Explore the economic, social, environmental, and physical health of New York City across race/ethnicity, gender, location, and income.
Exploring the impact of new technologies on questions of social, racial, and economic justice
The Centre for Community Development in Zimbabwe (CCDZ) was formed in June 2004 with a mission to promote democratic citizen participation in governance and strengthen the capacity of communities to cope with human rights and development challenges through holding civic forums, leadership engagement, research, outreach and mobilization for social change.
The award-winning Center for Public Integrity is one of the oldest and largest non-profit news organisations in the United States.
Code for Japan's Slack has more than 5,500 people interested in Civic Tech. Participants are diverse, including engineers, designers, civil servants, students, researchers, and NPOs. No special qualification is required. Anyone who is interested in Code for Japan or Civic Tech can participate.
This multi-disciplinary conference brings together researchers and practitioners interested in fairness, accountability, and transparency in socio-technical systems.
Accountancy is in crisis. The Corporate Accountability Network exists to identify the causes of that crisis and offer solutions to it.
SERAP uses human rights law to encourage the government and others to address developmental and human rights challenges such as corruption, poverty, inequality and discrimination through advocacy, research, education and litigation.
AI/ML fueled social impact venture accelerator, powered by Alchemist. Leveraging entrepreneurship, data, etc. to help solve our community's pressing challenges!
The tool provides Sea Level Rise Maps for New York City, integrating the best available FEMA flood hazard data for each location with information on future sea level rise from two different peer-reviewed sources.
The Voluntary Sector Digital Maturity Matrix was a free tool provided by NCVO to assess the current maturity of a voluntary sector organisation's digital capability, compared with its desired target state. Through a simple self-assessment, you could understand where your organisation needs to invest to reach digital excellence.
To get input on Mexico City's constitution, LabCDMX experimented with Google Docs, PubPub, Change.org, paper surveys, and kiosks
Open declaration by Amnesty International and Access Now, endorsed by Human Rights Watch and Wikimedia Foundation at RightsCon Toronto 2018
A social platform where you can grade your local government, start discussions, and collaborate together to improve your city.
Data 101 will be a multi-session course designed to introduce data fundamentals and help residents unlock features of the Open Data Buffalo portal to benefit their communities.
An interactive platform to improve decision-making related to the revitalization of the Champs Élysées
"Google.org and Boulder, Colorado, are teaming up to create a new eligibility calculator, which residents of that city will be able to use to determine if they qualify for public programs, discounts or rebates"
With CitySourced, you can deploy an unlimited number of applications to a single native app. From paying bills to election info to FAQs or newsletter signups - downloading a single app is easier for citizens, and it's easier for you!
Direct Relief began leveraging the Facebook Chatbot technology to better solicit their stakeholders.
The National Lottery Community Fund distributes over £600m a year to communities across the UK, raised by players of The National Lottery
The Community Lab provides services that empower the community to become stronger and vibrant by focusing on cultivating deeper trust relationships, improving knowledge share and collaboration, and supporting and diversifying the next generation of leaders.
The CityLAB is an experimental laboratory for the city of the future.
The Greater Washington Community Foundation works to strengthen the Washington metropolitan region by encouraging and supporting effective giving and by providing leadership on critical issues in our community. The Community Foundation - which serves the District of Columbia, Montgomery County, Northern Virginia, and Prince George’s County – makes community change through charitable giving easy, flexible, tax-smart, and rewarding.
The Citizen Lab is an interdisciplinary laboratory based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, University of Toronto, focusing on research, development, and high-level strategic policy and legal engagement at the intersection of information and communication technologies, human rights, and global security.
studies the impact and future of technology in Brazil and in the world
A collection of the many projects the Prototype Fund has supported, including many civic tech and open data projects.
Data and tools for law enforcement agencies and social science researchers; helping communities be stronger through data and dialog.
Transitioning Ireland to a society based on sustainable practices will require behavioural insights to influence change.
FixMyCommunity is a system for citizens to report problems in infrastructure or service delivery. FixMyCommunity was originally created by MySociety as FixMyStreet.
Bringing a new approach to urban health, one block at a time
The RD community is a place for those who use data in social change and advocacy to develop practical approaches to addressing the ethical, legal, social and privacy-related challenges they face.
private sector tech guidance for the City
Amnesty Decoders is an innovative platform for volunteers around the world to use their computers or phones to help our researchers sift through pictures, information and documents.
Exploring the intersection of peace-building and technology—critically reflecting on the social impact of technology and fostering the creation of “tech for good.”
Our Citywide solution is designed for cities, counties, special districts, and regional commissions who want to administer multiple projects on one platform.
A community open source project designed to standardize, scrape and share public meetings in a central database, in collaboration with City Bureau's Documenters program.
The eCityGov Alliance offers easily accessible online government services. Our regional solutions provide one-stop convenience and deliver services from the customer perspective.
A new cloud-based platform addresses urban flooding problems through green infrastructure performance monitoring.
Variations in usage of civic tech across four core countries (US, UK, Kenya and South Africa) and the attitudes of users towards the platforms they are using.
Municipalities across the country have joined together to create a new global non-profit organization called the Open Mobility Foundation to support the development of open-sourced software that provides scalable mobility solutions for cities.
Join a Slack team where organizers, healers, community leaders and practitioners can respond around a national response to COVID-19.
The Human Utility provides assistance to families and makes sure they always have running water at home.
Citizen Interaction Design (CID) partners rising information professionals with Michigan communities to create information tools for twenty-first century citizens.