The Soft Robotics Toolkit grew out of research conducted at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin which focused on developing better instructional kits for hands-on design courses (Dónal P. Holland et al. 2014).

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy

For the first time, city leaders can track the real-time pulse of how every neighborhood feels about trust and safety, and develop strategies for their improvement.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Justice tech

Did Facebook ads win the presidency for Donald Trump? Did they cause Brexit? Are they changing the way democracy works? Install Who Targets Me to find out who’s using Facebook ads to win your vote – and how they’re doing it.

• extensions

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Advertising

Welkom op Apps For Ghent, de site voor de Gentse Open Data community. Dit is een samenwerking tussen de Stad Gent, Open Knowledge België en het Ghent Living Lab. Apps for Ghent wil via projecten, events en co-creatie het potentieel van open data in Gent maximaal benutten en de mogelijkheden ervan bij zoveel mogelijk mensen bekend maken.

• The People
• Build something
• Civic hackathons

The Transformative Cyber Innovation Lab (TCIL or Lab) will find and nurture technologically feasible, testable pilot projects which begin to solve some of the hardest cyber problems afflicting the national security industrial base and our country.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

New York City partnered with behavioral economics firm ideas42 and the University of Chicago Crime Lab to test simple “nudges” to get people to court; text reminders improved appearance rates, resulting in thousands fewer arrest warrants

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Organize campaigns

The Tiziano Project provides community members in conflict, post-conflict, and underreported regions with the equipment, training, and affiliations necessary to report their stories and improve their lives.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Graveyard

We are the place where social sector professionals gain the data skills they need to succeed.

• trainings

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Graveyard

An online forum for community discussion

• The People
• Meet the others
• Socialize online

Envisio helps governments achieve greater transparency & accountability by making it easy to track and report on strategic plan.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Bureaucracy tech

EasyVote Solutions delivers a SaaS platform to city, county and state election offices to help manage the process of running elections.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

Monitoring Thai Elections with Citizen Engagement

• Voting and elections
• Election oversight

The Liane project is a box of technologies and methodologies open to promote political renewal campaigns in Latin America, which organizes the intelligence that has been produced in the field and provides digital technologies with the objective of increasing the competitiveness of low-cost and high-level electoral campaigns intensity.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic tech catalogs

THE CODING SCHOOL FOR REFUGEES IN BELGIUM

• refugees

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Foundational layers

Voice of Kibera is a citizen reporting platform. The project is an initiative of Map Kibera and uses the Ushahidi platform to aggregate and map citizen reports. The platform aggregates local citizen reports from the Kibera community media and other relevant news and information. In partnership with various local organizations, the Map Kibera team (http://mapkibera.org/) launched Voice of Kibera to visualize reporting in and about Kibera (one of the largest slums in Africa). The platform acts as a social reporting platform used to enhance resilience through community-led actions. It has become a dataset about the challenges faced by Kibera’s residents, the existing services and capacity (e.g. clinics, schools, water resources), and other relevant news and information about the area. Via a simple web-based reporting system, citizens of Kibera can report incidents, from security presence, to health, education, and natural disasters.

• Media
• Hyperlocal news and citizen media

The Campaign to Stop Killer Robots is a growing global coalition of 165 international, regional, and national non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in 65 countries that is working to preemptively ban fully autonomous weapons.

• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Partner networks
• Drones

Simple PGP for teams

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

RankedVote is the easiest way to create ranked-choice voting polls on any device.

• Voting and elections
• Ranked Choice Voting
• Surveys & polling

Welcome to the Ford Foundation. We envision a just, fair, and peaceful world with opportunity for all

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

FixMyTransport was a mySociety project running from 2011 to 2015. It allowed passengers to send complaints directly to transport operators.

• mass transit
• mobility

• Graveyard
• Communicating with the government
• Communicating with the people

The Civic Media Codesign Studio was a service-learning, project-based studio course where students partner with community-based organizations to create civic media projects grounded in real-world needs.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

We want to support and strengthen the community of activists and advocacy organisations pushing for the transparency that is needed for citizens around the world to follow the money

• Watchdogging and transparency

A quest for friendship with a humanoid robot turned into a rabbit-hole of questions and an examination of the codification of social, cultural and future histories at the intersection of technology, race, gender and social equity.

• The Tech
• The People
• Artificial Intelligence

Mark43 is reinventing public safety software applications from the ground up, delivering unparalleled efficiency gains to first responders.

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

We gather citizen voices to improve public services

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Participatory democracy

More than half of the world now lives in urban areas. In the U.S., urban dwellers are the vast majority of the population. What does it mean to live in a city today? What are the challenges for cities going forward? NPR explores urban life in the 21st century.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• News and blogs

BudgIT is a civic organization that applies technology to intersect citizen engagement with institutional improvement, to facilitate societal change.

• Watchdogging and transparency
• Budget explorers

Racial literacy is a new method for addressing the racially disparate impacts of technology.

• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Ethical tech and responsible tech
• Foundational layers

NYC Planning Labs builds open, impactful, modern technology tools for urban planners

• The People
• Build something
• Public sector innovation labs

Help us find the world’s electoral boundaries!

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

The playful, city wide system that lets you talk to street furniture.

• cities

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Ma3Route is a mobile/web/SMS platform that crowd-sources for transport data and provides users with information on traffic, matatu directions and driving reports. Ma3Route aims to make traveling easier in developing countries by democratizing timely transport information. We hope to bring greater sanity to the roads and inform city planning and transport regulation in emerging economies through the provision of transport data and trend analysis.

Flux is a new political party designed to connect Australians directly to Parliament and change politics forever!

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Graveyard

Innovating for democracy

• workshops

• Meet the others
• Watchdogging and transparency
• Data science for social good

The Code for America API. Tracks and motivates activity and participation across the civic technology movement.

• The Tech
• Civic data APIs

Are you looking for a meaningful volunteer opportunity? Code for PDX is here to help.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

EDGI is an action-oriented research collaborative driven by the Environmental Right to Know (ERTK) – the belief that people should be able to know and make decisions about environmental conditions of concern, and that the collection and stewardship of environmental information should equip people, communities, and workers to protect their health and support the flourishing of surrounding ecosystems.

• Sustainable cities and communities

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Watchdogging and transparency

The hottest news topics, the most credible stories - across the political spectrum.

• Media
• Fight disinformation
• Filter bubble poppers

TAKING A HEARING ON THE SPOT

• The Tech
• Govtech

Code for Bloomington is an official Code for America Brigade in Bloomington, IN working on projects with government and community partners to improve people’s lives.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Public.Ideavibes gives you the power to engage your community or participate in what matters to you.

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

Tracer is our weekly newsletter that tracks the evolution of synthetic media technologies, weaponised misinformation, and new cybersecurity threats.

• The Tech
• The People
• Media

The Center for Countering Digital Hate's primary goal is to disrupt alliances between hate actors and political parties actors in digital spaces.

• harassment
• hate speech

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

DebateArt is a unique and growing community committed to the idea of exchanging views and perspectives through debating.

• Civic forums
• Debate

Presolv360 is an online dispute prevention service that aims to prevent legal disputes and litigation. The Presolv forAll service is available as a free service for underprivileged members of the society.

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Legal tech

Gain access to the top equity crowdfunding deals on Crowdfunder. Find deals to invest in and get direct access to CEO's.

• commercial

• The Tech
• Participatory democracy
• Engagement tech

The resistance is local—welcome! Type in your zip code to find local, independent Indivisible groups in your area that have agreed to organize according to Indivisible’s principles. Come prepared to make plans for action and meet others who are working to resist Trump’s agenda. Register a group

• Adjacent Fields
• Specific campaigns
• Distributed campaigns

Follow air quality in your city in real-time, and protect yourself from pollution thanks to our personalized advice and hourly forecasts.

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Smart Cities and sensors

"the first comprehensive analysis of data-driven citizen scoring in the public sector in the UK"

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Artificial Intelligence