An annual gathering of progressive organizers from across issues and around the country who learn, celebrate, and grow together.

• Conferences

We are a community of tech workers who believe that the tech boom can and should benefit every resident.

• housing

• Adjacent Fields
• Tech for public challenges
• Pro bono and volunteer

Our fellowship gives undergraduate and graduate students a paid opportunity to spend 10-weeks diving head first into Internet policy at leading nonprofits, think tanks and advocacy groups.

• Google

• The People
• Fellowships
• Find a job or hire someone

A crowdsourcing platform, run by volunteers, to share useful and verified information on the Coronavirus pandemic in Italy

• COVID
• Civic crowdfunding platforms
• COVID Engagement Projects

Techtopia is a multidisciplinary research and teaching initiative that brings together Harvard students and faculty around the biggest issues in tech today.

• The People
• Adjacent Fields
• Learn about civic tech

The Democratic Society helps local government and community groups across Scotland to use digital engagement tools for participatory budgeting (PB).

• The Tech
• Participatory budgeting

Open standards for data are reusable agreements that make it easier for people and organisations to publish, access, share and use better quality data. This guidebook helps people and organisations create, develop and adopt open standards for data.

• guides

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Playbooks and design principles

Enable cities and companies to communicate clearly about curb regulations to enable better analysis, planning, and management of public space

• cities
• streetscape

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Data schemas and standards

Flying High is a collaborative engagement with cities, technologists and researchers, regulators, government, public services and citizens to shape the future of urban drone use in the UK to meet local needs.

• The Tech
• The People
• Get funding

A Campaign Against Hate and Prejudice

• racial equity

• Story-based campaigns
• Narrative tech
• Specific campaigns

Our conversations illuminated how cities are using innovation and technology to drive impact against the most pressing challenges to achieve better outcomes for residents.

• cities
• reports

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

Jobs in higher education. Faculty and administrative positions at colleges and universities. Updated daily. Free to job seekers.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Inclusive User Experience Research, Design, and Testing

• The People
• Build something
• User research

The Transit Tech Lab is an accelerator program for startups solving public transportation challenges. Successful companies have an opportunity to pilot their technology with the MTA and transform New York City.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Election Information You Need, sponsored by the League of Women Voters Education Fund

• US Election 2020

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Voting and elections

The City of Amsterdam equipped 700 cyclists with a device that allowed them to ping when encountering a complicated, clumsy or unsafe traffic situation. 31,000 events were registered, which will inform upgrades to their bike network in the coming years.

• cycling
• mobility

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing

Civic engagement for street design

• mobility

• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy
• Digital participation platforms

Tinfoil is a place where we can talk about digital security, privacy, and journalism.

• Media
• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy

NowPow connects people to high quality community resources to help address their chronic health and social conditions or just stay well.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

We found over 300 companies around the world who use data to give political parties insights into who voters are, what they want to hear and how to persuade them

• Adjacent Fields
• Organize campaigns
• Digital security and privacy

Learn from your local government officials & staff about the smart, safe, and sustainable solutions working in their communities

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

An initiative to examine whether and how blockchain technologies can be used for social change.

• Civic tech catalogs
• Tech for public challenges
• Government transparency

The first effort to monitor the performance of Iran’s parliament, often referred to as “Majlis”

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Democracy is a design problem

• US Election 2020

• Voting and elections
• Civic and social impact companies
• Election administration

Design for America is an idea incubator, a motivated community, and a way of approaching complicated challenges. DFA shapes the next generation of social innovators.

• User research
• Courses
• Playbooks and design principles

City of Austin, TX program

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

Open web fellowship hosted by Mozilla

• The Tech
• The People
• Fellowships

The new Media Access Research Atlas is an interactive map of all the places in the country where people live in media deserts – places where it is difficult to access daily, local news and information. The map is part of the Media Deserts Project, a joint research project of the E.W. Scripps School of Journalism, the Department of Geography and the Voinovich School of Leadership and Public Affairs at Ohio University.

• The Tech
• Media
• Civic data

Data Science for Social Good Fellowship is a University of Chicago summer program for aspiring data scientists to work on data mining, machine learning, big data, and data science projects with social impact. Working closely with governments and nonprofits, fellows take on real-world problems in education, health, energy, public safety, transportation, economic development, international development, and more. For three months in Chicago they learn, hone, and apply their data science, AI,analytical, and coding skills, collaborate in a fast-paced atmosphere, and learn from mentors coming from industry and academia.

• The People
• Fellowships
• Data science for social good

#JeSuisAnas seeks to teach, collaborate and work with engaged citizens across Ghana to impact society in a progressive way. An online platform that allows users to record and upload videos of everyday corruption

Knight Foundation's seminal 2013 report on the growing field of Civic Tech

• reports

• Learn about civic tech
• Reports
• Defining the field

Cleveland Park Listserv

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Online forums

An international effort to empower individuals and business to respect privacy, safeguard data and enable trust.

• Digital security and privacy
• Holidays
• Data rights

Helping makers and doers work together to upgrade our city

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

We help government work better for everyone by leading digital transformation.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

Sidewalk Labs is reimagining cities to improve quality of life.

• cities
• mobility

• Civic data
• Civic teams at tech companies

The South African Cities Open Data Almanac (SCODA) is a city-centric data portal that contains data and indicators on issues such as city demographics, productive cities, inclusive cities, sustainable cities and well governed cities. These datasets can help cities by supporting the planning, management, monitoring, and reporting needs of cities.

• cities
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

Based in marginalized neighborhoods in Charlotte, North Carolina, Detroit, Michigan, and Los Angeles, California, we look at digital data collection and our human rights, work with local communities, community organizations, and social support networks, and show how different data systems impact re-entry, fair housing, public assistance, and community development.

• guides
• housing
• racial equity

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital literacy
• Ethical tech and responsible tech

Help your community recover from disasters. A free, easy-to-use website for organizing disaster relief.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Adjacent Fields

With an influential audience of city mayors, urban planners and architects, this is Monocle’s guide to making better cities, be it new technology, state-of-the-art subways or compact apartments.

• podcasts

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Podcasts

The free transparency certification

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

The Social-Digital Innovation Initiative is committed to creating a world where social solutions use technologies meaningfully, are impact driven, sustainable and benefit and belong to those who create them.

• The People
• Build something
• Accelerators

Project Shield uses Google’s infrastructure to protect independent news sites from distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS), a type of digital attack that exploits thousands or even millions of computers to overwhelm a website’s servers and take it offline.

• Google

• The Tech
• Media
• Adjacent Fields

Apply for food stamps in 10 minutes

• Access social benefits

The official home of UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

This resource is developed by and for open government influencers - civil servants and civil society representatives seeking to collaboratively make governance processes transparent, participatory and accountable.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Courses

It's time to forge stronger connections between NYC citizens and city decision makers.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Center for an Urban Future is a catalyst for smart and sustainable policies that reduce inequality, increase economic mobility, and grow the economy in NYC.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Research and policy centers

Reported lets you submit feedback about NYC taxis in 30 seconds. Reported submits this feedback directly to NYC's 311 system and the NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission.

• apps
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the government

The main goal of CiviCERT is to improve the incident response capabilities of NGOs, journalists and involved citizens all around the world.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity