by the City of Athens

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

It has played an essential role in achieving the United Nations global goals for social, economic and environmental sustainability.

• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Given the transformative potential of technology, OpenSTL invites civic geeks of all stripes, from developers to community leaders, to come together to use technology and data to improve the lives of everyone in St. Louis.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Learn about design thinking, justice innovation, and legal tech and apply them to the challenge of developing products and services that yield better justice outcomes.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech