Advancing peace through social innovation

• Build something
• Incubators

We bring together government, industry, and communities to unleash creativity and solve national challenges.

• census

• The People
• Build something
• Innovation teams and labs

A fast way to get digitally safe & secure.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

An online forum for community discussion

• The Tech
• The People
• Civic data

Apptorney is a platform agnostic mobile application that uses natural language processing and content indexing and categorization to provide user friendly search functionality to its users. Utilizing a dynamic search engine, users are able to navigate and search through resources that are relevant to their needs such as Legislation, Subsidiary Legislation, Fields of Law and Case Law. These are all individually indexed, cross-referenced and linked within the comprehensive master database, giving the user complete access to all relevant resources, including a lawyers/ firm repository, in one tool

18 - 20 November 2019 in Rotterdam

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

The BlocPower Smart Cities platform connects investors and community members to green building projects that save energy and improve health outcomes in financially underserved communities.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Resource matching and sharing

The Tech Policy Lab at the University of Washington brings together experts in law, information, and computer science to enhance technology policy.

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

Citizen Engagement tools and services for city governments

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Reading lists

Backfence was a place for community news and info written by you and your neighbors

• The Tech
• Media
• Graveyard

Meditect offers an innovative mobile solution which combines blockchain and artificial intelligence to allow pharmacists and patients to scan their medicines and thus ensure their authenticity.

• Good health and well-being

• Tech for public challenges

Free Wi-Fi should really be free

• The Tech
• Adjacent Fields
• Emerging tech

The Lawyers Hub exists to provide a nexus between Law and Technology and uses technology as a leverage and improve access to justice and the business of law. Community of Lawyers in Africa promoting Access to Justice through Innovation and Technology.

• Civic data

Code For New Mexico is not-for-profit, volunteer-driven community outreach that improves people’s lives through technology. We believe in putting technology to work in service of our local communities to better the lives of our citizenry.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Posters and social media resources for Canva users

• print resources

• COVID
• COVID Engagement Projects

Readie was a European digital policy centre that promoted digital policies that benefit society and drive economic growth.

• The Tech
• The People
• Govtech

Kremlin Watch is a strategic program of the European Values Center for Security Policy which aims to expose and confront instruments of Russian influence and disinformation operations focused against Western democracies.

• The Tech
• Media
• Fight disinformation

Documenting Police Tech in Our Communities

• racial equity
• surveillance

• The Tech
• Emerging tech
• Drones

The Parker Foundation was founded on October 5, 1971 for charitable purposes leading to the betterment of life for all people of San Diego County.

• The People
• Get funding
• Funders & donors

Browse our community’s project directory to identify where you can volunteer.

• The Tech
• The People
• Learn about civic tech

Leveraging open civic data and technology to improve access to local government, and community services.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Civic hacking meetups

Reach the right people at the right time with our Political Phone Banking, Robocalls, Peer to peer texting, and Text Broadcasting Software. CallHub is available in 200+ countries.

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Organize campaigns

A research paper aiming to determine which standards for civic data are “best” to open up government data.

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

Open Data portal for the City of Ghent

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals

As the winner of the U.S. Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Smart City Challenge, we’ve been offered a unique opportunity: $50 million in grant funding from the USDOT and Paul G. Allen Philanthropies to discover how we can accelerate human progress through open mobility.

• mobility

• The People
• Build something
• Playbooks and design principles

The Civic Tech Innovation Network newsletter and online magazine is produced by the journalism and media lab, university of the witwatersrand, johannesburg

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

Data & Policy is a peer-reviewed, open access venue dedicated to the potential of data science to address important policy challenges.

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Peer-reviewed research

SUDPAY is a startup specialized in Mobility and Ticketing Solutions. It develops service platforms and electronic payment platforms adapted to African realities.

• Emerging Tech Tools

Crisis Text Line is the free, 24/7, confidential text message service for people in crisis. Text HOME to 741741 in the United States.

• mental health
• youth
• Good health and well-being

• The Tech
• The People
• Engagement tech

“Marsad Baladia” , or the Municipality Observatory, was launched in January 2014, aiming to monitor municipal activity through access to information, and to present it in a clear and updated manner. The project also aims to strengthen the link between the municipality and citizens,

• cities

• The Tech
• Advocacy tech
• Watchdogging and transparency

AppCivist is a platform for democratic assembly and collective action.

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Now you can be an angel investor

• The Tech
• Engagement tech
• Participatory democracy

Assisting low- and moderate-income individuals and families to move from the Crisis of poverty to being able to make real Choices in their lives through the practical application of innovative technology, public policy expertise, and community outreach.

• Graveyard
• Access social benefits

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
• Build something
• Graveyard

Building 21st Century Government with Technology Talent

• The People
• Fellowships
• Building inside government

The Kit offers a set of self-diagnostic tools for human rights defenders, bloggers, activists and journalists facing attacks themselves, as well as providing guidelines for digital first responders to assist a person under threat.

• Adjacent Fields
• Digital security and privacy
• Cybersecurity

Race to the White House was a program that used GPS technology and Geocaching to create a game to engage the public in a conversation about the presidential election and to discuss issues that were important to participating youth and their community.

• The Tech
• Media
• Games and gamification

Collaborative, real-time incident response tool for first responders.

• apps
• fires

• Civic data
• Tech for public challenges
• Crowdsourcing

award-winning investigative journalism

• Watchdogging and transparency

Design Gigs for Good is a free community-driven resource to help more people use the tools of design to create positive social change.

• The People
• Find a job or hire someone
• Job boards

The Art of Data exhibit represented a unique visual perspective on the data that drives decisions and improvements in Kansas City.

• cities

• Specific campaigns
• Artistic interventions

The Displacement Alert Project uses data and information visualization tools to proactively identify buildings that are facing a high risk of displacement. With this information, community organizations, decision markers, and local residents can push back with outreach, education, organizing strategies, and policy change.

• housing

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Communicating with the people

We believe that with a better understanding of what future social and environmental challenges and opportunities might look like, and of how digital technologies might evolve in the near future, we stand a better chance of achieving our more positive vision for the future.

• workshops

• The People
• Learn about civic tech
• Civic imagination

Fighting air inequality through open data and community

• air quality
• Sustainable cities and communities

• Civic data
• Open data publishing portals
• Open civic data

Ciklograd je web servis kojim želimo dapovećamo informisanost, bezbjednost i brojnost učesnika u biciklističkom saobraćaju u Podgorici.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Engagement tech

The Code for America Brigade Network is a national alliance of community organizers, developers, and designers that are putting technology to work in service of our local communities.

• The People
• Meet the others
• Graveyard

Veovo instantly measures the number of passengers moving through a subway station to identify crowding and make service more efficient. The MTA can use this information to improve the deployment of staff to stations, change train distribution and plan more efficient station design.

• mass transit
• mobility

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Civic data

Most of these trainings include slides, an outline, and the appropriate worksheets, so you can either adapt the trainings for your own audience, or go through the training yourselves.

• trainings

• The Tech
• Organize campaigns

The Aadhaar project also has a sinister side to it -- it is a surveillance-enabling programme, which threatens privacy and democratic practice.

• The Tech
• Govtech
• Specific campaigns

CommonSpace is a map-based data collection mobile application that makes it easier to record observations of human activities in open spaces — a method known as public life studies.

• apps
• urban planning

• The Tech
• Civic data
• Crowdsourcing